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Pre-study about fossil free shipping

The new BTH membership at Lighthouse has already given a new project to the Sustaintrans team in terms of a pre-study about what shipping would look like if there would be no fossil fuels available on year 2035. Will shipping be BAU by using biofuels or will the sector switch to a completely different [...]

By | 2025-06-11T07:56:35+00:00 June 11th, 2025|News, Publications|0 Comments

Doctoral Dissertation by Varvara Nikulina

On June 9 2023, Varvara Nikulina successfully presented and defended her PhD dissertation "Scaffolding for multistakeholder dialogue-based processes in Strategic Planning for transitioning to sustainable mobility". The dissertation presents further forms of methodological support that can help structure participatory multistakeholder dialogue-based processes:− a framework for analysing the complexity of co-production settings in [...]

By | 2024-09-25T11:30:11+00:00 June 10th, 2023|News, Publications|0 Comments

MAGLEV 2024

BTH and Henrik Ny in the SustainTrans team has been appointed to organize “Maglev 2024”, the 26th edition of the international conference on magnetic transport systems. It will be the first time this conference has been held in Scandinavia since its inception in 1977. This international conference is the world's most prestigious academic conference [...]

By | 2024-09-25T12:00:55+00:00 October 29th, 2022|News, Publications|0 Comments

Presentation by Varvara and Bekki at the International Transdisciplinary Conference

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 with the study titled “Dialogue between transdisciplinary and action research: modus operandi and what we can learn from it”. The [...]

By | 2021-09-28T15:08:23+00:00 September 28th, 2021|News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

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

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 municipalities, Lithuania and the State Enterprise of the Kaliningrad region “Avtovokzal”, Russia. The project idea springs from the recently finalized [...]

By | 2021-06-04T06:56:35+00:00 June 4th, 2021|News|0 Comments

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

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 start in September 2021. In this small project, we aim to conduct a pilot study analyzing, assessing, and comparing the [...]

By | 2021-06-03T10:10:50+00:00 June 3rd, 2021|News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

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

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 public transport. This study has been realized through the INTERCONNECT project and is the first scientific publication out of two [...]

By | 2020-10-22T07:03:29+00:00 October 22nd, 2020|News, Publications, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Our new distance course in sustainable transport systems

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 system based on renewable sources and efficient use of energy carriers that can comply with principles for a social, ecological, [...]

By | 2020-12-02T11:04:41+00:00 October 7th, 2020|News, Uncategorized|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