Helmut Holzapfel
Helmut Holzapfel (born 1950 in Göttingen, Germany) is a German scientist. He is Professor of Transportation Planning at University of Kassel, Germany.[1]
He studied Civil Engineering, Transportation Science and Urban Planning between 1968 and 1975 and completed his doctoral thesis, 'Trip Relationships in Urban Areas', in 1980.
Academic career
Since 1993, he has been a professor at the faculty of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel, and since 2009 has lead the research project 'Sintropher' in close collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (urbanist). Cooperation on several projects has been also taking place with John Whitelegg. He is also co-editor of the transport planning journal 'World Transport Policy and Practice'.[2]
Politics
From 1985 until 1993 he was a government official at the Transport Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 1995 and 1998 Holzapfel was the highest tranport official in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Publications
- Holzapfel, H. (1980): Trip Relationships in Urban Areas, Gateshead.
- Holzapfel, H. and Whitelegg, J. (1993): The conquest of distance by the destruction of time. In: Whitelegg / Hultén / Flink, Leeds.
- Holzapfel, H. (2010): Everywhere and nowhere. In: Le Monde diplomatique, May 2010, Paris.
- Holzapfel, H. (2012): The city that came out of the shadows. In: Town & Country Planning, 03.2012, London.
- Holzapfel, H. (2015): Urbanism and Transport; Building Blocks for Architects and City and Transport Planners, New York and Abingdon (Oxon).