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E-bikes - good for public health?
(Chapter, 2020-04-10)It is well established that physical activity (PA) is health enhancing, and that active travel can increase total PA. The e-bike demands lower levels of intensity for the same pace and distance as a conventional bicycle, ... -
Economic Analysis and Investment Priorities in Sweden’s Transport Sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-22)Beginning as a planning tool within Sweden’s national road administration some 50 years ago, benefit-cost analysis (BCA) has come to be a pillar of the national transport policy because of subsequent strategic choices made ... -
Effect of Price Reduction and Increased Service Frequency on Public Transport Travel
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-21)A random effects meta-analysis of the results from 15 projects involving price reduction and 9 projects involving increased service frequency showed that both price reduction and increased service frequency generated public ... -
Effects of a penalty point system on traffic violations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-06)We analysed data from the Norwegian driver’s licence penalty point register over a three-year period, in order to investigate whether the number of incurred penalty points in a given time period can predict the probability ... -
Effects of e-bikes on bicycle use and mode share
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-07)In Norway, as in many countries, a political goal is to increase bicycle use, and the e-bike is promising in this respect. However, concerns have been raised about mode-share effects. It has been argued that if the e-bike’s ... -
Effects of roadwork characteristics and drivers? individual differences on speed preferences in a rural work zone
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-14)Work zone safety from a psychological perspective has received little attention in scientific literature. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the influence of roadwork characteristics and drivers’ individual ... -
Effects of urban road capacity expansions – Experiences from two Norwegian cases
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-05)This article presents nuanced and context-related empirical research on the traffic-inducing effects of urban road capacity expansion two Norwegian cities. It focusses on the indirect and longterm land-use effects and on ... -
Effects on accidents of changes in the use of studded tyres in major cities in Norway: A long-term investigation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-02-12)This paper reports the findings of two studies made eleven years apart in Norway (Fridstrøm, 2000, Elvik and Kaminska, 2011) to evaluate effects on accidents of changes in the use of studded tyres in major cities in Norway. ... -
Efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants: a non-parametric approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-18)This paper treats efficiency measurement when some outputs are undesirable and producers control pollutants by end-of-pipe or change-in-process abatement. A data envelopment analysis framework that compares producers with ... -
El-varebil - økonomi, miljø eller symbolikk?
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Embodied Energy, Costs and Traffic in Different Settlement Patterns – Travel behaviour, housing and location preferences
(SINTEF Fag;, Research report, 2018-12-17)The objective of this report is to provide a state-of-the-art review on relevant existing studies that could be used as a background for tool development and guidelines in the EE settlement project. The report investigates ... -
Empirical speed models for cycling in the Oslo road network
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-23)Knowing the speed at which a cyclist travels is important in route and mode choice modelling. Empirical evidence suggests that it varies significantly in accordance with—among other things—infrastructure and topology. ... -
Environmental and transport effects of warehouse relocationing: evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-17)Reducing traffic volumes and CO2-emissions from freight transport has proven difficult in many countries. Although the increasing suburbanization of warehouses is seen as a relevant land use trend, comprehensive analyses ... -
Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-14)In 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order toreduce the carbon intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact ... -
Environmental efficiency measurement and the materials balance condition reconsidered
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-11)This note takes up a shortcoming of Coelli et al.’s (2007) popular environmental efficiency measure and its extension to economic-environmental trade-off analysis (see Van Meensel et al. (2010)), namely that they do not ... -
Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-23)The environmental economics literature has for a long time been occupied with the relationships between environmental regulations, technical efficiency, and productivity growth. This paper extends this discussion by taking ... -
Estimating Real-World Emissions of PHEVs in Norway by Combining Laboratory Measurement with User Surveys
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-10)The paper presents the results of experimental testing of the exhaust emission and energy consumption of two gasoline plug-in hybrid vehicles in an emission testing laboratory with different drive cycles and drive modes ... -
Evaluation of traffic control measures in Oslo region and its effect on current air quality policies in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Urban air pollution is a challenge in several European cities. For most Norwegian cities, the major challenge is the reduction of the NO2 annual mean concentration in order to comply with the limit value in the European ... -
Experiences from Battery-Electric Truck Users in Norway
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Experiences with capacity reductions on urban main roads – rethinking allocation of urban road capacity?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-28)This paper presents results from a study concerning effects and consequences of a temporary (one year) capacity reduction on an urban main road tunnel in Oslo, Norway. The main findings are that reduction of the road ...