The Swedish Energy Agency recently decided to give SEK 7.6 million to a SustainTrans research project that focuses on a fast transition to sustainable transport and energy systems.There are more and more goals and roadmaps for transition to a fossil free society, but there are several questions about how it can be done sustainably, coordinated [...]
With Giles Thomson as the lead author, the SustainTrans team and colleagues at TISU have published a paper about a process for rapid scenario planning to Support a Regional Sustainability Transformation Vision. The paper was created based on the learnings in the project with Region Blekinge about exploring scenarios for a regional planning project (to 2050) [...]
In brief, the INTERCONNECT project addresses the opportunity of curbing the car-reliant mobility trend in the South Baltic area by means of user-adjusted and more sustainable public transport services for regional and cross-border travels. The Sustaintrans team have been working in this project since 2017, and it is now time for Henrik Ny and [...]
SustainTrans researcher Sven Borén presented at the Baltic University Program annual symposium the 26th of August about challenges and opportunities for sustainable shipping. Abstract: Shipping is contributing to a positive societal development as people can access resources in an energy efficient way when compared to other transport modes. However, shipping accounts for emissions to air [...]
The Swedish political week in Almedalen*, Gotland, was cancelled this year but in Jönköping the online event Elmiadalen was arranged instead. Read more about the event at the Elmiadalen official website. On June 29, for the second year in a row, Henrik Ny from the SustainTrans team was a referee in the event 'Klimatmatchen' [...]
The 3rd paper by Anders Grauers at Chalmers, SustainTrans member Sven Borén, and Oscar Enerbäck at RISE in the frames of the electric bus study has after four years of work been completed. The abstract: Without experiences of electric buses, public transport authorities and bus operators have faced questions about how to implement them [...]
Jayne Bryant and SustainTrans researcher Giles Thomson published a paper on learning as a key leverage point for sustainability transformations in the journal Sustainability Science. The paper offers a longitudinal case study (2011-2016) from a local government - Canning (Perth, Australia) - to demonstrate “…that educational programs within institutions have the potential to be [...]
The INTERCONNECT project has made it possible to create a paper authored by Sven Borén and Henrik Ny, togeter with Juliette Tenart @ Bax & Company in Barcelona, and Marco Mazouzi @ HIE-RO in Rostock about a open access and web-based catalogue of solutions for regional and cross-border public transport in the south Baltic [...]
Henrik Ny from SustainTrans gives a short update on a new application where all public authorities and several companies in Blekinge join together in finding ways to speed up the transition to sustainable transport for a whole region. https://youtu.be/woMN-Reu-dQ
The Corona pandemic might disturb the transition of the transport sector that is necessary to live up to the Paris agreement and save our climate and society. A path forward is discussed based on a 'Green New Deal'. Henrik has written this opinion piece for the Swedish environmental magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet. Here is a [...]