The Sustaintrans team with Sven Borén as the project manager achieved in September 2021, together with partners in Viimsi (Estonia) and Klaipeda (Lithuania), seed funding from the Swedish Institute for a 1-year project “Seeds for sustainable mobility planning and infrastructure” (SESUMOPLIN). This small project aimed to conduct a pilot study analyzing, assessing, and comparing [...]

The Roadmapper Project Decision Support for a Sustainable Transport Transition We see more and more goals and roadmaps for fossil freedom, but how do we get sustainable, coordinated and fast? And how do we manage the long term in an uncertain time with the Corona pandemic and other emergent crises? In this project, The [...]

BTH has begun a research collaboration with Färgfabriken, a cultural institution with an emphasis on art, architecture and urban planning. SustainTrans researcher Giles Thomson is investigating, among other things, improvements of methods for model‐driven development and decision‐making for sustainable urban planning, including visualization and exploration of alternative future visions of sustainable cities and districts. [...]

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 [...]

Varvaras PhD project ”Transitions towards sustainable multimodal personal mobility based on the local context” started in January 2017 and is planned for 4 years. It is designed in close collaboration between Mistra Urban Futures and Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), where BTH is a hosting institution. Supervision is done by Henrik Ny, David Simon, [...]

Previous studies and investigations in the bus industry have shown a need for customized procurement of electric buses that include charging infrastructure, minimize risk for the parties involved, and lead to a sustainable future. The project therefore wanted to develop and test new sustainability-oriented decision support for procurement of public transport with electric buses. [...]

GreenCharge was a research and development project that has grown out of a cooperation between the industry, counties and municipalities in the regions of Blekinge, Norra Skåne, Småland and Öland.

Ebusco 2.0 was during winter time 2014-2015 successfully tested in public transport in eight Swedish municipalities. In an earlier theoretical study within GreenCharge, researchers found that electric buses are more sustainable and can be 25 % cheaper than fossil fuelled buses in city traffic. In that theoretical study, the energy use was not based [...]