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 Museum along with current GIS maps, to analyze the city's urban development over the past three centuries. This analysis drew [...]
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 costs for electric buses when compared to buses powered by diesel, biogas and HVO. This article describes how new and [...]
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 in relation to epistemic communities, linguistic diversities and culture". The article presented a framework for analysing complexity within urban planning [...]
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 in the Swedish government has held their annual summer speech to involve seminars, workshops, and speeches that all have political [...]
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 claims that the sector emits more Carbon dioxide than the flights in and to/from Sweden. This new project is financed by [...]
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 shows that a VW e-Golf will have the same annual total cost of ownership (TCO) after three years, and the [...]
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, Chalmers, Electrodriving and partners in the electric bus study. It describes two stakeholder collaboration models that fills the gap for electric bus [...]
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 overall conclusion is that there is a need for research that would show how mobility actors can contribute to resolve [...]
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, Dr. Henrik Ny about the SustainTrans team and ways forward, and finally Sven Borén about his research with a focus [...]
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 the transport sector due to their high energy efficiency, close to zero emissions in the use phase, and the possibility [...]