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 [...]
New Article about the Swedish Energy Scenarios published by SustainTrans Team (Authors; Martin Prieto Beaulieu, Karl-Henrik Robért and Henrik Ny) today in Miljö & utveckling here >>. Full version in English below; On Sunday there is an election in Sweden. Electricity prices, nuclear power and wind power are widely debated. The problem is that [...]
Roadmapper is a cross-sector collaboration and research project that uses Blekinge as case studies to produce decision support for a rapid transition to sustainable transport. Yesterday, the Goods Transport Council Skåne/Blekinge >> held its meeting at the residence in Blekinge with a focus on the council's strategic work going forward. Here, Roadmapper can contribute [...]
Blekinge University of Technology will, with support from the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, carry out a feasibility study for sustainable energy systems, read more here >>. Blekinge will be the starting point for the study. The project is called SuperPower (SuperEffekt) and combines surface-efficient solar electricity, large batteries for access to [...]
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.
An independent investigation by Henrik Ny from SustainTrans has found that Magnetic trains can be the future of fast ground transport for Sweden and an export opportunity. Based on his investigation Henrik Ny urges Sweden's transport politicians to initiate an independent rapid investigation that compares different future scenarios for high-speed ground transport. According to [...]
In November 2021, Varvara Nikulina was a guest lecturer at the University of Graz[1], online. She gave two participatory classes to the students in the course Inter- and Transdisciplinary problem solving, lead by Dr. Ralf Aschemann. The overarching theme was Tools, Methods and Approaches for inter- and transdisciplinary problem solving. The first lecture was [...]
Presentations, results and photos from the two days Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport (running between 25-26th of November 2021) will be published on this page.
Course in Systems Analysis Sustainable Transport The Roadmapper project navigate you through short-term challenges to sustainable transport As you know, the Roadmapper project uses Blekinge as a case study to produce a decision support for a rapid transition to sustainable transport. As part of this project we now welcome engaged people from all part [...]
