V.M. (Victor) Nielsen

Promovendus
Spatial Planning

Victor is a PhD student with the project title "Challenging the institutions of land markets: imagining radical alternatives for inclusive and sustainable spatial transitions" working at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. He has a Master's degree in Spatial & Transport Economics from VU Amsterdam. Victor is working on building a video game to test out different land market policies on players, while teaching players about the mechanisms that occur in land markets. 

He has previously worked with Significance, Decisio and AtAdlerAdvisory on many projects including Social Cost-Benefit Analyses for biking investments, the economics of placemaking investments, travel surveys, and traffic modelling.

Research areas: land markets, market failures, land-use transportation interaction, urban sprawl, optimal taxation of cars and driving, parking policy, biking investments, and architectural design externalities.