Dr Matthias Gather
Specialization
Transport politics and spatial planning
Functions
- Vice-dean for research and transfer
- Director of the "Transport and spatial planning institute"
- Director M.Sc. "Intelligente Verkehrssysteme und Mobilitätsmanagement" ("Intelligent transport systems and mobility management")
Classes - Bachelor in Transport and Communications
(linked to descriptions in German)
- Introduction to scientific writing (1031))
- Introduction to transport legislation (2021)
- Basics of regional planning (4051)
- Transport politcs - Introductory class (6030)
- Political economics of transportation (6051)
- Transport and the environment (7090)
Qualifications
- Professor for transport politics and spatial planning,
Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Competencies
- Transport politics
- Regional development
- Spatial and environmental planning
Research
Research projects after 2003 are listed in the Transport and Spatial Planning Institute.
Publications
- GATHER, Matthias; KAGERMEIER, Andreas; LANZENDORF, Martin: Geographische Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung. = Studienbücher der Geographie.
E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Stuttgart 2008. - MACKINNON, Danny; PIRIE, Gordon; GATHER, Matthias:
Transport and Economic development. In KNOWLES,R.; SHAW, J.; DOCHERTY, I (ed.): Transport Geographies. Blackwell. London 2008. - GATHER, Matthias:
Transport infrastructure, accessibility and regional development - A German case study. In: Larsen, Lisa Bibby (ed.): Transport, Mobility and Regional Development. Regional Studies Association. London November 2007. S. 59-62.
Active memberships and links
- Director of Institut Verkehr und Raum (transport and spatial planning institute)
- Co-editor of Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung (SMV), Mannheim
- Member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography (ed. Richard Knowles)
- Chair of the working group 1.3.4 „RIN-Anwendungen“ Forschungsgesellschaft für das Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (FGSV)
- Scientific member, advisory board of Regionale Planungsgemeinschaft Mittelthüringen (regional planning board)
- Scientific member for transport, advisory board of UVP-Gesellschaft e.V., Hamm (German EIA association)
- Member of the Transport Geography Research Group Committee (Chair: Jon Shaw)
- Member (1999 bis 2004 chair) of Arbeitskreis Verkehr der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (Sprecher: Markus Hesse und Barbara Lenz)
- Member of the international advisory board, econex verkehrsconsult gmbh, Wuppertal
- Singer in the Augustiner Vokalkreis, Erfurt
