Helena Svensson

Senior Lecturer
Dr Tech

helena.svensson@tft.lth.se

Consultant
Vectura AB
Agneslundsvägen 14
SE-212 15 Malmö, SWEDEN

Tel: +46 40 2879 91
Mobile: +46 705 099 089
Fax: +46 40 28 79 05
E-mail : helena-m.svensson@vectura.se

Research
The research concerns elderly and disabled people and their attitude to and preferences for different standard factors in public transport. I am particularly interested in public transport systems which focus on elderly and disabled people’s needs, such as service routes and transport service. I also work with planning matters concerning an accessible, safe and secure public transport and outdoor environment for the elderly and disabled. My studies are often based on qualitative methods. 

Doctoral dissertation
Svensson, H. (2003): The public transport preferences of elderly people – a study related to individual capacity and environmental stress in service route traffic and other systems, Bulletin 215, Department of Technology and Society, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund

Assignments

Lund Institute of Technology
Member of the research committee for public planning, May 1998–Dec 2002
Treasurer on the board of the doctoral students’ section, May 1999–Feb 2003
Deputy/member of the appointments committee for public planning, June 1999–June 2001
Member of the board of Lund Institute of Technology, June 2000–June 2003

Vectura
Leader of the internal traffic safety network, 2005–
Member of the internal network for children, disabled and elderly, 2004–2005

Publications
Svensson, H. (2001): Effects for elderly people when introducing trunk bus routes in public transport, Bulletin 198, Institutionen för teknik och samhälle, Lunds tekniska högskola, Lund 

Svensson, H. & Ståhl, A. (2000): Servicelinjerna – en del av färdtjänsten i Helsingborg. En studie med utgångsåunkt från de färdtjänstberättigade, KFB-rapport 2000:5, Kommunikations-forskningsberedningen, Stockholm

Johansson, S. & Svensson, H. (1998): Vad tycker resenärerna i Jönköping om trafikomläggningen? En kvantitativ enkätundersökning, Bulletin 160, Institutionen för Trafikteknik, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lunds Universitet, Lund

Johansson, S. & Svensson, H. (1999): Har kollektivtrafikomläggningen påverkat resvanorna i Jönköping? – en resvaneundersökning genomförd 1996 och 1998, Bulletin 170, Institutionen för Trafikteknik, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lunds Universitet, Lund

Presentations
Svensson, H. (2007): Accessible, safe and secure traffic environment for older pedestrians, 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 2007, Montreal, Canada. Accepted paper. 

Svensson, H. & Wretstrand, A. (2007): Preferred and actual travel opportunities for older and disabled people, 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 2007, Montreal, Canada. Accepted paper.

Svensson, H. (2007): The public transport preferences of elderly people using different kinds of systems, 10th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 2004, Hamamatsu, Japan

Svensson, H. (2007): Elderly and disabled people’s attitudes to and travel with public transport, 8th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 1998, Perth, Australia

Assignments at Vectura

2005
Author of material for the National Road Administration’s response to the inquiry “Mobile by Car – A New Outlook on Car Sport and Transport Service”, commissioned by the National Road Administration, Borlänge.

Evaluation of parking permits for the disabled, commissioned by the National Road Administration, Borlänge. Project collaborator.

Author of material for the National Road Administration’s orientation on sector responsibility for transport service.

2004
Responsible for various assignments in the field of the traffic environment for elderly people, such as responses to the inquiry into transport service and elder policy for the future, a compilation of documents from the National Road Administration describing/regulating the traffic environment for elderly people, a survey of the state of knowledge about elderly road users. Commissioned by the National Road Administration, Borlänge.

2004–2006
Evaluation of the project “Choose for Yourself – Young People in Traffic” in Region Mälardalen. The project studies knowledge, attitudes and behaviour among young people in the majority of the upper secondary schools in the region before and after they had been subjected to a number of efforts to influence their behaviour. Responsible for the attitude study.

Research project “More Accessible, Safe and Secure in Traffic, with the Focus on the Elderly and Disabled”. The project surveys a large area in Malmö according to the handbook “Accessible City”, with questionnaire studies and interview studies among old people. Effects of implemented measures are studied. Responsible for the attitude study.

2003–2006
“Variable Speed Limits”, a national research project to study variable speed limits in about 17 sub-projects all over Sweden. Responsible for the attitude study.