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Walk further and access more! Exploring the 15-minute city concept in Oslo, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-27)The 15-minute city theory has recently become a popular paradigm in urban development. It claims that everyone should have access to the essential services, facilities and green spaces within a 15-minute walk. This article ... -
Walking distances to public transport in smaller and larger Norwegian cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-11)This paper contributes to the scarce empirical knowledge concerning distances and durations of walking trips to public transport in smaller cities and in European cities. Results show that walking trips to local public ... -
Watch out! Travellers’ valuation of reduced avalanche risks on railways and roads
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-12-26)In various regions of the World, railway and road sections are affected by avalanches. Protective measures can reduce the risk of casualties as well as the risk of infrastructure closures. This paper explores the identification ... -
Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A cross-comparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-24)With climate change, weather has emerged as an important theme in transport research and planning. Although recent studies demonstrate profound weather effects on mobility in single case study areas, international ... -
Weight-based pay-as-you-throw pricing model: Encouraging sorting in households through waste fees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-30)Municipal solid waste is associated with different systemic challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity, and ocean plastic pollution. European countries are striving towards more circular material use and the ... -
What can empirical utility functions tell us about the value of a statistical life?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025-03-03)This paper explores how utility functions for income and health state can be applied in order to develop closed-form estimates of the value of a statistical life based on an assumption of utility maximisation. For utility ... -
What Factors Affect Cross-Modal Substitution - Evidences from the Oslo Area
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-27)The vast majority of studies on urban travel demand focus on the effect on the demand of one travel mode given a change in the characteristics of that same transport mode, for example, own-elasticities. comparatively little ... -
What would a road safety policy fully consistent with safe system principles mean for road safety?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-06)If fully implemented, the Safe System principles as formulated by the International Transport Forum would lead to a considerably safer road transport system. The aims of this paper are: (1) To define operationally what ... -
Which D’s are the important ones? The effects of built environment characteristics on driving distance in Oslo and Stavanger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-20)Based on a study in the Greater Oslo and Greater Stavanger urban areas in Norway, this paper employs quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the influences of residential location and neighborhood ... -
Which is the more important for road safety— road design or driver behavioural adaptation?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-09)Studies consistently show that sharp horizontal curves increase accident rate. One would therefore expect roads with many sharp curves to have a higher accident rate than roads with few sharp curves. This is not the case. ... -
Which Measures can Reduce Parental Driving to Sport Activities?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-14)We conducted a survey to investigate how parents evaluate the effect (on their own behaviour) of five measures to reduce driving of children to sport activities in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. We find that parents’ ... -
Who are most likely to adapt their travel behaviour to changes in weather conditions? A study of weather tolerance and travel behaviour in Norway
(Journal article, 2019-01-31)This study, based on two questionnaire surveys from two cities in Norway with different climate conditions, explores to which extent weather tolerance in terms of travel behaviour – here defined as using a non-motorized ... -
Who goes electric? The anatomy of electric car ownership in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-04)We describe the anatomy of electric car ownership in Norway, the country with the highest market share of low-emission vehicles, using matched administrative micro data covering the entire population of private car owners. ... -
Who will bell the cat? On the environmental and sustainability risks of electric vehicles: A comment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-21)In Transportation Research A 133:79–81, Francisco Bahamonde-Birke (B-B) asks “Who will bell the cat? ... [and presumably discloses] … the fact that, under current conditions and with flat energy prices, a substantial ... -
Why is it so difficult to explain the decline in traffic fatalities?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In many highly motorised countries, the number of traffic fatalities has gone down by about 80 percent since the peak number, which was reached around 1970. What explains this decline? Is it principally the result of road ... -
Will people prefer future travel with battery-powered airplanes?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-12)Various small battery-powered airplane models have been developed over the last years and are approaching the stage of being included in commercial flights. However, there are relatively few studies on potential customers’ ... -
Windmill Noise Annoyance, Visual Aesthetics, and Attitudes towards Renewable Energy Sources
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-07-23)A small focused socio-acoustic after-study of annoyance from a windmill park was undertaken after local health officials demanded a health impact study to look into neighborhood complaints. The windmill park consists of ... -
Withstanding winter vulnerabilities: A way of life in a northern seaside community
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-25)This study responds to the dearth of qualitative research on long-term adaptation to winter climate-induced access and safety problems in rural areas in Western welfare societies. Based on qualitative interviews with 19 ... -
Work place location, transport and urban competitiveness: The Oslo case
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-14)This paper examines where firms and industries locate in the Oslo region, how this relate to land-use and transport needs and, how the interplay between localisation and transport may have impact on urban competitiveness. ... -
Work-Related Accident Prevention in Norwegian Road and Maritime Transport: Examining the Influence of Different Sector Rules
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-11)About 36% of fatal road accidents in Norway involve at least one driver who is “at work”. It has been argued that the implementation of rules clearly defining the responsibility of road transport companies to prevent work ...