Jonas Eliasson

Visiting Professor

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

Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J., Rubensson, I. (2020) Distributional effects of public transport subsidies. Forthcoming in Journal of Transport Geography. Available as CTS Working Paper 2018:17.

Ait-Ali, A., Eliasson, J., Warg, J. (2020) Pricing commercial train paths based on societal costs. Transportation Research A132, 452-464. (Also as VTI Working Paper 2019:2.)

Broman, E., Eliasson, J. (2019) Welfare effects of open-access competition on railway markets.Transportation Research A129, 72-91. (Earlier version available as CTS Working Paper 2018:12.)

Eliasson, J. (2019) Distributional effects of congestion charges and fuel taxes. Forthcoming in Vickerman and Börjesson (eds.): Encyclopedia of Transportation, Elsevier.

Eriksson, K., Eliasson, J. (2019) The Chicken Braess Paradox. Mathematics Magazine 92(3), 213-221.

Eliasson, J. (2019) Stockholms transportsystem - 45 punkter för en bättre Stockholmstrafik. [In Swedish.The Stockholm transport system - 45 items for improving Stockholm transportation.] Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

Eliasson, J. (2019) Modeling reliability benefits.Transport Findingsp. 7542,https://doi.org/10.32866/7542

Eliasson, J., Fosgerau, M. (2019) Cost-benefit analysis of transport improvements in the presence of spillovers, matching and an income tax.Economics of Transportation18.(Link toWorking paper version)

Warg, J., Ait-Ali, A, Eliasson, J. (2019) Assessment of Commuter Train Timetables Including Transfers. Transportation Research Procedia 37, 11-18.

Börjesson, M., Eliasson, J. (2018) Should values of time be differentiated?Transport Reviews39(3), 357-375. (Earlier version asCTS Working paper 2017:4.)

Eliasson, J., Pyddoke, R., Swärdh, J-E. (2018) Distributional effects of taxes on car use, fuel, ownership and purchases. Economics of Transportation15, 1-15. (Earlier version available asCTS WP 2016:11)