Curriculum vitae

Dr. Stig E.R. FRANZÉN

 

Dr. Stig E.R. FRANZÉN (1943) is Executive Director and one of the co-founders of ARISE. He is also Managing Director of FRANCON, and Acting Director of the Center for Transport and Traffic (CTT) at Chalmers and Göteborg Universities. FRANCON is also associated to CIT - Chalmers Industriteknik. He got his MScEE(CIE) at Chalmers University of Technology in 1968, a BA(FK) in Learning Psychology at Göteborg University in 1974, a LicEng(TeknL) in Control Engineering in 1986, and a PhD(TeknD) in Transportation and Logistics in 1999, both at Chalmers. 

He has held several academic positions at Chalmers between 1969 and 1986 at the Control Engineering Laboratory and the Robotics Laboratory, and is today linked to Chalmers as a senior researcher and a supervisor of students at the Departments of Transportation and Logistics and Human Factors engineering. He has been an expert and senior consultant (human-machine systems) for the Saab-SCANIA Group 1986-1991, started FRANCON (1991) and ARISE (1992) to work as international consultant and researcher, and is since 2001 associated with  CIT as senior advisor and project manager. 

Dr. Stig FRANZÉN has participated in European transport and traffic research programmes since 1986 (PROMETHEUS and several projects related to the EC Framework programmes; e.g. GIDS, SOCRATES, EMMIS, HOPES, SCRIPT, QUARTET PLUS, CAPTURE, HINT, MAESTRO, and CERTIFIED). He is (since the beginning in 1994) part of the GOTIC Research programme of the Gothenburg Public Transport Authority. He has on several occasions been engaged as an expert, reviewer and evaluator for Swedish Governmental Agencies as well as for the European Commission. 

Today his research is concentrated on the analysis, design and evaluation of complex human-machine systems (mainly systems for the transportation of goods and people).  Present work is, in the context of his positions at Chalmers, CTT and CIT, addressing the area of future urban transport (e.g. urban freight - distribution of goods and services in complex urban settings, and transport solutions for the quality of urban life). Dr. FRANZÉN has written more than 100 scientific contributions (in Swedish and in English) in the fields of Transportation and Logistics, Human-Machine Systems, Systems Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, and Technology Assessment.

 

Dr. Stig FRANZÉN can be contacted by e-mail.