Anders Gullberg

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Karl Anders Torbjörn Gullberg (born 1947) is a Swedish social scientist, urban historian, technology historian, and former adjunct professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.[1]

Gullberg was the head of Kommittén för Stockholmsforskning (Stockholm Research) and Stockholmia Publishing from 2005–14.[2] He currently works for the Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH.[3]

Gullberg has published several books and articles, notably City – drömmen om ett nytt hjärta (City – the dream of a new heart), a history and study of the redevelopment of Stockholm's Central Business District 1951–79.[4] He has also published Images of the Future City: Time and space for sustainable development (with Mattias Höjer and Ronny Pettersson), a vision of the sustainable city of the future,[5] and Congestion Taxes in City Traffic: Lessons learnt from the Stockholm Trial (with Karolina Isaksson).[6]

Gullberg has recently launched the vision of an Integrated Information and Payment Platform for solving traffic problems in urban transport.[7]

Publications in English[edit]

Stockholm CBD Renewal[edit]

Integrated Information and Payment Platform in Urban Transport[edit]

  • 2012 – Urban transport is a useless service.
  • 2012, 2015 – Integrated Information and Payment Platform.
  • 2014 – A two minutes vision: An open digital platform in urban transport.
  • 2015 – Here is the unused capacity in urban traffic.
  • 2015 – Digital platform can eliminate queues, with Anna Kramers. A version of this text was originally published in the Swedish daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter 12 April.
  • 2016 – Letter to the Editor Economist The future of personal transport, Economist January 9, 2016: The driverless, car-sharing road ahead.
  • 2016 – Urban traffic without queues. A movie with English subtitles.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "In English – Urbancity".
  2. ^ "Stockholms kommunalkalender". 1907. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Team". Centre for Sustainable Communications. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  4. ^ City : Drömmen om ett nytt hjärta. D. 1. Stockholmia. 2001. ISBN 9789170311123.
  5. ^ Images of the Future City: Time and Space for Sustainable Development. Springer. 2011. ISBN 9789400706521.
  6. ^ Congestion taxes in city traffic : Lessons learnt from the Stockholm trial. Nordic Academic Press. 2009. ISBN 9789185509232.
  7. ^ An Integrated Information and Payment Platform for urban transport (PDF). Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications. 2015.