Erik Jenelius

Last updated: 2012-03-27

About me

I am a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Transport Science, Division of Traffic and Logistics, Stockholm. I am currently working in a number of projects, focusing on estimation and prediction of travel conditions using a combination of sensors, including GPS data from taxis in Stockholm.

I received the Ph.D. in Infrastructure from KTH in January 2011. My doctoral thesis is entitled "Large-Scale Road Network Vulnerability Analysis". The main aim of this research, supervised by Professor Lars-Göran Mattsson, is to develop the methodology for vulnerability analyses with application to real large-scale road networks. During the summer of 2009 I visited Professor David Levinson at the University of Minnesota and took part of their studies of the I-35W bridge collapse in order to evaluate the delay costs of unplanned transport network disruptions.

I received the M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at KTH in 2004. My Master's Thesis is entitled "Graph Models of Infrastructures and the Robustness of Power Grids”. Together with Dr. Åke J. Holmgren and Jonas Westin, I have continued to work on modeling antagonistic attacks on critical infrastructure, and how to optimally defend the system under attack.

From June 2005 to January 2006 I worked for the City of Stockholm with the evaluation of the Stockholm congestion pricing trials. My work concerned the measurements of traffic flows and travel times and involved organization, aggregation, statistical analysis and presentation of the data.

Research interests

My research interests include transport vulnerability and reliability, network theory and activity-based modeling.

Papers in international peer-reviewed journals and proceedings

Jenelius, E. (2012), The value of travel time variability with trip chains, flexible scheduling and correlated travel times. Transportation Research Part B 46(6), 762-780. [preprint version]

Jenelius, E. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2012), Road network vulnerability analysis of area-covering disruptions: A grid-based approach with case study. Transportation Research Part A 46(5), pp. 746-760. [preprint version]

Jenelius, E., Mattsson, L.-G. & Levinson, D. (2011), Traveler delay costs and value of time with trip chains, flexible activity scheduling and information, Transportation Research Part B 45(5), pp. 789-807. [preprint version]

Jenelius, E. (2010a), Redundancy importance: Links as rerouting alternatives during road network disruptions, Procedia Engineering 3: 1st Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management, pp. 129-137. [free access]

Jenelius, E. (2010b), User inequity implications of road network vulnerability, Journal of Transport and Land Use 2(3-4), pp. 57-73. [open access licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial License 3.0]

Jenelius, E., Westin, J. & Holmgren, Å. J. (2010), Critical infrastructure protection under imperfect attacker perception, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection 3(1), pp. 16-26. [preprint version]

Jenelius, E. (2009), Network structure and travel patterns: Explaining the geographical disparities of road network vulnerability, Journal of Transport Geography 17(3), pp. 234-244. [preprint version]

Holmgren, Å. J., Jenelius, E. & Westin, J. (2007), Evaluating strategies for defending electric power networks against antagonistic attacks, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 22(1), pp. 76-84. [preprint version]

Jenelius, E., Petersen, T. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2006a), Importance and exposure in road network vulnerability analysis, Transportation Research Part A 40(7), pp. 537-560. [preprint version]

Third most cited paper published in Transportation Research Part A 2006 or later (Scopus 3/6/2012)

Conference papers (not published elsewhere), working papers, etc.

Jenelius, E., Rahmani, M. & Koutsopoulos, H. N. (2011), Travel time estimation for urban road networks using low frequency GPS probes. Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

Gradilla, L. A. & Jenelius, E. (2010), Análisis de vulnerabilidad de redes carreteras, NOTAS núm. 124, Mayo-junio 2010, artículo 2. Publicación bimestral de divulgación externa, Instituto Mexicano del Transporte. In Spanish.

Jenelius, E. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2010), The impact of network density, travel and location patterns on regional road network vulnerability, presented at the ERSA Congress, Jönköping, Sweden, August 19-23 2010.

Jenelius, E. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2008), The vulnerability of road networks under area-covering disruptions, presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., U.S.A., October 12-15 2008.

Jenelius, E. (2007a), Incorporating dynamics and information in a consequence model for road network vulnerability analysis, presented at The Third International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR), The Hague, The Netherlands, July 19-20 2007.

Jenelius, E. (2007b), Geography and road network vulnerability: Regional equity vs. economic efficiency, presented at the 9th Nectar Conference, Porto, Portugal, May 9-12 2007.

Jenelius, E., Petersen, T. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2006), Road network vulnerability: Identifying important links and exposed regions, presented at Transport Research Arena, Göteborg, June 12-15 2006.

Jenelius, E. & Mattsson, L.-G. (2006), Developing a methodology for road network vulnerability analysis, presented at the Nectar Cluster 1 Seminar, Molde, Norway, May 12-13 2006.

Jenelius, E. & Petersen, T. (2005), Importance and exposure in road network vulnerability analysis: A case study for northern Sweden, presented at the 8th Nectar Conference, Las Palmas, Spain, June 2-4 2005.

Theses

Jenelius, E. (2010), Large-Scale Road Network Vulnerability Analysis, Doctoral Thesis, Dept. of Transport Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. [Introduction only]

Jenelius, E. (2007), Approaches to Road Network Vulnerability Analysis, Licentiate Thesis, Dept. of Transport and Economics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. [Introduction only]

Jenelius, E. (2004), Graph Models of Infrastructures and the Robustness of Power Grids, M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.