🎄 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We at Mobilitetslab Stor-Trondheim would like to thank all partners, participants, and stakeholders for your engagement, valuable input, and collaboration throughout the year.
We look forward to continuing the development of sustainable and innovative mobility solutions in the region in the year ahead.
News of the week
Special issue on MoST in MOMOin
Introduction: Modern Mobility and Infrastructure (MOMOin) has published a special issue dedicated to MobilityLab Stor-Trondheim (MoST), with practical popular science articles from both research environments and partners. The issue is Vol. 3, no. 2 (2025) and was published on November 12, 2025.
MOMOin is a popular science, digital journal in the field of transportation, published by NTNU at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. MOMOin accepts short, practical articles on current topics, projects and initiatives in Norway (typically 2–4 pages), is free to publish in, and the articles are peer-reviewed before publication. It is edited by professors Inge Hoff and Trude Tørset (NTNU). Jardar Lohne (NTNU) is the guest editor for the MoST special issue, and he has written the editorial for the issue together with Hoff and Tørset.
The special issue shows the breadth of MoST through contributions ranging from walking and street design to digital twins, data-driven analysis and planning: Irene Hofmann (NTNU) is the lead author on two of the contributions: one article written together with Trude Tørset on how street design and perception affect pedestrian routes, and one article in which she – together with Tørset and Jardar Lohne – shows how citizen surveys can be “unlocked” and used more actively as a knowledge base for sustainable mobility.
Shaira Tabassum, Umar Oluwaleke, Gabriel Kiss and Frank Lindseth (NTNU) write together with Bjørn-Arve Raanes (Trøndelag County Council) on a digital twin of the Sandmoen bus depot and possible traffic effects of more buses.
In addition, we find contributions from Aashish Adhikari, Einar Olsson, Agnar Johansen and Alenka Temeljotov-Salaj on student-driven reformulation of mobility challenges, Muhammad Tsaqif Wismadi on classification of city bike users, Florian Wintel, Sachin Verma and Marcus Hagberg on digital reconstruction of Trondheim, Lina Bråten and Marius Vigen on local schemes as urban development strategy, Baher Gunied on validation of travel behavior in virtual reality, Zakiya Pramestri and Dip Nag (NTNU/HVL) on user-friendly digital twins, Kristin Eggen on classification of point data, Zelalem Biramo Birhanu and Trude Tørset on transport models, Umar Oluwaleke on NTNU's commuting landscape, as well as "MOST – What is it?" by Jardar Lohne, Mahgol Afshari and Agnar Johansen (NTNU) together with Paulos Wondimu (Norwegian Public Roads Administration).
Overall, the issue illustrates what MoST is about in practice: connecting research, data and digital tools with concrete decision-making situations in public and private actors – and testing ideas in a real urban area where effects can be measured, discussed and improved. The special issue thus provides both a snapshot of ongoing work and a common direction forward: more integrated planning, better use of data and a clearer connection between user needs, modelling and technology development.
The special issue is available at https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/mmi
Working group Mobility
The transport sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gases. All forms of transport must become more sustainable, with green alternatives widely available. Through its projects, this working group will contribute to changing the way people and goods move. Key aspects include combining different forms of transport in a single journey, increasing the share of public transport and cycling, and developing the right incentives to drive the transition. Digitization will be an indispensable driving force for the modernization of the transport system, and opens up for seamless, smart and efficient solutions.
Mobilitetslab Stor-Trondheim
By 2030, the Elgeseter Innovation District will be a zero-emissions area with effective mobility solutions that look after and stimulate a number of arenas with an innovation culture of international caliber - in close cooperation with the users of the area. NTNU offers a "Living Lab", with researchers, professors, PhD students and students who contribute to the best sustainable and cost-effective mobility solutions.
Collaboration partners: The Environment Package, Trøndelag County Municipality, Trondheim Municipality, NTNU (Several faculties: IV, IE, AD, ØK).
Read more about Mobility Lab
The lab will be a national force for research and development of forward-looking, sustainable mobility solutions.
