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Papers by Anders Gullberg

Med fördelningen av bostäder till hushåll följer inte bara de variationer i boendekostnader och f... more Med fördelningen av bostäder till hushåll följer inte bara de variationer i boendekostnader och förmögenhetsbildning som blivit mycket uppmärksammade i massmedia under senare år. 1 Med fördelningen av bostäder följer också fördelningen av mycket annat av detta livets goda. Detta är huvudidén i det följande. […] I mitt […] ämnesval tog jag fasta på symposiets rubrik [Samarbete och konflikter i storstadsregioner]. Mitt val föll alltså på bostadsmarknaden eftersom jag menar att denna mycket långt kan fungera som nyckel till förståelsen av konflikter och samverkanssträvanden i Stockholmsregionen. Man kan gärna lägga märke till att konflikterna om boendet och byggandet varit särskilt intensiva just i Storstockholm [och att de skärpts avsevärt sedan detta föredrag hölls i december 1981]. Det jag kommer att presentera innehåller inga nyheter. Jag bygger nästan enbart på uppgifter som är allmänt tillgängliga och vill gärna framhålla den nytta jag haft av material och synpunkter från personer inom den kommunala förvaltningen, bostadsförmedlingen och bostadsföretagen. Inte heller kommer några av de nya, gamla eller ny-gamla försöken att förklara de 1 Konkurrens och samverkan i storstadenbostadsmarknaden som nyckel är ett föredrag hållet vid Nordiskt storstads

2 This report is a summary of ideas collected and developed by the author Anders Gullberg over ma... more 2 This report is a summary of ideas collected and developed by the author Anders Gullberg over many years of research on urban transport in general, and ICT and urban transport in particular, in the Vinnova-financed project " TRACS – Travel planners for sustainable cities, a multidisciplinary project at CESC 2010–2015 " 1 1 This is a revised and translated version of Gullberg, A. (2012) 'Så kan informationssamhällets landvinningar lösa stadstrafikens problem' (Using advances in the information society to resolve urban-transport problems) PLAN 66(5–6) pp. 64–71. It provides a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration between industry, the public sector and research. Together with its partners, CESC conducts innovative research on ICT for sustainability aiming to contribute to a change of society in a sustainable direction. Abstract Transport in growing cities suffers from congestion and huge investment costs. It also degrades the environment. For the first time...

Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University o... more Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University of Sydney

The transport sector, especially in growing cities, faces challenges relating to the climate, loc... more The transport sector, especially in growing cities, faces challenges relating to the climate, local environment, congestion, funding and equality, and uncertainties over political leadership, self-driving vehicles, citizens" reactions, and how the system is understood. Despite ambitious goals and investments, problems escalate via motoring"s self-supporting processes: more cars, more roads, longer journeys, urban sprawl, more cars .... Neither technical streamlining nor investing in public transport and attractive urban environments can trump the process. This paper examines whether we can use the methods of the fourth industrial (r)evolution to transform the urban-transport system. Starting points are: the role of transport in creating accessibility; the sector"s inherent logic and vast unused capacity, particularly in infrastructure; and the methods and business models of the rapidly expanding digital-platform monopolies. A feasible future is described, its basis a digital multimodal urban-transport platform for information and payment, founded on the sector"s base services: room on the streets, roads, rails, car parks and public transport. The technology exists but institutional problems abound. Radical public-sector service innovations are required. The paper identifies opportunities and obstacles. It concludes by evaluating the potential to realize these ambitious goals, looking at public transport"s role in a reorganized system of this kind. 1. Introduction Many remedies have been suggested to solve the growing transport problems that cities, mainly in the West, are facing (Santos et al. 2010a, b)hugely expensive economic problems and frightening inefficiency; major congestion and a lack of predictability; ecological problems resulting in climatic effects that are hard to address, damage to local environments through noise pollution, barriers, exhaust gases and particle emissions, and the use of valuable urban space; and social problems such as inequality in illness and death, and in access to necessities such as work and amenities such as shopping and recreation (Niedzielski & Boschmann 2014). The problems are so great, and ambitions so high, especially in terms of the climate, that small gradual changes are insufficient, if they cannot quickly overcome the resilience of the current transport system. Numerous proposals aim to increase capacity, build more roads, more efficient engines, or develop more eco-friendly fuel, measures that have failed to show any radical transformative power. Any improvements are consumed, wholly or partly, by increased consumption, larger vehicles and longer journeys. Life-cycle perspectives are routinely overlooked: the fact that manufacture, maintenance and eventual disposal of vehicles, fuel and infrastructure have a significant environmental impact. Major investment in public transport, cycling initiatives and courses to wean motorists off cars yield only marginal benefits, if these carrots are not used alongside sticks.

Denna rapport utgor en fallstudie med jamforelse av policy och planering for hallbara transporter... more Denna rapport utgor en fallstudie med jamforelse av policy och planering for hallbara transporter i storstadsregionerna Vancouver, Hamburg och Stockholm. Dessa tre storstadsregioner ar internatione ...

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Proceedings of the 2014 conference ICT for Sustainability, 2014

How could use of ICTs make transport systems in large cities sustainable? To what degree would th... more How could use of ICTs make transport systems in large cities sustainable? To what degree would then everyday patterns of action, in which use of ICT is becoming increasingly integrated, be an effective force in such sustainable development? In this paper we use own and other ethnographic studies of how people travel and plan their travel in large Nordic cities and explore a couple of scientific articles built around scenarios of sustainable development of ICT-supported transport in large cities. In the scenarios the role of ICT was most prominently for travel planning, collective ownership and/or access to vehicles, payment systems and traffic management for environmental purposes. Two of the scenario articles were selected for a closer analysis. In the ethnographic material sub-practices, critical for transport in everyday life, were identified. The aim was to show if and how proposed solutions in the sustainability scenarios are possible and meaningful for urban dwellers to integrate into their everyday travel practice. We found that scenarios of this kind might benefit from being supplemented with certain components. We discuss how actors that currently develop traffic management, mobility and travel planning services are somewhat blind to some significant parts of the whole spectrum of relevant social practices. We also discuss how this could provide conditions for actors and stakeholders to highlight and facilitate sub-practices with ICT use and in line with sustainable development. We tentatively discuss and propose that authorities responsible for urban transport set goals for maintaining and spreading certain practices, related to sustainability impacts. In this way the development of everyday social practice among city residents could be supported as an effective force in the development of the city's transport system, specifically including the development of ICT in relation to transportation.

Journal of Urban Technology, 2004

IN Stockholm, as in most other big or medium-sized cities in the West, the last 150–200 years hav... more IN Stockholm, as in most other big or medium-sized cities in the West, the last 150–200 years have brought about a tremendous expansion and transformation of the city region. These revolutionary changes in size, distribution, density, and structural build-up of the ...

Acta Sociologica, 1981

This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in... more This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in the Stockholm region during the period 1945-1980. The intellectual point of departure for this investigation is in polemics with traditional planning theory. As opposed ...

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1996

Background. 'Avoidable' mortality is commonly studied as an indicator of the outcome of health ca... more Background. 'Avoidable' mortality is commonly studied as an indicator of the outcome of health care. In this study socioeconomic differences in avoidable mortality in Sweden from 1986 to 1990 are analysed and related methodological issues discussed. Methods. The 1985 Swedish Population and Housing Census was linked to the National Cause of Death Register 1986-1990. Mortality from potentially 'avoidable' causes of death was analysed for the age group 21-64 years. Analyses were performed for different socioeconomic groups, blue-collar workers, white-collar workers and the self-employed as well as for individuals outside the labour market Standardized Mortality Ratios were calculated using standardization by age and sex. Results. For all indicators studied, the death rates for those not in work were higher than for people at work. The largest differences were found for chronic bronchitis, diabetes, bacterial meningitis, ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, chronic rheumatic heart disease, asthma and hypertensive and cerebrovascular disease. For these causes of death the risk of dying was between 3.1 and 7.5 times greater in the non-working population than in the workforce. The differences in avoidable mortality between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers and the self-employed were, however, much smaller. For most of the indicators no significant differences were found. For ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, however, the death rate for blue-collar workers was 2.8 times higher than for other categories In work. Conclusions. The small difference in mortality outcome for different socioeconomic groups within the workforce indicates an equal quality of care for these groups. The greatly increased risk among the non-working population, however, is a warning sign. These results may be due to a 'healthy worker" effect. The measurement of socioeconomic differences in mortality may be dependent on the time-period chosen between occupational exposure and mortality outcome.

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