On October 18, at 09:30, Sven Borén defended his PhD thesis "Towards sustainable personal mobility with electric cars and buses" at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. Dr. Maria Grahn, Chalmers University of Technology was the opponent, and Dr. Jan Persson, Malmö University, Prof. Sonia Yeh (Chairman), Chalmers University of Technology, and Dr. Anders Wretstrand, Lund [...]
An updated English report from the SustainTrans team shows how Sweden might show global leadership in the decarbonization of the personal transport sector. The IPCC Special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C released in October 2018 reiterates the urgency of the need to decarbonize all aspects of global society. The research conducted [...]
MSLS students Juliette Ténart, James Vierling, and Michael Fellner have finished their A-grade master thesis "Barriers and Best Practices to the Use of Public Transportation: A Case Study of the South Baltic Sea Region", which was supervised partly by the SustainTrans team. It was created within the INTERCONNECT project and the students provide great help throughout the [...]
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 [...]