Centre Report
Centre for Transport Studies
Report to Evaluation Team
2010-05-07
updated 2010-05-10
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0. Summary
The Centre for Transport Studies is a collaboration between a number of partners, summarised in the
table below.
Partner
Type
Research-oriented consultancy
University
Contribution to CTS: role, particular
competence, research areas
Transport modelling, discrete choice
econometrics, valuation of non-market
goods, regional economics
Transport economics, tendering and
contracts, pricing of transport and
infrastructure, valuation
Applied modelling and policy analysis
Regional economics
Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH)
University
Swedish National Road
and Transport Research
Institute (VTI)
WSP Analysis & Strategy
Jönköping International
Business School
Transport Analysis
(formerly SIKA)
Transport Administration
(formerly Road and Rail
Administrations)
National Public Transport
Agency
VINNOVA
National research institute
Public authority
Statistics and policy analysis
Public authority
Funder
Public authority
Funder (conditional)
Research agency
Funder
The core of CTS research is transport modelling and transport economics, with sub-topics such as
person and freight demand modelling, traffic simulation, appraisal, valuation of non-market goods and
transport pricing. The raison d’être of CTS is to connect four strong research units to each other, and
to strengthen links to practitioners. The creation of CTS has rapidly created such connections, and we
expect these to be even stronger when we move into a dedicated CTS building in March 2011. We are
convinced that these links create more than just “dissemination”: we believe that the CTS
collaborations between practitioners, researchers and consultants from various backgrounds and
environments is the most efficient method to communicate results out of academia and generate new,
fruitful research questions into academia.
CTS research aims for the highest scientific quality, and CTS researchers have made world-leading
contributions in several fields, such as discrete choice econometrics, valuation of time and variability,
route choice modelling and congestion charging analysis, to name a few.
CTS has strong connections to applied policy-making and analysis, and is increasingly becoming the
national “point of contact” in issues regarding transport modelling and appraisal. CTS researchers are
frequently engaged as advisors and collaborators in various contexts, have had substantial influence on
several important policy issues, chaired the Appraisal Committee for the National Investment Plan,
developed the national freight and person transport models, worked with the design and evaluation of
the Stockholm and Gothenburg congestion charges – the list could be made much longer.
We are convinced that this cross-fertilisation between high-quality basic research, independent policy
analysis and applied collaborations will continue to strengthen our common environment. To use our
somewhat cocky internal motto, this will continue to create research that is brilliant, relevant and
visible.
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1. Long-term Vision, Mission and Strategy
Already after two and one-half years of existence, CTS has contributed strongly to its vision – an
improved understanding of the transport system, its users and the interaction between the transport
system and societal development. The research is in line with the mission, i.e. of high quality and
applicable for practitioners. Thus, the research has already been put into practical use in the shaping of
the transport system.
A perspective on the goals and strategies for CTS are shown in the table on next page. Some of the
achievements with respect to the goals are:
 Internationally recognised research environment. The Scientific Advisory Board concludes that
research projects hold an extremely high quality (see chapter 3). This is shown in a strong
publication record and presence at scientific conferences – senior researchers publish more than
three papers1 per person and year on average (see chapter 5). CTS has been able to attract leading
researchers, both as permanent employees and as guest researchers. Many of the researchers are
also invited to scientific committees etc. Further, a unique quality of the research at CTS is its
applicability, achieved through the strong links between practitioners and researchers.
 Meeting place for researchers and practitioners. The strong links are achieved through arranging
seminars and conferences, recruitments, cooperation in projects and an active dialogue. This has
yielded research that is perceived as relevant, which in turn already has made CTS a major
Swedish node for practitioners seeking research results. CTS researchers are frequently engaged as
lecturers and advisors by various stakeholders, and also get extensive exposure in media.
 Increase the quality of decision support. CTS research has been put into practical use in Swedish
transport policy formulation both through traditional research projects and counselling activities.
This is shown through engagements by governmental commissions, Parliament hearings and joint
work groups with public authorities.
 Raise the long term competence level. CTS meets this goal both by the dissemination activities
described above that are aimed at practitioners and by examination of high quality PhD-students,
who will often themselves become practitioners later on. A sign that this works well is that the
Scientific Advisory Board considered our PhD students and junior researchers “extremely good”.
 Increase and strengthen the financial base. The share of external funding have increased over time
since CTS has been highly successful in attracting external funding. One reason is that large
project applications have been made and granted. However, the future of the base funding is
somewhat uncertain today since all the funding public authorities are reorganizing.
In a ten year perspective the ambition of CTS is to continue to work towards these goals. In particular,
the following strategies will be in focus (the strategies are elaborated in chapter 8):
1. Strengthened role in the international research arena
2. Intensified knowledge dissemination
3. Closer internal cooperation
4. Exploration of new research areas
5. Improved career opportunities
6. Increased financial base
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Counting all types of publications; some “double-counting” of papers may occur.
Activity
Goals
Value added by existence of CTS
Research
Internationally recognised
research environment
Access to other research
networks
Higher critical mass - other
researhers work with similar
topics
Advice and cooperation in
applied policy
Education of PhDs, students
and practitioners
Administration
Meeting place for researchers
and practitioners
Strong publication record
More joint projects between partners
Cross-fertilisation
Contact with practitioners yield
new research questions
Attracts leading/promising researchers
Dedication to communication
Single point of contact for
practitioners
Connecting researchers with
practitioners
Practitioners from the nonacademic partners increase
relevance of research
Increase the quality of decision
support
Independent advice
Large pool of people: many
viewpoints
Cooperation with leading international
research environments
Strong connection to applied policy
making and appraisal
Major node for practitioners seeking
research results
More external seminars and
conferences
Appreciated external seminars
More persons at CTS involved
More internal cooperation and
dissemination
Well-functioning internal seminar series
Frequently engaged for presentations by
important stakeholders
Unique ability to get research results out
and research questions in
Extensive exposure in media
Several cooperation projects with
governmental commissions and others
Frequently engaged as policy advisors
More persons at CTS involved
Increase awareness of CTS willingness
to help
Large pool of people: handle
complex tasks
Increasingly engaged at Parliament
hearings
More involvment in policy at EU-level
Single point of contact for
practitioners
Research results faster into
practical use
Participation in several joint work groups
with public authorities
Substantial influence over several policy
decisions
Raise the long term competence
level
Larger pool of teachers
Better connection between
education and practice
Less vulnerability with more
supervisors
Increase and strengthen the
financial base
Potential for improvements
Some researchers should publish more
Strong presence at conferences
papers
Many members of scientific committees, Publish more of what is already being
editorial boards etc.
done
Contact with practitioners keeps
research relevant
Researchers outside traditional
academia (VTI+WSP) acess
research
Dissemination of knowledge
Strengths and achievements
Access to other networks
Financial stability => possible to
take risks
Able to take on large research
grants/projects
Larger pool of leading research
competences => can take on
broad/large projects
Examination of high quality PhD-students More new recruited PhD-students
Growing and more attractive masters
program
Education of practitioners
Highly successful in attracting external
funding
Large project applications made and
granted
Improved budget steering and
economic forecasts
Increased focus by management on
recruitment
More EU-funded projects
2. Organisation and Management of the Centre
Description of Partners
There are five partners of CTS that carry out research (and also act as financiers) and an additional two
partners that act solely as financiers (the Swedish Transport Administration and the National Public
Transport Agency). Here, only those practicing research will be discussed. Since CTS started in 2008,
over 70 persons have worked in CTS projects. More than 50 belong to what can be considered the core
of CTS. Most of these are found at two divisions at KTH (all of Transport and Location Analysis
(TLA) together with parts of Transport and Logistics (TOL)) and one division at VTI (Transport
Economics (TEK)). Further, parts of WSP Analysis and Strategy, Jönköping International Business
School and the Transport Analysis authority (formerly SIKA) constitute part of the core. The picture
below shows the different CTS partners: the green (inner) area depicts the projects that are funded
directly by CTS while the red (outer) area depicts the “CTS environment”. The use of both these
definitions is the result of a conscious strategy, since the CTS funded projects will gain by being able
to draw on experiences and competences within the broader CTS research environment. A single
researcher or research project is often funded partly by CTS and partly by other sources making CTS
projects an integrated part of a larger environment.
CTS Research Environment
KTH/TOL
(CTR and HRE)
KTH/TLA
VTI/TEK
CTS project finance and
board responsibility
CTS office
JIBS
WSP
Transport
Analysis
Swedish Transport
Administration
National Public Transport
Agency
A more extensive description of the partners is given in chapter 4.
Role of Directors and Management
The Board of Directors is appointed by the partners, and is responsible for strategic issues and major
economic decisions. Some of the responsibilities are:
 To decide upon the strategic development of the Centre
 To promote cooperation between public society and industry with regard to results of the research
 To monitor the economic situation of the Centre, prepare a budget and ensure that the Centre’s
economic position can be reassuringly controlled
 To facilitate idea generation from the sector, decide on large projects, implementation and review
of the research activity within the framework of the business plan.
The Centre Director leads the centre activities both scientifically and operationally, and is the
rapporteur at the Board of Directors. The Director is responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Centre. The Director shall ensure that a well-functioning organization is created.
The Management Group consists of the Director and one representative each from KTH and VTI as
well as adjunct members (currently the deputy Director, the administrator and one representative from
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JIBS). The Management Group discusses matters of importance for the day-to-day operation and
organization of the Centre. This includes preparing project proposals to the Board, design
communication activities, ensure project control and decide upon minor projects (or more exactly
advice the director).
Scientific leadership is carried out along two parallel processes. First, all research proposals are
discussed in the Management Group, often resulting in revisions or extensions of the original
proposals. In particular, connections to other on-going projects are pointed out and potential for
synergies are explored. Second, appointed research coordinators arrange regular focus area discussions
where on-going research and ideas for future research are discussed.
The International Scientific Advisory Board currently consists of Michel Bierlaire (EPFL, Transport
Laboratory, Lausanne), Stef Proost, (Cat. University, Leuwen) and Mark Wardman (ITS, Leeds). The
Scientific Advisory Board discusses the relevance of the research topics of the Centre and gives advice
on specific projects. It further gives advice on how the Centre can best develop its activities.
Project generation process
A project idea can arise on the initiative of a researcher, a research coordinator, the Management
Group or the Board of Directors. There are no special application deadlines set, which means that
ideas can be presented at any time.
From an accepted project idea, the researcher/project manager develops a project proposal in
cooperation with the research coordinator or the Management Group. If necessary, a pilot study is also
conducted along with the preparation of a project plan in accordance with a specific model. The
project plan shall also contain a quality plan and a plan for knowledge dissemination, times and dates
for reviews, and a budget with a plan for payment of funds from CTS. Project plans for larger projects
are referred to the Board which decides whether the projects should go ahead. The director can decide
on smaller projects (up to SEK 400 000). Decisions on projects are communicated to the project
manager and (on approval) KTH’s finance administrator via a letter confirming a decision.
The project is carried out in cooperation with the research coordinator and/or a controller. Quality
assurance is carried out in accordance with the quality plan. The project is completed with a project
report which is submitted to the director (for larger projects to the Board), who in turn makes decisions
on activities for knowledge dissemination within the framework of CTS.
Stimulation of innovation processes
One of the basic functions of CTS is to link high quality research to applied transport planning and
policy development. CTS will thus facilitate an innovative policy development process including
model and method development. The infrastructure sector is, for basic economic reasons, in many
situations under the control of public authorities. The most important innovation process for CTS is to
improve the decision making capability of this sector. The steps taken to stimulate and promote
innovation process are described in the implementation strategies under goal 2 (meeting place) and
goal 3 (increasing quality) – see appendix 2, criteria for CTS. An example can illustrate the process.
At CTS at least 15 projects deal with road user charges. Through this extensive research of both
theoretical and practical issues CTS has built up a unique competence in the area. This was asked for
by the regional and national authorities when innovative solutions were sought for a system with
congestion charges in Gothenburg.
Role of the Centre
The role of the Centre is described in chapter 4.
Communication
Internal and external communication activities are carried out both through seminar series and on an
ad-hoc basis. Some of the organized activities are:
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Academic seminars at KTH – dissertations where doctoral and licentiate theses are presented etc.
CTS mini-conferences – thematic conferences with a number of presentations, aimed at
practitioners, decision makers and researchers.
VTI seminars – peer review of internal or external CTS projects. Held on Wednesday afternoons.
CTS lunch seminars – researchers present and receive feed-back on an ongoing project from other
researchers at CTS. Held every Tuesday lunch.
Coffee break information – researchers get together and the Centre Director briefly informs on
current issues once a week.
Home page – there is a home page for CTS where seminars are announced, projects described and
reported, collaborators presented, etc.
Working paper series – currently VTI Stockholm publish their work in a working paper series.
Plans are under way to integrate other parts of CTS in the series.
Equal opportunity
The share of men and women differs between the member organizations of CTS, e.g. among
researchers at KTH men outnumber women, whereas at WSP Analysis and Strategy it is the other way
around. Generally speaking, the share of women has gradually increased over time even at the
senior/management level, and there is no indication that the career opportunities today differ.
However, the Board of Directors, the Management Group and the International Scientific Advisory
Board are all still dominated by men.
An opportunity for people from outside Sweden is supported at CTS, through the fact that lectures,
seminars, etc. are normally held in English. Thus at CTS, people from abroad are employed at all
academic levels (professors, post-docs and PhD students).
Comments
The project idea generation process works well, but would benefit from being a bit more systematic
and strategic. We strive to increase the share of multi-partner projects – currently, this is a little less
than half of the projects, excluding one-person projects. The appointment of research coordinators
was meant to solve this, but the system still does not work as well as hoped and this will be evaluated
during 2010. A more active involvement from the Swedish Transport Administration and other
stakeholders would also help. We will therefore strengthen the mini-conferences to ensure
participation from a wider audience at these organisations.
The carrying out of projects works well, but it would benefit from tighter internal cooperation and
increased external dissemination during the project phase.
Even if we have come a long way towards establishing a common culture and creating synergies, the
role and nature of the centre is still not clear to all parties involved. Work therefore has to be done to
strengthen the identity of the centre in a way that also generates benefit to the ingoing partner
organisations. This includes common work routines, seminar and publication series, forms for internal
and external communication as well as work climate.
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3. Research Area, Competence Profile and Critical Size
Core competence, personnel and particular strengths
The two core competences of CTS are transport modelling and transport economics, both broadly
interpreted. Most of the centre’s research is in some sense related to appraisal of transport investments
and policy, for which both of our core competences are necessary. To structure our research activities,
we have divided them into six focus areas. These overlap to a large extent: the aim is not to define
“borders” between research areas, but rather to define “focal points” that facilitate the presentation of
what we do and help researchers with mutual interests to develop collaborations. The four focus areas
(besides the two core areas) are not meant to be permanent: rather, they are focal points where the
centre focuses its research efforts for period of time. After that period, some or all of these focus areas
may be replaced by some other focus, around which the centre can join its research efforts. The table
below gives a condensed overview of the focus areas and their size in terms of funding, number of
active researchers and publication activity. We have also indicated approximate non-CTS funding
within VTI-TEK and KTH-TLA for the various focus areas.
Focus area
Sample of active research topics
No.
of
active2
researchers/PhD
students 2008-2010
(overlap: one person
may be active in
several fields)
Transport
modelling
Demand
modelling,
freight
modelling, Traffic simulation,
activity-based modelling, Vehicle
fleet modelling, travel time
variability
Valuation of time, life, reliability,
optimal pricing of transport and
infrastructure, neuroeconomics,
network vulnerability
Productivity and location effects
of accessibility, agglomeration
and production effects in CBA
Tendering effects on productivity,
deregulation of the railway
system,
more
efficient
insurances
Acceptability, Appraisal, equity,
Transferability,
design
&
modelling
Carbon pricing, Impact of
innovations,
optimal
GHG
abatement policy
Changes in travel patterns over
time,
large-scale
traffic
information & analysis,
Evaluation
of
innovative
transport solutions
18 res., 6 PhD stud.
Transport
economics and
appraisal
Transport and
regional
economics
Procurement
and contracts
Road pricing
GHG
abatement
Other
Total
CTS
funding
20082010
(MSEK)
18,6
Other
funding
(approx
) within
TLA/VTI
20082010
28
No.
of
publications3 20082009; only related
to
CTS-funded
research
(each
paper assigned to
one field only)
18
32 res., 5 PhD stud.
20,7
29
35
9 res., 3 PhD stud.
5,5
20
2
5 res., 2 PhD stud.
1,6
10
6
17 res., 1 PhD stud.
8,0
5
23
11 res., 2 PhD stud.
6,5
4
13
16 res., 7 PhD stud.
9,6
10
10
63 res., 19 PhD stud.
70,3
90
107
For the purposes of the table, we have defined “active researcher” as “has carried out research in this field
during the period 2008-2010”. The number of researchers working most of their time in CTS-funded projects is
thus significantly smaller.
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All types of papers included, not just journal papers. The figures do not include 2010 papers. Double-counting
may occur to some extent, for example if a paper is first presented as a conference paper and then accepted to a
journal in revised form.
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Seen in a global perspective, the CTS environment has a number of particular strengths:
- applied large-scale transport modelling (passenger and freight)
- valuation of non-market goods, especially in the context of transport appraisal (value of time,
safety and noise are some active areas)
- discrete choice econometrics
- congestion charges (design, modelling, appraisal)
- railway infrastructure (pricing and prioritization)
- strong connection to applied transport policy and appraisal
- strong connection to applied model development and usage
In these respects, we believe that the CTS environment belongs to the top tier of research
environments in the world. Our research strategy builds upon these strengths in order to make as
substantial contributions as possible – both in terms of research and in terms of applied transport
policy. Obviously, the strengths are interconnected: for example, appraisal methodology builds upon
excellence in transport modelling and valuation, and the strong connection to applied appraisal
generates new insights and research questions. There are similar interconnections between the other
strengths.
We have, on purpose, not defined “sustainable transport” (for example) as a separate focus area. All
CTS research should include sustainability, equity/fairness and efficiency perspectives (wherever
applicable).
Description of facilities
Most of the CTS research is carried out without any dedicated laboratories or field sites. One
exception is the recently established collaboration with IBM, where IBM provides computers and
dedicated software for large-scale database management. This is used for collecting traffic data from
many sources – traffic measurements, taxi GPS sensors etc. The data is then used for several types of
analyses: real-time analysis and short-term forecasting, information services, model validation etc.
Personnel and facilities available through collaborations
The CTS partners, along with their roles and strengths, are described in chapter 4.
Relation to internationally leading groups
The CTS environment was evaluated in the context of the KTH Research Assessment Exercise in
2008, when several groups of renowned scientific experts evaluated the quality of all KTH research
units in a number of aspects. When describing CTS, their report stated that it was an “extremely
capable organizational structure...well equipped to study all aspects of transportation planning and
modelling, from traffic analysis at the micro level to forecasting and modelling trip generation and
location demands.” Further, the report stated that: “The quality of applied research [in transport] was
considered world-leading in parts ...and of an international high standard in the remainder… and the
overall level of scholarship in both Economics and Transport was considered excellent.”
The CTS scientific council met for the first time in the autumn of 2009. Their overall impression was
summarised as “Research projects hold an extremely high quality; Research questions are relevant,
with good links to potential users; The PhD students were extremely good; the junior researchers
were also extremely good; Amazing number of projects; Not too diverse, good cohesion topic-wise;
Good to have such a critical mass of economics and econometrics; Possibly the strongest collection of
transport economists and transport modellers in Europe, or perhaps even in the world.”
We have already listed above CTS’s particular strengths in our own view, seen in a global perspective.
There are other more or less similar groups in the world – the EPFL Transport Laboratory, ITS Leeds,
ITLS Sydney, the transport groups at UC Berkeley and MIT, to name a few – and we feel that CTS
would in most respects be comparable to these groups in terms of quality and applicability of our
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research, and (perhaps in particular) by the value we are adding by connecting practitioners and
researchers.
Collaboration with external groups
On an institutional level, we have close connections with ITS Leeds and EPFL Lausanne. A special
networking program has recently started with ITS Leeds: in June, a number of researchers on the postdoc level from CTS will visit ITS to try to jumpstart collaborative projects. This will be followed by a
response visit by ITS researchers to CTS. We plan a similar networking program with EPFL
Lausanne, and possibly with other (primarily European) environments.
Many CTS researchers have extensive individual international networks. There is room for
improvement, however, as to how CTS is used as a vehicle for extending these networks. A good
example is the recently granted SURPRICE project, where CTS will coordinate a 1 M€ research
project on urban road pricing, involving collaborators in five European countries. This consortium was
formed by using CTS as a “hub”, connecting several existing research networks to each other, thereby
extending individual researchers’ networks considerably. There are some other similar examples, but
we feel that there is yet potential for more such joint projects.
Value added by being a Centre
The value added of CTS, compared to the sum of individual partners, has been described in the table
in Chapter 1.
Critical size
CTS is today well above a reasonable “critical size” in all our focus areas. As with all centres, the
challenge is to create synergies, collaborations and knowledge transfers out of these “critical masses”.
We feel that we are well underway in most respects, through our joint seminars, joint projects etc. –
but this can certainly be improved. Currently, a little more than a third of CTS projects are joint
projects between several partners – almost a half if one-person projects are excluded. Considering that
most CTS projects are small and involve only a few researchers (often 1-3 researchers), this is not too
bad considering our short history, but it can definitely be improved.
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4. Centre Partners
Description of partners
The CTS office is an organisational unit at KTH, consisting of six people (including the CTS director)
and a part-time administrator. Besides working in research projects, they have a special responsibility
for fostering CTS activities, collaborations and identity. All of them have experience from both
academic research and practical policy-making and analysis, making them able to see potential for
connections and collaborations between researchers and practitioners.
Two divisions at KTH belong to CTS – Transport and Location Analysis (TLA) and Transport and
Logistic (ToL). Research is focused on transport systems analysis with policy implications for a
sustainable transport system. A common characteristic is that advanced tools of analysis, often in form
of quantitative models, are developed and applied to provide best possible support for critical
decisions for industry and society. Current research and teaching activities include traffic and transport
engineering, intelligent transport systems, transport policy evaluation, transport economics,
sustainable transport and urban systems, regional development and risk and vulnerability of
infrastructure systems. There are also researchers with strong topical connections to CTS at the
Highway and Railway Engineering (HRE) division at KTH. The three divisions TLA, ToL and HRE
will soon form the Department for Transport Sciences, which will be headed by a researcher from the
CTS Office, thereby integrating KTH/CTS transport research even further. Linked to the new
department will also be the Centre for Traffic Research (CTR), with expertise in traffic and transit
simulation, driver behaviour, web-based data collection, traffic models with emissions, dynamic traffic
assignment and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). The new department will deal with a wide range of
transport problems. Its researchers have made significant contributions in policy evaluation, land use
modelling, demand modelling, ITS, simulation, traffic estimation and prediction, dynamic traffic
management, validation and calibration of traffic models, driver behaviour, public transport, and rail
traffic. The number of KTH employees who spend most of their time on CTS-related projects is
approximately six at the CTS office, 15 at TLA, 10 at ToL and five at CTR.
Besides what is mentioned above, CTS also collaborates with several other organizational units within
KTH. Transport is identified as one of five strategic areas of KTH, and the KTH Transport Platform
has been established to coordinate all transport-related activities. KTH, in partnership with Linköping
University (LiU) and VTI, also form the TRENoP program (Transport Research Environment with
Novel Perspectives) program, with significant funding directly from the government. A central
objective of TRENoP is to support faculty renewal and development through replacement and new
tenure track positions in strategic and emerging research areas. The program aims at strengthening the
existing strong research and helping promote CTS and the Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design becoming
European Centres. The Railway Group at KTH is a joint centre between KTH and Sweden’s rail
vehicle industry and the Swedish Transport Administration. The group is multidisciplinary, dealing
with infrastructure and transportation topics, market analysis, vehicle design, vehicle-track interaction,
noise and propulsion.
VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, is an internationally established
research institute with about 190 employees. VTI carries out applied research and development in
relation to all modes of transportation. VTI is a world leader in several areas, for instance in simulator
technology. The Department of Transport Economics (TEK) is a part of CTS, with a research focus on
linking advanced research with applied policy development support. Areas of research include
valuation of non-market goods, pricing and regulation of the sector, appraisal and freight demand
modelling as well as financing and organisational issues. There are also other organizational units at
VTI collaborating with CTS. VTI Traffic and Road Users conducts research in the area of traffic
safety, environment, planning policy/social and behaviour science and human machine interactions.
VTI Infrastructure is the department focused on highway and railway engineering and infrastructure
maintenance. CTS staff from VTI/TEK work in projects at these groups and their support is used in
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CTS projects. The number of employees working most of their time with CTS-related projects is
approximately 20.
WSP Analysis and Strategy is a business unit within the consultancy firm WSP that supplies qualified
analysis, investigations and data for decision-making, with focus on social change and transport. There
is a composition of expertise in areas such as demography, finance, real estate, transport, environment
and communication. There are close links with the research society. There are a significant number of
employees with Licentiate and PhD degrees. Clients consist of organizations in the public sector and
the private industry. Out of approximately 110 employees, roughly 15 work on CTS projects from
time to time.
The economics research at Jönköping International Business School is mainly concentrated on various
aspects of industrial economics, with an emphasis on decision making, competitiveness and
specialization, inter-regional and trans-national trade as well as multisectoral interaction and change.
Two-to-three employees work from time to time on CTS projects.
The authority Transport Analysis has three main areas of responsibility in the transport and
communications sector; to carry out studies for the Government, to develop forecasts and planning
methods and to be the responsible authority for official statistics. The agency was established in 2010
and has taken over most of the responsibilities from the former agency SIKA. The Division for
Analysis and Review is located to Stockholm and works with similar topics as the rest of CTS, namely
review of decision bases within transport policy, and ex-ante assessments of the effects of transport
policy measures. The division will have approximately 10 employees.
Generally speaking, the interaction between different partners is bigger the closer the facilities are to
each other. Thus, KTH and VTI in Stockholm are gradually planning projects more and more closely,
especially after the relocation of the CTS office and TLA to a location closer to VTI. Between the
divisions and centres of KTH proper, there is some common project planning and staffing decisions,
etc., both formally organized and on an ad-hoc basis. The planned relocation in March 2011 of all the
KTH units related to CTS and of VTI Stockholm will potentially strengthen this interaction even
further. The interaction between WSP and KTH, as well as between WSP and VTI, mainly takes place
through staffing of common projects, but also through meetings within focus areas. The interaction
between Jönköping International Business School and Transport Analysis respectively and the rest of
CTS is still rather limited. This is largely due to the geographic distance, thus the recent relocation of
part of Transport Analysis to Stockholm gives good opportunities for strengthened cooperation.
Strategy for innovation
In the transport sector, the process of getting from innovation to implementation can be separated into
four steps:
Innovation  Impact assessment  Appraisal  Implementation Path
Innovations in the CTS’ research areas are seldom “hardware”, but rather innovative concepts within
transport policy, regulation or institutions – some examples are new allocation mechanisms for scarce
rail capacity, design of regulatory instruments for carbon reduction, or new procurement strategies for
public transport. Unfortunately, it has seldom been the tradition in the field to view such suggestions
as true “innovations”, on par with any technical invention. This is definitely an area where we, and
most researchers in our field, could improve: we should take some of our focus from evaluating
suggested policy measures or investments to inventing and designing policy measures and
investments. This is more about a change in state-of-mind than a change in actual research issues and
methodology.
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Impact assessment and appraisal are the two strong core competences of CTS. Most of our research is,
directly or indirectly, centred around evaluating suggested policy measures, regulations and
investments.
Analysing and designing implementation paths is a growing research field. A classical example is
research on acceptability of congestion pricing. Another example is creating a stable market for
alternative-fuel vehicles, e.g. through tax incentives, regulatory, legislation or directives. This is also
an area where more research efforts could be extremely fruitful.
Measures for integration
The research is done in participation with academic departments, consultancy firms, national and
regional transport authorities and other stakeholders. Measures taken to achieve integration with such
parties include seminars (see Chapter 2), reference groups, bi-lateral meetings and the forming of an
internal culture that encourages holding presentations and giving consultations. Such consultations
have several times led to the forming of joint projects with transport authorities or the government –
some examples are the national investment planning, the congestion charges in Gothenburg and the
plans for future development of the transport models.
In order to foster a common CTS identity and culture, and allow CTS researchers to find synergies and
mutual interests, several measures are taken. Some examples:
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TLA has moved closer to VTI on KTH campus. Next year all CTS partners at KTH campus will move into a
new, dedicated house. We expect this to have a major positive impact in several ways.
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There are two regular, joint seminar series: internal lunch seminars on Tuesdays, where work-in-progress is
presented and discussed, and external academic seminars on Wednesday afternoons, where new papers by
CTS researchers or invited speakers are presented and peer-reviewed.
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Joint coffee breaks are held each Thursday morning. The CTS director presents recent news on various
topics, and interesting discussions often follow.
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CTS arrange joint mini-conferences on various topics, so far ranging from high-speed trains over congestion
charges to cost-benefit analysis methodology. These are intended for researchers and practitioners alike. The
preparation of these is in itself a cohesive activity.
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The research coordinators regularly arrange discussions regarding each focus area, open to all interested
CTS researchers. Here, current and future research is presented and discussed
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The CTS management group meets every second Monday.
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Joint workshops regarding CTS strategy, open to all CTS researchers, are held occasionally – sometimes
half a day, sometimes two days over-night.
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Each year, an open seminar is held, where a number of researchers make ultra-short presentations of CTS
research results from the past year – last year, 16 projects were presented in 2.5 hours – followed by a dinner
party. These overviews have turned out to be very appreciated both internally and externally.
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5. Research Program
Overview of the research program
Brilliant – relevant – visible. These somewhat cocky keywords summarizes what CTS research strives
to be. With brilliant, we mean research of world-class quality, publishable in prestigious journals,
representing important contributions of lasting value. To achieve this, it is important both to build on
our current strengths (such as non-market valuation, discrete choice econometrics, applied large-scale
modelling, congestion charging etc.) and to generate new, fertile research questions. A fruitful way to
generate new research questions is to collaborate with practitioners; this has proven to stimulate the
generation of new questions, and is an antidote to “ivory tower research”. It also keeps research
relevant – our second keyword. “Relevant” is a memento to keep asking ourselves what the
underlying “question” is – why we are undertaking a certain research project. Finally, research needs
to be visible – it needs to be conveyed to the research community through publications and
conferences and to the practitioner community by seminars, reports, collaborations and lectures.
Collaborations with practitioners is arguably the best way to get new research results out and new
research questions in. This is one of the raison d’êtres of CTS. By connecting practitioners – planners,
politicians etc. – with researchers, research results are communicated “out” from academia, and new
research questions are being channelled “into” academia. This is done by various means – miniconferences, seminars, lectures, collaborative projects. This may sound as if CTS is mostly focused on
“applied” research. That would be a misconception. In fact, most CTS research is not connected to a
specific application or policy question. But all of CTS research – even the most theoretical and
esoteric – can be put into a context where the ultimate goal is to understand and improve the transport
system and its impact on society as a whole, and we work hard to make sure that all researchers can
see how their part of the jigsaw puzzle connects to the whole picture.
In addition, we build an international research environment with a guest researcher program and
formal collaborations with European research centres (ITS Leeds) and informal cooperations. We have
appointed an international scientific committee. We have been successful in applying for European
funding (SURPRICE for example) and encourage researchers to visit major conferences. In this way
we strive for international influence into our process of defining new research questions. Through the
large TRENoP research programme, CTS collaborates with other transport disciplines, such as vehicle
technology and infrastructure engineering.
We have deliberately kept research projects small, for three reasons: to be able to actively manage and
control CTSs research focus, to make collaborations easier and to be able to take on short-notice
research or application projects. As to potential for collaborations: if most researchers are tied up in
large, long-term projects, they have little incentive or even possibility to establish new collaborations
(perhaps in new fields). Hence, a considerable part of the CTS funding is used for rather small
projects; as a rule, we stick to the principle “one paper – one project”.
Brief description of the research projects
The Guidelines asks for 50-word descriptions of each research project. Since there are more than 120
CTS projects, space does not allow this. Instead, we provide descriptions of the research plans for each
focus area.
Transport modelling
Transport modelling includes “classic” research topics such as transport demand modelling, traffic
simulation and freight modelling, but also newer, rapidly developing fields such as route choice
modelling, vehicle fleet modelling and travel time variability modelling. One of the raison d’êtres for
CTS is bringing together model users, model developers and researchers at the forefront of
methodological development. As to model users, transport modelling is a part of several CTS projects
analyzing proposed investments or policy measures. Even more important are the continuous contacts
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with model users at various consultancies (especially WSP, which is part of CTS) and public
authorities such as the Transport Administration (one of the funding partners of CTS). As to model
development, researchers at CTS have been responsible for developing the national person transport
model (SAMPERS) and national freight model (SAMGODS), and are still active in developing these
models. In the future, we intend to take on an even larger responsibility for being the “national point of
contact” for transport model development. We believe that this will benefit both research and
application. CTS researchers have recently led three major, strategic projects on behalf of the Rail and
Road Administrations, where the future development of the national person transport model(s) is
outlined. We expect to continue this fruitful collaboration with the newly formed Transport
Administration. As to research in transport modelling, we are actively pursuing research in
mesoscopic simulation (both for road traffic and transit), route choice modelling, activity-based
modelling (on the person side) and incorporating logistics into traditional “OD-based” freight
modelling. While the main focus of transport modelling has often been on forecasting the effects of
new investments, increasing attention is being given to modelling the effects of various policy
measures and regulations, such as congestion charging, distance-based vehicle taxes, allowing longer
lorries etc. More attention than before is also given to “slow modes” – walking and cycling. Currently,
we are not pursuing much research regarding international air passenger transport (besides research on
its climate effect and carbon pricing issues connected to this). We are considering taking up this issue,
but have not decided anything yet.
A new type of model that is growing in importance is vehicle fleet modelling. The climate issue has
increased the efforts to reduce the (fossil) fuel consumption of vehicles through various policy
measures. Modelling the effects of such measures requires a “vehicle demand” model, linked to a
dynamic model of the vehicle fleet. Researchers at CTS have developed such a model, which has been
used in a number of applications, and is currently undergoing further development. We expect this
research area – both the model development and related applications – to grow in importance for
several years ahead.
Another type of models is methods to forecast effects of policy measures and investments on travel
time variability – road, transit and long-distance rail. These models may be very different from each
other depending on the mode and context. Researchers at CTS have developed models for the
relationship between road congestion and travel time variability, and between rail infrastructure and
primary and secondary (“knock-on”) delays. Especially the road model has been used in several
applied studies by public authorities. This research field is only a few years old, but is rapidly
developing, and we expect this to be a fruitful field for several years ahead.
Transport economics and appraisal
The focus area of transport economics and appraisal is diverse in many respects, but its centre of
gravity lies in valuation of non-market goods (values of time, life, emissions, reliability etc.), efficient
transport pricing and regulation (pricing external costs of transport etc.) and appraisal of investments
and policy measures (in particular through cost-benefit analysis).
A particular strength of CTS is valuation of non-market goods. This is connected to CTS’ excellence
in discrete choice econometrics and stated preference methodology, but also to our strength in
transport economic theory. Researchers at CTS have made world-leading contributions to the
valuation of travel time and travel time variability, both with respect to theory and empirical
estimation. Crucial parts of our strategy in this field is our responsibility for the national value of time
survey (carried out by WSP and analysed by KTH researchers – a true CTS synergy), recruiting
Mogens Fosgerau as a guest researcher and strengthening the links to the Transport Laboratory at
EPFL and the Institute of Transport Studies at Leeds University. We also make contributions in the
field of valuation of statistical life and noise valuation with hedonic techniques. Further, our valuation
research encompasses methods and findings from behavioural economics and neuroeconomics:
Questions such as hypothetical bias and decision processing naturally arise in this context, and they
are also connected to transport demand modelling. Another central topic is stated preference
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methodology. Over the years, CTS researchers have gained a considerable prowess and experience in
this area, but so far, there have been only a few publications regarding “abstract” stated preference
design and estimation issues. This is a planned new research area – or rather, it is an example of a
research area where CTS researchers have carried out research and gained experience that has not
been published except as working papers and research notes (as is noted elsewhere, one of our
strategies to increase research productivity is to “publish more of what is already being done”).
Regulation and pricing of transport is another key area for the transport economic research at CTS. In
addition to the congestion pricing area (see below) we develop concepts for HGV pricing, including
performance based pricing for gigaliners, and researchers at CTS are responsible for the main part of
the current rail infrastructure pricing in Sweden. Lately, we have a new professor with the focus on
maritime transport, and intermodal competition and pricing will be an important topic.
Our research in appraisal methodology also concerns various methodological questions, such as
constructing stylised “model timetables” for appraisal of rail investments. A particularly active field is
analysing network vulnerability and travel time variability in road and rail networks. These questions
often arise from our collaborations with practitioners – a perfect example of our inofficial motto
“research results out – research questions in”.
Historically, appraisal methodology has been mostly geared towards analysing proposed investments.
As questions such as congestion and environmental impacts are getting more attention, more and more
of transport policy issues will deal with policy measures and regulations – carbon-differentiated
vehicle taxes, kilometre charging on heavy vehicles, congestion charging, caps on vehicle fuel
consumption etc. Appraisal of such measures requires methodological development – both in terms of
impact modelling, valuation and general appraisal methodology. CTS researchers have already been
heavily involved in analysing several such policy measures and regulations, which in several cases has
led to progress in appraisal methodology, and in other cases pointed out new questions for research.
Just as with transport modeling, CTS is already the foremost research environment for transport
appraisal methodology, in particular transport-related valuation of non-market goods and cost-benefit
analysis. We intend to take on an even larger responsibility for being the “point of contact” for such
issues.
Interactions between transport system and regional economy
There are several mutual interactions between the transport system and the regional economy, such as
location/land use, employment, wage rates and productivity. Research regarding such interactions has
a long history at several of the CTS partners, but most research groups have been rather small: in fact,
bringing together the research in transport/economy interactions is arguably the best example of how
CTS has contributed to establishing a “critical mass”. Researchers at WSP have developed the
SAMLOK model, which models effects of accessibility on regional location and production. The
SAMLOK model is linked to the SAMPERS transport model, developed by KTH researchers, and is
in scope rather similar to the DYNLOK model, developed by researchers at Jönköping International
Business School. At KTH, there is ongoing research on the link between accessibility and firm
productivity, location within a region, and location/migration and wage changes. So far, the synergies
between these research projects have been limited for various reasons, but our plan is to develop
firmer ties between these researchers – a first step was taken in late 2009 when a larger collaborative
project was established. Beside the research questions mentioned above, we also plan to further
explore how conventional transport cost-benefit analyses relates to the results of regional economical
modelling, by comparing SAMLOK (and possibly DYNLOK) results to conventional CBA results
(based on SAMPERS).
Procurement and contracts
Procurement and the subsequent design of contracts with the winning bidder are pervasive in most
modern countries, not least in Sweden’s huge public sector. CTS’ research related to competitive
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tendering comprises several transport sector applications, in the first place tendering of public
transport and of the outsourced maintenance and construction of roads and railways. Currently, a large
database comprising most non-commercial rail and bus operations and most road and railway
investment projects tendered during the recent 10 years or so is being compiled. Based on this
material, a number of analyses of for instance the significance of the number of bidders for the
contract price, the impact of alternative payment formats etc will be performed. In addition, contract
costs and actual payments will be contracted. In this, it will be feasible to control for the types of
activities that are performed and other exogenous characteristics of the projects. These analyses will
contribute to an understanding of what explains differences between ex ante cost estimates and ex post
realisations.
This work is part of a long term research agenda which at the broadest level addresses transport sector
governance issues. Previous projects have drawn funding from several sources. Currently, the Swedish
Competition Agency is the main promoter of the data collection study. CTS funding will primarily
facilitate a deeper theoretical analysis and academic publication of contracting issues. The data
collection work is being done in close cooperation with Mats Bergman, professor at Södertörn
University College.
On a parallel track, one PhD student is presently finalising her dissertation, and a new is about to
embark on his work, both of which are related to insurance contracting from a social perspective. One
purpose is to see the consequences of new ways to base insurance premia on actual traffic behaviour,
in particular on whether drivers are speeding or not. Much of this work is based on close cooperation
with the insurance industry. The link between these research fields is contract design and the
significance of providing incentives for the agents in ways which maximise social welfare.
Road pricing
CTS research relating to road pricing covers multiple issues and variants of road pricing: urban road
pricing as well as kilometre charges on heavy-goods vehicles; charges for financial reasons as well as
congestion pricing; acceptability and political issues as well as modelling effects of road pricing.
There is also a relation to the procurement/contract focus area through our research regarding
tendering and industrial organisation in the toll operator market.
The case for road pricing has been advocated by transport economist and urban planners for a very
long time. The theoretical case is generally speaking well established, but several practical research
questions remain. This has been a main research focus for several CTS researchers for quite some
time. We feel that not only do the Stockholm congestion charges give us an extraordinary research
opportunity – we also have a special responsibility to the world to analyse and communicate the
experiences from Stockholm. The role of the Centre in the past and future development and evaluation
of the Stockholm charges has been and continues to be very strong – researchers at the centre were
involved in the design, forecasts, analysis and evaluation, and we are still active in the analyses of the
effects of the charges. CTS researchers now play a similar role in the planned Gothenburg charges.
Further, we devote considerable time to communicating the experiences in Stockholm to other cities
all around the world. For example, researchers at the Centre for Transport Studies have acted as expert
advisors to policy-makers from (among others) Norway, Italy, Netherlands, France, Indonesia,
Thailand, Hungary, United States, Vietnam, United Kingdom and Finland, just to name a few from
recent years. These contacts have been at various levels, from civil servants to ministers, senators and
members of national parliaments. The type of dissemination has varied, ranging from lectures and
seminars to specific advice regarding strategies for implementation or scheme design. In these
activities, results from several earlier research projects are used, and the results from the present
project should be no exception. In our experience, these direct contacts with policy-makers, where
results and conclusions from multiple research projects can be amalgamated to advice tailor-made for
the policy-makers' specific context, is the most efficient dissemination channel imaginable.
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The extraordinary research opportunity the Stockholm charging system provides, and the extremely
large international interest, makes it natural to focus much of the research resources on this topic in a
broad and general sense – especially since the topic of congestion charges ties into so many other
related topics, such as transport economics, traffic theory, appraisal, travel demand modelling, urban
living environment, acceptability, tendering complicated ITS solutions, and not least studying the
lessons from the complicated political process. Over the past few years, our research has largely been
focused on analysing effects of the Stockholm charges, and the experiences from the political process.
Looking forward, we anticipate that analysing the effects of the Stockholm charges will be less
important. Instead, we anticipate the main research topics to be transferability of experiences and
results, acceptability and its prerequisites, design and modelling of congestion charging systems, and
congestion charges in an institutional and political context.
CTS has recently received a major additional grant for research about urban congestion charging from
the SURPRICE European research network, where we will lead a consortium from five countries
carrying out six sub-projects, covering multiple issues from acceptability over political economy to
traffic simulation. We anticipate our international collaborations in this area to be even stronger in
years to come.
Other research
A rapidly growing research area is real-time information and analysis. ToL (Koutsopoulos) has
recently started a very valuable and interesting joint project with IBM, where IBM supplies hardware
and dedicated software for very large-scale database handling and analysis. This is used to collect and
analyze traffic data from a multitude of sources – traffic measurements, travel time measurements,
GPS sensors in taxis etc. This is a rather recent development and has hence not yet acquired a formal
CTS “focus area” status, but we expect this to be a fertile and growing area in the future.
Summary statement concerning research productivity
The number of publications per focus area (related to CTS-funded projects only) is found in Chapter 3.
Counting only senior researchers at TLA and VTI-TEK (who constitute the core of CTS), and
counting all types of papers (journal papers, conference proceedings, reports etc.), we get a personaverage of 3.5 papers per year during 2008-2009 (with a range between 0 and 11 papers per person) –
note, though, that some of these are co-authored and some may be double-counted since they may
appear in an early “conference” version and a later “journal” version. On average, PhD students
publish typically around one paper per year.
As to current CTS research productivity, we feel that there is room for improvement in some respects.
While average “publication productivity” is decent, and several researchers have very strong
publication records, more is going on at CTS than what is actually published. A relatively easy
strategy to improve our publication rate would be to simply write up and submit papers on research
projects that are carried out anyway. Similarly, we publish far too few papers on the applied policy
issues we are engaged in. A large majority of our published research papers deal with what could be
called “technical” issues – econometrics, model development, methodology, transport economic
theory – and only a few deal with specific policy issues, despite the fact that many CTS researchers
are engaged in analysing such issues. We feel that it would be a valuable contribution to the
international literature to publish our experience and conclusions from such “policy case studies”, but
so far, we have not made an effort to publish many such studies.
Other projects not directly connected to the Centre
There are many other projects at all of the partners not directly funded by CTS but related to the scope
of CTS research. Indeed, as has been explained elsewhere, it makes little sense to separate CTSfunded activities from other activities at VTI and TLA. At WSP and JIBS, CTS projects make up a
much smaller share of the total project volume, but naturally, there are many other “non-CTS” projects
with direct or indirect connections to “pure CTS-projects”.
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6. Financial Report for Stage 1
Financial concerns
Some concerns regarding financial matters are:
The fact that the CTS base funding is in the form of unconditional money (i.e. is not earmarked for
specific projects) is of high importance. This gives freedom to explore new research areas and allows
strategic steering in the project generation process. We feel that the mixture between conditional and
unconditional money has been appropriate under the first two and one-half years. A concern is that the
share of unconditional money must not decrease (at least not drastically) during the coming years.
In order to fulfil the vision and mission CTS needs to continue to grow. This in turn requires a
growing base funding. A concern is whether this will materialise or not, especially since all the
funding public authorities currently have been or will be reorganising.
So far, CTS has been successful in attracting external funding. This is essentially positive, but a
concern is that it also leads to a somewhat uncertain budget situation making it risky to hire permanent
staff.
The accounting system at KTH is not well suited for a centre like CTS. It is particularly difficult to get
control over projects that are funded from different sources and carried out by different CTS-partners.
A concern is thus that it is difficult to make a long-term budget, since it is hard to get an overview over
the proceeds and the rate at which they are consumed.
The difficulties associated with budgeting in turn means that we tend to be risk aversive. A concern is
that this means that fewer projects are carried out since by the time we know that we can afford
starting a new project, the researchers may already be occupied by other tasks. This also means that
too few recruitments have been made, which is particularly true for PhD students since it is difficult
for them to attract external funding.
Other sources of funding
Existing sources of non-Centre funds include:
 The National Rail Administration
 The National Road Administration
 Vinnova
 EU research (FP6, FP7)
 FORMAS (research agency)
 The Swedish Research Council
 Strategic research funding from the Government (Trenop)
 The Office of Regional Planning in Stockholm
 The City of Stockholm
 The Stockholm County Administration
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7. Personnel of High Competence
Contribution to university education
At TLA there are currently one full professor, one visiting professor, one associate professor and one
assistant professor. As a result of our positive evaluation in the RAE (see chapter 3), TLA has been
given resources to open up two new tenure track positions during 2010. The career path is commenced
with a position as assistant professor which requires a doctoral degree and postdoctoral experience.
After approximately 4 years, an assistant professor has the right to be considered for promotion to
associate professor, and if successful, to a permanent tenure. After a further period as associate
professor, you can apply for promotion to become a professor. The two positions that are currently
open at TLA are as Assistant Professor in Transport Modelling and Assistant Professor in Transport
Policy. These are currently announced and we are actively recruiting on the international scene. We
believe that we have good opportunity to secure an internationally competitive future faculty. A
position on KTH’s tenure track should be considered as a long-term commitment from KTH, in the
form of resources and development opportunities. An important aspect of KTH’s tenure track is the
career development programme which involves network building, support for scientific and
pedagogical development, and management training.
At TLA there is currently one international master programme in Transport Systems. This programme
has been active only two years (that is, not before CTS was established at the department). It has been
successful in that the number of applicants that had this programme as their first priority was
drastically increased. This year 187 students applied for the programme as their primary choice. The
programme is truly international with many students from European as well as non-European
countries.
The Division of Transport Economics at VTI has as one of its key indicators to produce at least ¾ PhD
dissertations per year. The Department therefore has five to six PhD students employed. This high
ambition is maintained to ensure a high and relevant competent staff at VTI as well as within the
sector. To facilitate this program the Division has one full professor and one part-time professor (¼) in
Transport Economics. The PhD students at VTI have a traditional background in Economics from
Stockholm University (2), Uppsala University (1), Dalarna University (1) and KTH (1). Numerous
researchers at VTI/TEK are responsible for courses as well as act as guest lecturers at universities such
as Örebro University and Dalarna University in addition to KTH.
People with leading international competence
CTS has a Guest researcher program where distinguished researchers are employed at KTH or VTI for
a limited period of time. The purposes of the program are;
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to increase the inflow of new state-of-the art research methods and ideas,
to write and publish a limited number of joint papers with and CTS researchers, and
to increase the awareness of CTS in the research community around the world.
Guest researchers at CTS have been:
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Chris Nash, Leeds, UK (2008, 2009 and 2010)
Gerhard de Jong, Leeds, UK (2010)
Henrik Anderson, Toulouse, France (2009 and 2010)
Mogens Fosgerau, DTU, Denmark (2008, 2009 and 2010)
Andrew Smith, Leeds, UK (2009)
CTS has made a conscious effort to recruit people with mixed backgrounds from both academic
research and applied policy-making and analysis. For example, Kågeson and Carlén are both very
well-known and experienced policy advisors and analysts in environmental questions; Eliasson and
Lundberg have both been very active in various applied transport planning contexts, most recently
during their spell as alternating chairs of the Appraisal Committee for the National Investment Plan;
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Börjesson and Hugosson have, after completing their PhDs, worked as consultants in various policy
contexts. These are examples of recent CTS recruitments whose experiences and networks help bridge
the gap between academic research and practitioners’ contexts.
Students from outside KTH and Opportunities to work abroad
From most of the partners, a majority of the researchers associated with CTS have first degrees from
outside KTH. The highest share of degrees from KTH is probably found at TLA where currently 64 %
are from KTH, 7 % from another Swedish university and 29 % from abroad.
VTI and TLA have a policy that encourages students to study abroad for some time of their studies.
One example is that as a part of CTS Henrik Andersson has been researcher at Toulouse with a focus
on valuation of risks. Dr Andersson is now employed by Toulouse and a part of our growing network.
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8. Plans for Development over the next three years
Strengthen the role at the international research arena
Increasing research productivity and quality should always be a top priority – even if the standard here
is already high. CTS should also strengthen its international position and visibility as a leading
research environment, thereby becoming even more attractive as a recruiter or collaborator. Specific
measures and strategies we are planning to achieve this include:
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Increase the publication rate by publishing more of research that is already being done, and publish more of
the applied policy cases that CTS is involved in.
Increase publication rate and quality by continuing to hire world-leading guest researchers, at a somewhat
higher pace than currently.
Encourage CTS researchers to be visiting researchers at internationally leading groups abroad for short
periods.
Continue the dedicated network building with other leading international research groups by joint visits etc.
Arrange major international conferences. CTS is co-hosting the ERSA conference 2010, and we made a
nearly successful bid for hosting the WCTR 2013. Other possibilities would be ETC or the Kuhmo-Nectar
conference.
Strengthen the European policy perspective. Currently, a majority of our policy analyses are from a Swedish
context. This should be complemented by more European and global case studies and policy analyses.
Intensify knowledge dissemination
Regarding knowledge dissemination, we feel that we have most of the necessary pieces – seminar
series, working paper series, home page, mini-conferences – but we need to increase the number and
visibility of these. CTS has recently (March 2010) hired a deputy director with a special responsibility
for external communication, and this is already beginning to bear fruit. In the immediate future, we
plan the following measures and strategies:
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Increase the number of mini-conferences (one-day seminars on a methodological or policy topic, with a
handful of invited presenters). These have been extremely appreciated and successful – but too few. A
reasonable ambition would be to arrange around six per year.
Start a joint CTS working paper series, published and catalogued on REPEC or a similar online service.
Improve the home page: regular news updates, a group blog (beta version operational in May 2010), easier
navigation etc. We consider moving it out from the KTH web site to increase design freedom.
Arrange short courses (1-5 days) for practitioners, centred either on methodological topics or specific
application issues. This can build on material from current education, such as the KTH Masters’ program in
Transport Systems, and on WSP’s one-day courses in cost-benefit analysis.
Engage more people in applied policy advice and collaboration. Several CTS researchers are already
frequently engaged as advisors and collaborators in various applied contexts, ranging from invited lectures
or advice on specific issues to long-term collaborative projects. The next challenge will be to increase the
number of people engaged in such work.
Develop our role as a national resource and point of contact for transport model development and appraisal
methodology. We feel that CTS is already taking on this role, more or less informally. To do this efficiently,
though, we should develop strategies for how we work with this: how we coordinate, inform and share
responsibilities internally, how we increase external awareness of CTS’ willingness to help in such issues,
what “interfaces” to practitioners (especially at the national transport-related administrations) we should
organise, how we convert our experience from such work to publishable research etc.
Closer internal cooperation
The establishment of CTS has already created considerable synergies among the partners in the form
of joint projects, seminars and general knowledge and experience dissemination. We are planning to
extend our cohesive strategies in several ways:
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A new house for TLA, ToL and VTI (the partners located at KTH campus) will be ready in March 2011.
TLA has already moved once within KTH campus to locate closer to VTI. In the new house, there will also
be working places available for researchers from WSP and JIBS working in CTS projects.
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The creation of a Department for Transportation Sciences at KTH will also facilitate the integration and
coordination of CTS partners, since the KTH organisation will be more logical. This will also strengthen
collaboration with Highway and Railway Engineering, the third division of Dpt for Transport Sciences.
The Management Group and the research coordinators will put increased attention to arranging projects with
researchers from several partners. Currently, this is around 1/3 of all projects; not counting one-person
projects, this figure increases to almost half of the projects. While this is not bad, there is room for
improvement.
A more structured process for cooperation with WSP has recently been established. In the future, a
dedicated WSP contact person will meet regularly with the CTS director or management group to discuss
possible collaborative projects.
Joint projects with the new Transport Analysis authority.
Exploration of new research areas
Achieving high-quality research is a balance between building on current strengths and opening up
new areas for research. Our research plan is presented in chapter 5, but it is worth repeating some of
our plans for developing new research areas: better understanding, modelling and appraisal of walking
and cycling; real-time traffic analysis and information services; international air passenger transport;
better modelling of policies and regulations; connecting findings from neuroeconomics and
behavioural economics to micro economically founded valuation; enriching transport CBA with
results from “new economic geography” (agglomeration effects etc.); systematic appraisal and
assessment of “innovative transport solutions” of various kinds. The list could be made longer, but the
point is that in three years from now, it should be evident that CTS has opened up new fields of
research – be it the ones listed here or others: the important thing is that we are prepared to meet new
research challenges.
Improve career opportunities
CTS has actively been hiring promising junior researchers at the post-doc and assistant professor level.
Supplying them with good career and development opportunities is important both to get a strong team
of senior researchers in a couple of years from now, and for our possibility to continue to attract the
best junior researchers. Our planned strategies include:
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KTH is currently devoting considerable funding for hiring assistant professors on tenure-tracked positions.
CTS has already received several such positions (appointments during 2010), and we plan to continue
participating in this KTH initiative
Encourage junior researchers to be visiting researchers abroad for shorter periods.
Dedicated help for extending research networks through activities such as formalised institutional cooperations (such as the one with ITS Leeds), invitations to join conference program committees and joint
international projects.
Engage junior researchers, whenever appropriate, in collaborations with practitioners to increase
understanding of the interface between research and applied policy and to generate new research questions.
Increasing the financial base
The CTS environment has been very successful in attracting external funding. There are improvements
to be made, however:
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We need better economic forecasts, in order to be more confident in our recruitment strategy. Currently, we
have erred on the cautious side: in retrospect, we could have recruited more researchers and PhD students.
With better economic forecasts, we could be bolder when considering what we can reasonably afford in
terms of recruitment.
Although we have attracted significant EU funding, there is potential to get even more.
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9. Further information
Finally – a quick summary of what Centre for Transport Studies has achieved in our first 2,5 years:
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Over 120 projects started
Well over 100 publications of various types
Over 60 senior researchers and almost 20 PhD students involved in projects
Extensive international network through various collaborations, EU projects, conference
committees, associate editorships of journals etc. This should be further strengthened, both on an
individual and institutional level.
Previous evaluations have considered the “quality of research world-leading in parts... and of an
international high standard in the remainder” (RAE, 2008) and “the research projects were
extremely good... possibly the strongest collection of transport economists and transport modellers
in Europe” (Scientific Advisory Board, 2009). There is potential for increasing the publication
rate further.
Extensive knowledge dissemination: 12 external conferences, two weekly seminar series, almost
200 lectures and presentations, somewhere over 50 media appearances in major media. Recently
recruited new external communications director to increase this even more.
Engaged in applied research: chaired the CBA committee during the preparation of the National
Investment Plan, helped design the Gothenburg congestion charges, analysed the Stockholm
congestion charges, advised around 20 other countries about designing congestion charges,
continued to develop the national person and freight transport models, lead the work with the
national strategic modelling/appraisal research plan, suggested new track charges, involved in the
railway deregulation process etc.
Recruited world-leading researchers as visiting researchers (Nash, Fosgerau, de Jong etc.) or
permanent faculty (Kågeson, Frejinger etc.) The system with guest researchers has proven very
fruiful and should be developed further.
Attracted considerable external funding: the TRENoP programme (total 28 MSEK per year), the
SURPRICE program (total 10, 5 MSEK) and around 17 MSEK other grants (only counting
funding directly to the CTS budget). Better economic control and budget forecasts will allow us to
be bolder in our expansion rate.
Strong support from the host university (KTH) to CTS and to transport research in general:
several new assistant professorships, a new Department for Transport Science is being formed, a
new CTS/Transport Science Building is being built.
CTS is strongly integrated in the rest of KTH Transport Science: the CTS Director is the Head of
the Department for Transport and Economics before leaving to the new Head of the Department
for Transport Science, who is also a CTS Office employee.
Developed synergies between partners: almost half4 of all projects transcend partner borders
(increasing over time), which will increase even further with clearer “points of contact” and the
new building.
Collaborations with other fields, for example through the TRENoP program (joint program with
KTH Vehicle Technology and Highway/Railway Engineering, Linköping University Logistics
and Communication), the KTH Transport Platform, VTIs Division of Traffic and Road Users and
Division of Infrastructure etc.
Not counting one-person projects.
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10.
Facts about the Centre
a. CV Centre Director
Name
Profession
Jonas Eliasson
Professor Transport Systems Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Director Centre for Transport Studies
Head of Department for Transport and Economics
3 February 1969
Swedish
Date of birth
Nationality
KEY EXPERIENCE
Extensive experience of analysis and decision support in traffic planning, such as forecasting, appraisal,
evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of road and rail investments, and in particular road pricing schemes.
Extensive experience of transport model development and related econometrics, including estimation of transport
models, refining econometric methods for transport modelling, integrated land use-transportation modelling,
air/train competition, the influence of time and income on mode choice and values of time, departure time effects
and activity-based modelling.
Conducted several stated preference-based surveys in diverse field such as valuations of ticket restrictions,
delays/reliability and noise/intrusion.
Project manager for the system design and ex ante-evaluation of the Stockholm congestion charging scheme.
Chairman of the ex post-evaluation expert group, with special responsibility for the cost-benefit analysis. Ongoing
expert support for the continuous evaluation and refinement of the Stockholm congestion charges.
Chairman of the joint Rail Administration and Road Administration committee for cost-benefit analysis supporting
the preparation of the National Transport Investment Plan 2010-2021.
EDUCATION
1995-2000
1990-1995
PhD Transport and location analysis, Royal Institute of Technology
MSc Engineering Physics (specialization in optimization), Royal Institute of Technology
EMPLOYMENT
2010200720072006-2008
2000 - 2006
1995-2000
Head of the Department for Transport and Economics, Royal Institute of Technology
Director of Centre for Transport Studies, Royal Institute of Technology
Professor Transport Systems Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology
Project manager, WSP Analysis & Strategy
Project manager, Head of Division, Head of R&D, Transek AB
PhD student, Royal Institute of Technology
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Eliasson, J. (2009) A cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system. Transportation
Research A 43(4), pp. 468-480. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.11.014
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt-Rosqvist, L. (2009) The Stockholm congestion-charging trial
2006: Overview of the effects. Transportation Research A 43, p. 240-250. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.09.007
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt-Rosqvist, L. (2009) Introduction to special issue of the
Stockholm congestion-charging trial 2006. Transportation Research A 43. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.09.001
Eliasson, J. (2008) Lessons from the Stockholm congestion charging trial. Transport Policy 15, p. 395-404.
doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2008.12.004
Franklin, J., Eliasson, J. and Karlström, A. (2008) Traveller Responses to the Stockholm Congestion Pricing Trial:
Who Changed, Where Did They Go, and What Did It Cost Them? In Saleh and Sammer (eds.): Demand
Management and Road User Pricing: Success, Failure and Feasibility. Ashgate Publications.
Eliasson, J., Brundell-Freij, K., and Beser Hugosson, M. (2008) The Stockholm Congestion Charging System: A
Summary of the Effects. In Richardson, H.W., and Bae, C.C. (eds.): Road Congestion Pricing In Europe Implications for the United States. Edward Elgar.
Eliasson, J. (2009) Expected and unexpected in the Stockholm Trial. In Gullberg and Isaksson (ed.): Congestion
taxes in city traffic. Lessons learnt from the Stockholm Trial. Nordic Academic Press.
(In Swedish as: Eliasson, J. (2008) Väntat och oväntat i Stockholmsförsöket. I Gullberg och Isaksson (red.):
Stockholmsförsöket - en osannolik historia. Stockholmia förlag.)
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Eliasson, J. (2008) The influence of accessibility on residential location. Theory and estimation of an integrated
land use-transportation model. In Preston, J., Pagliara, F., and Simmonds, D. (eds.) Modelling Residential
Location Choice, Ashgate.
Eliasson, J and Mattsson, L-G (2006): Equity effects of congestion pricing: Quantitative methodology and a case
study for Stockholm, Transportation Research Part A, vol 40, pp 602-620.
Algers, S, Eliasson, J and Mattsson, L-G (2005): Is it time to use activity-based urban transport models? A
discussion of planning needs and modelling possibilities. The Annals of Regional Science, vol. 39, pp. 767-789.
Berdica, K. and J. Eliasson (2004) Regional accessibility analysis from a vulnerability perspective. In Nicholson
and Dantas (eds.): Proceedings of The Second International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability
(INSTR).
Eliasson, J. and L-G. Mattsson (2001) Location and transport effects of road pricing. A simulation approach.
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 35:417-456.
Eliasson, J (2001): Estimation of a model for household location and travel choices. In Hensher, D (ed.) The
leading edge in travel behaviour research, Elsevier.
Eliasson, J (2001): Road pricing with limited information and heterogeneous users: A successful case. The
Annals of Regional Science, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 595-604.
Eliasson, J och Martinez, F (2001): Interfaces between location, land-use and travel decisions. In Hensher, D
(ed.) The leading edge in travel behaviour research, Elsevier.
Eliasson, J. and L-G. Mattsson (2000) A model for integrated analysis of household location and travel choices.
Transportation Research A 34, 375-394. doi:10.1016/S0965-8564(99)00038-5
Eliasson, J. and L-G. Mattsson (1998) Modeling long-period trip patterns with time and money constraints - the
TILT land-use/transportation model. In Selected Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Transport
Research.
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Hamilton, C. and Eliasson, J. (2010) How the new European legislation on Road User Charging may cost society
€508M, and what can be done to save it. An evaluation from a social cost-benefit perspective. In Hamilton,
licentiate thesis.
Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J. and Franklin, J. (2010) Comparing valuations of transit travel time variability from
scheduling and reduced-form models. To be presented at the 2010 World Conference of Transport Research,
Lissabon.
Börjesson, M. and Eliasson, J. (2010) The value of time and external benefits in bicycle cost-benefit analyses. To
be presented at the 2010 World Conference of Transport Research, Lissabon.
Eliasson, J. and Lundberg, M. (2010) Do cost-benefit analyses influence transport investment decisions?
Experiences from the Swedish Transport Investment Plan 2010-2021. To be presented at the 2010 World
Conference of Transport Research, Lissabon.
Brundell-Freij, K., Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J. and Hugosson, M. (2010) The Stockholm congestion charges – 4
years on. Effects, acceptability and lessons learnt. To be presented at the 2010 World Conference of Transport
Research, Lissabon.
Eliasson, J. (2010) So you consider introducing congestion charging? Here’s what you need to know. An FAQ
based on Stockholm experiences. OECD International Transport Forum Discussion Paper.
Börjesson, M. and Eliasson, J. (2009) On the use of “average delay” as a measure of train reliability. Submitted to
Transportation Research A.
Eliasson, J. (2009) The relationship between travel time variability and road congestion. Submitted to
Transportation Research E.
Hamilton, C. and Eliasson, J. (2009) Vertical separation as means to establish interoperability in road tolling in
Europe. Submitted to Transportation Research C
Eliasson, J. and Jonsson, L. (2009) The unexpected “yes!”: Explanatory factors behind the positive attitudes to
congestion charges in Stockholm. Submitted to European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research.
Hamilton, C. and Eliasson, J. (2009) Road pricing technology and technology cost, Proceedings of the European
Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands.
Eliasson, J. and Höök, B. (2008) The Stockholm congestion charging system. Proceedings of the 15th World
Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, New York.
Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J., (2008) Train passengers’ valuation of travel time unreliability. Proceedings of the
2008 European Transport Conference.
Karlström, A., Eliasson, J., and Levander, A. (2007) On the theoretical valuation of marginal business travel time
savings. Proceedings of the 2007 European Transport Conference.
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Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J., Levander, A., (2007) The value of time of car drivers choosing route: evidence from
the Stockholm congestion charging trial. Proceedings of the 2007 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. (2007) The relationship between travel time variability and road congestion. Proceedings of the 2007
World Conference of Transport Research.
Eliasson, J. (2006) Forecasting travel time variability. Proceedings of the 2006 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. and Beser Hugosson, M. (2006) The Stockholm congestion charging system – an overview of the
effects after six months. Proceedings of the 2006 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. (2005) Variations in valuations of noise and intrusion effects. Are stated choice results compatible
with hedonic prices? Proceedings of the 2005 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. (2004) Car drivers’ valuations of travel time variability, unexpected delays and queue driving.
Proceedings of the 2004 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. and Lundberg, M. (2002) Road pricing in urban areas – a survey of research and experience.
Transport & Environment Report.
Eliasson, J., J. Lindqvist Dillén and J. Widell (2002) Measuring intrusion valuations through stated preferences
and hedonic prices - a comparative study. Proceedings of the 2002 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J., J. Lindqvist Dillén and J. Widell (2002) Air travellers’ valuation of ticket type restrictions - a stated
preference survey (with J. Lindqvist Dillén and J. Widell). Proceedings of the 2002 European Transport
Conference.
Eliasson, J. (1999) The use of average time values in road pricing - a note on a common misconception. In
Eliasson: Transport and Location Analysis, diss., Dpt. of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of
Technology.
SELECTED PROJECTS AND ASSIGNMENTS (last 5 years)
2009
Transport 2030 – a vision (Royal Academy of the Engineering Sciences)
2009
Strategic development plan for the National Modeling and Appraisal Methodologies
2009
Recommendations and analyses for the design of the Göteborg Congestion
Charging System
2008
Evaluation of proposed Copenhagen congestion charges
2007- Chairman of the CBA committee for the National Transport Investment Plan
2009
2007
Financing the Stockholm Railway Tunnel: Geographical distribution of accessibility
effects [Ministry of Enterprise and Transport]
2007
Expert group for the evaluation of the Stockholm Congestions charging system as of
2007
2007
Recommendations and analyses for the revision of the Stockholm Congestion
Charging System
2006
Cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm City Railway Tunnel and the Third Track
[Ministry of Enterprise and Transport]
2006
Gender-related differences in travel behaviour – a life-cycle perspective. Evidence
from Stockholm. [Stockholm County Administrative Board]
2006
Cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system [City of
Stockholm]
2006
Summary of evaluation of the effects of the Stockholm congestion charging trial.
[City of Stockholm]
2006
Monthly evaluations of the Stockholm trial on traffic, travel times, retail, public transit
and attitudes. [City of Stockholm]
2006
“Silvester” – development of a departure time choice model [KTH/Vinnova]
2006
Gender equity aspects on travel behaviour [Stockholm county board, Vinnova]
2006
Cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm western ring road [National road
administration]
2006
Oil transport supply in eastern Mälardalden [Stockholm Harbour]
2005
Financing the transport system [Regional planning authority, Stockholm]
2005
Social benefits of moving the E4 through Haparanda [National road administration ]
2005
The interaction between infrastructure investments and economic growth – a survey
[Swedish Institute for studies in economic growth]
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2005
Air passengers’ valuations of product components [SAS]
2005
The pricing of public transport in Stockholm [SL]
2005
Urban planning effects of the Southern Link [National road administration]
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND SOCIETIES
Elected member of the Royal Academy of the Engineering Sciences (since 2009).
Member of Stockholms Byggnadsförening (since 2010).
Annual Prize of the Swedish Association of Transportation Planners, 2007
Honorable mention in the Eric Pas Dissertation Award contest 2001.
Nominated for the Best Paper by a Young Professional Award at WCTR 1998.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (SAMPLE)
Member of the Scientific Reference Group of the Norwegian cost-benefit valuation study (2007 - 2010)
Various conference program committees, including European Transport Conference (two committees, 2004-),
Transport Forum (two committees, 2008-)
Advisor for 4 master’s theses. Supervises 5 PhD students.
Opponent or member of evaluation committees for several Lic and PhD dissertations.
Around 70 invited lectures and presentations spring 2008 – spring 2010. Examples: Swedish parliament, Ministry
of Enterprise, City of Stockholm, Port of Stockholm, Global City Summit, OECD, ITF, National Transport Forum,
Infratrain, Nordic Road Federation
Around 30 media appearances in major newspapers and tv channels spring 2008 – spring 2010.
Around 20 reviewing assignments spring 2008 – spring 2010: Transportation Research A, Transportmetrica,
Transport Policy, Transport Reviews, Journal of Choice Modelling etc.
b. Centre Partners
Table 1 Centre partners
Partner
KTH
VTI
WSP
JIBS
Transport Policy
Swedish Transport Adm
Nat Public Trp Agency
Key contact
Jonas Eliasson
Gunnar Lindberg
Fredrik Bergström
Andreas Stephan
Maria Melkersson
Caroline Ottoson
Hans Wreber
Position
Director of Centre for Transport Studies
Research Director Dept of Transport Economics
Director WSP Analysis & Strategy
Professor of Economics
Senior Analyst
Director Finance and control
Head of department
c. Board of Directors
Table 2 Board of Directors
Perm member
Dep member
Perm member
Dep member
Perm member
Dep member
Perm member
Dep member
Perm member
Name
Stefan Fölster (chair)
Niclas Adler
Björn Hårsman
Marcus Asplund
Lars Hultkrantz
Jonas Bjelfvenstam
Fredrik Bergström
Hans Wreber
Caroline Ottoson
Dep member
Dep member
Ulla-Stina Ingemarsson
Maria Melkersson
Position and Company
Director, Svenskt Näringsliv
Managing Director and Dean, JIBS
Professor, KTH
Professor KTH
Professor, VTI
Director General, VTI
Director, WSP Analysis & Strategy
Head of dept, Nat Public Transport Agency
Director Finance and control, Swedish
Transport Adm
Head of dept, Swedish Transport Adm
Senior Analyst, Transport Analysis
d. Management Group
Table 3 Management Group
Organization
KTH/CTS
Name
Jonas Eliasson
Position
Director CTS
Role in team
Chair
Location
Stockholm
Jönköping
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
Sundsvall
Borlänge
Göteborg
Östersund
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KTH/CTS
KTH/TLA
KTH/CTS
VTI
JIBS
Mattias Lundberg
Anders Karlström
Susanne Jarl
Gunnar Lindberg
Andreas Stephan
Deputy director CTS
Head of Division
Administrator
Research Director
Professor of Economics
Member
Member
Secretary
Member
Member
e. Scientific board
Table 4 Scientific Advisory Board
Name
Michel Bierlaire
Stef Proost
Mark Wardman
f.
Position
Professor
Professor
Professor
Organization
EPFL, Transport Laboratory
Cat. University
ITS
Location
Lausanne
Leuwen
Leeds
Research Program
Table 5 Research Projects and Staff (project leader in bold)
No
Project name
01. Centre management 20071 2008
Personyear
Person- Person- Person2007- year
year
year
2009
2010
2011
2012
Participants
1,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Gunnar Lindberg
Göran Friberg
Jonas Eliasson
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Muriel Hugosson
Expenditures
Susanne Jarl
The importance of income growth
3 for the value of time
Auctioning - theory and
4 experiments
5 05. Application HET Qualification
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Erik Swärdh
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Joakim Ahlberg
Lars-Göran
0,0 Mattsson
Staffan Algers
Svante Mandell
Accessibility and productivity from
6 a micro perspective
0,6
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Lars Lundqvist
Tom Petersen
Hypothetical bias in studies of the
7 value of time
0,7
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Erik Swärdh
Maria Börjesson
Staffan Algers
Cost-benefit analyses in the
National Transport Investment
8 Plan
2,0
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Mattias Lundberg
9 CTS and Climate Policy
0,5
0,0
0,0
0,0 Daniel Jonsson
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Göran Friberg
P-O Hesselborn
Roger Pyddoke
Staffan Algers
10 10. Stability in climat agreements
0,0
0,2
0,0
Svante Mandell
Sofia Grahn0,0 Voorneveld
Svante Mandell
11 Attitudes to congestion charges
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Lina Jonsson
The EU's climate and transport
12 policy
13 Risk perception
Validity tests of WTP14 measurements
Mesoscopic traffic assignment
15 and route choice modelling
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Svante Mandell
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Henrik Andersson
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Henrik Andersson
1,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
PhD to be named
Emma Frejinger
Haris Koutsopoulos
The market for systems for road
16 toll payments
Freight model development
17 (prestudy)
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Carl Hamilton
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Inge Vierth
18 Highspeedrail - miniconference
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Roger Pyddoke
19 Challenges to the CBA approach
20. Mogens Fosgerau guest
20 researcher
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Fredrik Hansen
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Mogens Fosgerau
Mogens Fosgerau
Distribution effects of RP and
21 intra-personal variation
A genderperspective in
22 transportation research
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Joel Franklin
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Gunnar Lindberg
23 23. Centre conference
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 various
Congestion pricing effects with
24 labour market distortions
1,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Westin
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Equity and adaptation aspects on
25 the Stockholm charges
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Joel Franklin
Jonas Eliasson
Alternative methods for
estimating time values for cost
benefit analysis in the transport
26 sector
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Ioannis Tikoudis
31
Jonas Eliasson
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
27 Pay As You Speed
0,1
0,0
0,0
28 Fiscal Federalism
Research Exchange program - Risk
research Toulouse School of
29 Economics
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
Scherzod
0,0 Yarmukhamedov
0,5
0,0
0,0
0,0 Henrik Andersson
30 30. Chris Nash Guest researcher
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Chris Nash
31 31. CBA seminar
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
32 32. Experiment lab
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Svante Mandell
Climate policies towards the car
33 fleet
Procurement of public transport 34 prestudy
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Svante Mandell
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
Lina Jonsson
35 Support to ERSA Jönköping 2010
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Andreas Stephan
Gunnar Lindberg
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
36 One year follow-up
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Expenditures
37 37. INFRATRAIN 2009
0,0
0,0
0,0
0,0 Andreas Stephan
38 A database for the Öresund region
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Emma Frejinger
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Joel Franklin
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Emma Frejinger
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Emma Frejinger
0,5
0,2
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Finalization of various route
39 choice modelling projects
Fluctuations in Travel Time
40 Reliability
Route choice modelling - in
41 practice
Estimation of dynamic route
42 choice models
A neuroscientific approach to
stated preference - an fMRI study
43 of hypothetical bias
Gunnar Isacsson
Regulation of the market for road
44 user charging
46. Andrew Smith Guest
46 researcher
The value of time of car drivers
choosing route: evidence from the
Stockholm congestion charging
47 trial
0,5
0,0
0,0
0,0 Carl Hamilton
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Andrew Smith
0,5
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Maria Börjesson
48 Equity and Travel choice
Assessment of long term effects
of economic policy instruments on
49 the transport system
0,7
0,0
0,0
0,0 Joel Franklin
1,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Daniel Jonsson
32
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
On the use of “average delay” as a
50 measure of train reliability
1,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Maria Börjesson
Cost-benefit analyses in the
National Transport Investment
51 Plan
1,7
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Mattias Lundberg
Pia Sundbergh
Vulnerability analyses of road
52 networks
1,2
0,9
0,0
0,0 Erik Jenelius
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Accessibility and productivity from
53 a micro perspective - continued
0,6
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Lars Lundqvist
opponent to be
named
Tom Petersen
54 Regional economy and transports
0,8
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Lars Lundqvist
Marcus Sundberg
opponent to be
named
55. SURPRICE coordination
55 support
0,0
0,4
0,4
0,0 Carl Hamilton
Göran Friberg
Mattias Lundberg
Emission permits trading and
56 innovation incentives
0,5
0,0
0,0
0,0 Svante Mandell
Emprical Studies of Commuting
57 and the Value of Time
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Erik Swärdh
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Joakim Ahlberg
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Henrik Andersson
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Henrik Andersson
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Muriel Hugosson
Revenues in Discrete Multi-Unit,
Common Value Auctions: A Study
58 of Three Sealed-Bid Mechanisms
59. Evaluation of disturbance
59 from noise
60 60. Pricing of rail and road noise
Testing the vehicle register to
61 support modelling
Roger Pyddoke
Staffan Algers
The potential for substition
62 between train and air travel
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Christer Persson
Jonas Eliasson
33
Lina Jonsson
Maria Börjesson
Drivers of Changes in Travel
63 Patterns- Stockholm 1986 to 2004
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Kandice Kreamer
Fults
Maria Börjesson
Enhanced analysis of the Swedish
64 Value of Time Study 2007
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Maria Börjesson
Staffan Algers
65 Car ownership and car use
0,1
0,4
0,0
0,0 computers
Lina Jonsson
Roger Pyddoke
Urban Björketun
The interaction of housing, labour
markets and transportation –
towards an estimable dynamic,
overlapping generation, search
66 equilibrium model
0,4
1,0
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Christer Anderstig
Gunnar Isacsson
Ioannis Tikoudis
Further development of the
67 Swedish vehicle fleet model
0,3
1,0
0,0
0,0 data collection
PhD to be named
Muriel Hugosson
Staffan Algers
RAILTRAM - improving rail freight
68 transport modelling
0,4
1,3
1,1
0,0 Gerhard Troche
Inge Vierth
Nicklas Lord
to be named
International Civil Aviation
69 Emissions Trading
0,6
0,9
0,4
0,0 Fredrik Kopsch
Jan-Eric Nilsson
Svante Mandell
Accident externality and vehicle
70 size
0,2
0,0
0,0
0,0 Gunnar Lindberg
Lina Jonsson
71 Highspeed railway and climate
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
Roger Pyddoke
72 Focus area coordination
0,3
0,1
0,0
0,0 Andreas Stephan
Göran Friberg
Jan-Eric Nilsson
Jonas Eliasson
34
Karin Brundell-Freij
Staffan Algers
73 Application strategic funds
0,3
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
74 Ferry communting
0,0
0,0
0,0
0,0 Anna Mellin
Biofuels production versus
75 forestry
Asymmetric information and
77 vehicle insurance
0,3
0,0
0,0
Roger Pyddoke
Johanna Jussila
0,0 Hammes
0,7
0,5
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
Sara Arvidsson
Experiences from the Stockholm
78 congestion charges 2006-2009
0,1
0,1
0,0
0,0 Jenny Källström
Jonas Eliasson
Karin Brundell-Freij
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Modelling congesting charging in
79 Stockholm
0,0
0,6
0,0
0,0 Daniel Jonsson
Dirk van Amelsfort
Leonid Engelson
Maria Börjesson
Muriel Hugosson
Are the experiences from the
Stockholm congestion charges
80 transferable?
0,0
0,6
0,0
0,0 Dirk van Amelsfort
Maria Börjesson
Muriel Hugosson
How can the Stockholm
congestion charging perform
closer to optimal when specific
81 design constraints are relaxed
0,0
0,6
0,0
0,0 Dirk van Amelsfort
Leonid Engelson
Maria Börjesson
Revealed preferencies of
82 congestion charging acceptability
0,2
0,1
0,0
0,0 Björn Hårsman
John Quigley
Commuting time changes over
84 time
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Jan-Erik Swärdh
85 Centre management 2009
3,0
0,0
0,0
0,0 Emma Frejinger
Gunnar Lindberg
Göran Friberg
Jonas Eliasson
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Maria Börjesson
Muriel Hugosson
Expenditures
35
Susanne Jarl
ADDYS - Theoretical justification
for additive and quasi additive
travel costs in road networks with
86 uncertain travel time
Data for elasticity calculations at
87 Rikstrafiken
0,0
0,2
0,2
0,0 Leonid Engelson
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Göran Tegner
Muriel Hugosson
Roger Pyddoke
Simplified model for use at
88 Rikstrafiken
Interpretation of the implications
of the latest VoT-study for
89 procurements at Rikstrafiken
0,0
0,3
0,0
0,0 Muriel Hugosson
0,1
0,0
0,0
0,0 Maria Börjesson
Muriel Hugosson
90 Prerequisites for comercial traffic
0,1
0,3
0,0
0,0 Kjell Jansson
Roger Pyddoke
Global warming policy papers 91 revision
The external health costs from
92 Transport
0,3
0,1
0,0
0,0 Svante Mandell
0,0
0,4
0,0
0,0 Anna Mellin
Lena Nerhagen
Causal links in congestion
charging's equity effects (2nd
93 version)
Are economic policy measures
94 efficient?
0,3
0,2
0,0
0,0 Joel Franklin
0,0
1,2
1,2
0,0 Christer Anderstig
Joakim Johansson
Jonas Eliasson
Matts Andersson
Michael Lundholm
Roger Pyddoke
Tommy Lundgren
95 Freight tranport modelling
0,2
0,7
0,7
0,7 Nicklas Lord
96 Congestion charges in Göteborg
0,4
0,0
0,0
0,0 Daniel Jonsson
Jonas Eliasson
Maria Börjesson
Muriel Hugosson
97 Auctioning of CO2 permits
0,2
0,8
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
98 The political economy of biofuels
0,0
0,8
0,0
Joakim Ahlberg
Johanna Jussila
0,0 Hammes
99 Developing new MEV models
0,0
0,6
0,1
0,0 Anders Karlström
Nicholas Ibanez
Travel time variability, subject to a
100 random bottleneck.
Accessibility, new firm location
101 and productivity
0,2
0,3
0,0
0,0 Joel Franklin
0,0
1,2
0,8
0,0 Andreas Stephan
36
various
Johan Klaesson
Martin Andersson
Tom Petersen
The long-term beneift of public
transport - Case study the Metro
102 of Stockholm
0,0
0,6
0,6
0,0 Christer Anderstig
Daniel Jonsson
Jonas Eliasson
Leonid Engelson
Maria Börjesson
Mattias Lundberg
Muriel Hugosson
The role of assumptions for the
cost-benefit ratio of transport
103 investments
0,0
1,4
1,4
0,0 Daniel Jonsson
Jonas Eliasson
Kerstin Pettersson
Leonid Engelson
Maria Börjesson
Peter Almström
Svante Berglund
104 Regulating railroads
0,4
0,1
0,0
0,0 Jan-Eric Nilsson
Roger Pyddoke
Stefan Pettersson
105 Optimal timetables in CBAs
0,0
0,6
0,0
0,0 Emma Frejinger
Jonas Eliasson
Lena Wieweg
Maria Börjesson
Multi-source traffic data fusion for
monitoring, evaluation, and
106 control
0,0
1,9
1,0
0,0 PhD to be named
Haris Koutsopoulos
Mahmood Rahmani
Efficient estimation of origin107 destination (OD) flows
0,0
1,2
0,0
0,0 Haris Koutsopoulos
Tatsiana Aneichyk
108 CO2 differentiated port dues
Route choice modelling with
109 random link costs
0,0
0,1
0,0
0,0 Anna Mellin
0,0
0,4
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Marcus Sundberg
Biofuels production versus
forestry in the presence of lobbies
110 and technological change
0,0
0,1
0,0
Johanna Jussila
0,0 Hammes
Willingness to pay for sustainable
111 attributes - presentation at WRSA
0,0
0,0
0,0
0,0 Svante Mandell
37
112 Marknaden för vägavgiftssystem
0,0
0,3
0,0
0,0 Carl Hamilton
Frequently asked questions about
113 congestion charging
0,0
0,1
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Next generation forecast models 114 An activity based approach
0,0
0,8
1,3
1,0 Anders Karlström
Ass prof to be
named
PhD to be named
Use of, and plans for
development, of CBAs in the
115 investment planning
0,0
0,5
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Mattias Lundberg
Muriel Hugosson
Pia Sundbergh
Lars Hultkrantz
Enhanced analysis of the Swedish
116 Value of Time Study 2007
0,0
0,5
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Maria Börjesson
Staffan Algers
The value of time and external
benefits in bicycle cost-benefit
117 analysis
0,0
0,5
0,0
0,0 Jonas Eliasson
Maria Börjesson
Drivers of changes in travel
118 patterns - Extension
0,0
0,5
0,0
0,0 Maria Börjesson
Kandice KreamerFults
119 Centre Management 2010
0,0
1,5
0,0
0,0 Anders Karlström
Gunnar Lindberg
Göran Friberg
Jonas Eliasson
Mattias Lundberg
Expenditures
Susanne Jarl
120 120. Per Kågeson initial contract
121. ERSA-CTS-IHH Summer
121 school
Dynamic car ownership model - a
122 feasibility study
0,0
0,1
0,0
0,0 Per Kågeson
0,0
0,8
0,0
0,0 Charlie Karlsson
0,0
0,2
0,2
0,0 Roger Pyddoke
Staffan Algers
Shiva Habibi
Gerard de Jong
Procured Road and Rail
123 Investments
Total
0,0
0,3
0,0
0,0 to be named
36,6
28,4
9,3
1,8
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g. Publication and Presentation Activity
Table 6a List of publications
Note: Publication lists for 2010 are incomplete.
Publications in scientific journals in 2010
Andersson, H., Jonsson, L., Ögren, M., (2010). Property Prices and Exposure to Multiple Noise Sources:
Hedonic Regression with Road and Railway Noise, Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 45(1)
Mandell, S., Holt, C., Myers, E., Burtraw, D. and Wråke, M, (2010), "Teaching Opportunity Cost in an
Emissions Permit Experiment". International Review of Economics Education, Forthcoming
Mandell, S., Wråke, M., Myers, E.C., Burtraw, D. and Holt C.A., (2010), "Pricing Strategies Under
Emissions Trading: An Experimental Analysis", Environmental and Resource Economics, Forthcoming
Mandell, S., (2010) "Steering the European transport greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty", Journal
of Transport Economics and Policy 44(1)
Franklin, J. P., Karlström, A., (to appear). Travel time reliability for Stockholm Roadways: Modeling the
mean lateness factor, Transportation Research Record Accepted: 2009-03-04.
Fosgerau, M., Karlström, A., (2010). The value of reliability, Transportation Research Part B 44(1): 3849.
Jenelius, E., Westin, J., Holmgren, Å. J., (2010). Critical infrastructure protection under imperfect
attacker perception, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection 3(1): 16-26.
Jenelius, E., (2010). User inequity implications of road network vulnerability, Journal of Transport and
Land Use 2(3-4): 57-73.
Book contributions in 2010
Frejinger, E., Bierlaire, M., (2010). On path generation algorithms for route choice models, in Hess, S.,
Daly, A. J., (eds.), Choice Modelling: The State-of-the-art and the State-of-practice Proceedings from the Inaugural
International Choice Modelling Conference, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN: 9781849507721
Technical reports in 2010
Jenelius, E., Mattsson, L.-G., (2010). Road network vulnerability analysis of area-covering disruptions:
A grid-based approach with case study, Working paper, TLA, Royal Insititute of Technology,
Stockholm
Jenelius, E., Mattsson, L.-G., Levinson, D., (2010). The traveler costs of unplanned transport network
disruptions: An activity-based approach, Working paper, TLA, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm
Mandell, S., "Carbon Emission Values in Cost Benefit Analyses", Working Paper 2010:4, VTI, Dept. of
Transport Economics. S-WoPEc 2010:4
Vierth, I., Samhällsekonomiskt underlag för hamnpoltiken VTI Rapport 2010: 672
Andersson, M. "Marginal cost of railway infrastructure wear and tear for freight and passenger trains in
Sweden." Working Paper 2010:5, VTI, Dept. of Transport Economics. S-WoPEc 2010:5
Mellin A. (2010) SJÖMIL- Sjöfart, miljö och ekonomi VTI Notat 2010:N6
Mellin A. och J. Ståhle (2010) Omvärlds- och framtidsanalys - Längre och tyngre väg- och järnvägsfordon
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VTI Rapport 2010:676
Publications in scientific journals in 2009
Andersson, H. and Lindberg G. (2009) Benevolence and the value of statistical life. Accident Analysis and
Prevention 41 (2009) 286 - 293.
Winslott-Hiselius, L., Brundell-Freij K., Vagland Å., Byström C. (2009) The development of public
attitudes towards the Stockholm congestion trial. Transportation Research Part A 43 p 269-282.
Pyddoke R., Nilsson J-E. und Eriksson T., Neue Ausgestaltung des finanziellen Ausgleichs im
öffentlichem Verkehr, Die Zukunft des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs, Schriftenreihe Umvelt-RechtGesellschaft, Der Juristische Verlag lexxion
Karlström, A., Franklin, J. P., (2009). Behavioral adjustments and equity effects of congestion pricing:
Analysis of morning commutes during the Stockholm Trial, Transportation Research Part A 43(3):
283-296.
Frejinger, E., Bierlaire, M., Ben-Akiva, M., (2009). Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice
Modeling, Transportation Research Part B 43(10): 984-994.
Jenelius, E., (2009). Network structure and travel patterns: Explaining the geographical disparities of
road network vulnerability, Journal of Transport Geography 17(3): 234-244.
Ahlberg, J., (2009). Revenues in discrete multi-unit, common value auctions: a study of three sealedbid mechanisms, Portuguese Economic Journal 8(1): 3-14.
Eliasson, J., (2009). A cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system,
Transportation Research Part A 43(4): 468 - 480.
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt Rosqvist, L., (2009). The Stockholm congestion charging trial 2006: Overview of effects, Transportation Research Part A 43(3): 240 - 250.
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt Rosqvist, L., (2009). Introduction to special issue
of the Stockholm congestion-charging trial 2006. Transportation Research Part A 43(3): 237 - 239.
Gudmundsson, H., Ericsson, E., Beser Hugosson, M., (2009). Framing the role of Decision Support in
the case of Stockholm Congestion Charging Trial, Transportation Research Part A 43(3): 258-268.
Mandell, S., (2009). Policies towards a more efficient car fleet, Energy Policy 37(12): 5184-5191.
Accepted 2009 for publication in scientific journals
Jenelius, E., Westin, J., Holmgren, Å. J., (to appear). Critical infrastructure protection under imperfect
attacker perception, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection Accepted: 2009-10-15.
Gao, S., Frejinger, E., Ben-Akiva, M., (to appear). Adaptive Route Choices in Risky Traffic
Networks: A Prospect Theory Approach, Transportation Research Part C Accepted: 2009-08-10.
Andersson, H., Jonsson, L., Ögren, M., (to appear). Property Prices and Exposure to Multiple Noise
Sources: Hedonic Regression with Road and Railway Noise, Environmental and Resource Economics
Accepted for publication Accepted: 2009-06-09.
Franklin, J. P., Karlström, A., (to appear). Travel time reliability for Stockholm Roadways: Modeling
the mean lateness factor, Transportation Research Record Accepted: 2009-03-04.
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Book contributions in 2009
Eliasson, J., (2009). Expected and Unexpected in the Stockholm Trial - A personal view, in Gullberg,
A., Isaksson, K., (eds.), Congestion Taxes in City Traffic: lessons learnt from the Stockholm Trial,
Nordic Academic Press, Sweden
Franklin, J. P., Eliasson, J., Karlström, A., (2009). Traveller Responses to the Stockholm Congestion
Pricing Trial: Who Changed, Where Did They Go, and What Did It Cost Them? In W. Saleh and G.
Sammer(eds.): Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricin, Travel demand management and
Road User Pricing: Success, Failure and Feasibility , Ashgate Publications, pp. 215-238
Karlström A. and Mattsson, L.-G. (2009) “Place, space syntax and attraction-accessibility”, Invited
Paper, In Koch, D., Marcus, L. and Steen, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Space Syntax
Symposium, KTH/ARK/FP-09:01-SE.
Nilsson, J-E. Nya vägar för infrastruktur. SNS förlag
Conference proceedings in 2009
Fosgerau, M., Frejinger, E., Karlström, A., (2009). Route choice modelling without route choice,
Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands. PDF
Kreamer Fults, K., Isacsson, G., Karlström, A., (2009). Gender differences in value of commuting
time- evidence from a household model of subjective life satisfaction in Sweden, proceedings of
Transportation Research Board, Research in Women's Travel Issues Conference, Irvine, CA, USA
Karlström, A., Fosgerau, M., Frejinger, E., (2009). Solving route choice models in a dynamic discrete
choice framework, Proceedings of the 13th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting, Italy
Hamilton, C. J., Eliasson, J., (2009). Road pricing technology and technology cost, Proceedings of the
European Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands
Grush, B., Schortmann, J. C., Hamilton, C. J., Martínez-Olagüe, M. A., (2009). GMAR - a framework
for performance monitoring autonomous RUC, Proceedings from the 16th World Congress for ITS
Systems and Services, Stockholm, Sweden. PDF
Hamilton, C. J., (2009). Why the EETS Directive will fail and what can be done to save it,
Proceedings from the 16th World Congress for ITS Systems and Services, Stockholm, Sweden
Frejinger, E., Bierlaire, M., Ben-Akiva, M., (2009). Expanded path size attribute for route choice
models including sampling correction, Proceedings of the International Choice Modelling
Conference, Harrogate, UK
Jenelius, E., (2009). Secondary link importance: Links as rerouting alternatives during road network
disruptions, Proceedings of First International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management
(ICEM), Haag, Netherlands
Jonsson, L., Lindberg, G., (2009). Accident externality and vehicle size - evidence from Swedish
collision accidents, Proceeding of the European Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands
Eliasson, J., Jonsson, L., (2009). The unexpected "yes!": Explanatory factors behind the positive
attitudes to congestion charges in Stockholm, Proceeding of European Transport Conference, 2009,
Leiden, Netherlands
Brundell-Freij, K., Jonsson, L., (2009). Accepting charging - a matter of trusting the effects?,
Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands
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Börjesson, M. M., Fosgerau, M., Algers, S., (2009). The income elasticity of the value of travel time is
not one number, Proceedings of the European Transport Conference, Leiden, Netherlands
Karlström, A, Ståhle, A., Marcus, L, Koch and L-G Mattsson (2009). Place, space syntax, and
attraction-accessibility, Proceedings of the Seventh International Space Syntax Symnposium,
Stockholm June 2009.
Karlström, A. Responses to the Stockholm Congestion Pricing Trial: Who Changed, Where Did They
Go, and What Did It Cost. Kuhmo-Nectar Conference, Copenhagen, 2009.
Karlström, A. Scaling up a dynamic microeconomic discrete choice activity based model, joint with
Paul Wadell and Dieter Fox. European Transport Conference (ETC), Leewenheurst, Holland, 2009.
Karlström, A. Gender differences in the value of commuting time – evidence from a household model
of subjective life satisfaction in Sweden, co-authored with Kandice Fults and Gunnar Isacsson. Fourth
International TRB Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation, Oct 2009.
Ahlberg, J Common Value, Multi-Unit Auctions with Private Signals - Comparing Laboratory
Experiments With Theory. M-BEES 2009 - Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Symposium: Theory and Experiments. Maastricht, Netherlands, June 2009.
Ahlberg, J Common Value, Multi-Unit Auctions with Private Signals - Comparing Laboratory
Experiments With Theory. ESA - Economic Science Association. Tucson, US, November 2009.
Franklin, JP, 2009. "The Role of Preference Variation in the Accessibility and Equity Effects of
Congestion Pricing." Paper presented at the 1st Transatlantic NECTAR Conference, Arlington, VA,
USA.
Franklin, JP, 2009. "Modelling Reliability as Expected Lateness: A Schedule-Based Approach for
User Benefit Analysis." Paper presented at the European Transport Conference 2009, Leeuwenhorst,
Netherlands.
Technical reports in 2009
Lord, N., Mellin, A., Vierth, I., (2009). Transporteffekter av IMO:s skärpta emissionskrav modellberäkningar på uppdrag av Sjöfartsverket, Workin Paper 2009:15, VTI
Mellin, A., (2009). Granskning av "Båtpendling på inre vattenvägar", Technical Report, CTS. PDF
Hylén, B., (2009). Policy and Research Recommendations Report, SPUTNIC Deliverable D5
Hylén, B., (2009). Best Practices and Recommendations Report, SPUTNIC Deliverable D4
Hylén, B., (2009). Identification of needs for further research , LINK Deliverable D23b
Jenelius, E., (2009). Road network vulnerability analysis of area-covering disruptions: A grid-based
approach with case study, Technical Report, TLA, Royal Insititute of Technology, Stockholm
Börjesson, M. M., Eliasson, J., (2009). On the use of "average delay" as a measure of train reliability,
Technical report CTS 090529, Centre for Transport Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. Submitted for
possible publication in Transportation Research Part A. PDF
Eliasson, J., Lundberg, M., (2009). Alternativa scenariers påverkan på lönsamhet, Vägverket
publikation 2009:98. ISSN: 1401-9612
Nilsson, J., Pyddoke, R., (2009). Höghastighetsjärnvägar - ett klimatpolitiskt stickspår, Rapport 655,
VTI
Swärdh, J-E., (2009). Commuting time changes following residential relocations and job relocations,
42
Working Paper 2009:11, VTI
Swärdh, J-E., Algers, S., (2009). Willingness to accept commuting time for yourself and for your
spouse: Empirical evidence from Swedish stated preference data, Working Paper 2009:5, VTI
Hammes, J., (2009). Biofuels production versus forestry in the presence of lobbies and technological
change, Working Paper 2009:7, VTI
Mandell, S., (2009). Prices and Quantities in a Climate Policy Setting, Working Paper 2009:4, VTI.
PDF
Mandell, S., (2009). Incentives for innovation and adoption of new technology under emissions
trading, Working Paper 2009:10, VTI
Mandell, S., Wråke, M., Myers, E. C., Holt, C. A., Burtraw, D., (2009). Pricing Strategies under
Emissions Trading: An Experimental Analysis, Working Paper 2009:1, VTI
Pyddoke, R., (2009). "Empiriska analyser av bilanvändning och bilägande i Sverige - Empirical
analyses of car ownership and car use in Sweden", VTI report 653.
Jansson, K. and Pyddoke, R., (2009). "Quality incentives versus quality outcomes in procured public
transport - Case study Stockholm". Paper presented at 11th conference on competition and ownership
in land passenger transport.
Pyddoke, R., Nilsson. J-E. och Eriksson, T., (2009). Nya former för ersättning i kollektivtrafiken, VTI
rapport 625.
Nilsson, J-E., Pyddoke, R, (2009). Höghastighetsjärnvägar – ett klimatpolitiskt stickspår. Rapport
2009:3 till Expertgruppen för miljöstudier. VTI rapport 655.
Nilsson, J-E., R. Pyddoke, Andersson, M., Hansen, F., Isacsson, G, Lindberg, G., Nerhagen, L.,
(2009). Infrastrukturpolitik på samhällsekonomisk grund. VTI-rapport 654.
Pyddoke R., Nilsson J-E. und Eriksson T., (2009). Neue Ausgestaltung des finanziellen Ausgleichs im
öffentlichem Verkehr, Die Zukunft des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs, Schriftenreihe UmveltRecht-Gesellschaft, Der Juristische Verlag lexxion.
Mattsson, L.-G., (2008) ”Samhällsekonomisk analys av ett huvudvägnät för godstransporter
En idédiskussion och förslag till upplägg”, Institutionen för transporter och samhällsekonomi,
KTH,100 44 Stockholm. (Utkom 2009)
Algers, S., Mattsson, L.-G., Rydergren, C. and Östlund, B. (2009) “Sampers – erfarenheter och
utvecklingsmöjligheter på kort och lång sikt”, Rapport från Institutionen för transporter och
samhällsekonomi och Centrum för transportstudier Stockholm med flera.
Eliasson, J. och Lundberg, M (2009) Samlad effektbedömning. I Nationell plan för transportsystemet
2010-2021.
Eliasson, J. (2009) Travel time variability in CBA - current Swedish practice. (Co-rapporteur for
OECD/ITF discussion paper.)
Eliasson, J. (2009) The relationship between travel time variability and road congestion.
Hamilton, C. and Eliasson, J. (2009) Vertical separation as means to establish interoperability in road
tolling in Europe.
Andersson, M. (VTI), CATRIN (Cost Allocation of TRansport INfrastructure cost), Deliverable D6 Road
Cost Allocation for Europe: Recommendations and open questions. Funded by Sixth Framework
Programme. VTI, Stockholm, February, 2009.
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Eriksson G., Gullne U., Lindvall J. (SMA), Karvonen, T., Saurama A. (CMS), Göthe-Lundgren, M., Mellin
A. and Lindberg G. (VTI) CATRIN (Cost Allocation of TRansport INfrastructure cost), Deliverable D10
Allocation of infrastructure cost in the maritime sector. Funded by Sixth Framework Programme. VTI,
Stockholm, March, 2009.
Lindberg, G (2009) Conclusions and recommendations. Deliverable D12 Funded by Sixth Framework
Programme. VTI, Stockholm, June, 2009.
Mellin, A., G.Lindberg, R. Karlsson and T. Benz (2009) Development path of Heavy Route systems impact and socio-economic consequences. Deliverable 4.2. Heavy Route Funded by Sixth Framework
Programme. VTI, Stockholm, June, 2009.
Jan-Eric Nilsson, Roger Pyddoke, Mats Andersson, Fredrik Hansen, Gunnar Isacsson, Gunnar Lindberg,
Lena Nerhagen, Infrastrukturpolitik på samhällsekonomisk grund. Bilaga 2 till Trafikverksutredningen
SOU 2009:31
Jan-Eric Nilsson och Roger Pyddoke, Höghastighetsjärnvägar - ett klimatpolitiskt stickspår, Rapport till
Expertgruppen för miljöstudier, 2009:3 2009:31
Lina Jonsson, Ansvarsnivåer för kollektivtrafik, Bilaga 8 till En ny kollektivtrafik SOU 2009:39
Theses in 2009
Sundberg, M., (2009). Essays on Spatial Economies and Organization, Royal Institute of technology,
KTH, Stockholm,Sweden
Swärdh, J-E., (2009). Commuting Time Choice and the Value of Travel Time, Örebro University,
Swedish Business School at Örebro University. PhD Thesis, Örebro Studies in Economics, ISSN
1651-8896
Publications (scientific papers, proceedings, technical reports etc) in
2008 and late 2007
Ahlberg, J. (2008) Revenues in Discrete Multi-Unit, Common Value Auctions: A Study of Three
Sealed-Bid Mechanisms. Working paper 2008:9.
Andersson, H. (2007) Private and Public WTP for Safety - A Validity Test, Working Paper 2007:14,
VTI, Dept. of Transport Economics.
Andersson, H. (2008) Perception of Own Death Risk : A Reassessment of Road-Traffic Mortality
Risk,Working Paper 2008:11, VTI, Dept. of Transport Economics.
Berdica, K. and Mattsson, L.-G. (2007) Vulnerability: A model-based case study of the road network
in Stockholm, 81-106, in Murray, A. and Grubesic, T.H. (eds), Critical Infrastructure: Reliability and
Vulnerabilitiy, Springer-Verlag.
Börjesson, M. and Eliasson, J. (2007) The value of time of car drivers choosing route: evidence from
the Stockholm congestion charging trial. Presenterad vid Transportforum 2008.
Börjesson, M. and Eliasson, J., (2008) Train passengers’ valuation of travel time unreliability.
Presented at the 2008 European Transport Conference.
Eliasson, J. (2007a) Väntat och oväntat i Stockholmsförsöket. I Isaksson (red.): Stockholmsförsöket en osannolik historia. Stockholmia, Stockholm.
Eliasson, J. (2007b) Expected and Unexpected in the Stockholm Trial – A personal view.
Forthcoming in Gullberg and Isaksson (ed.): The Stockholm Trial. Stockholmia, Stockholm. (eng.
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version av ovanstående).
Eliasson, J. and Höök, B. (2008) The Stockholm congestion charging system. Working paper
presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, New York.
Eliasson, J. och Lundberg, M (2008) Lägesrapport Samhällsekonomi stora objekt. I Redovisning av
uppdrag inför åtgärdsplaneringen 2010-2020, Vägverket publikation 2008:115.
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt-Rosqvist, L. (2009a) The Stockholm congestioncharging trial 2006: Overview of the effects. Transportation Research A 43, p. 240-250.
doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.09.001.
Eliasson, J., Hultkrantz, L., Nerhagen, L., Smidfelt-Rosqvist, L. (2009b) Introduction to special issue
of the Stockholm congestion-charging trial 2006. Transportation Research A 43.
doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.09.001.
Eliasson, J. (2009a) A cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system.
Transportation Research A. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.11.014.
Eliasson, J. (2009b) Lessons from the Stockholm congestion charging trial. Transport Policy
doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2008.12.004.
Fosgerau, M, Karlström, A (2008) Value of reliability, submitted
to Transportation Research Part B.
Franklin, J and Karlström, A (2009) Travel time reliability for
Stockholm Roadways: Modeling the mean lateness factor. Accepted
for publication in Transportation Research Record.
Franklin, J., Eliasson, J. and Karlström, A. (2008) Traveller Responses to the Stockholm Congestion
Pricing Trial: Who Changed, Where Did They Go, and What Did It Cost Them? In Saleh and Sammer
(eds.): Demand Management and Road User Pricing: Success, Failure and Feasibility.
Hamilton, C. (2008a) Privacy in Road User Charging. Paper till 15th World Congress on Intelligent
Transport Systems.
Hamilton, C. (2008b) Seven Principles for Regulating Autonomous Road User Charging. Paper till
15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems.
Jenelius, Erik (2008a) Network structure and travel patterns: Explaining the geographical disparities
of road network vulnerability. Journal of Transport Geography, forthcoming.
Jenelius, Erik (2008b) Considering the user inequity of road network vulnerability. Journal of
Transport and Land Use, forthcoming.
Jenelius, E. and Mattsson, L-G. (2008) The vulnerability of raod networks under area-covering
disruptions, Paper presented at the INFORMS Conference in Washington October 2008.
Jonsson, R.D. (2008a) Analysing sustainable urban transport and land-use: Modelling tools and
appraisal frameworks, Doctoral Thesis in Infrastructure, TRITA-TEC-PHD 08-003, Department of
Transport and Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Jonsson, R.D. (2008b) Analysing sustainability in a land-use and transport system, Journal of
Transport Geography, 16: 28-41.
Karlström, A, Eliasson, J, Levander, A. (2007-2008), Valuation of marginal travel time savings for
long distance business trips, submitted to Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.
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Karlström, A., 2008, Developing new multivariate generalized
extreme value models - theory and some applications, submitted to
Transportation Research Part B.
Karlström, A, and Franklin, J (2008) Behavioral adjustments and equity effects of congestion pricing:
Analysis of morning commutes during the Stockholm Trial. Transportation Research Part A,
43(3):283-296.
Mandell, S (2008) Steering the European Transport Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Uncertainty,
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Forthcoming.
Mandell, S, Steering the European transport greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty, Working
Paper 2008:4, VTI, Dept. of Transport Economics.
Mandell, S, Policies towards a more efficient car fleet, Working Paper 2008:12, VTI, Dept. of
Transport Economics.
Mandell S., Wråke M., Myers E., Holt C. and Burtraw D. (2009), Pricing Strategies under Emissions
Trading: An Experimental Analysis, VTI WP 2009:1
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Mattsson, L.-G. (2007) Railway capacity and train delay relationships, 129-150, in Murray, A. and
Grubesic, T.H. (eds), Critical Infrastructure: Reliability and Vulnerabilitiy, Springer-Verlag.
Mattsson, L.-G. (2008) Road pricing: Consequences for traffic, congestion and location, 29-48, in
Jensen-Butler, C., Sloth, B., Larsen, M,M, Madsen, B. and Nielsen, O.A. (eds.), Road Pricing, the
Economy and the Environment, Springer-Verlag.
Swärdh, Jan-Erik (2008a) Is the intertemporal income elasticity of the value of travel time unity?,
Working Paper 2008:3, VTI, Available at http://swopec.hhs.se/vtiwps/abs/vtiwps2008_003.htm
Swärdh, Jan-Erik (2008b) Hypothetical bias and certainty calibration in a value of time experiment,
Working Paper 2008:7, VTI, Available at http://swopec.hhs.se/vtiwps/abs/vtiwps2008_007.htm
Vierth, I. och Mellin, A. (2008) Svensk godsstudie baserad på nationell och internationell litteratur.
Internationell exposé – persontransporter. Inom uppdraget att kartlägga potentialen för överflyttning
av transporter mellan trafikslag. VTI rapport 629.
Wärmark, A., Börjesson, M. och Persson, C. (2008) Överflyttning av resor mellan flyg- och tågtrafik möjligheter och hinder. Inom uppdraget att kartlägga potentialen för överflyttning av transporter
mellan trafikslag.
Weibull, J., Mattsson L.-G. and Voorneveld, M. (2007) Better may be worse: Some monotonicity
results and paradoxes in discrete choice under uncertainty, Theory and Decision, vol. 63, pp. 121-151.
Zhao, Y., Kockelman, K, Karlström, A. (2008) Welfare Calculations in discrete choice settings, the
role of error term correlation, to be submitted.
Table 6b External conferences arranged by CTS
External conferences arranged by CTS
What do we learn from the Stockholm Congestion
Charging Trial?
29 May 2007
Session ”Methods and Models in Transport Analysis”
At Transport Forum 2008
9-10 January 2008
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Cost-Benefit Analysis in the infrastructure planning
3 September 2008
High speed rail – Have we got the methods to answer
where they are needed?
19 September 2008
Traffic Network Stockholm: The investment planning
with special focus on the Stockholm region
10 December 2008
CTS – One year in the service of transport research
15 December 2008
Two sessions at Transport Forum 2009:
8-9 January 2009
CBA methods in the national investment planning
Methods and Models in Transport Analysis
CTS – Two years in the service of transport research
2 December 2009
Traffic Network Stockholm: Forecasts and CBA
In the investment planning
10 December 2009
Current research projects – seminar at the National
Transport Adm
30 March 2010
Development of methods and tools for CBAs
7 May 2010
Quality and shortcomings in traffic forecasts
3 June 2010
Table 6c Selected presentations of CTS research at conferences arranged by others than CTS
Presentations etc
Conference name
Infrastructure seminar at
Nutek
Seminar about freight
transports at the National
Road Adm,
Norsk Petroleuminstitutt
Yearly conference 2007,
Oslo, Norway
Transport Forum:
Title/role
Participation as experts
Presenter
Eliasson/Mattsson
Participation as expert
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Date
November
2007
December
2007
Experiences from congestion
charges in Stockholm
Staffan Algers
2007
Effects of the congestion
charges 2007
Valuation of business travel time
Jonas Eliasson
January 2008
The need for special CBA:s in
major cities
Predicting journey time
variability
Correlation between road
congestion and uncertain travel
times
Better forecasts of effects from
road user charges
The value of time of car drivers
choosing route
Regional Economics and Freight
Transports
Accessibility and Regional
Eliasson/Levander/K
arlström
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson
Eliasson/Levander
Eliasson/Levander/B
örjesson
Marcus Sundberg
Tom Petersen
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Development in the Skåne
region
On the estimation of Productivity
correlation with micro data
Micro economic analyses of
Accessibility and Productivity
Flexibility of Household
Responses to Congestion
Pricing: Implications for Equity
Valuation of train delays
Transport Research
Board, Washington
Seminar at the Ministry
of Industry
Western Regional
Science Association,
Napa Valley
Conference Nordiska
vägföreningen
Seminar Regionforum
Östergötland
TØI-kurset, Jevnaker,
Norway
Hearing about goals for
the Swedish Transport
Policy
Spring Meeting of Young
Economists, Lille
Seminar at the Ministry
of Industry
Seminar at the port of
Stockholm
TRA Ljubljana
mobile.TUM 2008 –
International Conference
on Mobility and
Transport, München
Seminar with delegation
from the Dutch
Parliament,
Seminar with the Region
of Skåne
Seminar about Bypass
Stockholm, BIL Sweden
Conference about Public
Transport, Road Adm of
Norway
Seminar about
Congestion Charges in
Copenhagen
Helsinki Summer School
Seminar for the Social
Democratic party in
Stockholm
Tom Petersen
Tom Petersen
Joel Franklin
Joel Franklin
Eliasson/Börjesson/
Sundbergh
Anders Karlström
January 2008
Jonas Eliasson
January 2008
Value of time in a dynamic
microeconomic framework –
theory and example from
Stockholm congestion charges
Pricing Strategies under
Emissions Trading: An
Experimental Analysis
The Congestion Charges in
Stockholm
The National Investment
Planning
Experiences from congestion
charges in Stockholm
Equity in the Transport Policy
Anders Karlström
February
2008
Welfare Calculations in discrete
choice settings, the role of error
term correlation
Regional Enlargement
Svante Mandell
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson
February
2008
March 2008
Staffan Algers
March 2008
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
April 2008
Is the Inter-Temporal Income
Elasticity of the Value of Travel
Time Unity? - Evidence using
Swedish Revealed Preference
Data
Why should public transport be
subsidised?
Environmental impacts of a
freight port in Norvik
Analyzing equity effects of
congestion charges
Overview of the effects of the
Stockholm congestion charges
Reflecting Equity in a WelfareBased Accessibility Measure
Jan-Erik Swärdh
April 2008
Jonas Eliasson
April 2008
Jonas Eliasson
April 2008
Jonas Eliasson
April 2008
Joel Franklin
April 2008
The Congestion Charges in
Stockholm
Jonas Eliasson
May 2008
The National Investment
Planning
CBA and effects on climate
Jonas Eliasson
May 2008
Jonas Eliasson
May 2008
The Congestion Charges in
Stockholm
Jonas Eliasson
May 2008
Advice and peer review
Jonas Eliasson
June 2008
Congestion Charges
The Traffic Situation in
Stockholm
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson
June 2008
June 2008
Jonas Eliasson
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Conference Nordiska
vägföreningen
Conference
INFRATRAIN
Almedalen
International Symposium
on Travel Demand
Management, ViennaSemmering, Austria
Seminar at KTH for a
Chinese delegation
Discrete choice
modelling workshop,
EPFL
IAREP/SABE Word
Meeting 2008, Rom
SKL Seminar with
political working
committee
INFORMS Annual
Meeting Washington
Congestion Charges
Jonas Eliasson
June 2008
The Stockholm congestion
charges (keynote speaker)
Road network vulnerability
analysis (keynote speaker)
Financing infrastructure
Behavioral Adjustments and
Equity Effects of Congestion
Pricing
Jonas Eliasson
June 2008
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Gunnar Lindberg
Franklin/Karlström
July 2008
July 2008
Effects of congestion pricing in
Stockholm
Valuation of intrusion effects
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Jonas Eliasson
Valuation of travel time
Hypothetical bias and certainty
calibration in a value of time
experiment
Future Mandate, Planning and
Financing of Infrastructure
Maria Börjesson
Jan-Erik Swärdh
The vulnerability of road
networks under area-covering
disruptions
Jenelius/Mattsson
Train passengers’ valuation of
travel time unreliability
Analysing equity effects of
congestion charges
Travel Time Reliability for
Stockholm Roadways: Modeling
the Mean Lateness Factor
Hypothetical bias and certainty
calibration in a value of time
experiment
Congestion charges – Real life
experiences
Future Mandate, Planning and
Financing of Infrastructure
CBA Methodology
Eliasson/Börjesson
Privacy in Road User Charging
Carl Hamilton
Seven principles for regulating
autonomous road user charging
Future Mandate, Planning and
Financing of Infrastructure
Forecasts and CBAs in the
National Investment Planning
Shift from air to rail
Carl Hamilton
Swedish Freight Study
Common Value, Multi-Unit
Auctions with Private Signals Comparing Laboratory
Experiments With Theory
Vierth/Mellin
Ahlberg, J
Common Value, Multi-Unit
Auctions with Private Signals Comparing Laboratory
Experiments With Theory
Ahlberg, J
Gunnar Lindberg
ETC Holland
Nordic seminar on Road
traffic
SKL Gatudriftsdagar
Malmö
Seminar at Ministry of
Industry
15th World Congress on
ITS
SKL Seminar Arlanda
SIKA Seminar “The
potential for modal shift”
M-BEES 2009 Maastricht Behavioral
and Experimental
Economics Symposium:
Theory and Experiments
ESA - Economic Science
Association
August 2008
August 2008
September
2008
September
2008
October 2008
October 2008
Jonas Eliasson
Franklin/Karlström
Jan-Erik Swärdh
Staffan Algers
October 2008
Gunnar Lindberg
October 2008
Jonas Eliasson
November
2008
November
2008
Gunnar Lindberg
November
2008
Mattias Lundberg
Christer Persson
ETC - European
Transport Conference
December
2008
June 2009
November
2009
October 2009
Accepting charging - a matter of
Brundell-Freij, K.,
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WRSA 48th annual
meeting
ENHR - European
Network for Housing
Research
Transport Forum 2009
Seminar with the
Management of the
Road Adm
Reference group for the
National Investment
planning
Reference group for the
National Investment
planning
Seminar with the
national Transport
authorities
KTH Management Group
4th International
trusting the effects?
The unexpected "yes!":
Explanatory factors behind the
positive attitudes to congestion
charges in Stockholm
Accident externality and vehicle
size - evidence from Swedish
collision accidents
Acceptability of Congestion
charging
The income elasticity of the
value of travel time is not one
number
Congestion charges in
Stockholm
Pricing Strategies under
Emissions Trading - an
experimental analysis
Prices and Quantities in a
Climate Policy Setting
Jonsson, L
Eliasson, J.,
Jonsson, L
Climate policy and the Transport
sector
Analysis of change in car
ownership and car use in
Sweden
CBA in the Investment Planning
– an overview
Future scenario assumptions
with a new climate policy
Results from sensitivity analysis
of CBA:s
Productivity effects of the
Öresund bridge
Spatial effects on businesses of
congestion charges
How vulnerable is the road
network against area-covering
disruptions?
Mandell, S
Jonsson, L. och
Lindberg G.
Eliasson, J
Maria Börjesson
Beser Hugosson, M
Mandell, S
February
2009
Mandell, S
June 2009
January 2009
Better use of CBA – what needs
to be done?
CBA – summary reflections
Can CBAs for rail and road be
compared?
Who are in favor of and against
congestion charges?
CBA and value of time for
cyclists
Trends in travel behavior
The use of CBA-methodology
Pyddoke R.
Lundberg, Mattias
Lundberg, Mattias
Lundberg, Mattias
Petersen, Tom
Petersen, Tom
Jenelius, Erik
Lindberg, G
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Maria Börjesson
Maria Börjesson
Lundberg, Mattias
March 2009
Forecasts and CBAs
Lundberg, Mattias
May 2009
Effects of the Investment plans
Lundberg, Mattias
September
2009
Plan for development of
methods and models
Lundberg, Mattias
October 2009
Congestion pricing effects with
labour market distortions
Marginal cost of railway
Westin, J
2009
Andersson, M
June 2009
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Transport Economics
Conference
4th Kuhmo-Nectar
Conference
21st International
Symposium on
Dynamics of Vehicles on
Roads and Tracks
Transport Forum 2010
Dinner with the county
governor of Sthlm
Seminar for the National
Transport Adm
OBIS project group
meeting
OBIS National advisory
board in Stockholm
The Traffic Dep of the
City of Sthlm
Dutch ministry of
Economic Affairs
Administrative personnel
at KTH
Ilmastotalkoot, Helsinki,
Finland
Students from Chalmers
infrastructure wear and tear for
freight and passenger trains in
Sweden
Marginal cost of railway
infrastructure wear and tear for
freight and passenger trains in
Sweden
Comparison of railway
infrastructure maintenance and
renewal costs using engineering
and econometric models
Andersson, M
July 2009
Andersson, M
August 2009
January 2010
Co-modality in pracise: Analysis
of Present and Future Trends
Labor Market Effects from
Congestion Taxes
Carbon values in Cost Benefit
Analysis
Myths and Truths about CBA
Plan for development of
methods and models
Use of loan bikes in Sthlm
What regions are most
vulnerable to road network
disruptions and why?
Space Syntax – The Architect’s
way of measuring accessibility
On the differentiation of travel
time valuations
The national investment plan
from a cost-benefit perspective
The Swedish Value of Time
Study – main results
The income elasticity of the
value of travel time is not one
number.
Properties of Internet and
Telephone Data Collection
Methods in a Stated Choice
Value of Time Study Context
Can the national travel forecast
model SAMPERS forecast
demand effects of high speed
trains?
Sampers - experiences from the
Swedish transport investment
plans
Traffic problems in the region
Mellin, A.
Lundberg, Mattias
March 2010
8 presentations of current
research projects
Results from Sthlm
Various
March 2010
Petersen, Tom
Results from Sthlm
Petersen, Tom
Spatial effects on businesses of
congestion charges
Congestion charges in
Stockholm
Congestion charges in
Stockholm
Congestion charges in
Stockholm
Congestion charges in
Stockholm and Gothenburg
Petersen, Tom
March 2009
Sept 2009
April 2010
April 2009
April 2010
June 2009
Beser Hugosson, M
March 2009
Beser Hugosson, M
March 2009
Beser Hugosson, M
September
2009
March 2010
Westin, J
Mandell, S
Lundberg, Mattias
Eliasson and
Lundberg
Petersen, Tom
Jenelius, Erik
Mattsson, LarsGöran
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Maria Börjesson
Maria Börjesson
Maria Börjesson
Maria Börjesson
Beser Hugosson, M
Beser Hugosson, M
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VTI, Stockholm
University of Minnesota
1st International
Conference on
Evacuation Modelling
and Management, Delft
Umeå university
KTH President's visit
Seminar for the Swedish
Road Administration
The European Transport
Conference
ITS World Congress
ITS World Congress
OECD Round Table
Workshop on discrete
choice modelling,
Lausanne
Transportation Research
Group, University of
Namur, Belgium
Scandinavian Research
Seminar on Mobility,
Transport Demand –
Urban Structure and its
Planning, Copenhagen
Seminar at WSP
Study visit at KTH by the
Swedish Public
Transport Association
Study Visit from the
Dutch Ministry of
Economic Affairs
Study Visit in Strong
Research Environments
for Administrative
Personnel at KTH
The 7th International
Space Syntax
Symposium
Symposium on Risk and
Vulnerability in
Infrastructures
Seminar arranged by the
National Transport Adm
Seminar arranged by
Kollektivtrafikant Sthlm
The Lissabon University
for Technology
The National Transport
Adm
The Skåne Region and
the Copenhagen Region
OECD – ITF
Seminar at Ministry of
Industry
Sampers for dummies
Road network vulnerability:
Important links and areas,
exposed users
Secondary link importance:
Links as rerouting alternatives
during road network disruptions
Beser Hugosson, M
Jenelius, Erik
March 2010
September
2009
Jenelius, Erik
September
2009
Regional variations in the
vulnerability of the Swedish road
network
Road network vulnerability
analysis
Vulnerability analysis of road
networks
The cost of Stockholm
Congestion Charges revisited
Why the EETS Directive will fail
and how it can be saved
GNSS Metering Association for
Road User Charging
The cost of Stockholm
Congestion Charges revisited
A dynamic discrete choice
approach for modelling route
choice
A sampling of alternatives
approach for route choice
models
Research and methodologies at
the Department of Transport and
Economics at KTH
Jenelius, Erik
October 2009
Jenelius, Erik
December
2009
February
2010
October 2009
Jenelius, Erik
Hamilton, Carl
Hamilton, Carl
Hamilton, Carl
Hamilton, Carl
September
2009
September
2009
January 2010
Frejinger, Karlström,
Fosgerau
August 2009
Frejinger, E
February
2009
Mattsson, LarsGöran
January 2009
Individual/distribution aspects in
back-casting
Research at the Division of
Transport and Location Analysis
and CTS
Introduction to the Department
of Transport and Economics
Mattsson, LarsGöran
Mattsson, LarsGöran
January 2009
Mattsson, LarsGöran
March 2009
Transport Research at the
Department of Transport and
Economics
Mattsson, LarsGöran
March 2009
Place, Space Syntax and
attraction-accessibility
Mattsson, LarsGöran
June 2009
Transport infrastructure
vulnerability research at KTH
Mattsson, LarsGöran
May 2010
Co-financing from a costeffectiveness perspective
Design of public transport on bypass Stockholm
The congestion charges in
Sthlm
The influence of CBAs on
investment decisions
Are transport forecasts reliable?
Eliasson, Jonas
May 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
April 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
April 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2010
Lessons from the Stockholm
congestion charges
CBA as a help for prioritizations
Eliasson, Jonas
February
2010
January 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
February
2009
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The Swedish Society for
Nature Conservation
BISEK
Congestion charges in
Gothenburg
Car traffic in transport forecasts
Eliasson, Jonas
The EU-project VIKING
Lessons from the Stockholm
congestion charges
Economic policy measures
Eliasson, Jonas
CBAs – what use can we have
of them?
Travel time variability in CBA,
current Swedish practice
The Stockholm congestion
charges
Design of Congestion charges in
Gothenburg
The need for development of
methods and models for CBA
Traffic problems and solutions in
Stockholm
Appraisal in CBA
Eliasson, Jonas
Seminar arranged by
three political parties
Hearing at the Swedish
Parliament
OECD – ITF, Vancouver
The French Embassy
The City of Gothenburg
and the Road Adm
The National Rail Adm
The City of Stockholm
Conference at Örebro
University
Seminar arranged by
three political parties
The National Rail Adm
Four counties in northern
Sweden
Global city summit, Abu
Dhabi
Seminar at WSP
Folkpartiet in the Sthlm
county
The Swedish Society for
Urban Planning
IQPS
Seminar arranged by
three political parties
Conference arranged by
TÖI in Norway
IBM
Seminar arranged by Bil
Sweden
The National Rail Adm
Discrete choice
modelling workshop,
EPFL
Seminar at the Ministry
of Industry
2nd HERGORD
Workshop on Valuation
of Safety and Travel
Time. Degerfors
Swedish road
administration
Swedish road
administration
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
December
2009
December
2009
November
2009
November
2009
November
2009
October 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
September
2009
September
2009
September
2009
August 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
May 2009
The traffic situation in the large
cities
CBA for high speed rails
CBAs in the national investment
planning
Congestion charges
Eliasson, Jonas
May 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
May 2009
May 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
April 2009
Congestion charges – a good
idea for Gothenburg?
Effects of the Stockholm
congestion charges
The challenges from
urbanization with a focus on
transports
CBAs
Important traffic issues in
Stockholm
Congestion charges –
experiences from Sthlm
IBM White paper on Transport
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2009
March 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
March 2009
Eliasson, Jonas
Comparison between appraisal
in Europe and Sweden
Prioritization of train slots from a
cost-effectiveness perspective
Valuation of travel time
Eliasson, Jonas
Maria Börjesson
February
2009
February
2009
February
2009
August 2008
Why and how does travel
behavior change over time
The Swedish Value of Time
Study – main results
Maria Börjesson
April 2009
Can the national travel forecast
model SAMPERS forecast
demand effects of high speed
trains?
Valuation of travel time
variability on public transport.
Maria
Börjesson/Muriel
Hugosson
March 2010
Maria Börjesson
March 2010
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
Eliasson, Jonas
May 2009
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Table 6d Policy advice activities
Policy advice activities
Follow-up on the effects of the congestion charges in Stockholm (2009)
Participation in a working group following the effects of the congestion charges (Jonas
Eliasson and Lars-Göran Mattsson).
National investment planning (2007-2009)
Project leader and deputy project leader for the project “Forecasts and CBA –
large/complicated investments” (Jonas Eliasson and Mattias Lundberg).
Congestion charges in Gothenburg (2009)
Participation in policy discussions (Jonas Eliasson, Maria Börjesson, Daniel Jonsson and
Muriel Hugosson).
Inquiry on High-Speed Railways (Swedish Government Official Reports Series 2009:31)
Participation in policy discussions (Jonas Eliasson and Mattias Lundberg)
A new public transport (Swedish Government Official Reports Series 2009:39)
Appendix: Responsibilities for public transport (Lina Jonsson).
The forming of the Swedish Transport Administration (Swedish Government Official Reports
Series 2009:31)
Appendix: Infrastructure policy from a cost benefit perspective (Roger Pyddoke)
A cost benefit bases for prioritizing rail traffic (2009)
Participation in a study at the National Rail Administration (Jonas Eliasson)
Transport 2030 (2009)
Participation in a scenario study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
(Jonas Eliasson)
Valuation study in Norway (2009)
Expert in reference group to the Norwegian transport authorities (Jonas Eliasson)
Governmental Commission on the potential for modal shift for person and freight transport
(2008)
Two appendices (Christer Persson, Maria Börjesson, Lina Jonsson, Inge Vierth and Anna
Melin).
Eurovignette directive (2009)
Expert and Swedish delegate to council (Gunnar Lindberg)
Australian (National) Transport Commission. (2009-2010)
Expert Gunnar Lindberg
Table 6e Referee assignments etc
Referee assignments, Expert advice etc
Researchers at CTS have had referee assignments from journals and conferences such as:
 Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
 Networks and Spatial Economics
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Nordic Journal of Architectural Research
The Annals of Regional Science
Transport Reviews
Transportation Research A
Transportation Research B
Transportation Research C
Transportation Research D
Transportation Research Board
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
Environment and Planning A
Environmental and Resource Economics
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Public Administration
Journal of Public Transport
Transportmetrica
Transport Policy
Journal of Choice Modelling
Accident Analysis and Prevention
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
IET Intelligent Transport Systems
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Transport Economics and Policy
Public Transport
Papers in Regional Science
Choice Modeling Conference
Johanna Jussila Hammes has made peer review of the report "Carbon dioxide effects from
ethanol – state-of-the-art" from the Expert group for environmental studies 2010:1.
During 2009 Lars-Göran Mattsson has been
 Expert in appointing lecturer in transport systems at the University of Linköping
 Chair in the appointing committee for new professor in groundwater chemistry at
KTH
 Member of the appointing committee for new professor in strategic environmental
analysis with emphasis on sustainable city development at KTH
 Member of the certificate committee for Charlotte Reinholdt Hageback, Luleå
Technical University.
 Member (back-up) of the certificate committee for Han-Suck Song, KTH.
During 2009 Jonas Eliasson has been
 Member of the certificate committee for dissertation of Jan-Erik Swärdh, Örebro
University (2009)
 Member of the certificate committee for dissertation of Dirk van Amelsfort, Technical
university at Delft (2009)
 Innovative Methods program committee member of the European Transport
Conference
 Reader promotion, Stephane Hess
h. International activities
Table 7 International activities
There is frequent collaboration with international researchers through individual networks.
Cooperation on an institutional level is described in chapter 3.
The Scientific Advisory Board is described in chapter 2.
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Guest researchers are described in chapter 7.
Most visits outside Sweden include giving at least one presentation and are thus described
in table 6c. Other visits or foreign visits to the Centre have not been possible to list.
i.
Financial reports
Table 8 Overall Resources available, kSEK, 2007-10-01–2010-12-31 (3 ¼ years)
Part
Vinnova
Nat Road Adm
Nat Railroad Adm
Nat Publ Trp Agency
KTH
VTI
SIKA
WSP
JIBS
Cash
contributions
22 750
6 000
2 000
835
3 000
Sum excluding external
34 585
External
17 576
Sum
In-kind
9 000
9 750
3 250
3 250
1 500
26 750
78 911
Table 9a Overall Expenditures from Cash contributions (kSEK)
Part
Jointly for the Centre
KTH-TLA
KTH-ToL
VTI
WSP
JIBS
External
Sum
Decided for Sum Spent
Spent 2007- spending + Decided
2009
2010 2007-2010
4 100
6 400
100
4 500
0
200
1 200
2 900
3 800
1 500
3 300
16 700
Decided
To be
for
decided Target level spending
2010 2007-2010 after 2010
0
3 500
0
1 400
0
500
0
7 000
13 700
1 600
9 200
900
400
7 000
10 200
1 600
7 800
0
1 000
1 600
1 500
1 600
400
1 800
700
1 100
0
200
200
12 600
29 300
5 300
34 600
4 500
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Table 9b Overall Expenditures from Internal contributions (kSEK)
Decided for Sum Spent
Spent 2007- spending + Decided
2009
2010 2007-2010
Part
Decided
To be
for
decided Target level spending
2010 2007-2010 after 2010
KTH internal
4 000
3 300
7 300
1 700
9 000
1 700
VTI internal
4 700
3 200
7 900
1 850
9 750
1 200
SIKA internal
1 300
200
1 400
1 850
3 250
0
WSP internal
3 900
400
4 200
-
3 250
0
JIBS internal
100
600
700
800
1 500
400
30 600
20 300
50 900
11 500
61 350
6 100
Sum
Table 10 Research Personnel in CTS funded projects
CTS office
External
Jonas Eliasson
Andrew Smith
Maria Börjesson
Carl Hamilton
Mattias Lundberg Chris Nash
Muriel Hugosson John Quigley
Michael
Susanne Jarl
Lundholm
Mogens
Per Kågeson
Fosgerau
Nicholas Ibanez
Tommy
Lundgren
Gerard de Jong
JIBS
Andreas
Stephan
Charlie
Karlsson
Johan
Klaesson
Martin
Andersson
KTH-TLA
KTH-ToL
SIKA
WSP
VTI
Göran
Anders Karlström Gerhard Troche Friberg
Anders Wärmark Anna Mellin
Haris
P-O
Björn Hårsman
Koutsopoulos Hesselborn Christer Anderstig Fredrik Hansen
Daniel Jonsson
Kjell Jansson
Christer Persson
Emma Frejinger
Leonid Engelson
Mahmood
Rahmani
Tatsiana
Aneichyk
Dirk van Amelsfort Gunnar Isacsson
Erik Jenelius
Ioannis Tikoudis
Joel Franklin
Jonas Westin
Kandice Kreamer
Fults
Fredrik Kopsch
Göran Tegner
Gunnar Lindberg
Jenny Källström
Henrik Andersson
Joakim Johansson Inge Vierth
Karin BrundellFreij
Jan-Eric Nilsson
Kerstin Pettersson Jan-Erik Swärdh
Lars Lundqvist
Lars-Göran
Mattsson
Lena Wieweg
Leonid Engelson
Joakim Ahlberg
Johanna Jussila
Hammes
Marcus Sundberg
Maria Börjesson
Lars Hultkrantz
Shiva Habibi
Mattias Lundberg Lena Nerhagen
Staffan Algers
Matts Andersson Lina Jonsson
Tom Petersen
Peter Almström
Nicklas Lord
Pia Sundbergh
Roger Pyddoke
Svante Berglund
Sara Arvidsson
Scherzod
Yarmukhamedov
Sofia GrahnVoorneveld
Stefan Pettersson
Svante Mandell
Urban Björketun
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Table 11 Project Expenditures, kSEK
No
Project name
1 01. Centre management 2007-2008
Sum
1190
3 The importance of income growth for the value of time
4 Auctioning - theory and experiments
5 05. Application HET Qualification
355
355
150
6 Accessibility and productivity from a micro perspective
7 Hypothetical bias in studies of the value of time
560
655
8 Cost-benefit analyses in the National Transport Investment Plan
9 CTS and Climate Policy
10 10. Stability in climate agreements
11 Attitudes to congestion charges
12 The EU's climate and transport policy
13 Risk perception
14 Validity tests of WTP-measurements
2040
480
200
350
180
114
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15 Mesoscopic traffic assignment and route choice modelling
16 The market for systems for road toll payments
17 Freight model development (prestudy)
18 Highspeedrail - miniconference
19 Challenges to the CBA approach
20 20. Mogens Fosgerau guest researcher
1290
390
200
80
250
300
21 Distribution effects of RP and intra-personal variation
22 A gender perspective in transportation research
23 23. Centre conference
400
250
100
24 Congestion pricing effects with labour market distortions
1130
25 Equity and adaptation aspects on the Stockholm charges
116
Alternative methods for estimating time values for cost benefit analysis
26 in the transport sector
27 Pay As You Speed
28 Fiscal Federalism
445
80
230
Research Exchange program - Risk research Toulouse School of
29 Economics
30 30. Chris Nash Guest researcher
31 31. CBA seminar
32 32. Experiment lab
483
120
80
50
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33 Climate policies towards the car fleet
34 Procurement of public transport – prestudy
35 Support to ERSA Jönköping 2010
36 One year follow-up
37 37. INFRATRAIN 2009
38 A database for the Öresund region
215
100
300
50
15
190
39 Finalization of various route choice modelling projects
40 Fluctuations in Travel Time Reliability
41 Route choice modelling - in practice
42 Estimation of dynamic route choice models
250
339
215
300
A neuroscientific approach to stated preference - an fMRI study of
43 hypothetical bias
44 Regulation of the market for road user charging
46 46. Andrew Smith Guest researcher
600
482
300
The value of time of car drivers choosing route: evidence from the
47 Stockholm congestion charging trial
48 Equity and Travel choice
475
705
Assessment of long term effects of economic policy instruments on the
49 transport system
1354
50 On the use of “average delay” as a measure of train reliability
1052
51 Cost-benefit analyses in the National Transport Investment Plan
52 Vulnerability analyses of road networks
1740
2100
53 Accessibility and productivity from a micro perspective - continued
54 Regional economy and transports
55 55. SURPRICE coordination support
569
820
816
56 Emission permits trading and innovation incentives
500
57 Empirical Studies of Commuting and the Value of Time
395
Revenues in Discrete Multi-Unit, Common Value Auctions: A Study of
58 Three Sealed-Bid Mechanisms
59 59. Evaluation of disturbance from noise
60 60. Pricing of rail and road noise
61 Testing the vehicle register to support modelling
399
100
100
273
62 The potential for substitution between train and air travel
361
63 Drivers of Changes in Travel Patterns- Stockholm 1986 to 2004
380
59
64 Enhanced analysis of the Swedish Value of Time Study 2007
65 Car ownership and car use
397
500
The interaction of housing, labour markets and transportation – towards
an estimable dynamic, overlapping generation, search equilibrium
66 model
1362
67 Further development of the Swedish vehicle fleet model
1350
68 RAILTRAM - improving rail freight transport modelling
69 International Civil Aviation Emissions Trading
70 Accident externality and vehicle size
71 High-speed railway and climate
72 Focus area coordination
73 Application strategic funds
74 Ferry commuting
75 Biofuels production versus forestry
77 Asymmetric information and vehicle insurance
2800
1900
193
380
450
332
28
300
1241
78 Experiences from the Stockholm congestion charges 2006-2009
79 Modelling congesting charging in Stockholm
150
601
Are the experiences from the Stockholm congestion charges
80 transferable?
600
How can the Stockholm congestion charging perform closer to optimal
81 when specific design constraints are relaxed
640
82 Revealed preferences of congestion charging acceptability
84 Commuting time changes over time
85 Centre management 2009
300
397
2989
ADDYS - Theoretical justification for additive and quasi additive travel
86 costs in road networks with uncertain travel time
87 Data for elasticity calculations at Rikstrafiken
88 Simplified model for use at Rikstrafiken
400
60
325
Interpretation of the implications of the latest VoT-study for
89 procurements at Rikstrafiken
90 Prerequisites for commercial traffic
91 Global warming policy papers – revision
92 The external health costs from Transport
50
400
375
393
93 Causal links in congestion charging's equity effects (2nd version)
94 Are economic policy measures efficient?
520
2300
60
95 Freight transport modelling
96 Congestion charges in Göteborg
97 Auctioning of CO2 permits
98 The political economy of biofuels
99 Developing new MEV models
2400
421
1053
750
600
100 Travel time variability, subject to a random bottleneck.
101 Accessibility, new firm location and productivity
477
2040
The long-term benefit of public transport - Case study the Metro of
102 Stockholm
1150
The role of assumptions for the cost-benefit ratio of transport
103 investments
104 Regulating railroads
105 Optimal timetables in CBAs
2800
530
600
106 Multi-source traffic data fusion for monitoring, evaluation, and control
2880
107 Efficient estimation of origin-destination (OD) flows
108 CO2 differentiated port dues
109 Route choice modelling with random link costs
1200
80
395
Biofuels production versus forestry in the presence of lobbies and
110 technological change
110
111 Willingness to pay for sustainable attributes - presentation at WRSA
112 Marknaden för vägavgiftssystem
46
326
113 Frequently asked questions about congestion charging
114 Next generation forecast models - An activity based approach
75
3140
115 Use of, and plans for development, of CBAs in the investment planning
452
116 Enhanced analysis of the Swedish Value of Time Study 2007
530
117 The value of time and external benefits in bicycle cost-benefit analysis
118 Drivers of changes in travel patterns - Extension
119 Centre Management 2010
120 120. Per Kågeson initial contract
121 121. ERSA-CTS-IHH Summer school
122 Dynamic car ownership model - a feasibility study
123 Procured Road and Rail Investments
Total
450
480
1471
130
750
490
300
76039
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Table 12 Related Research Grants
Project
Cost
08. CBAs in the national investment planning
840
102. The long-term benefit of public transport - Case study the Metro of Stockholm
1 050
103. The role of assumptions for the cost-benefit ratio of transport investments
2 100
104. Regulating railroads
430
105. Optimal timetables in CBAs
600
107. Estimation of OD flows
240
115. Use of, and plans for development, of CBAs in the investment planning
422
120. Per Kågeson initial contract
65
121. ERSA-CTS-IHH Summer school
150
22. A gender perspective in transportation research
250
49. Assessment of long term effects of economic policy instruments on the transport system 1 250
51. Cost-benefit analyses in the National Transport Investment Plan
396
52. Vulnerability analyses of road networks
1 800
54. Regional economy and transports
75
55. SURPRICE
750
62. The potential for substitution between train and air travel
361
69. International Civil Aviation Emissions Trading
1 200
71. High-speed railway and climate
300
72. Focus area coordination
75
78. Experiences from the Stockholm congestion charges 2006-2009
150
79. Modelling congesting charging in Stockholm
600
80. Are the experiences from the Stockholm congestion charges transferable?
600
81. How can the Stockholm congestion charging perform closer to optimal
600
82. Revealed preferences of congestion charging acceptability
30
94. Are economic policy measures efficient?
1 900
95. Freight Transport Modelling
400
96. Congestion charges in Göteborg
421
99. Developing new MEV models
275
Implicit valuation of urban environment
150
Regional co-funding with road pricing
155
Sum projects
17 635
XX. SURPRICE (awaits formal contract)
5 500
XX. TRENOP (rough estimate of share to TLA/ToL/CTS office/VTI 2010-2012)
18 500
Sum total (rounded)
41 500
j. Websites
Below, some addresses at websites that are relevant for CTS are listed (some in English and some in
Swedish – since information in English is often very limited).
CTS: http://www.kth.se/abe/centra/cts?l=en_UK
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KTH (TLA): http://www.kth.se/abe/inst/tec/avd/tla/transport-och-lokaliseringanalys-tla1.17211?l=en_UK
KTH (ToL): http://www.kth.se/abe/inst/tec/avd/tol/om-trafik-logistik-1.17714?l=en_UK
VTI (Transport Economy): http://vti.se/templates/Page____3166.aspx
WSP (Analysis and Strategy): http://www.wspgroup.se/en/WSP-Sweden/About-WSPSweden/Business-areas-Sweden/WSP-Analysis--strategy/
JIBS: http://www.ihh.hj.se/doc/1172
Transport Policy: http://www.trafa.se/
Swedish Transport Administration: http://www.trafikverket.se/Foretag/Planera-och-utreda/
National Public Transport Agency: http://rikstrafiken.se/Content.aspx?c=10