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We are happy to announce – Johan Woxenius, Professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at the University of Gothenburg, is awarded the Håkan Frisinger Prize 2024! The prize includes a guest research program at Lund University. – We look forward to welcoming Johan Woxenius and jointly addressing important challenges in freight transport in the interaction between urban and rural areas, says Professor Henrik Pålsson. Read the pressrelease : https://lnkd.in/dSN6qJS6 #håkanfrisinger #håkanfrisingeraward #VREF #urbanfreight Johan Woxenius Göteborgs universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet Henrik Pålsson Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lunds universitet

We would like to convey our warmest congratulations to Dr. Gladys Moraa.M. Nyachieo. We are proud to be part of your journey!

If you can – don't miss the opportunity to mingle with ShiftSweden in Gothenburg next week!

🔈🚶♀️Join our next Research Forum on ”Walking practices and behaviours through a gender lens”. When: 11 September 1.00-3.00 PM GMT Register here: https://bit.ly/3YNUN3h This Research Forum offers presentations of three projects within VREF:s ”Walking as a Mode of Transport” program – all dealing with gender and walking – but with quite different approaches and methods. We will be hearing about the every-day lives of women domestic workers in Mumbai and Lima, the walk to work for women from low-income backgrounds in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, and how young men in secondary city locations in South Africa and the United Kingdom experience and practice journeys on foot. Moderator: Maja Karoline Rynning Presenters and discussants: Bulelani Maskiti, Nalaila Stephano and Himanshu Burte #walkingasamodeoftransport #walkingresearch #walkability #VREF #urbanmobility #mobilityandaccess #sustainabletransport #transportresearch #activemobility

⚡ 🚌 New Discussion Paper! 🚌 ⚡ How can current fossil fuel-powered minibus fleets in African cities be replaced with electric minibuses, or e-minibuses, moving from the current experimental scale to roll-out at the city or national level? This is explored in a new Discussion Paper which was developed alongside a workshop on minibus electrification in Kigali this summer. The workshop was hosted by us and GIZ, and attended by researchers, private sector practitioners and decision-makers from multiple African countries. VREF would like to thank everyone involved! Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Authors: Herrie Schalekamp Holger Dalkmann Mateo Gomez Jattin

Save the Date! We invite you to join a mini-series of three Research Forums in September – November 2024 which celebrate 5 years of research results on mobility & access in SSA through the MAC program. First out is Research Forum #1 on ”Equity in mobility & access in SSA – concepts, perspectives, approaches”, which will take place 18 September. In the program we are very happy to have: Keynote speaker Karel Martens, presenters Anne Kamau, Mark Zuidgeest, Violet Wawire and discussants Gift Dumedah, Gail Jennings and Enoch F. Sam, PhD. Moderator Winnie Mitullah and rapporteur Mary Mwangi.