Assignments, awards etc.

Ranked among top 10 transport economics researchers in the world by IDEAS (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

The Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America 2023, for “outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic”, for the paper The Chicken Braess Paradox (with Kimmo Eriksson) 

Best Paper of the Year 2021, Communications in Transportation Research, for the paper Efficient transport pricing - why, what, when?

MRF Grand Prize 2019

"Best Paper by a Junior Researcher" at the 2018 Conference of the International Transport Economics Association awarded to my PhD student Emanuel Broman for our co-authored paper Welfare effects of open-access competition on railway markets.

Best paper of the year award 2016, Norwegian association of economists, for the paper Does benefit/cost-efficiency influence transport investment decisions? (with Maria Börjesson, James Odeck, Morten Welde).

BIVEC-GIBET Transport Chair 2014-2015 (Benelux Interuniversity Association of Transport Researchers)

The Emerald Outstanding Author Award 2013, for the paper The benefits of cycling: Viewing cyclists as travellers rather than non-motorists (with Maria Börjesson).

Best Paper Award at the tri-annual World Conference of Transport Research 2010, for the paper The value of time and external benefits in bicycle appraisal (with Maria Börjesson).

Annual Prize of the Swedish Association of Transportation Planners, 2006

Honorable mention in the Eric Pas Dissertation Award contest 2001.

Nominated for the Best Paper by a Young Professional Award at WCTR 1998.

Erdös number: 4 (=> K. Eriksson => G.E. Andrews => K. Alladi => Paul Erdös, or => P-O. Lindberg => M.R. Essén => H.G. Diamond => Paul Erdös)

Editorial board of Communications of Transportation Research (2021-) 

Vice chair of the board of the Governmental Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO), 2019-

Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (elected 2009). Chair of the Civil Engineering (Samhällsbyggnad) Division 2019-2022.

Member of the Scientific Board of the Finnish Transport Administration (2014-2016)

Board member of Transportstyrelsen (the Swedish Transport Agency) (2013-2016)

Scientific Board of the Volvo Research and Education Foundation (2013-2016).

Research fellow at the KiM Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment) (2013-2020)

Visiting professor at China Academy of Transport Sciences (2013-2016)

Principal Investigator of the Strategic Research Area in Transportation (TRENoP) at KTH-VTI-Linköping University (2012-2016).

Editorial board of Research in Transportation Economics (2012-)

Scientific Committee of the Swedish Transport Research Conference (2012-2016)

Steering committe of the European Association of Research in Transportation (hEART) (2012-2018), chairman 2015-2018