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Look up! A sustainable Swedish energy system is possible

September 8th, 2022|0 Comments

New Article about the Swedish Energy Scenarios published by SustainTrans Team (Authors; Martin Prieto Beaulieu, Karl-Henrik Robért and Henrik Ny) today in Miljö & utveckling here >>. Full version in English below; On Sunday [...]

Roadmapper was presented to the Freight Transport Council Skåne and Blekinge

August 25th, 2022|0 Comments

Roadmapper is a cross-sector collaboration and research project that uses Blekinge as case studies to produce decision support for a rapid transition to sustainable transport. Yesterday, the Goods Transport Council Skåne/Blekinge >> held its [...]

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The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth gives BTH funds to study sustainable energy systems

August 25th, 2022|0 Comments

Blekinge University of Technology will, with support from the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, carry out a feasibility study for sustainable energy systems, read more here >>. Blekinge will be the starting [...]

Publication about cross-border and regional public transport

August 24th, 2022|0 Comments

After a long wait, this conference paper written by Sven Borén and Henrik Ny et al. has finally been published. It reveals how planning towards sustainable cross-border/regional public transport can be done, and also [...]

New SustainTrans Report – Magnetic Trains a Great Opportunity for Sweden!

February 1st, 2022|0 Comments

An independent investigation by Henrik Ny from SustainTrans has found that Magnetic trains can be the future of  fast ground transport for Sweden and an export opportunity. Based on his investigation Henrik Ny urges [...]

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Varvara Nikulina was a guest lecturer at the University of Graz

December 2nd, 2021|0 Comments

In November 2021, Varvara Nikulina was a guest lecturer at the University of Graz[1], online. She gave two participatory classes to the students in the course Inter- and Transdisciplinary problem solving, lead by Dr. [...]

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Summary from the Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport

November 26th, 2021|0 Comments

Presentations, results and photos from the two days Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport (running between 25-26th of November 2021) will be published on this page.

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Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport

November 16th, 2021|0 Comments

Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport The Roadmapper project navigate you through short-term challenges to sustainable transport As you know, the Roadmapper project uses Blekinge as a case study to produce a decision support [...]

StepWise – How can Sweden get a sustainable transport system?

November 8th, 2021|0 Comments

Sustainable transport system On November 10ths, The StepWise Group visits Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. How can Sweden get a sustainable transport system? One urgent issue that the StepWise Group together with leading researchers within Sustainable [...]

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Energiting Southeast – 11 November 2021

November 8th, 2021|0 Comments

Energiting Southeast - 11 November 2021 Energiting Southeast is a web conference, with the opportunity to participate on site in Markaryd, at Vetenskapshuset for a limited group of participants. This year, the focus is [...]

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Roadmapper Work Package 4, October 2021

November 1st, 2021|0 Comments

Roadmapper Work Package 4 update, October 2021 The Roadmapper work package 4, is all about modelling the regional transport system in Blekinge, including both personal and freight transports. In this October 2021 [...]

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Roadmapper at Baltic University Programme Symposium 2021

October 21st, 2021|0 Comments

Varvara and Thomas represent Roadmapper at the BUP Symposium 2021 On the 20th of October 2021, Varvara Nikulina and Thomas Berger have presented their research in Workpackage 1 of the Roadmapper project at the [...]

How can Agenda 2030 and other sustainability goals be integrated into transport planning?

October 12th, 2021|0 Comments

"How can Agenda 2030 and other sustainability goals be integrated into transport planning?" The sustainable development goals, Agenda 2030, have been a guiding star for sustainable development since 2015. Agenda 2030 is, among other [...]

Presentation by Varvara and Bekki at the International Transdisciplinary Conference

September 28th, 2021|0 Comments

In September 2021, Varvara Nikulina and Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, presented their work at the International Transdisciplinary Conference. The theme for the conference was Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation. Researchers contributed [...]

Giles Thomson-participates in Färgfabriken’s project Symbiosis

September 16th, 2021|0 Comments

On 28 August this year, Färgfabriken opened the doors to an exciting and changing exhibition where one of the participants is Giles Thomson at TISU. Giles researches and teaches about regenerative urbanism. A regenerative [...]

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BTH contributed to the International Forth Roadmap Conference

August 27th, 2021|0 Comments

Judith Oginga Martins participated at the International Forth Roadmap Conference on, June 15th. The theme for the conference was how to Accelerated and widespread electric, smart, and shared mobility adoption. One important requirement is [...]

Dignifying people by improving how they travel

August 27th, 2021|0 Comments

Our doktorand, Judith Oginga Martins, was the moderator for a mobility panel discussion on 'Dignifying people by improving how they travel: the case of mobility transformations in Africa'. This was a part of the Virtual [...]

New SustainTrans Lecture on Swedish TV: ‘The Road to Sustainable Transport’

June 6th, 2021|0 Comments

For Swedish speakers/learners – there is now a seminar series available at urplay*  in which Henrik Ny present the SustainTrans research in a short lecture. If you want to take a look, find it here: [...]

Seed funding for Public Transport Interconnecting Sustainable Tourism Routes and destinations in the South Baltic area

June 4th, 2021|0 Comments

Region Blekinge (lead partner) received funding for 7 months project starting September 2021. The partners include Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, InnoBaltica, Poland, The Association of Sea Cities and Municipalities, Poland, Association of Klaipėda region [...]

Seed funding for mobility planning and infrastructure in the South Baltic region

June 3rd, 2021|0 Comments

We (lead partner), together with partners in Viimsi (Estonia) and Klaipeda (Lithuania), have got seed funding from the Swedish Institute for a 1-year  project "Seeds for sustainable mobility planning and infrastructure" (SESUMOPLIN) that will [...]

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Digital seminar 3 June 10.00 – National transport system

May 28th, 2021|0 Comments

Digital seminar 3 June 10.00: What effect will increased investments in cycling, walking, public transport have on road traffic? On transfer effects and route choices in the long-term planning of the transport system. Full [...]

New Report and Opinion Piece: How do we make fossil-free transport sustainable – and continue to make money along the way?

April 12th, 2021|0 Comments

Here are now previously promised results from a pre-study within the Roadmapper Project that is led by Henrik Ny from the SustainTrans team. With Volvo Cars in Olofström and the planned Southeast Link as [...]

Kick-off for the Roadmapper project!

April 1st, 2021|0 Comments

After prestudies, planning and hiring we are now scaling up the Roadmapper project to full speed. We invite all project partners a kickoff meeting on April 15. Agenda: Results from the prestudy and a [...]

BTH, through SustainTrans, joins the UN Habitat-SolutionsPlus Universities’ Network

December 9th, 2020|0 Comments

The SustainTrans Research Team, consisting of researchers from the BTH departments of sustainable development (TISU) and  spatial planning (TIFP), is now a member of the UN Habitat universities network. This network is made up [...]

We are Hiring: New PhD student position to the Groundbreaking Roadmapper Project!

November 25th, 2020|0 Comments

We are finally staffing up for the new Roadmapper project! A new PhD student position (Doktorand i strategisk hållbar utveckling) has been announced at the BTH website.  Applicants should be strong in sustainability and [...]

New Opinion Piece: More required for a green restart after corona!

October 25th, 2020|0 Comments

The Swedish government's restart package takes commendable steps forward but does not deliver climate benefits on a par with what would be possible. Henrik Ny, from SustainTrans, shows how this could be remedied. This opinion [...]

Presentation at CSTFM about a process and catalogue of solutions for sustainable PT

October 22nd, 2020|0 Comments

SustainTrans member Sven Borén presented at the online International conference on smart transportation and future mobility (CSTFM) the 19th of October 2020 about a process and a catalogue of solutions for cross-border and regional [...]

Our new distance course in sustainable transport systems

October 7th, 2020|0 Comments

Want to know more about how current transport systems can be transformed to full sustainability? The SustainTrans team offers a new 7,5 credit distance course in English about how can we transform to sustainable transport [...]

Roadmapper application approved – Blekinge pushes forward for sustainable transport!

September 25th, 2020|0 Comments

The Swedish Energy Agency recently decided to give SEK 7.6 million to a SustainTrans research project that focuses on a fast transition to sustainable transport and energy systems.There are more and more goals and roadmaps [...]

New paper about a process for rapid scenario planning is published

September 21st, 2020|0 Comments

With Giles Thomson as the lead author, the SustainTrans team and colleagues at TISU have published a paper about a process for rapid scenario planning to Support a Regional Sustainability Transformation Vision. The paper was [...]

INTERCONNECT final conference October 1st

September 21st, 2020|0 Comments

In brief, the INTERCONNECT project addresses the opportunity of curbing the car-reliant mobility trend in the South Baltic area by means of user-adjusted and more sustainable public transport services for regional and cross-border travels. [...]

Challenges and opportunities for sustainable shipping

September 4th, 2020|0 Comments

SustainTrans researcher Sven Borén presented at the Baltic University Program annual symposium the 26th of August about challenges and opportunities for sustainable shipping. Abstract: Shipping is contributing to a positive societal development as people can [...]

Henrik Ny referee again at the Climate Match (Klimatmatchen)

July 3rd, 2020|0 Comments

The Swedish political week in Almedalen*, Gotland, was cancelled this year but in Jönköping the online event Elmiadalen was arranged instead. Read more about the event at the Elmiadalen official website. On June 29, [...]

Paper published about a TCO model and significant cost parameter for electric bus systems

June 24th, 2020|0 Comments

The 3rd paper by Anders Grauers at Chalmers, SustainTrans member Sven Borén, and Oscar Enerbäck at RISE in the frames of the electric bus study has after four years of work been completed. The [...]

Paper published about learning as a key leverage point for sustainability transformations

May 12th, 2020|0 Comments

Jayne Bryant and SustainTrans researcher Giles Thomson published a paper on learning as a key leverage point for sustainability transformations in the journal Sustainability Science. The paper offers a longitudinal case study (2011-2016) from [...]

Abstract about sustainable regional and cross-border public transport accepted for presentation

May 12th, 2020|0 Comments

The INTERCONNECT project has made it possible to create a paper authored by Sven Borén and Henrik Ny, togeter with Juliette Tenart @ Bax & Company in Barcelona, and Marco Mazouzi @ HIE-RO in [...]

The new Roadmapper application – Blekinge pushes forward for sustainable transport!

May 8th, 2020|0 Comments

Henrik Ny from SustainTrans gives a short update on a new application where all public authorities and several companies in Blekinge join together in finding ways to speed up the transition to sustainable transport [...]

New Opinion Piece: Time for a green restart of the transport sector after corona!

April 20th, 2020|0 Comments

The Corona pandemic might disturb the transition  of the transport sector that is necessary to live up to the Paris agreement and save our climate and society. A path forward is discussed based on [...]

Visit at the Bengal Institute in Dhaka and membership of the New Urban Typologies program

April 12th, 2020|0 Comments

In November 2019, SustainTrans researcher Giles Thomson joined a small group from Färgfabriken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to be a member of their New Urban Typologies program in collaboration with Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscape [...]

New issue of the pod cast The Transition Academy: Corona and Sustainability

April 9th, 2020|0 Comments

We have got the rapid reduction in global CO2 emissions that we have been hoping for - but from a terrible reason. What happens next? When the Corona crisis subsides and we prepare ourselves [...]

Welcome to Abdellah and Judith!

April 9th, 2020|0 Comments

We are happy to get a new cooperation started with two spatial planners from the TIFP department at BTH. Professor Abdellah Abarkan has invited Henrik to co supervise the phd student Judith Oginga Martins. This [...]

Application open for our new course in sustainable energy systems

April 8th, 2020|0 Comments

Want to know more about how current energy systems can be transformed to full sustainability? The SustainTrans team offers a new 7,5 credit distance course in English about how can we transform to a sustainable [...]

Abstract about sustainable shipping accepted for presentation

March 11th, 2020|0 Comments

The annual international Baltic University Program symposium have accepted Sven Boréns abstract about Challenges and Opportunities for Shipping towards Sustainability. The conference have this year a focus on  Research and Innovation for a Sustainable [...]

Henrik Ny has become a Docent

February 28th, 2020|0 Comments

The highest academic degree in Sweden is 'Docent', which equals the work of achieving a second PhD. SustainTrans team leader Henrik Ny got that degree the 23rd of January 2020 at Blekinge Institute of Technology [...]

Summary from collaboration with Wallenius Marine and next steps

February 28th, 2020|0 Comments

June to December 2019 was full of activities for SustainTrans member Dr. Sven Borén in a project about finding challenges and opportunities for shipping at large and Wallenius Marine towards sustainability. The project was funded [...]

INTERCONNECT mid-term meeting in Elblag

November 18th, 2019|0 Comments

The project partners in INTERCONNECT met in September in Elblag (Poland) for a late mid-term project meeting, and back-to-back with the Warmia-Mazuri conference 'Efficient integration of public transport services'. Sven Borén in the SustainTrans [...]

Giles presenting at ‘Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts’ conference

September 23rd, 2019|0 Comments

On the 12 September 2019 Giles travelled to the University of Pisa to present 'Urban fabrics, transport and identity: a case study from Karlskrona, Sweden', a comparative analysis of maps from Karlskrona, including historic maps from Blekinge [...]

New article published: Electric buses’ sustainability effects, noise, energy use, and costs

September 17th, 2019|0 Comments

From the fruitful in-real-life electric bus study cooperation managed by Sven Borén with stakeholders from 5 municipalities, regions , bus companies and related organisations in Sweden, this article describes sustainability effects, noise, energy use and [...]

New article “Lost in translation: A framework for analysing complexity…” published.

August 21st, 2019|0 Comments

Written by Nikulina, V., Larson Lindal, J., Baumann, H., Simon, D., & Ny, H, and published in "Futures" (2019) with the full name "Lost in translation: A framework for analysing complexity of co-production settings [...]

SustainTrans at the Swedish Political week in Almedalen 2019

July 8th, 2019|0 Comments

Henrik Ny explains the rules of the competition at Klimatmatchen in Almedalen 2019. The Almedalen week turned 51 this year and has evolved from a purely political focus where leaders from parties [...]

New cooperation project with Wallenius Marine

June 4th, 2019|0 Comments

Wallenius Marine and companies within the Soya Group are ambitious when it comes to sustainable development, but the conservative shipping sector have in general very slow progress towards sustainability. For example, recent studies from SMHI [...]

Electric cars are getting more and more cost competitive

May 14th, 2019|0 Comments

The Swedish car magazine "Teknikens Värld" reporter Mikael Stjerna interviewed in April SustainTrans researcher Sven Borén about costs and sustainability issues for electric cars, when compared to cars powered by fossil fuels. Sven's calculations [...]

New Roadmap project idea initiated with the County Administrative Board and Climate Cooperation Blekinge

March 26th, 2019|0 Comments

An important recent milestone for the SustainTrans team was when Henrik Ny on December 11 in 2018 was invited to present a new research project idea to the civil servants group within Climate Cooperation [...]

Peer review workshops in the TRAM project in Miskolc, Hungary.

March 25th, 2019|0 Comments

As the first phase of the Interreg TRAM project approaches its end we highlight a few events from the last few months. The first of these is the peer review workshops series that Henrik [...]

New article published about stakeholder collaboration models for electric bus systems

February 12th, 2019|0 Comments

A new article authored by SustainTrans researcher Sven Borén and Anders Grauers from Chalmers has been published in the "International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice" as a result of the collaboration between BTH, [...]

Varvara Nikulina presented and defended her licentiate

January 28th, 2019|0 Comments

On the 25th of January, Varvara Nikulina in the SustainTrans research team presented and defended her licentiate thesis "Need for speed: towards urban planning for rapid transitioning to sustainable personal mobility" at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The [...]

Visit by Wallenius and Kockums

January 23rd, 2019|0 Comments

An interesting joint meeting with the shipping company Wallenius, the shipyard SAAB (Kockums) and the SustainTrans team was held the 22nd of January. Firstly, Prof. Göran Broman presented our department and specifically our research, [...]

Towards Sustainable Personal Mobility with electric Cars and Buses

October 22nd, 2018|0 Comments

The aim of this thesis was to explore if, and then how, electric cars and buses can contribute to sustainable personal mobility. Electric vehicles have increasingly been seen as a potential sustainable solution for [...]

Sven Borén’s PhD defence 18th of October

October 21st, 2018|0 Comments

On October 18, at 09:30, Sven Borén defended his PhD thesis "Towards sustainable personal mobility with electric cars and buses" at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. Dr. Maria Grahn, Chalmers University of [...]

SustainTrans report to meet IPCC Climate Challenge!

October 15th, 2018|0 Comments

An updated English report from the SustainTrans team shows how Sweden might show global leadership in the decarbonization of the personal transport sector. The IPCC Special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C [...]

MSLS thesis about best practices to the use of public transport

June 29th, 2018|0 Comments

MSLS students Juliette Ténart, James Vierling, and Michael Fellner have finished their A-grade master thesis "Barriers and Best Practices to the Use of Public Transportation: A Case Study of the South Baltic Sea Region", which was supervised [...]

Welcome to the team Giles!

May 21st, 2018|0 Comments

The SustainTrans team is now growing with Giles Thomson. He is a researcher with a background in urban planning and completed a PhD on regenerative urbanism and his focus within the team is the intersection [...]

Final INTERCONNECT workshop in Klaipeda, Lithuania

March 9th, 2018|0 Comments

Organizers and hosts/table leaders in Klaipeda. Introduction by Vice Mayor Mr. Arturas Sulcas@ Klaipeda workshop. Photo by Sven Borén Expectations and burning issues @ Klaipeda workshop. Photo by Sven [...]

INTERCONNECT workshop in Gdynia, Poland about future regional public transport

February 27th, 2018|0 Comments

With great help from the Polish institute InnoBaltica, the SustainTrans team facilitated another successful workshop within the INTERCONNECT project in order to investigate what public transport stakeholders in the Pomorskie region think about current and future [...]

INTERCONNECT workshop in Karlskrona about future regional public transport

February 14th, 2018|0 Comments

The 13th of February, the SustainTrans team hosted, within the INTERCONNECT project, a workshop about future regional and cross-border public transport. PhD student Varvara Nikulina lead the workshop, and after a framing of the [...]

Workshop om mer effektiva och hållbara lösningar för regional och gränsöverskridande kollektivtrafik i Blekinge

January 3rd, 2018|0 Comments

Vi vill härmed bjuda in dig och dina kollegor till en workshop på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola kl. 09.00-16.00 den 13:e februari 2018. Den är arrangerad inom projektet INTERCONNECT där en viktig del är skapandet [...]

Study visit at Guldborgsund and Rostock in the INTERCONNECT project

December 15th, 2017|0 Comments

Project partners and stakeholders from the Rostock are gathered the 11-12th December to try out and analyse the current public transport in and between the regions of Rostock and Guldborgsund. The Swedish delegation jumped [...]

Varvara presenting her research @ IST 2017 in Gothenburg

August 21st, 2017|0 Comments

Varvara @ IST 2017 with the poster In June 2017 Varvara presented the first results of her PhD project at the 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference[1] in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference devoted [...]

Svar till Miljöfordon Sverige om färdplanen för snabbomställning till hållbara persontransporter

June 12th, 2017|0 Comments

Stefan Nilsson från Miljöfordon Sverige framför kritik mot vår färdplansrapport om omställning till hållbara persontransporter. Rapporten innehåller redan svar på mycket av det som framförs. Vi uppmanar den som vill veta vad som faktiskt [...]

Analysis: Four steps towards fossil free and sustainable transport

May 19th, 2017|0 Comments

Henrik Ny writes a new analysis for the Swedish magazine Ekotransport. Plan society right from the start, reduce car dependency in transport, reduce fossil dependency in the car fleet and focus on new technologies [...]

The new Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “INTERCONNECT” approved

May 18th, 2017|0 Comments

INTERCONNECT, an 3,5 M€ EUSBSR flagship project starting in 2017 and ending 2020, addresses the challenge of curbing the car-reliant mobility trend in the South Baltic (SB) area through user-adjusted and more sustainable public transport services for [...]

Urgent to transit to sustainable personal road transport – but possible and profitable

May 17th, 2017|0 Comments

Sweden needs to raise the ambition level to make possible a timely transition to fossil-free and sustainable passenger transport. The solutions are available - and they can also be economically advantageous. This is what [...]

Application for a new research project: Sustainable introduction of electric snowmobiles

May 9th, 2017|0 Comments

Snowmobiles powered by combustion engines causes noise and emissions that negatively affect both the drivers and the environment. Electric powered snowmobiles have no engine related emissions, and in line with other electric vehicles likely [...]

Presentation at the World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research

May 5th, 2017|0 Comments

April 2017 started with a presentation by Varvara of a publication of her Master thesis at the World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research in Manchester, UK.[1] Researchers, politicians and civil servants from all over [...]

Electric bus noise measurements @ Västerås flygklubb

May 5th, 2017|0 Comments

Within the electric bus study, noise measurements according to ISO 362-1:2015 of an Electric bus has been done in Västerås in late April. The aim was to find out the noise level during acceleration [...]

Varvara at Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions

March 24th, 2017|0 Comments

A PhD day organized by Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (CIIST) took place on the 16th of March 2017 at the Chalmers House in Gothenburg. The event gathered researchers from Energy and [...]

Presenting good examples in sustainable transport

March 21st, 2017|0 Comments

Recently, representatives of five European regions met in the southeast Swedish region Blekinge to exchange experience in sustainable transport. BTH-researcher Henrik Ny was in place as the local expert. This took place within the [...]

“INTERCONNECT” application for sustainable mobility in the south Baltic regions

December 19th, 2016|0 Comments

The SustainTrans research team will hopefully from next fall (and three years ahead) conduct research on how to curb car reliant mobility and improve public transport  to eventually become sustainable across (and between) south Baltic regions. The "INTERCONNECT" [...]

Welcome to the team Varvara!

November 1st, 2016|0 Comments

We'd like to welcome Varvara Nikulina to the SustainTrans team. Initially, Varvara will work with preparations for her PhD studies about comparative analysis of transitions towards sustainable future within the transportation sector. Read more about Varvara's [...]

Lisiana Nurhadi’s licentiate thesis presented

October 5th, 2016|0 Comments

On October 12th, Lisiana Nurhadi presented her licentiate thesis "An Approach to Business Modeling for Sustainable Personal Road Transport". In that, it was shown how to develop and test a new approach to examining the economic socio-ecological [...]

4 minute presentation @ Researchers Grand Prix 2016

October 5th, 2016|0 Comments

Check out Sven Boréns 4 minute presentation (in Swedish) about his research up to licentiate at the Researchers Grand Prix 2016 @ Kreativum. He came second out of four in the competition, where Hanna with her [...]

Henrik Ny in Almedalen July 6: Enough with a fast transition towards fossil free transport?

July 4th, 2016|0 Comments

A fast transition to fossil free transport is a prerequisite for a future-proof welfare society , but it is not enough? In Donnerska huset, Almedalen (Visby, Sweden) the 6 July 16.00-18.00 Henrik Ny will explain [...]

Press Release June 30: How sustainable passenger transport can be profitable

June 28th, 2016|0 Comments

Sweden needs to raise the level of ambition for the timely switch to fossil-free and sustainable passenger transport, and it also provides an economic advantage from day one. This the conclusion a research group at BTH, [...]

Licentiate thesis: Sustainable personal road transport – the role of electric vehicles

April 27th, 2016|0 Comments

On April 15, Sven Borén presented his licentiate thesis that primarily found a methodological support for sustainable community planning and transport. The thesis also found a vision for sustainable transport, an initial development plan towards [...]

Time to live up to and take advantage of the Paris Agreement, Sweden!

April 14th, 2016|0 Comments

At the Haga initiative blog, Henrik Ny says that the Swedish Environmental Objectives Committee has recently proposed a stricter target of a Sweden with zero net emissions of greenhouse gases to 2045. A clear improvement [...]

Invest in fast chargers for electric cars rather than electric roads

January 21st, 2016|0 Comments

A study run by researchers at the SustainTrans group @ BTH show that we should not wait for electric roads. Opt instead for fast chargers to shift towards fossil-free vehicle fleet by 2030. In the debate, [...]

New study about electric buses has been granted

December 21st, 2015|0 Comments

Today, we had our new 2-year study about decision support for the introduction of electric buses granted by the Swedish Energy Agency! Previous studies and investigations in the bus industry have shown a need for [...]

Two articles accepted for publication at ICSUTE 2016

December 11th, 2015|0 Comments

For the conference about Sustainable Urban Transport and Environment in Madrid by 2016, the 'SustainTrans research group has got articles named "Preference of Electric Buses in Public Transport; Conclusions from Real Life Testing in Eight [...]

Henrik Ny is a new columnist in ‘Ekotransport’

December 10th, 2015|0 Comments

Today Henrik Ny writes his first column in Ekotransport – the newsletter that the magazine Miljörapporten has started on sustainable transport. In the newsletter, Henrik makes an analysis of the status in Sweden’s work towards the [...]

Publication of report about incentives for EVs in 8 countries

December 9th, 2015|0 Comments

A new report by BTH conducted jointly with researchers from Copenhagen Business School and Innoventum has compared instruments for electric vehicles in eight countries. Recognized predecessor as Norway, the Netherlands and China were included, but [...]

Field test in GreenCharge of electric bus finished

December 8th, 2015|0 Comments

Ebusco 2.0 was during winter time 2014-2015 successfully tested in public transport in eight Swedish municipalities. In an earlier theoretical study within GreenCharge, researchers found that electric buses are more sustainable and can be 25 [...]

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