The SustainTrans team is now growing with Giles Thomson. He is a researcher with a background in urban planning and completed a PhD on regenerative urbanism and his focus within the team is the intersection between urban planning and transport systems. Warmly welcome Giles! Further reading abut Giles (and other team members) [...]
Organizers and hosts/table leaders in Klaipeda. Introduction by Vice Mayor Mr. Arturas Sulcas@ Klaipeda workshop. Photo by Sven Borén Expectations and burning issues @ Klaipeda workshop. Photo by Sven Borén. Henrik's lecture @ Klaipeda workshop. Photo by Sven Borén Brainstorm about solutions towards the vision. [...]
With great help from the Polish institute InnoBaltica, the SustainTrans team facilitated another successful workshop within the INTERCONNECT project in order to investigate what public transport stakeholders in the Pomorskie region think about current and future sustainable regional and cross border public transport. The workshop was held in the Pomeranian Technology and Science Park in Gdynia [...]
The 13th of February, the SustainTrans team hosted, within the INTERCONNECT project, a workshop about future regional and cross-border public transport. PhD student Varvara Nikulina lead the workshop, and after a framing of the workshop by Magnus Johansson (chairman of the public transport board in Blekinge), and INTERCONNECT project leader Wiktor Sydarowski, the participants [...]
Vi vill härmed bjuda in dig och dina kollegor till en workshop på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola kl. 09.00-16.00 den 13:e februari 2018. Den är arrangerad inom projektet INTERCONNECT där en viktig del är skapandet av en vision för ett kollektivtrafiksystem som kan erbjuda samhället nya och mer hållbara sätt att resa. Denna workshop kommer [...]
Project partners and stakeholders from the Rostock are gathered the 11-12th December to try out and analyse the current public transport in and between the regions of Rostock and Guldborgsund. The Swedish delegation jumped on a morning train in Karlskrona and arrived at Nyköping Falster by lunchtime. We then listened to the recent mobility projects [...]
Varvara @ IST 2017 with the poster In June 2017 Varvara presented the first results of her PhD project at the 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference[1] in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference devoted special attention to findings and discussions around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals[2] and challenges related to transitions towards sustainable [...]
Henrik Ny writes a new analysis for the Swedish magazine Ekotransport. Plan society right from the start, reduce car dependency in transport, reduce fossil dependency in the car fleet and focus on new technologies such as Biochar and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). These four steps towards fossil-free passenger transport are proposed by Henrik [...]
INTERCONNECT, an 3,5 M€ EUSBSR flagship project starting in 2017 and ending 2020, addresses the challenge of curbing the car-reliant mobility trend in the South Baltic (SB) area through user-adjusted and more sustainable public transport services for regional and cross-border travels. The current public transport offer hardly meets customer expectations for easiness and attractivity of regional and cross-border [...]
Sweden needs to raise the ambition level to make possible a timely transition to fossil-free and sustainable passenger transport. The solutions are available - and they can also be economically advantageous. This is what the research team led by Dr. Henrik Ny at Blekinge Institute of Technology concludes in a report published today. The [...]