Anna Pernestål
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About me
Anna Pernestål is a docent in machine design with a focus on sustainable systems design. She is a senior researcher at the Department for Machine Design and at the Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL). She is also the former director of ITRL.
Pernestål's research interests are analysis and design of complex sociotechnical systems to support sustainable development and transition. In particular, she has studied the transport system. In her research she takes a integrated, or system thinking approach, and study impacts on sustainability from environmental, economical and social perspectives. She is also interested in system dynamics and other modelling methods, data and information analysis, decision making, and probability theory.
A selection of ongoing projects:
- TREE - Transition to Efficient Electrified Forestry Transport. Funded by FFI Vinnova
- Impacts of Automation, Electrification, and Digitalization on the transport system (Impact_AED). Funded by Trafikverket
- System effects of Self-driving vehicles - A project to investigate high level system effects of self-driving vehicles. Funded by Trafikverket.
Previous projects:
- Sustainable Mobility Services Södertälje - A project to implement and assess Mobility Services in a corporate context. Funded by Drive Sweden and Vinnova.
- KOMPIS - Realization of combined mobility as a service in Sweden, on behalf of the Swedish governmental innovation integration programme (Samverkansprogrammet).
- Off-peak city logistics - a research projects assessing the effects of off-peak hour deliveries based on a case stduy in Stockholm.
Anna is giving the PhD Course System Thinking and Modelling of Complex Systems (FMF3035), which is given bianually.
Courses
Sustainable Transport Systems (ML111U), teacher | Course web