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 [...]
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 [...]
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 a catalogue of 42 solutions to make that happen. Read more in the summary page.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
