Gärling, Anita
Fil. Dr.


Väg- och trafikplanering,
rum 2026

 

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anita.gerling@road.chalmers.se

 

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1.   Name: Anita Gärling

 

 

2.      Examine

 

      Engineer, chemistry, Midskogsskolan i Luleå, 1970.

 

          B Sc, Umeå universitet, 1982.

 

      Ph D, Umeå universitet, 1989.

 

 

3.     Employment

 

      Laboratory assistant, Perstorp AB, Perstorp, 1970-1971

 

      Laboratory assistant, Högskolan i Luleå, Luleå, 73-74

 

          Teacher of special subjects (biology, physic, chemistry, mathematics, English,  German), Compulsory schools, Luleå, 1976-1977 German), Compulsory schools, Luleå, 1976-1977 German), Compulsory schools, Luleå, 1976-1977

 

Teacher of special subjects (mathematics, psychology), Immigrant Education (AMU), Luleå, 1977-1979

 

      Teacher of special subjects (psychology), Senior High School, Umeå, 1981

 

Research assistant including lecturing, Department of Psychology, Umeå university, 1981-1991

 

Research scientist including lecturing, Department of Psychology, Umeå university, 1991-1992

 

Research scientist, Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, 1994-      (presently 25% of full time)

 

Research scientist including lecturing, Department of Road & Traffic Planning, Chalmers University of Technology, 1997-       (presently 75% of full time)

 

 

4.     Moreover

 

Guest-researcher at University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1990/1991, (12 months)

 

Guest-researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 1997/1998, (4 months)

 

Member of the committee of the EV/hybrid program, The Swedish Transportation & Communication Research Board (KFB), 1997-

 

Member of The International Association of Applied Psychology, division of Traffic of Transportation, 1999-

 


4. Publications

 

Articles och book chapters

 

1. Gärling, T., Svensson-Gärling, A., & Valsiner, J. (1984). Parental concern about children's traffic safety in residential neighborhoods. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 4, 235-252.

2. Svensson-Gärling, A., Gärling, T., & Valsiner, J. (1985). Parents' knowledge of children's competence, perceptions of risk and causes of child accidents, and residential satisfaction. In T. Gärling & J. Valsiner (Eds.), Children within environments: Towards a psychology of accident prevention (pp. 65-89). New York: Plenum Press.

3. Säisä, J., Svensson-Gärling, A., Gärling, T., & Lindberg, E. (1986). Intraurban cognitive distance: The relations between judgments of straight-line distances, travel distances, and travel times. Geographical Analysis, 18, 167-174.

4. Gärling, T., Gärling, A., & Valsiner, J. (1987). Adults' Assessments of children's accident risks. Psychological Reports, 60, 1003-1010.

5. Gärling, T., & Gärling, A. (1988). Parents' protection of children from dangers. In J. Valsiner (Ed.), Children's development within socio-culturally structured environments (Vol. 1, 60-83). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

6. Gärling, A. (1988). Parents' perceptions of children's accident risk. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, Sweden.

7. Gärling, A. (1989). Parents' heuristics for judging children's accident risk. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 30, 134-145.

8. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1989). Parents' residential satisfaction and perceptions of children's accident risk. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 10, 27-36.

9. Gärling, T., Gärling, A., Mauritzson-Sandberg, E., & Björnstig, U. (1989). Child safety in the home: Mothers' perceptions of dangers to young children. Architecture and Behaviour, 5, 293-303.

10. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1993). Mothers' supervision and perception of young children's risks of unintentional injury in the home. Journal of Pediatric Psychology,18,10-114.

11. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1993). The ability of mothers of young children to anticipate potential home accidents. Children's Environments Quarterly, 8, 24-30.

12. Gärling, A. (1993). Ungdom, trafik och alkohol: Utvärdering av försök med kamratpåverkan. (Youth, traffic, and alcohol: Evaluation of an experiment of group pressure), Trafiksäkerhetsförbundet Bohus län, The Swedish Road Administration, Göteborg.

13. Gärling, A. (1994).Ungdom, trafik och alkohol.: Trafiksäkerhetsinformation av experter eller av trafikskadade? (Youth, traffic, and alcohol: Traffic safety information by experts or traffic accident injured?), Trafiksäkerhetsförbundet Bohus län, The Swedish Road Administration, Göteborg.

14. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1995). Mothers' anticipation and prevention of unintentional injury to young children in the home. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 20, 23-36.

15. Gärling, A. (1995). En metod att minska den privata bilanvändningen. (A method to reduce private car use), Regional samhällsplanering för ett miljöanpassat transportsystem 2010, County Administrative Board, Jönköpings län.

16. Gärling, A. (1996). Ger personlig information mer kollektivresande? (What effect has personal information on public transport use?), I M.Ekström (Red.), Energi och vardagsvanor, Forskningsrapport 19, Department of Handicrafts, Göteborgs University.

17. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., Montgomery, W., & Gärling, T. (1996). Elbilars förmåga att tillgodose hushålls behov av dagliga tätortsresor (The ability of EVs to fulfill households´ daily travel need), Delrapport 1.

18. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., Laitila, T., & Gärling, T. (1997). SEVUP: Ett datorprogram för simulering av elbilsresor. (SEVUP: An simulation of EV Use Pattern), Rapportsammanställning från KFB:s och VTI:s forskardagar 1997.

19. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., Laitila, T., & Gärling, T. (1997). Hushålls inställning till elbilar. (Households´ attitudes toward EVs), Delrapport 2.

20. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., & Gärling, T. (1997). Hushålls val av elbilsresor. (Households’ choice of use of EV), Delrapport 3.

21. Gärling, A. (1997). Föraren i trafiken. (The driver in the traffic system), Flygfältsbyrån Engeneering AB & MiM-konsulten, Göteborg.

22. Gärling, A. (1997). Väg 874 vid Tidaholm: Vad tycker Du om vägen Tidaholm-Acklinge?. (What about the Tidaholm-Acklinge road?), KM Anläggniningsteknik AB, White arkitekter, AB, & MiM-konsulten, Göteborg.

23. Gärling, T., Biel, A., & Gärling, A. (1997). Miljövänligt handlande kräver ändrade vanor och medvetna val. (Environmental behavior demand changed behavior and conscious choice), In Trafik och Miljö: Forskare skriver om kunskapsläge och forskningsbehov, (red. H. Andersson), Stockholm: KFB och Studentlitteratur.

24. Gärling, T., Gillholm, R., & Gärling, A. (1998). Reintroducing attitude theory in travel behavior research: The validity of an interactive interview procedure to predict car use. Transportation A, 25, 129-146.

25. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., & Gärling, T. (1998). Factors influencing households’ choices of electric vehicles for daily travel. Proceedings from WCTR98, Amsterdam, Nederländerna.

26. Gärling, A. (1998). Gång och cykel som transportmedel? (Walk and bike as means of transportation?), CHART-rapport, Department of Road & Traffic Planning, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.

27. Gärling, A. (1998). Enkätundersökning av arbetssituationen av anställda trafikvakter vid i Göteborg 1998. (The job situation of traffic warden at Gatubolaget, Göteborg 1998: A questionnaire study), (CHART-rapport, Department of Road & Traffic Planning, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.

28. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., & Gärling, T. (1998). A usability and field study of households’ choices of electric vehicles for daily travel. (Submitted for publication).

29. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., & Gärling, T. (1998). Determinants of attitudes toward and choice of electric vehicles. (Submitted for publication).

30. Sellström, E., & Gärling, A. (1998). Determinants of children’s accident risk. (Submitted for publication).

31. Gärling, A., & Thorgersen, J. (1999). Marketing of electric vehicles. (Submitted for publication).

32. Gärling, A., & Johansson, A. (1999, June). An EV in the family. Urban Transportation Systems. Proceedings from the 2nd KFB-Research Conference. Lund: Lund Institute of Technology, Department of Technology and Society, Sweden.

33. Gärling, A., Berle, B., & Fritzell, L. (June, 1999). Evaluation of bike and walk paths. . Urban Transportation Systems. Proceedings from the 2nd KFB-Research Conference. Lund: Lund Institute of Technology, Department of Technology and Society, Sweden.

34. Gärling, A. (1999). “Bugs” in walk and bike systems? (Submitted for publication).

35. Gärling, T., Gärling, A., & Johansson, A. (1999). Car use reduction. Transportation Research A. (In press).

36. Gärling, T., Fujii, S., & Gärling, A. (1999). The relationship of environmental concern to social value orientation. (Submitted for publication).

 

Conferences

 

37. Gärling, T., Svensson-Gärling, A., & Valsiner, J. (1984, August). Adults' assessments of children's accident risk. In T. Gärling & J. Valsiner (Chairs), Perception of environmental risk by adults and children. Symposium conducted at the inaugural European conference on developmental psychology "Individual Development and Human Welfare," Groningen, The Netherlands.

38. Gärling, T., Svensson-Gärling, A., & Valsiner, J. (1984). Parental concern about children's traffic safety in residential neighborhoods. In M. Krampen (Ed.), Environment and human action. Proceedings of 8th international conference of the IAPS (pp. 277-281). West-Berlin: Hochschule der Künste.

39. Svensson-Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1985). Residential satisfaction and child safety. In D. J. Oborne (ed.), Contemporary Ergonomics 1985 (pp. 90-95). London: Taylor and Francis.

40. Gärling, A. (1988). Parents' heuristics for judging children's accident risk. In K. Ekberg & P. E. Mjaavatn (Eds.), Growing into a modern world. An international interdisciplinary conference on the life and development of children in modern society (pp. 1285-1291). Trondheim, Norway: The Norwegian Centre for Child Research.

41. Gärling, T., Gärling, A., & Mauritzson-Sandberg, E. (1988, June). Mothers' norms for 1 to 3-years old children's behavior in the home. In U. Schmidt-Denter (Chair), Intrafamilial relations and parental attitudes. Poster workshop conducted at the third European conference on developmental psychology, Budapest, Hungary.

42. Gärling, T., Gärling, A., Mauritzson-Sandberg, E., & Björnstig, U. (1988). Mothers' cognitive representations of 1, 2, and 3-years old children's accident risks in the home. In H. van Hoogdalen, N. L. Prak, T. J. M. van der Voordt, & H. B. R. van Wegen (Eds.), Looking back to the future: Procedings of IAPS10 (Vol. 2, pp. 421-430). Delft, The Netherlands: Delft University Press.

43. Gärling, A., Gärling, T., & Mauritzson-Sandberg, E. (1989, July). The role of supervision for mothers' perceptions of young children's accident risks in the home. Poster presented at the tenth biennal conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Jyväskylä, Finland.

44. Gärling, A., Gärling, T., & Mauritzson-Sandberg, E. (1989, September). A naturalistic study of mothers' protective actions and perceptions of young children's accident risks in the home. Poster presented at the international conference on child accident prevention, Stockholm.

45. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1991, July). Mothers' perceptions of accident-prone event sequences. Poster presented at the eleventh biennal meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSB), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

46. Gärling, A., & Gärling, T. (1993, March). Mothers' perceptions of risk of unintentional injury to young children. Paper presented at the 60th anniversary meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

47. Gärling, A. & Mårtensson, E. (1994, May). Försök med kamratpåverkan inom området för trafik, ungdom och alkohol. (Youth, traffic, and alcohol: Evaluation of an experiment of group pressure), Poster presented at the 4th national conference on accident prevention, Uddevalla, Sweden.

48. Gärling, T., Gillholm, R., & Gärling, A. (1995). Will people do what they say they will do and how do we know? Paper presented in the seminar ”Urban travel survey methods: Measuring the present, simulating the future”, Rhone-Alpes, France.

49. Gärling, A. (1995, March). En metod att minska den privata bilanvändningen. (A method to reduce private car use), Paper presented at the County Administrative Board, Jönköping, Sweden.

50. Gärling, A. (1995, November). Ger personlig information mer kollektivresande? (What effect has personal information on public transport use?), Paper presented at ”Vardagsvanor och energianvändning” Department of Handicraft, Göteborg University, Sweden.

51. Gärling, A. (1996, April). Ger personlig information mer kollektivresande? (What effect has personal information on public transport use?), Paper presented at Reväst, Göteborg, Sweden.

52. Gärling, A. (1996, November). En metod att minska den privata bilanvändningen. (A method to reduce private car use), Paper presented at the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Stockholm, Sweden.

53. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., Montgomery, W., & Gärling, T. (1997, January). Elbilars förmåga att tillgodose hushålls behov av dagliga tätortsresor. (EVs ability to fulfill households´ travel need), Paper presented at the VTI/KFB conference, Linköping, Sweden.

54. Gärling, A., Johansson, A., & Gärling, T. (1998, July). Factors influencing households’ choices of electric vehicles for daily travel. Paper presented at WCTR98, Antwerpen, The Netherlands.

55. Gärling, A., & Thorgersen, J. (1999, January). Marketing of electric vehicles. Paper presented at the 5th Workshop of the Nordic Business Environmental Management NetworkThe Nordic Conference on Marketing, Göteborg, Sweden.

56. Gärling, A., & Johansson, A. (1999, June). An EV in the family. Paper presented at the 2nd KFB-Research Conference, Lund, Sweden.

57. Gärling, A., Berle, B., & Fritzell, L. (June, 1999). Evaluation of bike and walk paths. Paper presented at the 2nd KFB-Research Conference, Lund, Sweden.

 

Manuscript under revision

 

58. Gärling, A. (1999). Fotgängares och cyklisters attityder och beteenden: Vägval, orientering och estetiska upplevelser. (Pedestrians and bikers attitudes and behaviors: Route choice, orientation, and esthetically perceptions).

59. Gärling, A. (1999). A comparision between different methods of presenting the electric vehicle concept and a study of the adaptation to the new electric vehicle technology.

 

Revised: oktober 24, 1999 .

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