FSD3901 Integrated Transport System 5.0 credits

• Lectures from selected areas connected to transport (transport system analysis, environmental analysis, user perspectives, business models, vehicle engineering and from partner companies to ITRL centre)
• Participation in seminars held by ITRL centre within the transport area
• Presentations by participating PhD students about own research
• Report writing
• Exam

The student shall after the course be able to:

• Describe and communicate how own research contributes to an integrated and sustainable transport system
• Understand important concepts and tools within transport system analysis, environmental analysis, business models, user perspective and vehicle engineering
• Demonstrate a wide understanding about other research areas than one's own
• Describe and get insight into different aspects of transport research
• Develop a critical approach to future transport system

Ongoing research project. PhD student must be at least one year in to his or her research studies.

No special equipment required.

Course literature will include slides from at least six lectures as well as scientific articles related to the subject of the lectures.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• INL1 - Assignment, 4.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• TEN1 - Exam, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

- Participate in at least 6 lectures
- Participate in at least 3 ITRL seminars and write reflections on 3 of them
- Short presentation of own research project at start of course
- Longer presentation of own research project with emphasis on tools and methods that could be of interest for other PhD students and projects
- Assignment: Write a grant application (2 persons)
- Give feedback on two other assignments
- Smaller written online exam on lecture material

Mikael Nybacka

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) is a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder arena that assembles experts in (i) novel technical transport solutions with high impact/potential; (ii) todays transport system areas to improve and (iii) implementation barriers and mechanisms.
ITRLs vision is a society in the near future or not too far away in which the transport sector is an active player in reaching the goals of social, economic and environmental sustainability.
ITRLs contribution towards reaching this vision is through long-term multidisciplinary research cooperation to tackle the global environmental transport challenges by means of radically new and holistic technical solutions. Our approach is that seamless transport services, infrastructure, novel vehicle concepts, business models and policies, all need to be tuned and optimised in chorus.

ITRL is organised as a research centre at KTH and is hosted by the ITM school. Main partners is KTH, Scania and Ericsson who also fund the centre. KTH funding is coming from KTH Transport Platform as well as several schools at KTH. 

Below follows a list of activities that the ITRL centre do:
- ITRL Research projects and demonstrators
- ITRL Labs
- ITRL Innovation Hub
- ITRL Student Experience

Where ITRL Student Experience is initiatives to involve both under-graduate and graduate students in research activities at the centre. One initiative in the ITRL Student Experience is this PhD course.