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The effects of transportation priority congruence for political legitimacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-18)Congruence, defined as how closely the opinions of politicians match the policy preferences of voters, is a crucial aspect with respect to political legitimacy since a fundamental objective of democracy is to provide ... -
The Impact of Changed Structural Conditions on Regional Sustainable Mobility Planning in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-07)A primary impediment in achieving sustainable mobility objectives is the multi-level and cross-sectoral nature of land-use and transport planning. This paper investigates whether changes in structural conditions have ... -
The role of life events and context in type of car share uptake: Comparing users of peer-to-peer and cooperative programs in Oslo, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-25)This paper builds on a survey of existing users of two car sharing schemes in Oslo, namely Nabobil (peer-to-peer scheme P2P) and Bilkollektivet (cooperative scheme Coop), to understand how the following factors lead to ... -
The safety ladder: developing an evidence-based safety management strategy for small road transport companies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-08)Traffic accidents account for between 20% and 40% of work-related accidents in industrial countries, and research indicates that road transport companies often have little focus on organisational safety management (OSM). ... -
The turning point in the number of traffic fatalities: Two hypotheses about changes in underlying trends
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-23)The number of traffic fatalities reached a peak in many highly motorised countries around 1970. Some previous studies have suggested that the turning point in the number of traffic fatalities was inevitable and did not ... -
The vehicle purchase tax as a climate policy instrument
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-09)Since 2007, the Norwegian vehicle purchase tax includes a large CO2 emission component. At the same time, generous tax exemptions and privileges are granted to battery electric vehicles. Continued application of the purchase ... -
The three A's of social capital in crises: Challenges with the availability, accessibility and activatability of social support
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-28)Social capital has become a major factor for analysing vulnerabilities and resilience in the context of disaster studies in recent years. Usually, it is studied along its three forms of bonding, bridging, and linking social ... -
Three performativities of innovation in public transport planning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-24)The article scrutinizes planners’ stories of innovation in contemporary public transport planning in three Scandinavian contexts (Denmark, Sweden and Norway). This analysis is accomplished by adapting Judith Butler’s ... -
Tourist Segments for New Facilities in National Park Areas: Profiling Tourists in Norway Based on Psychographics and Demographics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-02)The pursuit of sustainable tourism may involve development of more facilities in the buffer zones of national parks and other pristine nature areas. Two independent samples of domestic and foreign tourists in Norway were ... -
Toward a decision support system for COVID-19 vaccine allocation inside countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-11)The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has proved to be a challenging task for public health authorities in many countries. Among several decisions involved in the task, allocating limited available vaccines to administration ... -
Traffic accidents triggered by drivers at work - A survey and analysis of contributing factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-26)This report outlines the results of a study of severe road traffic accidents in Norway, triggered by drivers at work. The aim has been to examine whether and to what extent risk factors of these triggering drivers and their ... -
Traffic forecasting at ‘strategic’, ‘tactical’ and ‘operational’ level: A differentiated methodology is necessary
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07-20)In this paper we discuss why traffic forecasting is such a difficult endeavour, and point at alternatives to the current widespread use of traffic models almost independently of the problem faced by the planners. It will ... -
Traffic Safe Municipality: a Norwegian approval scheme to facilitate development of a municipal traffic safety culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-11)This study examines the consequences of being approved as a Traffic Safe Municipality for municipal traffic safety culture, based on surveys (n = 2255) and interviews (n = 17) in 24 municipalities. Traffic Safe Municipality ... -
Traffic safety culture among bicyclists - Results from a Norwegian study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-29)This paper reports results from a study of traffic safety culture (TSC) among bicyclists (N = 231) in Oslo, Norway. The aims of the study are to examine whether respondents’ TSC in relation to bicycling is related to the ... -
Traffic safety effects of economic driving in trucking companies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-11)The present study examines the relationship between economic driving and road safety in trucking companies that have received support to work with economic driving, and a Reference sample of drivers from assumed average ... -
Traffic safety in bus transport: An analysis of Norway’s largest transit authority’s contract requirements to bus companies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-16)The main objective of the study is to evaluate direct and indirect traffic safety consequences of the requirements that Norway’s largest transit authority (Ruter) sets in the contracts with bus companies. To assess the ... -
Traffic volume and crashes and how crash and road characteristics affect their relationship – A meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08-07)The present study has investigated the relationship between traffic volume and crash numbers by means of meta-analysis, based on 521 crash prediction models from 118 studies. The weighted pooled volume coefficient for all ... -
Train Unreliability and Demand for Rail Freight Transport in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-01)We use a rich data set on long-distance freight trains in Norway to estimate the effect of variation in train unreliability over time on transport demand within a fixed-effect framework. The train services that we study ... -
Tram to Pedestrian Collisions—Priorities and Potentials
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06-22)To improve mobility in cities in line with environmental goals, in urban traffic, trams represent an increasingly important means of transport. Due to the close interaction with other road users, this makes collisions with ... -
A transition to battery electric vehicles without V2G: an outcome explained by a strong electricity regime and a weak automobility regime?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-15)Background A sustainability transition in mobility is dependent on a transition away from a fossil fuel-based automobility regime. Smart charging, in the form of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been presented as one—or even ...