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Postoc within modeling of sociotechnical systems, with focus on road transport
Photo: Jon Flobrant, Unsplash Published Jun 27, 2024We 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
The TREE project brings together 20 Swedish partners to electrify transports from the forestry industry. Photo: Scania Published Jun 11, 2024The 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, 2024As 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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Electrification needs research with a systems perspective
Published May 31, 2024At the end of May, KTH Energy Platform hosted the Swedish Electromobility Centre’s (SEC) programme council meeting at KTH. Programme council meetings are held regularly at programme partner sites and ...
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The Societal Impacts of Self-Driving Technology
Erik Almlöf. Published May 31, 2024Erik 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, 2024As 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, 2024As 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, 2024We 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
Image from skogsforsk.se Published Mar 08, 2024Skogforsk, 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, 2024In 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
Photo: Caleb Cook, Unsplash Published Feb 05, 2024Forest 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
During the workshop, participants discussed, among other things, regulatory changes to facilitate shared accommodation. Published Jan 10, 2024In 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?
A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Dec 20, 2023With 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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11th Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety
Published Dec 11, 202360 participants, mainly from Swedish industry, gathered in Stockholm on 21-22 November for SCSSS 2023, co-organised by MMK's Fredrik Asplund.
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Challenge of living without a car
Electrically powered cargo bikes were used by citizen scientists to replace cars. The picture is from a start-up event organised by the research project (Photo: Magnus Atterfors). Published Dec 04, 2023How hard can it be to live a car-free everyday life? Quite problematic if you have to juggle work and leisure activities. This was demonstrated when a number of households in southern Stockholm were c...
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In case you missed it: Cokitchen presented at SVID
Published Nov 10, 2023Sara Ilstedt, KTH, presents results from the project Co-kitchen sustainable co-living for students. The project has focused on the shared kitchen and bathroom in collective housing. The kitchen is a c...
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Our Sara explores "home"
Photo: Stockholms Akademiska Forum Published Nov 10, 2023As part of STOCKHOLM EXPLORATIVE TALKS 2023, Sara Ilstedt and fellow explorers ventured into the murky waters of academia's role in bridging perspectives and making our world, specifically in relation...
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Patent pending and Start-up from a Mechatronics Bachelors Thesis Project
The bed bug device has been tested in a lab with a handful of bed bugs. [Photo: David Callahan] Published Nov 10, 2023The bedbug invasion has been big news recently! KTH students Maja Åstrand and Simon Lilja, who took the FiM course in Spring 2022, may have found a solution.
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Martin Sjöman doctoral defence!
Published Nov 02, 2023”Living the Change: Designerly modes of real-life experimentation” is the title of Martin Sjömans thesis. The defense took place 21st of September with Dan Lockton from Eindhofen University as oppone...
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DelBo looks for cracks in policy
Published Nov 02, 2023A new project on shared housing where we take a big step towards concretization and creating capacity for development by addressing what hinders the construction of shared housing on a larger scale. I...
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