Emilia Bruck

Biography

Emilia M. Bruck is a Mobility Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI), University of Toronto Mississauga. She is an urban planning researcher whose areas of interest include shifts in urban policy, planning practice and spatial development related to emerging mobility technologies. She holds a Doctorate in spatial planning from the Vienna University of Technology. As part of her doctoral research, she conducted an in-depth case study of how planning professionals in the Greater Toronto Area plan for automated and connected vehicles and analyzed patterns of transformative change. Prior to joining IMI, she was a doctoral research assistant at the future.lab Research Center and a faculty member at the Research Unit for Local Planning, Vienna University of Technology.

Academic Experience

• Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Management and Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga, December 2023 – present
• Postdoctoral scholar, Institute of Spatial Planning, Research Unit of Local Planning, Vienna University of Technology, October 2023 – currently on leave
• University Assistant, Institute of Spatial Planning, Research Unit of Local Planning, Vienna University of Technology, 2021 – 2023
• Research Assistant, future.lab Research Center, Vienna University of Technology, 2016 – 2023

Non-Academic Experience

Urban planner in various offices in the Netherlands and Austria, 2014 – 2016

Education

• Dr.techn. (Spatial Planning), Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• M.Sc. (Urbanism), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• B.Arch. (Architecture), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

Select Publications

Journal articles

• Bruck, E., & Soteropoulos, A. (2022). Traffic-land use compatibility and street design impacts of automated driving in Vienna, Austria. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 15(1), 137–163. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2022.2089
• Bruck, E. M. (2018). How to Plan for Transformative Change in light of New Mobility Technologies? plaNext-next generation planning. 7: 100-116.

Books

• Mitteregger, M., Bruck, E. M., Soteropoulos, A., Stickler, A., Berger, M., Dangschat, J.S., Scheuvens, R. & Banerjee, I. (2023). AVENUE21. Planning and Policy Considerations for an Age of Automated Mobility. Springer Vieweg Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67004-0
• Mitteregger, M., Bruck, E. M., Soteropoulos, A., Stickler, A., Berger, M., Dangschat, J.S., Scheuvens, R. & Banerjee, I. (2022). AVENUE21. Connected and Automated Driving: Prospects for Urban Europe. Springer Vieweg Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64140-8

Active Memberships

• Member of the Working Group "Use of Artificial Intelligence in Spatial Development” by the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL)
• Member of the Program Committee “2024 Urbanism Next Europe Conference”, October 9-11, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands