Architect, PhD from Lund Institute of Technology/Lund University 1978, Title "DEM OCH BIL" (Coordination of settlement and transportation planning).

Member of the World Society for Ekistics (Ekistics, the science of human settlements).

Research in car pooling schemes ("bilpooler") through the 80´s

Politically elected for the Green party in the municipalities of Lund (1982-87) and Stockholm (1994-97), MP 1988-91, party secretary 1985-99

Director General for the National Public Transport Agency (Rikstrafiken) 1999-2004

Director General for the Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA) 2004-

Abstract

Why is it that alternative transportation systems or technologies is not analysed properly in relation to their assumed positive contributions?

Vested interests, initially very high costs, lack of co-ordinating actors and hesitant feelings for new technologies are pieces in the puzzle.

SIKA has carried out a study of a General Transportation System, now known as GTS, based on the general idea of podcars.

The GTS is presented as the eclectic or cross-over technology which could ease the burden of traditional transport systems.
The presentation is underlined by showing a newly elaborated version of the animation Bubbles and Beams - a convenient future.