Mayara Moraes Monteiro (p), João de Abreu e Silva, S. Haustein, J.P. Sousa

Chloé Morhain

Migration is not a recent phenomenon, it has been occurring along human history, where people have migrated for several reasons, including survival. Despite it, the way it occurs has changed.
Regardless the fact that short-term stays associated to work and study are increasing and this movement of people with a short-term perspective is becoming increasingly relevant due to crescent globalisation, it is difficult to find official statistics about this phenomenon. This lack of information arises the need to search for information that can provide evidences about this group in the official data and complement it with non-official information.
From an urban scale perspective, the short-term residents represent a long-term impact, since this population is renewed constantly (Collins, 2012). What all this movement means for the cities is the emergence of new issues and needs related to their transportation systems and the process of adaptation of newcomers, that need to familiarize themselves in a short time span. For many in this group, the immersion in a new city will mean having to deal with a complex multimodal transport network, mostly unknown to the individual.
In this context and observing the state of the art, to the best of our knowledge, we are contributing to the understanding of how short-term residents respond and adapt to the new configuration of systems, spaces and norms by examining the intra-urban mobility behaviour in their host city in a context of transnational short-term relocation.
This paper draws on semi structured interviews that were conducted with the aim to explore the travel and spatial-related behaviour of transnational temporary migrants. Their main focus was on verifying the existence and nature of the influence of relevant factors that could be affecting people’s behaviour in the context of transnational relocation. As a proxy for Millennials temporary residents, international exchange university students were chosen as they share relevant aspects, such as: transnational relocation, education level, age range and the need to adapt themselves in the host city. The sample is composed of 10 international students from 9 different nationalities that were living in Porto or Lisbon during January of 2018. In total, 11h15min of interviews generated 160 pages of content that were codified and categorized according to their relation with relevant themes and emerging similarities or divergences. After the main categorization, each theme was analysed individually in its content and sub-categories were assigned.

Alexis Alamel (p)

Chloé Morhain

(see extended abstract)

Over the last two decades, student accommodation have been intensely developed in the United Kingdom (UK) to match the growing demand initiated by profound changes regarding the functioning of the higher education (HE) system in order to widen its participation. There has been a diversification of the types of accommodation that have been supplied to students, in part, tied to the increasing numbers of students in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The student demand for housing has intensified, which has compelled accommodation providers to adjust their products to the circumstances. the growing diversity of student housing choices has produced spatial socio- economic tensions. For instance, students with limited resources have restricted options available; many might consider staying at a parental home or residing in cheap and over-crowded HMOs. Contrarily, the wealthiest students can choose from a vast array of possibilities. Beyond these socio-economic discrepancies, the variety of student housing supply has created environmental gaps. Hitherto unexplored in academic debates, the sustainability characteristics of student accommodation vary geographically. For instance, the environmental linkages embedded in the dynamics between the supply and demand for student housing have been overlooked in the academic debate. The study of the social, economic, and environmental intersects between the student housing supply and demand is central in this research. Producing diverse and complex student geographies, the study of these interrelationships is primordial to the advancement of understanding sustainability issues in the student housing sector.
Based on a statistical analysis of data collected through an online-survey, this paper examines the diversity of motives integrated in students’ residential decision-making processes and explores student’s residential pathways according to socio-economic and demographic features. Through a building taxonomy, the paper also showcases the physical and environmental features of housing occupied by student households in the university town of Loughborough (England). Thus, this paper seeks to address this precise gap and, consequently, contribute to academic knowledge by expanding contemporary debates in student geographies.

Chloé Morhain (p), Louafi Bouzouina (p)

Mayara Moraes Monteiro

Young people’s behaviours are a key issue in transportation research for several reasons: two of them are because they will be the users of tomorrow, and because their mobility are often indicative of new practices. We are now witnessing changes in mobility behaviours, which young people are often at the origin: lowering of driving licence (Evolmob, 2016) growth of shared mobility, mobility as a service, etc. These changes are also witnessed in housing behaviours: strong increase of flat sharing, studentification of some districts. Despite all these changes, students practices remain unclear today. The student population, although it has been studied for several years in the United Kingdom for many years (Alamel, 2018), is still little studied as a central object in the French literature. A recent literature review notices few articles or reports on student mobility for example (Baron et al., 2017). Beyond this student population still little studied, many studies tend to show that a link between the residential environment of individuals and their preferences for travel. Beyond this link that we can now consider established, there remains a large number of issues about the understanding of explanatory factors this relationship between residential choices and travel, especially for this student population. This is the issue we want to question in this article.

Cassio Rolim, Conceição Rego (p), Andreia Dionísio

Ayman Zoubir

Depopulation of eastern Portugal and concentration in the coast has been a longstanding process. The oldest Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto, are also at the seashore or near it. Since 1973 new HEIs has been disseminated around the country and nowadays every Portuguese region holds a set of HEIs. However, those closer to the coast tend to have a higher demand than those more distant. It is not clear if each one has a kind of restricted market area such a spatial monopoly in its neighbouring area or if there is national recruitment for some of them.
This paper is an exercise of determination of these areas for the Portuguese public network of HEIs. We use a database from the Ministry of Education (DGEEC-Ministry of
Education) with information of the pair, place of residence (municipality level) and respective HEI, for enrolled students. Through techniques of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) we will look for clusters of municipalities that could be market areas for each HEIs considered. Beyond this, a logit model will test some hypotheses present in the literature regarding the student’s choice of an HEIs.
This article aims to analyse these issues and indicate some critical points to be taken into consideration by decision-makers.