Alexandra’s main area of research is regional development and the effects of infrastructure investments. Currently, she is enrolled as a PhD-student at the division of Real Estate Science at Lund University, affiliated to K2. Her background is from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, where she received her master’s degree in economics in 2019.”
Emma's research focuses on travel behaviour when travelling for leisure purposes. Leisure travel stands for a great proportion of the total distance travelled by car in Sweden today and thus is a major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Yet we do not know much about how to change behaviours in relation to leisure travel. Emma's research aims to create a better understanding of the characteristics of leisure travel, and what motivates people when it comes to choosing destinations, travel modes etc. for leisure trips.
I am a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University. I work with micro-level simulations of Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT), trying to understand how a DRT service can be efficiently implemented and what are the consequences of its introduction. DRT has been long considered as a social service aimed at travellers with mobility restrictions, but recently it was reenvisioned as a service for the general public (or even a combination of both).
In my PhD-project, I explore how Swedish transport and environmental politics is constructed. I am interested in questions of power and language, especially in connection to overarching ideas about sustainability, mobility and growth.
Joel Hansson is a PhD student at Lund University and K2. His PhD project aims at developing knowledge about effective and attractive regional public transport, for trips between urban areas and in rural areas.
