Michelle Ochsner is a PhD student affiliated with the Division of Transport and Roads at Lund University and K2. Her research is focused on the impacts of weather and climate on railways in Sweden. The hope is to highlight the importance of creating a railway system that is resilient to the current and future effects of climate change.
Eva-Lena is a PhD student in Production Economics at Linköping University and K2. Her research project focuses on the possibility of spreading out the travel demand with public transport during peak hours by using different types of policy instruments and incentives. The purpose of the project is to research the conditions for even out the travel demand throughout the day, resulting in a reduction in cost for public transport since fewer vehicles are needed during a traffic day.
My PhD research focuses on measures for increasing the share of active and sustainable urban mobility modes, with particular emphasis on regulatory aspects and the engagement of the citizens. The thesis will be carried out in close collaboration with researchers within the JPI Urban Europe project, EASIER. The goal of EASIER is to attract new users and a larger tripshare for sustainable modes at the cost of the use of private cars.
My PhD research focuses on delays at train stations and how the presence of passengers influences such delays.
I focus on how aspects such as the volume and spread of passengers influence the likelihood of delays occurring at a station in my research.
The project aims to generate practical knowledge on how these kinds of delays can be reduced in the future to help increase the punctuality of railway services.
My research focuses on planning for railway track maintenance in Sweden under a project titled "Trackwork process and data access" and is supported by Trafikverket. I am affiliated as a doctoral student with the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University and K2.
Efficiently planned trackworks would greatly benefit all planning process participants, such as contractors who perform the trackwork and the Trafikverket, infrastructure manager. In my research, I focus on data used for planning, the planning process itself, and the effects of trackworks on train delays.
The aim with my PhD project is, in cooperation with the various actors of the public transport sector, to develop a knowledge basis and assessment criterias for planning and evaluation of Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, in a Swedish context. I focus especially on critical collaboration points in order to understand how the planning could be more efficient. I hope to contribute to new knowledge around possibilities and challenges for the implementation of BRT in a Swedish context. And also develop methods and forms for cooperation of BRT planning.
My PhD project examines the preferences of travellers and what affects their travel behaviour based on different parameters as demographic, socioeconomic and geographical conditions. The study focuses on short travels with the purpose to work as a guidance to an efficient range of public transport. The PhD project will also have a socioeconomic perspective where the preferences of the travellers are translated into monetary values.
In my PhD project I study the transition to electric buses in Swedish public transport within the eplusbus project. In particular, I study aspects of the transition from a urban planning perspective, such as how to integrate the bus network into an attractive urban environment and how depots can be localized, designed and organized. The hope is to contribute to the exchange of knowledge and experiences to support a balanced and efficient shift of technology.
