Lena Levin

• PhD
• Research leader at Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

Människans mobilitet utvecklas ständigt och framtidens resande har genom historien inspirerat till olika utopier och visioner. Dessa drömmar har ofta handlat om att utforska nya platser, men här finns också modernitetens strävan om snabbare och längre resor. Syftet med ordboken är att initiera ett samtal om resandet i framtidens städer. Den bygger...

This paper analyses the integration of social considerations into public transport planning. It addresses the challenge of balancing social benefits against objectives such as efficiency and cost minimization. Through a literature review, this paper examines methods for assessing public transport accessibility for potentially disadvantaged groups a...

Kollektivtrafik anses ofta vara särskilt betydelsefull för personer med funktionsnedsättning, då det kan finnas en begränsad tillgång till andra färdmedel. Trots ansträngningar för att överbrygga hinder i kollektivtrafiken, kvarstår idag betydande utmaningar. Personer med funktionsnedsättning gör generellt färre resor och deltar i färre aktivite...

The transport industry is dominated by men. Globally, woman constitute only a few per cent of those working on board ships. Calculating the distribution of gender, wages, and positions provides an insufficient basis from which to address this imbalance; rather, we need to study the attitudes and norms that constitute “gender equality culture”. Thes...

Som forskare inom kollektivtrafik och funktionshinder har vi sett en utveckling där politiker och andra beslutsfattare talar alltmer om vikten av att kollektivtrafiken är tillgänglig för alla. Ändå går utvecklingen i motsatt riktning, skriver fem forskare vid K2, Nationellt kunskapscentrum för kollektivtrafik.

Denna antologi behandlar frågor om planering för socialt hållbara transporter. Dels handlar det om att se transporterna som en del i ett större sammanhang som är betydelsefullt för alla medborgares tillgänglighet till utbildning, arbete, viktiga samhällsfunktioner och gemenskap. Dels handlar det om fördelning av resurser och alla medborgares möjlig...

Citizens’ trust of authorities is of general importance, as it can affect trust in society as a whole. The Swedish Transport Agency is a state administrative authority responsible for driving license withdrawal. If withdrawals are experienced as unfair by those affected, this might lead to decreased trust in the agency and in other actors involved....

In qualitative research data can be collected through a wide range of methods: interviews, focus groups, and participant and nonparticipant observations. How data is being analyzed varies between disciplines depending on the theoretical perspective, on the study contexts, and the research question. Sometimes a combination of qualitative and quantit...

Qualitative methods in research have become increasingly popular since it can generate data which would be difficult, or sometimes impossible, using quantitative methods. In qualitative studies, the focus is very much on how somebody creates their own meaning of events, rather than applying a ready-made structure. The aim is not to generate results...

The European transport sector is marked by a strong, persistent unconscious bias, which produces gendered inequalities that permeate all aspects of the domain from design, modelling, implementation, education, employment and usage. The TInnGO project will create a framework and mechanisms for sustainable change in gender and diversity mobility thro...

Although psychological states have been widely examined as social objects in discursive psychology (DP), little is known about the interactional organisation of perception. This chapter is about joint sensorial activities in driver training. Specifically, we explore how neophyte drivers are being trained in identifying and analysing kinetic informa...

Sustainable transport is one of the key challenges of the UN and EU to ensure to meet society’s economic, social and environmental needs whilst minimising undesirable impacts. Sustainability planning may require changing the way we solve transportation problems. From the perspectives of the sustainability, we may assume that the emphasis should mov...

This paper examines public transport use through the lens of practice to understand the perspectives of two categories of public transport users: Younger and older people. In taking this approach, we assume that the forms of mobility in a society are dependent on citizens’ everyday practices and on the structures of the cities, landscapes, etc. Tra...

Working systematically on gender mainstreaming in transport infrastructure entails implementing a gender perspective in all stages of decision-making, planning and execution. In light of the sustainability goals introduced through the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this chapter presents a model of how to address gender mainstreaming...

A comparison of social impact categorisation in strategic planning across European Union Member States shows that Sweden neither categorises nor breaks down categories of social impact in areas such as transport infrastructure development. This is surprising because Sweden is known as a country concerned about social issues and having a high standa...

This article takes an interest in how students at a driving school are instructed how to make the car's behaviour intelligible ( accountable ) to other road users in traffic. Taking the indicator as an example, the analytic focus is on the ways in which the indicator's relevance is instructed and its timely activation practiced, and how activating...

This article examines ascriptions of mental states to other road users in live traffic driver training. Through this practice, instructors formulate how others make sense of the trainee driver's car. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we demonstrate how others' side formulations support trainee drivers' communicative handling of the car during...

In this article we pursue a systematic and extensive study of overtaking in traffic as an interactional event. Our focus is on the accountable organisation and accomplishment of overtaking by road users in real-world traffic situations. Data and analysis are drawn from multiple research groups studying driving from an ethnometh-odological and conve...

This paper studies parsing as a practice used in mobile instruction. The findings build on ethnomethodological conversation analysis and on observations made on video data that have been collected from three settings: skiing, driving a car and flying a plane. In the data, novice learners are instructed by more experienced instructors to accomplish...

This article deals with the organisation of correction in mobile instructional settings. Five sets of videodata (>250 h) documenting how learners were instructed to fly aeroplanes, drive cars and ride bicycles inreal life traffic were examined to reveal some common features of correction exchanges. Through detailed multimodal analysis of participan...

The report summarizes the research project, Implementation of a Method for Gender Equality Impact Assessment in Swedish Transport Planning. The aim of the project was to develop and test a model for Gender Equality Impact Assessment. The project also aimed for identifying professional transport planners needs for knowledge update in how to address...

This report summarises the research project, Implementation of a Method for Gender Equality Impact Assessment in Swedish Transport Planning that began in 2013. The aim of the project was to develop and test the model for Gender Equality Impact Assessment as proposed in the report Gender Equality in Traffic Planning. Principally the focus was on the...

For a long period of time, developments in technological and traffic safety for transport policy and planning have been dominated by an engineering perspective. However, transport policy is now increasingly facing dilemmas between the sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social constraints. The aim of this chapter is to examine...

Purpose: To investigate car use among newly retired people, to explore to what extent car transport is used for everyday mobility and how it is valued in comparison to other transport modes. Methods: The data consists of travel diaries and qualitative interviews with 24 individuals, aged between 61 and 67, living in a middle-sized Swedish city. The...

Independent mobility has been proposed to be a precondition for leading an independent, non-institutionalized life. Supporting independent mobility for the growing senior segment thus has societal importance. The question of how to maintain well-being through mobility in older age is, however, a complex one. The present study explicates this by foc...

Mobiliteten eller rörligheten för äldre människor är fortfarande ett område under utveckling. Det visar en VTI-studie gällande Norge, Danmark och Sverige där man har studerat äldre personers resande med personbil, kollektivtrafik, cykel, gång och i viss mån även övriga transportmedel som definieras av motoriserade rullstolar, skotrar, mopedbilar, e...

The aim of this report is to present the results of the research project Gender equality in railway planning. Furthermore, the report aims to contribute with a suggestion of how different transport authorities can systematically work with gender mainstreaming in infrastructure planning. The research project was conducted on behalf of the Swedish...

In the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the proportion of older people in the total population is expected to reach about 25% in 2060. The ageing of the population has a variety of social implications. One aspect of population ageing that has relatively little attention in the Scandinavian countries is the question of everyday mob...