@article{Rauch2022,
  author    = {Rauch, Sebastian},
  title     = {Analysing Long Term Spatial Mobility Patterns of Individuals and Large Groups Using 3D-GIS: A Sport Geographic Approach},
  series = {Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie},
  volume    = {113},
  journal   = {Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {0040-747X},
  doi       = {10.1111/tesg.12513},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-318551},
  pages     = {257 -- 272},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Individual mobility and human patterns analyses is receiving increasing attention in numerous interdisciplinary studies and publications using the concept of time-geography but is largely unknown to the subdiscipline of sports geography. Meanwhile the visualization and evaluation of large data of individual patterns are still a major challenge. While a qualitative, microscale view on spatial-temporal topics is more common in today's pattern research using mostly 24h time intervals, this work examines a quantitative approach focusing on an extended period of life. This paper presents a combination of time-geographic approaches with 3D-geoinformation systems and demonstrates their value for analysing individual mobility by implementing a path-homogeneity factor (HPA). Using the example of professional athletes, it is shown which groups display greater similarities in their career paths. While a high homogeneity suggests that groups make similar decisions through socially influenced processes, low values allow the assumption that external processes provide stronger, independent individual structures.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RauchArnoldStuerneretal.2022,
  author    = {Rauch, Sebastian and Arnold, Louisa and Stuerner, Zelda and Rauh, Juergen and Rost, Michael},
  title     = {A true choice of place of birth? Swiss women's access to birth hospitals and birth centers},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {17},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {7},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0270834},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-300159},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {While the place of birth plays a crucial role for women's birth experiences, the interest in out-of-hospital births has increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. Related to this, various international policies recommend enabling women to choose where to give birth. We aimed to analyze Swiss women's choice between birth hospitals and birth centers. Employing spatial accessibility analysis, we incorporated four data types: highly disaggregated population data, administrative data, street network data, addresses of birth hospitals and birth centers. 99.8\% of Swiss women of childbearing age were included in the analysis (N = 1.896.669). We modelled car travel times from a woman's residence to the nearest birth hospital and birth center. If both birth settings were available within 30 minutes, a woman was considered to have a true choice. Only 58.2\% of women had a true choice. This proportion varied considerably across Swiss federal states. The main barrier to a true choice was limited accessibility of birth centers. Median travel time to birth hospitals was 9.8 (M = 12.5), to birth centers 23.9 minutes (M = 28.5). Swiss women are insufficiently empowered to exercise their reproductive autonomy as their choice of place of birth is significantly limited by geographical constraints. It is an ethical and medical imperative to provide women with a true choice. We provide high-resolution insights into the accessibility of birth settings and strong arguments to (re-)examine the need for further birth centers (and birth hospitals) in specific geographical areas. Policy-makers are obligated to improve the accessibility of birth centers to advance women's autonomy and enhance maternal health outcomes after childbirth. The Covid-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to shift policy.},
  language  = {en}
}