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How self-driving trucks will change our transportation system

Autonomous trucks are already in use in some areas. Photo: Bernd Dittrich/Pexels.

Published Sep 07, 2021

Some say driverless trucks might start pulling up next to you at a red light in a decade. Trucks without drivers could change our transport system and...
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Anna Pernestål steps down as director

Published Jul 07, 2021

As of July 1st Anna Pernestål will be stepping down as director of ITRL to start her new job at Scania. Anna will however continue to stay involved, a...
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Elisa Bin to teach coding at Pink Programming’s Machine Learning Camp

Pink Programming Summer Camp aims to create an inspiring environment where girls and women can improve their coding skills.

Published Jun 29, 2021

Research engineer Elisa Bin is joining Pink Programming’s summer camp to teach coding and deep learning in their effort to encourage more women to go ...
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Startup inspired by ITRL research nominated for award

Published Jun 16, 2021

The startup Gordian, originally a spin off from ITRL research, is nominated for the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Pitch Awards. On the 22nd of June (...
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Albin Engholm successfully defends his licentiate thesis on driverless trucks

Published Jun 10, 2021

Researcher Albin Engholm sucessfully defended his licentiate thesis on June 9th at ITRL. The thesis provides an analysis of future impacts on the tran...
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Watch: A modern public transport solution

Published Jun 04, 2021

MMiB became the first project in Europe that integrated self-driving buses in public transport, the project aims at implementing an integrated and sus...
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ABE Södertörn releases report on autonomous buses

Published May 24, 2021

The project has now released its final report, providing suggestions on how future self-driving electric buses can be utilized by analyzing a potentia...
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Business Model Labs to present at Drive Sweden Thematic Areas Meeting

Published May 12, 2021

Business Model lab is participating in Drive Sweden Thematic Areas Meeting: Business Models & Policy Development, on May 25th at 9 am.
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Watch: How Covid-19 changed the landscape of transportation webinar

Published May 06, 2021

In this very special edition of Breakfast Webinars from May 4th we invited ITRL researchers to present their work related to COVID-19. Watch below as ...
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Watch: Effekter av självkörande fordon

Published Apr 19, 2021

Despite the current focus on sustainability, what would happen if autonomous vehicles allowed more people to travel by car and therefore increase emis...
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Drive Sweden Business Model Lab kicks off 2021-2022

Published Apr 16, 2021

On March 30th Drive Sweden Business Model Lab held its kick-off for 2021-2022. Lab partners addressed solutions for sustainable business models in qui...
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Watch: Make way for the wealthy? Webinar

Published Apr 13, 2021
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Making goods transport more sustainable with data sharing

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Published Apr 09, 2021

After 15 months Digigoods wraps up phase one. The project examines how to create a more efficient and sustainable goods transport system with digitali...
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Watch: Automated Vehicle Traffic Control Tower webinar

Published Mar 19, 2021

Missed our latest webinar? Watch our expert panel as they give us 5 perspectives on how we can manage a fleet of autonomous cars with the help of vehi...
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KOMPIS releases its final project report

Published Mar 09, 2021
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The trade-off between virtual and physical activities during COVID-19

Photo: CDC

Published Mar 02, 2021

New research explores how individuals have changed their activity-travel patterns and internet usage during the first wave of COVID-19, and which of t...
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Mistra SAMS kicks off Phase II with ITRL

Published Feb 25, 2021
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Prestudy to investigate resilient and sustainable freight transport during Covid-19

Photo: Marcin Jozwiak on Pexels.

Published Feb 09, 2021

Covid-19 created new challenges for the transportation sector and forced it to quickly readjust, a prestudy from ITRL looks to investigate how we can ...
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New report to aid policymakers in governing smart mobility

Published Jan 21, 2021

Self-driving cars, ridesharing, electric scooters, and other mobility services continue to make their way in to our daily lives. As cities grow the de...
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How Will Digitalization Change Road Freight Transport?

Published Jan 13, 2021

ITRL researchers Anna Pernestål, Albin Engholm, Marie Bemler, and Gyözö Gidofalvi have investigated how digitalization can impact road freight transpo...
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