Nina Waara

PhD student
MSc Environmental Engineering, Licentiate in Engineering

+46 46 222 91 41
nina.waara@tft.lth.se

Research
My research concerns traveler information in public transport and the impact of on-line traveler information services on the mobility of elderly and disabled people. I am particularly interested in the impact of empowering measures, like good and adequate traveler information, on accessibility in the transport environment. I also work with research and planning projects concerning all users of the transport environment, projects include accessibility, safety, attitudes and behavior and the needs of children, elderly and disabled people in the transport environment. I base my work on both qualitative and quantitative methods and I am very interested in the theoretical context in this multi-disciplinary field of research.

Projects
Doctoral dissertation
Elderly and disabled travelers need of traveler information in public transport, the impact of on-line traveler information services on elderly and disabled peoples mobility.

Licentiate dissertation
Waara, N. (2001). The need of information in public transport. Elderly and disabled people’s pre-journey traveler information requirements. Bulletin 206. Department of Technology and Society. Lund Institute of Technology. Lund University. Lund.

Supervisor: Agneta Ståhl
Assistant supervisor: Ralf Risser

Assignments
Lund University
Deputy/member of the board for postgraduate studies, Faculty of Engineering
1999–2001
WSP Group
Member of the WSP Internal Transport Research Grant Group
2004-2006

Awards and scholarships
The 2005 research scholarship from the Swedish Road Administration’s 150th Jubilee Fund Foundation for studying attitudes toward public transport in sparsely populated areas.
The 2004 travel grant from the Swedish Association for Transportation Planners to study accessibility measures in the traffic environment in Japan.

Publications

Monographs
Waara, N. (2001). The need of information in public transport. Elderly and disabled people's pre-journey travel information requirements. Bulletin 206. Department of Technology and Society. Lund University, Lund. 

Proceedings, full papers
Waara, N. (2007). Attitudes toward public transport among elderly in sparsely populated areas. 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 2007, Montreal, Canada.

Waara, N. and Ståhl, A. (2004). The need of information in public transport. 10th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), 2004, Hamamatsu, Japan.

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