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Sweden Transport Research and Innovation brief week 27 2026
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- Systemic Research Contraction: Trafikverket’s research and innovation budget is undergoing a severe contraction, falling from 7.4 billion to 4 billion SEK to fund a 1,171 billion SEK physical infrastructure maintenance backlog, effectively halting new academic project approvals and threatening long-term engineering competence.
- Total Defense Integration: Infrastructure planning is pivoting toward "dual-use" capabilities to support NATO's framework, highlighted by a 100 million SEK injection for the Inlandsbanan redundancy corridor and Sweden’s new chairmanship of the Ukraine Transport Support Fund.
- Digital Sovereignty & 6G: The launch of "Digital Arena Sweden," backed by a total investment ...
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