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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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KTH hosts the R&D Management Conference 2024
Mats Magnusson and Mats Engwall arrange the conference in 2024. Published Oct 11, 2023A conference that can strengthen our ties across departments and disciplines at KTH and attract the cream of innovation management. Next year, KTH will host the R&D Management Conference, Europe's pre...
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New master’s programme for mechatronics
The subject Mechatronics will have its own master's programme from 2024. Published Sep 20, 2023A new master's programme will soon see the light of day at KTH. With digitalization, mechatronics forms the basis for an increasing part of the technology areas in society. The master's program in mec...
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Business models that speed up electrification of heavy road transports
How the trucks will be procured, used, charged, serviced, and eventually disposed on the used market is relevant to an electrified future. Photo: Scania Published Jun 29, 2023How do you create a sustainable business model to enable the electrification of heavy road transport? A new study intends to explain why there are still few electric heavy trucks on the roads – and ho...
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Presentation of ITRL spin-off Gordian at EU project workshop
Published Jun 22, 2023At an EU project workshop about innovation and entrepreneurship in GeoInformation Technology, ITRL researcher Gyözö Gidofalvi presented the ITRL spin-off ”Gordian”, operating within Mobility analytics...
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Testing network performance for intelligent traffic scenarios
ITRL activities at Kista Innovation Park. Published Jun 21, 2023In May and June ITRL has had activities at Kista Innovation Park, testing network requirement for safety-critical applications in automotive use-cases and safety-critical 5G features. The activities w...
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Wrap-up of successful one-year mentorship program
The 2023 Junior Researcher Community Mentorship Program mentors and mentees. Published Jun 20, 2023We're thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of the Junior Researcher Community Mentorship Program, a one-year initiative that connected JRC members, primarily PhD students, with top industry ...
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CoKitchen final seminar
Published Mar 08, 2023We wrapped up the CoKitchen project with a public seminar held at KTH with presentations from the project participants and a panel discussion about the future of housing with experts from across the s...
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PSSST releases final report
Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash. Published Jan 31, 2023The project PSSST (Policies for sustainable, shared self-driving transportation) has ended and the final report is now available. Some of the findings were the importance of mixing different kinds of ...
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Nanoparticles in emissions on researcher’s radar
Published Jan 05, 2023Nanoparticles are everywhere, but we don't know how many or how toxic they are to humans and nature. The nPETS project involves researchers from all over Europe who visit road tunnels and airports to ...
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