Eda Beyazıt İnce

Assoc. Prof., Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University

Eda Beyazit Ince is an Associate Professor at the Urban and Regional Planning Department at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and the founding director of IstanbulON Urban Mobility Lab. Eda holds MSc and BSc degrees in Urban and Regional Planning. She received her DPhil (PhD) at the Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University. Eda specialises in transport-related inequalities with regard to the issues of power, planning, and politics. Eda has been researching extensively the daily mobilities of the least represented groups in Istanbul, including women in precarious jobs, residents living in the peripheries, and the urban poor. As an expert in transport-related social and spatial inequalities, Eda has also been a part of the Istanbul Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) as a Stakeholder Engagement Specialist. She is also one of the collaborators of the UNESCO Chair in Gender at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and a core group member of the COST Action on the Wider Impacts and Scenario Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport.