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  • The HITS project shows great potential for sustainable urban transport

    Scania truck on city street
    Photo: Scania
    Published Nov 21, 2024

    Cities across Europe aim to reduce street traffic for a better environment and lower climate impact. A research study initiated by Scania within the HITS project, shows that urban transport can be tra...

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  • How can we make shared housing happen?

    Participants 'program' their own apartments during the workshop.
    Published Nov 19, 2024

    This was the theme for a policy workshop to identify hinders and create solutions to support building shared housing in Sweden.

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  • Design student awarded for sleep mask

    Young woman holding a sleep mask
    Wicky Qin, a KTH student and product designer, has worked with an international team to produce a sleep mask to improve sleep. The product has three modules: Neural Signal Detection, Bone Conduction and Light Stimulation, which are combined to improve the user's sleep quality. Now, the BEKVÄM sleep mask has been named this year's national winner of the James Dyson Award.
    Published Nov 04, 2024

    Wicky Qin, student at the Design and Product Development programme, you have designed a sleeping mask that may improve the quality of sleep by connecting brain signals with light and sound functions. ...

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  • A Systems Thinking Approach: Shifting Mobility Policy to a Transformative Solution Space

    Published Oct 27, 2024

    As part of the ITRL Breakfast Seminars series, Aimée Aguilar Jaber, Programmes Director at Hot or Cool Institute presented her work on Systems Thinking Approach to investigate the shift of Mobility Po...

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  • "I want to make decision makers think in new ways!"

    Portrait Diana
    Diana Saleh is a doctoral student within Product Development and Design.
    Published Oct 15, 2024

    Hello Diana Saleh, a doctoral student at the department of Engineering Design who has been elected to the IVA Student Council.  What is it and what will be your role?

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  • The impact of Electrification on Road Freight Transport Efficiency: a PhD presentation

    Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash
    Published Oct 05, 2024

    On 30th September, Claudia Andruetto and Zeinab Raoofi presented their recent work titled “How Does Electrification Impact Road Freight Transport Efficiency? A System Dynamics Approach” at the ITRL’s ...

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  • Taddo2: collaborative presentation at Safecomp 2024 in Florence!

    TADDO2 presenters at SafeComp2024
    TADDO2 presenters at SafeComp2024
    Published Sep 19, 2024

    Reconciling software and machine learning practices with safety engineering!

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  • ITRL Partners Sign Extension Agreement to Lead the Future of Sustainable Transport

    Signing event
    Sara Forsberg, Chief Technical Officer at Scania, Mikael Lindström, Deputy President at KTH, Annika Borgenstam, Vice President for Research at KTH, Mikael Ranhagen, Head of Unit Infrastructure, Region Stockholm.
    Published Sep 16, 2024

    The Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) has been extended for another four years. KTH and its strategic partners, Scania and Region Stockholm, together with Trafikverket, are thereby renewing the...

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  • Postoc within modeling of sociotechnical systems, with focus on road transport

    roadbrigde and skyline
    Photo: Jon Flobrant, Unsplash
    Published Jun 27, 2024

    We are looking for a postdoc focusing on analysis and modeling of the transformation of socio-technical systems, and specifically how different electrification strategies (battery-electric, fuel cells...

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  • Electrifying transport in the forestry sector

    Electric logging truck
    The TREE project brings together 20 Swedish partners to electrify transports from the forestry industry. Photo: Scania
    Published Jun 11, 2024

    The forestry industry has set an ambitious target – to electrify half of the transports by 2030. How to get there? KTH researchers will help to answer that question.

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  • Electrifying Urban Freight Transports, The Role of Financial Incentives and Other Key Factors

    Published Jun 11, 2024

    As part of the ITRL Breakfast Seminars series, Carolina Gil Ribeiro, PhD candidate at the Division of Energy Systems, ITM School, KTH presented her Ongoing PhD research on Electrifying Urban Freight T...

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  • The Societal Impacts of Self-Driving Technology

    Erik Almlöf
    Erik Almlöf.
    Published May 31, 2024

    Erik Almlöf has spent the last five years exploring the societal impacts of introducing self-driving technology. His research sheds light on the complexities of integrating autonomous vehicles into ou...

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  • Designing for system-level and behaviour change

    Published May 12, 2024

    As part of the ITRL Breakfast Seminars series, Martin Sjöman, design researcher and lecturer at KTH presented his Doctoral Research on Designing for system-level and behaviour change.

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  • Connecting Third-Party Users to Public Transport Infrastructures: The Near and Necessary Future

    Published Apr 11, 2024

    As part of the ITRL Breakfast Seminars series, Ibrahim Diab, private transportation consultant & former post-doctoral researcher from TU Delft & AMS Institute presented his work on connecting third-pa...

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  • ITRL Annual Report 2023

    Published Mar 27, 2024

    We look back at 2023 in our now released annual report. Read through updates, results from our projects and work in the main research areas.

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  • Open position: PhD Candidate – Simulation of Electrification in Forest Transport on Roads

    Truck
    Image from skogsforsk.se
    Published Mar 08, 2024

    Skogforsk, in collaboration with ITRL and the departement of Engineering Design at KTH, is seeking a PhD candidate specialising in mathematical simulation of sociotechnical systems. The PhD project wi...

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  • Hybrid webinar on System-level impacts of electrification on road freight transport efficiency

    Published Feb 08, 2024

    In collaboration with Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) and Trafikverket, Claudia Andruetto and Zeinab Raoofi, both from ITRL, presented their work on System-level impacts of electrification on...

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  • Curbing threats from forest and grass fires

    Silhouettes of people in the dark watching a wildfire.
    Photo: Caleb Cook, Unsplash
    Published Feb 05, 2024

    Forest and grass fires have become increasingly common. The research project FIRE is working to reduce the threats posed by these fires and is analyzing complex societal changes caused by climate, ele...

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  • Project unites construction titans to revolutionize shared housing

    Woman pointing on a whiteboard while two others watch.
    During the workshop, participants discussed, among other things, regulatory changes to facilitate shared accommodation.
    Published Jan 10, 2024

    In a series of workshops, the Delbo project will bring together influential actors in the construction sector to open up more shared housing in Sweden.

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  • Self-driving vehicles - Are we ready?

    Self-driving bus on a busy street
    A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Dec 20, 2023

    With more autonomous vehicles on our roads, road deaths are predicted to decrease. At the same time, the risk of both increased emissions and seriously impaired public health rises. A new KTH study of...

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