On the behalf of the European commission suggestions were made on how to increase the usage of public transportation in cities in Europe. A suggestion on how to make public transportation more popular was to use more emotions when marketing public transportation. However, according to theory emotional marketing is best suited for products that have a more hedonic character which public transportation does not usually have. The aim of this report was to investigate if emotional marketing could have a more positive effect on the attitude toward public transportation than less emotional marketing. Ads for the metro in Stockholm were made and it was tested to what degree they conveyed positive emotions.

Den första juli 2007 kommer en ny transporträttskonvention att träda i kraft. Konventionen förbereds av FN-organet UNCITRAL och avser behandla internationella transporter, där hela eller största delen av transporten sker till sjöss. De multimodala transporterna ? alltså de där mer än ett transportsätt används i en transportkedja ? ökar stadigt i omfattning och behovet av en harmonisering av internationella transporter är stort. Eftersom UNCITRAL:s konvention ämnar omfatta även till internationella sjötransporter anslutande landtransporter är ett av uppsatsens syften att undersöka hur omfattande denna multimodalitet är.

Denna uppsats handlar om vilka kommunala åtgärder som kan få människor att välja cykeln i större utsträckning med utgångspunkt från Uppsala stad. Metoden är kvalitativ i form av en mindre enkätundersökning med invånarna, en intervju med en trafikplanerare och en litteraturstudie av såväl vetenskapliga artiklar som kommunala och statliga dokument. Fokus ligger både på direkta och indirekta åtgärder som främjar cykling i form av infrastruktur och beteendepåverkan. Eftersom undersökningen utfördes i början av december kom en relativt stor del av uppsatsen ta upp vilka åtgärder som kan få personer att välja cykeln även på vintern. Grundläggande för att göra cykling attraktivt är ett koordinerat och mångfacetterat arbetssätt samt den aktivt förda politiken inom områden som transport, markanvändning, stadsutveckling, miljö och parkeringsnormer.

Estimation of the variation in the integrated hydraulic conductivity around the Tunåsen infiltration facility - An investigation of the effects of uncertainties in existing informationAlmost half of Sweden?s drinking water volume is produced from groundwater. The main fraction of this is extracted from eskers, some of which allow for very large extraction rates. Despite this, the groundwater volume is not sufficient in some areas. This has led to an extensive use of artificial recharge.In Uppsala, the total volume added through artificial recharge is divided between four infiltration facilities.

Användandet av skogsbränsle som bioenergi är på framfart i samhället både inom Sverige och internationellt. Trots att människan har använt trädbränsle i sin vardag sedan begynnelsen kan hanteringen rationaliseras ytterligare. För att hänga med och stå främst i utvecklingen behövs rationella metoder för bearbetning och hantering av denna förnyelsebara energikälla. Syftet med denna studie är att erhålla en uppfattning om kostnadsbilden för levererad flis till Umeå Energis kraftvärmeverk på Dåvamyran, Umeå. Flisen transporteras från skog till en tänkt terminal på Basamyran i Fredrika. Vidaretransport sker till Dåvamyran med ett avstånd på 127 km.

Today?s wind power plants are only compensated for their reactive power consumption at no-load. As the wind power plants grow bigger the amount of reactive power they need also increases. This is no longer a problem that can be ignored, especially as the net owners are beginning to charge the reactive power they transport.In this thesis a couple of different methods of compensation and their prices will be discussed and evaluated. Problems, such as self-excitation, that can occur if one fully compensates the wind power plant will also be brought to surface.

Today?s wind power plants are only compensated for their reactive power consumption at no-load. As the wind power plants grow bigger the amount of reactive power they need also increases. This is no longer a problem that can be ignored, especially as the net owners are beginning to charge the reactive power they transport.In this thesis a couple of different methods of compensation and their prices will be discussed and evaluated. Problems, such as self-excitation, that can occur if one fully compensates the wind power plant will also be brought to surface.

The reason why this essay is written can be parted in two, whereas one would be the global trend of urbanization that occurs to this moment and forward, whereas the other would be the debate of how motorism has come to be an issue of sustainable management of our cities and our environment. In purpose to deliver a thorough understanding of how the car and its capacity has come to shape the society of today, and to emphasize the problems it´s brought, a historical survey has been made, followed by the report of problems to the society formed by the needs of the car, discussed in several environmental issues, such as jamming, noise and air pollution. This is followed by the discussion of potential solutions for how city planning could return to the focus of the human scale and perspective, in purpose to correspond with the issue of ways to decrease the car use in towns. In conclusion, the given solutions are discussed, where examples like shared space, investment in public transport, mobility management and the theory of the assembled city are included, with aid from literature, to finally conclude the essay with personal thoughts of how the planning of today, or the given solutions, really are the result of sustainability for city planning from a human perspective.

Denna rapport avhandlar det examensarbete som genomförts av Rua Dawood och Noor M. Yasin, vårterminen 2013 vid Mälardalens högskola. Rapporten redogör för den design- och funktionsmässiga utvecklingen av en såg, med hänsyn till det uppdragsgivande företagets sortiment och användares önskemål.Vår uppdragsgivare är EKA-knivar AB, som är ett ledande företag inom tillverkning av knivar och sågar i Sverige. Av EKA-knivar AB fick vi uppgiften att utveckla en såg som kan passa för användning ute i skogen och hemma. Problemet med dagens såg är att den har skarpa och vassa kanter och ett icke ergonomiskt handtag som ökar belastningen på handen och handleden vid arbete.

The smelting process at Sapa Profiler AB in Sjunnen generates large quantities of waste heat which is absorbed by the cooling water when the aluminum is cooled down. This paper is the result of a Master?s Degree Project aiming to present the conditions for recycling the waste heat. The cooling water absorbs the heat from the aluminum at an average rate of 600 kW and the paper shows that it can be used to replace electrical power consumption for heating the production plant?s facilities.

Löslighet och transport av sällsynta jordartsmetaller i Källfallsfältets gruvsandsmagasinHugo de Campos PereiraSyftet med detta arbete har varit att kartlägga vilka mekanismer som styr lösligheten av sällsynta jordartsmetaller (eng. rare earth elements, REE) i sulfidhaltig anrikningssand vid den föredetta gruvan Källfallsfältet i Västmanland. För syftet har markvatten- och grundvattenprovtagning utförts, tillsammans med laktester och geokemisk modellering med Visual MINTEQ ver. 3.0.Resultaten visade att sulfidvittring är den främsta processen som styr pH i anrikningssanden, och därmed också indirekt REEs löslighet. Däremot är sulfidvittring ingen källa till REE i sig då ämnena inte föreligger sulfidbundna, något som oxiderat tillgänglighetstest NT ENVIR 006 visade.

The soybean can be used in multiple ways, and its high oil content makes it suitable for extraction. Soy bean meal, a by-product of the oil extraction, is a good source of protein with a high feeding value, and is therefore used in a number of different animal feeds. Further, soy bean meal has a low production price, which is one of the reasons for the extensive export of the product. There is a great demand for vegetable-based proteins, especially in the organic production where synthetic amino acids are banned. However, the current production of soy beans is not environmentally sound and that combined with the long transport distances amplifies the need of finding a locally produced protein source.

Today?s wind power plants are only compensated for their reactive power consumption at no-load. As the wind power plants grow bigger the amount of reactive power they need also increases. This is no longer a problem that can be ignored, especially as the net owners are beginning to charge the reactive power they transport.In this thesis a couple of different methods of compensation and their prices will be discussed and evaluated. Problems, such as self-excitation, that can occur if one fully compensates the wind power plant will also be brought to surface.

SecRePac is a household appliance that simplifies sorting of packaging such as milk, juice and yogurt containers. By shredding the packages SecRePac reduces its volume uptake both in the home and at the recycling station. This leads to minimization of both transports to the recycling stations and truck transport for emptying the containers at the recycling station.The greenhouse effect deteriorates and becomes worse and worse leading to extreme climate changes and natural disasters such as floods as an example. Carbon dioxide emissions are the major reason for this and at least 30 percent of all these emissions come directly from transports. In the EU carbon emissions has decreased in the past few years.

When the emissions from the diesel trucks today accounts for a large part of the total emissions from the road traffic, the trend with a more extensive use of diesel trucks for transportation will therefore lead to increasing carbondioxide emissions to the atmosphere. Because of the fact that technical progress in the form of optimized engines and shifts in the means of transport sometimes result in even greater emission levels, other solutions to this problem must be studied to decrease the emissions of carbondioxide from the diesel trucks. The purpose of the thesis is to show how a decrease of the carbondioxide emissions from diesel trucks in Sweden can be achieved in a costeffective way by the use of a carbondioxide tax and a differentiated vehicle tax. The method used in order to fullfill the purpose of the thesis is studies of literature, mainly of public government reports. Literature of enviromental economics will be used to show the need of a tax and how to determine the dynamic effective carbondioxide tax in steady-state.