System transformation of Uptime for driverless vehicles

Purpose and goal:

The project´s objective is to study how the service market system can be transformed to maximize the availability of the transport system when the vehicles become driverless. Today there is little knowledge about implementing changes in complex socio-technical systems. More knowledge is needed concerning how to work with transformation to achieve desired effects and avoid unwanted effects.

Here, the transport sector is an important player, and improvements in efficiency and sustainability in freight transport are essential for both society and industry. Expected results and effects:

Expected deliveries in the project are a strategy, vision, and tactics for service market support and design proposals for intelligent decision support. STIFF will also deliver knowledge concerning how to carry out sustainable and desirable transformations of complex socio-technical systems. It is interesting knowledge from an academic perspective and for the industry because there is a change in, for example, the transport sector.

Approach and implementation:

The project is carried out within the scope of two doctoral student projects and includes the development of a demonstrator with support from researchers and engineers at Scania. The project´s collaboration between Scania, KTH, and the research center Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) enables a continued knowledge exchange between the parties and close cooperation between academia and industry.

The project´s scope is interdisciplinary, and several different competencies will be involved. In total, STIFF consists of four work packages.