Roadmapper application approved – Blekinge pushes forward for sustainable transport!

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 for transition to a fossil free society, but there are several questions about how it can be done sustainably, coordinated [...]

By | 2020-11-25T16:07:40+00:00 September 25th, 2020|News|0 Comments

New paper about a process for rapid scenario planning is published

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 created based on the learnings in the project with Region Blekinge about exploring scenarios for a regional planning project (to 2050) [...]

By | 2020-09-21T13:24:16+00:00 September 21st, 2020|News|0 Comments

INTERCONNECT final conference October 1st

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. The Sustaintrans team have been working in this project since 2017, and it is now time for Henrik Ny and [...]

By | 2020-09-21T11:35:35+00:00 September 21st, 2020|News|0 Comments

Challenges and opportunities for sustainable shipping

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 access resources in an energy efficient way when compared to other transport modes. However, shipping accounts for emissions to air [...]

By | 2020-09-04T09:39:58+00:00 September 4th, 2020|News|0 Comments