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 [...]
Snowmobiles powered by combustion engines causes noise and emissions that negatively affect both the drivers and the environment. Electric powered snowmobiles have no engine related emissions, and in line with other electric vehicles likely lower noise emissions. Earlier trials, e.g. 2011 in Östersund, have shown that the technology was immature. Electric snowmobiles that seems [...]
April 2017 started with a presentation by Varvara of a publication of her Master thesis at the World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research in Manchester, UK.[1] Researchers, politicians and civil servants from all over the world met at Manchester Metropolitan University to discuss approaches of addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)[2]. The diversity of delegates [...]
Within the electric bus study, noise measurements according to ISO 362-1:2015 of an Electric bus has been done in Västerås in late April. The aim was to find out the noise level during acceleration compared to a comparable gas bus, and we had successful results indicating that there is a big difference between those vehicles. Further [...]
A PhD day organized by Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (CIIST) took place on the 16th of March 2017 at the Chalmers House in Gothenburg. The event gathered researchers from Energy and Environment department, Shipping and Marine Technology department of Chalmers Institute of Technology and Strategic Sustainable Development department of Blekinge Institute [...]
Recently, representatives of five European regions met in the southeast Swedish region Blekinge to exchange experience in sustainable transport. BTH-researcher Henrik Ny was in place as the local expert. This took place within the project TRAM (Towards New Regional Action Plans for Sustainable Urban Mobility) which during the past week met in Karlskrona to [...]
The SustainTrans research team will hopefully from next fall (and three years ahead) conduct research on how to curb car reliant mobility and improve public transport to eventually become sustainable across (and between) south Baltic regions. The "INTERCONNECT" application to the South Baltic Programme is managed by Region Blekinge, and involves nine partners from six countries, along with numerous [...]
We'd like to welcome Varvara Nikulina to the SustainTrans team. Initially, Varvara will work with preparations for her PhD studies about comparative analysis of transitions towards sustainable future within the transportation sector. Read more about Varvara's PhD project and our team members.
On October 12th, Lisiana Nurhadi presented her licentiate thesis "An Approach to Business Modeling for Sustainable Personal Road Transport". In that, it was shown how to develop and test a new approach to examining the economic socio-ecological sustainability effects of various road vehicles for private travelling, and business model. Lisiana presenting her 4th paper She [...]