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 [...]
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 [...]
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 abstract: Without experiences of electric buses, public transport authorities and bus operators have faced questions about how to implement them [...]
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 a local government - Canning (Perth, Australia) - to demonstrate “…that educational programs within institutions have the potential to be [...]
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 Rostock about a open access and web-based catalogue of solutions for regional and cross-border public transport in the south Baltic [...]
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 and Settlements. Giles gave a give a public lecture and participated in three days of field trips and workshops as [...]
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 energy system based on renewable sources and efficient use of energy carriers that can comply with principles for a social, [...]
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 Baltic Sea Region and was initially planned to take place in Visby the 25-26th of August, but is due to [...]
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 in the research area of Strategic Sustainable Development. Henrik with his docent degree. Photo by Sven Borén. [...]
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 by Vinnova and BTH through the PAUS-project, which allowed 20% working time at Wallenius Marine. It also included how BTH [...]