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Presentations from TransportMistra's final scientific conference now available
TransportMistra's final scientific conference was held on Nov 26-27 in Lund.
Implementation of road noise policy
In the recent Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies (vol 7, no 2) Claus Hedegaard Sørensen from IMPACT has published an article on...
TransportMistra final scientific conference
A conference on the TransportMistra research on implementation of sustainable transport systems. November 26- 27 in Lund, Sweden.
Swedish and British experiences in Danish magazine
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen, Tomas Bergström, Henrik Gudmunsson and Jamil Khan (all from IMPACT) has published an article in the Danish magazine "Dansk...
Stockholm charging research presented in Tokyo
During his recent visit to Japan, Henrik Gudmundsson of IMPACT vas invited to present information and research results concerning the Stockholm...
IMPACT article in PLAN
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen, Jamil Khan, Tomas Bergström and Henrik Gudmundsson (all from IMPACT) have published an article in the recent number of the...
Include dissertation
Friday Oct 31 Johan Törnblom will defend his PhD thesis entitled "A Landscape Approach towards Ecological Integrity of Catchments and Streams".
Deadline soon for INCLUDE conference registration
The INCLUDE conference "WAYS TO DIVERSITY - harmonizing transport infrastructure with the landscape" will take place in Uppsala 7-9 October 2008.
TransportMistra at transport conference in Aalborg
The annual Danish conference in transport was held August 25 -26 in Aalborg. Researchers from TransportMistra made four presentations on topics within...
Transport and climate to be discussed at ‘Almedalsveckan´ in Visby
Henrik Gudmundsson from IMPACT has been invited to a panel that will discuss the role of infrastructure in reducing transports contribution to climate...
Call is open to win the European Green Capital Award!
As from May 22 2008 a call is open to the European Green Capital Award. The Award has been conceived by the European Commission as an initiative to...
Documentation from Include Workshop avaliable
A report that summarizes discussions and lectures concerning the topic "How to reach a sustainable landscape?" is now available for download. The...
Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility workshop
Claus H. Sørensen and Henrik Gudmundsson presented a paper about the sustainability effects of Bus transport reforms in the UK at the NECTAR Policy and...
Marie Thynell - Inform - at Third Regional EST Forum in Singapore
The meeting was arranged by United nations Centre for Regional Development UNCRD, The Ministry of the Environment-Government ofJapan , National...
Men´s travel is not sustainable
TransportMistra researcher Merritt Polk has written a debate article with Member of Parliament, Karin Svensson Smith, in the main municipal paper ...
Henrik Gudmundsson of IMPACT has received a travel grant from the Toyota Foundation
Henrik plans to travel to Japan to exchange research results on urban sustainable transport with Japanse colleagues.
Skånetrafiken signs declaration of environmental goals
The 6th of March Skånetrafiken signed a declaration of environmental goals about the public transportation.
Eva Ericsson was interviewd for Mindsinmotion.net about IMPACT
MindsinMotion.net, is a webpage colleting information about Sustainable Mobility. It aimsat: informing about new projects, for experts to network with...
TransportMistra Annual Report 2007 available
Download our annual report from our publications section or click the link. The annual report is only available in Swedish
TransportMistra research and results got headlines in new number of "vti aktuellt".
TransportMistra presentations at TransportForum January 2008 cited in articles in the "vti aktuellt" issue on the event.
Public hearing on the infrastructure of the transport sector and necessary changes due to the climate change
The 7 Mars 2008 the standing committee on transport and communications (trafikutskottet) will have a public hearing on the infrastructure of the...
TransportMistra advisory group member debates on national television
Anders Wijkman, TransportMistra advisory group member was invited to Swedish national television to debate in the program Agenda.
TransportMistra researchers among the speakers in Sustainable Transport Seminar in Oslo
In the context of COST Action 356 a successful seminar called “Towards a measurable sustainable transport", was held on February 20th, at TOI in Oslo....
Critical limits for noise in the landscape
Traffic noise affects life quality for people and wildlife. Urban and rural green areas are important for recreation and biodiversity, but the values...
Transport conferences
If you are interested in transport conferences the SUTP web page ha an extensive list of what is going on. http://www.sutp.org
Proposal to decrease CO2 target levels
Next week TransportMistra advisory group member Anders Wijkman (also a member of The Christian Democrat party) and The Environment pary´s spook person...
Conference on infrastructure and landscape
INCLUDE invites to a conference on infrastructure and landscape. The conference will present results from the INCLUDE programme, but will also provide...
Joint proposal to save the climate
On Transportforum in Linköping six heavy government authorities presented a joint proposal to save the climate. Over fifty different proposals were...
TransportMistra Newsletter Hållbart nr 2
The second issue of TransportMistra's newsletter Hållbart is now available in Swedish.
Almost 20 presentations by TransportMistra researchers at Transportforum
At the Scandinavian Transport user conference in Linköping 9-10 January different results från all parts of TransportMistra research were presented....
Workshop in Copenhagen about Ørestad and the metro
On November 19, Jamil Khan, Lena Eskilsson and Karin Book held a workshop with representatives from Arealudviklingsselskabet and Metroselskabet, who...
Research on SL and sustainable transports presented
On December 7, Tomas Bergström and Jamil Khan, Lund University, presented research concerning SL and sustainable transports.
Workshop in Manchester with presentations from IMPACT
A workshop on governance structures, public bus transport and sustainable mobility has been held at the Public Transport Executive in Greater...
Karin Brundell-Freij - IMPACT interviewed concerning public acceptance and attitudinal change
On Nov 18th, the Dutch newspaper Dagblad de Telegraaf made a full theme page on “Congestion charging in the world", giving international perspectives...
Important that planned infrastructure don't increase carbondioxid emissions
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency points to the importance that planned infrastuture bids don't increase carbondioxid emissions.
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Lena Winslott Hiselius - IMPACT - attended Nordic Road Association seminar
Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Lena Winslott Hiselius from IMPACT attended a 2-day seminar in September hosted by the Nordic Road Association. The...
Eva Ericsson will participate in EFS workshop
September 27-28 Eva Ericsson will participate in the exploratory workshop "How to Measure Access: Definition, Measurement and Consequences of a...
Inform continues spreading knowledge on sustainable transport
Inform continues the work on spreading what we know on sustainable transport to the users and general public. This time in the Västtrafikens newsletter...
Impact researcher Lorenzo Di Lucia in meeting on bioenergy dialogue
The 12th of September Lorenzo Di Lucia participated in a meeting organized by the Swedish government, the Brazilian government, KTH and the Swedish...
Researchers from TransportMistra at the World Conference on Transport Research in Berkeley
Researchers from TransportMistra participated with papers at the World Conference on Transport Research held in Berkeley in June.
IMPACT researchers in Summer Course with students from Seattle
Read Annica Kronsells report from a week with the theme: Sustainable mobility in the Öresund region
Henrik Gudmundsson - presentation on sustainability
Henrik Gudmundsson is giving a presentation on sustainability on the Third International Conference on Performance Measurement, organized by the US...
Impact researcher Annica Kronsell on Swedish top ten citation list
Impact researcher Annica Kronsell as only female political scientist on the Swedish top ten citation list for political science. That is the result of...
Three IMPACT researchers at the 8th Nordic Environmental Social Science Research Conference
Three IMPACT researchers participated with papers in the workshop Urban Sustainability and Sustainable Mobility at the 8th Nordic Environmental Social...
TransportMistra Newsletter
TransportMistras first newsletter is now available in swedish.
Christer Ljungberg - Trivector and TransportMistra/Impact - took part in “Reducing Traffic Congestion - Real Opportunities"
On June 18-19, Christer Ljungberg from Trivector and TransportMistra/Impact took part in the Senior Executive Forum “Reducing Traffic Congestion - Real...
MOBIDAYS
Henrik Gudmundsson, DTF has been invited to give a presentation of IMPACT at the first MOBIDAYS conference in Prague, Czech Republic, June 18.
Presentations from Impact workshop on implementation of congestion charging May 30th
On May 30, Impact hosted a workshop seminar on the implementation of congestion charging. Speakers from London, Edinburgh, Oslo and Stockholm shared...
Presentations from seminar on the Stockholm Congestion Charging Trial May 29th
On May 29, the Royal Institute of Technology and Impact hosted a scientific conference on the Stockholm Congestion Charging Trial intended for a...
Men have a lot to learn from women's travel behaviour
Men have a larger impact on climat change than women and need to change more to reach sustainable travel behaviour. It would be beneficial for climate...
Gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development
Sustainable development, gender and transport in developed and developing countries was presented and discussed at the UNCSD15 in New York in a side...
IMPACT´s Christer Ljungberg will speak at workshop - Integrated urban transport approaches for successful and attractive cities
On May 16th, Christer Ljunberg will speak at the Fourth Technical Workshop regarding the Preparation of the Green Paper on urban transport...
IMPACT´s Lars J Nilsson participated in the Swedish delegation to IPCC
IMPACT´s Lars J Nilsson participated in the Swedish delegation to the IPCC meeting in Bangkok 30/4 to 4/5 where, among other things, mitigation options...
Global warming - The cost for making real change is small
We need fast changes but the costs for making a real change in global warming is small. This is stated in the IPCC scientific report. The <Swedish...
On May 29-30 a two-day event on Congestion Charging will take place in Stockholm
On May 30 IMPACT arrange a seminar on implementation of congestion charging intended for practitioners. The day before - May 29 - results from the...
TransportMistra Annual Report 2006 available
New newsletter from Mistra
Mistra's newsletter no 4 now available at Mistras website.
The future of European Long Distance Transport: Which trends, targets and scenarios should be considered?
A project has just been launced on The future of European Long Distance Transport to 2047. The project is commissioned by STOA, the Scientific...
Marie Thynell of Impact at Asian Mayors' Policy Dialogue for the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) in Cities
The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC), the Ministry of the...
A new travelreport from Marie Thynell of Impact
Download Marie Thynells travelreport.
Lars J Nilsson at "Biofuels - the Next Generation Sustainable Fuels?"
The Land-Use and Food Policy Intergroup of the European Parliament and the climate network GLOBE EU is organizing a conference: "Biofuels - the Next G...
On May 29-30 a two-day event on Congestion Charging will take place in Stockholm
On May 30 IMPACT arrange a seminar on implementation of congestion charging intended for practitioners. The day before - May 29 - results from the...
Henrik Gudmundsson of IMPACT at the US Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
From January 21-25 2007 Henrik Gudmundsson took part in the US Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting (TRB) in WashingtonDC, on behalf of...
Mistra newsletter
A new edition of the Mistra newsletter is now available on the Mistra website.
Marie Thynell of Inform shares her thoughts on pollution in Asia
In her first Travel report from Yogyakarta Marie Thynell writes about pollution in Asia and about how the work regarding this issue proceeds.
Henrik Gudmundsson represents IMPACT at Transportation Research Bord Annual Meeting
Henrik Gudmundsson will represent IMPACT at a special session on “International Perspectives on Sustainability in Urban Transportation" at the...
Lorenzo di Lucia and Lars J Nilsson in EuropeanVoice on biofuels
On January 11 Lorenzo di Lucia and Lars J. Nilsson published a timely Viewpoint in the weekly newspaper EuropeanVoice.
Informs Marie Thynell at regional event on urban air quality management in Asia
Late December Informs Marie Thynell participated in a meeting when the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Asian governments to intensify efforts to...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
...wishes from TransportMistra!
Include newsletter
Include publishes their first newsletter! Read the abstract and download the newsletter (pdf, 240 kB) (PDF).
IMPACT to cooperate with EU project MAX
November 15-17 the new EU project on Mobility Management, MAX, started with a kick off meeting in Graz, Austria. IMPACT partner Trivector a...
Informs Marie Thynell expert member of Regional Environmental Sustainable Transport Forum
Informs Marie Thynell is one of the expert members of the Regional Environmental Sustainable Transport Forum. At the next meeting in Yogyakarta,...
IMPACTs Lena Winslott Hiselius at Respect Europé seminar
IMPACTs Lena Winslott Hiselius visited a seminar hosted by the Respect Europé in Malmö, November 23rd. The title of the seminar was: How to build...
Swedish website on Global environmental changes launched
A new Swedish web site about state of the art on global environmental changes is launched at The planet at forskning.se. The site aims at the broad...
Informs Marie Thynell visited the World Bank and WRI
The first week of November Marie Thynell visited the World Bank and WRI in Washington and the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) George...
Informs Marie Thynell at Gothenburg Book Fair
Marie Thynell was invited by "Vetenskapsrådet" to give a presentation at the Gothenburg Book Fair in September. The title of the presentation was: What...
Christer Ljungberg - Impact - bloggs
Christer Ljungberg, Trivector Traffic & Impact, has been writing in his blogg since january this year.
Innovation in focus in Dutch Transport Policy
On September 19th Henrik Gudmundsson represented TRANSPORTMISTRA at a meeting at VINNOVA, Stockholm, with a high level delegation from The Dutch...
Biofuels for transportation - lack of common vision
Lars J Nilsson of IMPACT cited in The International Herald Tribune
Impact researcher Henrik Gudmundsson at NICHES meeting
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