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  • The impact of varying speed limits on traffic conditions – A case study on the E4 around Södertälje

    CTR Motorvägsstyrning
    Photo: Sten-Åke Stenberg/Mostphotos.com
    Published Jan 19, 2023

    Variable speed limits, if applied correctly, can improve the traffic conditions at locations that are experiencing frequent problems with congestion, inefficient traffic flows and queue propagation. D...

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  • A power-based approach to model the impact of gradient in bicycle traffic simulation

    Guillermo Pérez Castro
    Guillermo Pérez Castro in front of the poster "A power-based approach to model the impact of gradient in bicycle traffic simulation" at the TRB conference 2023
    Published Jan 13, 2023

    To simulate bicycle traffic accurately, it is essential to capture how bicyclists react to features of the infrastructure such as the longitudinal gradient of a bicycle path.

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  • Greetings from Dresden!

    Published Dec 09, 2022

    In December Anna Danielsson and Ivan Postigo participated at the MFTS Symposium at Dresden University of Technology - and took the opportunity to visit the Christmas market

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  • Public defence of doctoral thesis 7 October

    Published Sep 20, 2022

    Welcome to David Leffler's public defence of his doctoral thesis on "Simulation-based Evaluation of Fixed to Flexible Transit"

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  • Developing Microscopic Traffic Simulation Models for the Transition Towards Automated Driving

    Published Aug 24, 2022

    Welcome to the public licentiate seminar of Ivan Postigo on 2 september

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  • Paper: How to Model the Effect of Gradient on Bicycle Traffic in Microscopic Traffic Simulation

    Published Jun 22, 2022

    Read the full paper which earlier this year has been presented by Guillermo Pérez Castro at TRB 2022 in Washington DC

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  • PhD defense by Soumela Peftitsi and Jonas Hatzenbühler

    Published May 20, 2022
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  • SAVE THE DATE: CTR Day - 7 September 2022

    Published May 17, 2022

    Welcome to our yearly CTR Day on 7 September 2022

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  • Start seminarium with PhD student Anna Danielsson

    Ellen Grumert (left) and Anna Danielsson (right).
    Ellen Grumert (left) and Anna Danielsson (right).
    Published May 03, 2022

    We congratulate PhD student Anna Danielsson from Linköpings university for a successfull start seminar within the project Multimodal Traffic Management (MMTL).

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  • New PhD position open - Apply until 31 March

    Published Mar 11, 2022

    Are you interested in further developing current traffic models to enable analysis of future automated traffic systems? Apply for a PhD position at KTH in Modelling and simulation of automated vehicle...

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  • Join the Nordic AI & Open Data Hackathon on March 18-19 2022

    Published Feb 04, 2022

    The hackathon is held by Ramboll, Happy42 and Nordic Innovation with Kungliga Tekniska högskolan as partner in Sweden.

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  • Hackathon: Data Analytics in Public Transport

    Published Jan 25, 2022

    Explore Public Transport data of two European cities: Stockholm and London!

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  • CTR at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

    Ivan Postigo (left) and Guillermo Pérez Castro (right) at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting i Washington, D.C.
    Ivan Postigo (left) and Guillermo Pérez Castro (right) at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting i Washington, D.C.
    Published Jan 12, 2022

    Congratulations to CTR PhD students Ivan Postigo (LiU/VTI) and Guillermo Pérez Castro (LiU) to their successful participation at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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  • Welcome to CTR, Boel Berg Wincent!

    Boel Berg Wincent, PhD-student at CTR, photo: David Lagerlöf.
    Published Dec 10, 2021

    We are happy to welcome PhD-student Boel Berg Wincent on the research team at CTR. 

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  • PhD defense Matej Cebecauer on 9 December 2021

    Erik Jenelius, Matej Cebecauer, Wilco Burghout
    Published Nov 22, 2021

    Congratulations to Matej Cebecauer on the successful defense of his PhD-thesis on Enhancing Short-Term Traffic Prediction for Large-Scale Transport Networks by Spatio-Temporal Clustering

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  • The Centre for Traffic Research celebrates its 25th anniversary!

    CTR 25 year anniversary
    Published Oct 05, 2021

    The Centre for Traffic Research (CTR) was established in 1996 by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) on the initiative of the t...

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