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Jonas Eliasson

Visiting Professor

Director of Transport Access at the Swedish National Transport Administration, visiting professor of transport systems at Linköping University.

Presentation

Jonas Eliasson is Director of Transport Access at the Swedish National Transport Administration, visiting professor of transport systems at Linköping University, and chair of the Planning & Construction committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was Director of the Stockholm City Transportation Administration 2016-2019 and professor of transport systems analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 2007-2016.

His research interests focus on transport policy design and evaluation, including areas such as cost-benefit analysis, transport pricing, railway capacity allocation, transport demand modeling, congestion charges, decision making in the transport sector, public and political acceptability of transport policies, and valuations of travel time and reliability. He has been engaged as expert advisor to a large number of urban, regional and national governments regarding strategic transportation issues, often involving sustainable transport planning, congestion pricing, and social and economic appraisal.

Publications

2025

Sebastian Wandelt, Anming Zhang, Constantinos Antoniou, Lucy Budd, Mercedes Castro-Nuno, Yida Ding, Jonas Eliasson, Stefan Goessling, Sylvia Y. He, Stephen Ison, Changmin Jiang, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Kevin Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Becky P. Y. Loo, Xiaolei Ma, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Donggen Wang, Xiaoqian Sun (2025) The Hitchhiker's Guide to challenges in transport policy research: Towards ANSWERing questions regarding life, mobility, and everything Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 200, Article 104650 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jonas Eliasson (2025) Cost overruns of infrastructure projects - distributions, causes and remedies Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 198, Article 104532 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Börjesson, Jonas Eliasson (2025) Cost-Efficient Scenarios for Reaching Transportation Climate Targets
Jonas Eliasson (2025) Cost overruns in Swedish infrastructure projects
Maria Bratt Börjesson, Jonas Eliasson (2025) Reducing Traffic with "Carrots": A Review of the Evidence

2024

Jonas Eliasson, Peter Almström (2024) Trafikprognoser och verklig trafikutveckling 1975-2024
Mattias Lundberg, Jonas Eliasson (2024) Tio frågor om Trafikverkets användning av prognoser och kalkyler
Jonas Eliasson (2024) Generella fördelningseffekter av åtgärder i transportsystemet
Jonas Eliasson (2024) Cost Overruns of Infrastructure Projects - Distributions, Causes and Remedies
Xiaobo Qu, Jonas Eliasson, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Fang He, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Kai Wang (2024) Special issue: Next generation smart transportation systems: envisioning a carbon-neutral, connected, intelligent, equitable transportation FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, Vol. 11, p. 589-591 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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