Search for dissertations about: "Public transport"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 285 swedish dissertations containing the words Public transport.
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6. Mobility Knowledge Graph and its Application in Public Transport
Abstract : Efficient public transport planning, operations, and control rely on a deep understanding of human mobility in urban areas. The availability of extensive and diverse mobility data sources, such as smart card data and GPS data, provides opportunities to quantitatively study individual behavior and collective mobility patterns. READ MORE
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7. Exploring societal impacts of self-driving public transport using four-step transport models
Abstract : During the last decade, self-driving technology has become increasingly visible in the news, with the vision that people would enter vehicles that drive themselves, and that people could instead rest, read the newspaper, or have a meeting. However, these visions have mainly focused on the potential for car usage, even though public transport could benefit greatly from self-driving technology. READ MORE
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8. The Tragedy of Ordinarity : Culture Constraints on Sustainable Development Based on Public Transport
Abstract : This licentiate thesis consists of two free-standing papers and a linking essay that links the papers by articulating an overall research aim and common theoretical background. The research aim is kept general and focuses on the role public transport can play in sustainable development. READ MORE
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9. Public Procurement at the Local Government Level : Actor roles, discretion and constraints in the implementation of public transport goals
Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis is to gain further knowledge of how the Swedish local government level is affected by requirements to use public procurement through competitive tendering and, more specifically, understand the actions taken by included actors when public procurement is required in implementation of public transport goals. Through case study method, an in specific process tracing, various implementation processes have been examined. READ MORE
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10. Steering green buses : The opportunities and challenges of introducing renewable fuel in public transport
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to compare and analyse the introduction of renewable fuel in the public transport sector, focusing on the challenges and opportunities encountered by involved stakeholders on the regional and local levels. The results contribute to answering three research questions: 1) How do organisational factors and local and regional contextual factors influence the introduction of renewable fuel? 2) What are the challenges and opportunities of using green public procurement as a policy tool to introduce renewable fuel in the public transport sector? 3) How do the challenges and opportunities regarding the introduction of renewable fuel differ depending on the type of renewable fuel? Four papers are included in the thesis. READ MORE