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 [...]
We have got the rapid reduction in global CO2 emissions that we have been hoping for - but from a terrible reason. What happens next? When the Corona crisis subsides and we prepare ourselves to rebuild and develop our civilization - can we make the reboot green? 🌿🌎 The Pod cast the Transition Academy is [...]
We are happy to get a new cooperation started with two spatial planners from the TIFP department at BTH. Professor Abdellah Abarkan has invited Henrik to co supervise the phd student Judith Oginga Martins. This cooperation is focused on how the urban form and urban planning could be used to support a transition to sustainable [...]
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 [...]
The project partners in INTERCONNECT met in September in Elblag (Poland) for a late mid-term project meeting, and back-to-back with the Warmia-Mazuri conference 'Efficient integration of public transport services'. Sven Borén in the SustainTrans team was one of the presenters and told the audience about the stakeholder collaboration model, which in the INTERCONNECT project will [...]
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 [...]