Almost two and a half million dollars is what the project

Almost two and a half million dollars is what the project "Increasing transportation efficiency through affiliated to better utilization of capacity" can recoup when Vinnova distributes the first envelope under the call transport and environmental innovations. The announcement is part of Vinnova Innovations for a sustainable society affiliated to as running from 2013 until 2016. Program aims to contribute new knowledge on transport and the environment and to contribute to the environmental quality and transport policy objectives that exist in Sweden can be met. Magnus Blinge at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers is one of the researchers leading the project.
Hi Magnus and congratulations to the financing from Vinnova! How does it feel? - Thank you, it feels great! We have had some difficulties in recent years to find funding for our graduate students in the Department of Logistics and Transport so it feels great to now have been able to secure that three of them have financing up to doctoral level.
Tell us more about this project! What are you investigating? - We research on the question how the efficiency of the transport system can increase through better use of the cargo space available in existing vehicles and spacecraft. affiliated to We hope that the new knowledge will lead to reduced environmental impact and improved economy for the stakeholders involved. Especially important and gratifying is that we have been able to bring a breadth of dedicated transport buying affiliated to companies, but also several agencies. The interaction between different actors is everything to find solutions in a system as complex as this.
How will the money be used? - In addition to graduate student funding allocation will be used to develop educational materials and customized training to the participating affiliated to organizations to ensure that the knowledge affiliated to actually comes in handy. We will organize a number of seminars to be sure to get an accurate picture of the problem. We also plan to produce a number of web-based training to help businesses themselves to disseminate knowledge and thus also give other organizations that are not directly involved in the project the opportunity to increase their knowledge.
What scientists involved in the project? - It is led by Dan Andersson, Mats Johansson and me while Vendela Santén, Sara Rogerson and Kristina Liljestrand are graduate students who will work in the project.
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