• Costs and benefits of implementing an Environmental Speed Limit in a Nordic city 

      Lopez-Aparicio, Susana; Grythe, Henrik; Thorne, Rebecca Jayne; Vogt, Matthias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-03)
      We present a comprehensive study on the impacts and associated changes in costs resulting from the implementation of Environmental Speed Limits (ESLs), as a measure to reduce PM10 and associated health effects. We present ...
    • Costs related to serious road injuries: a European perspective 

      Schoeters, Annelies; Wijnen, Wim; Carnis, Laurent; Weijermars, Wendy; Elvik, Rune; Daniels, Stijn; Johannsen, Heiko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10-29)
      Introduction: Costs related to road crashes represent an important societal burden. Additionally they constitute an essential input variable to assess the cost efficiency of road safety measures. While most attention is ...
    • COVID-19 disruptions and Norwegian food and pharmaceutical supply chains: Insights into supply chain risk management, resilience, and reliability 

      Bø, Eirill; Hovi, Inger Beate; Pinchasik, Daniel Ruben (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-08)
      The purpose of this study is to investigate how the COVID-19 crisis affected delivery security and firms’ preparedness and responses in Norway. Investigations focus on supply chains which were critical for maintaining the ...
    • COVID-19 information disorder: six types of harmful information during the pandemic in Europe 

      Hansson, Sten; Orru, Kati; Torpan, Sten; Bäck, Asta; Kazemekaityte, Austeja; Meyer, Sunniva Frislid; Ludvigsen, Johanna; Savadori, Lucia; Galvagni, Alessandro; Pigrée, Ala (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-15)
      The outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 propelled the creation, transmission, and consumption of false information – unverified claims, misleading statements, false rumours, conspiracy theories, and so on – ...
    • Crash risk on entrance versus exit zones of road bridges in Norway 

      Sagberg, Fridulv; Elvik, Rune; Langeland, Per Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-09)
      Using data from the national register of police-reported crashes and from the bridge register of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, we estimated rates of single-vehicle crashes on road sections adjacent to road ...
    • A critical appraisal of individual social capital in crisis response 

      Morsut, Claudia; Kuran, Christian Henrik Alexander; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Orru, Kati; Hansson, Sten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-30)
    • Crossing borders and expanding modal shift measures: effects on mode choice and emissions from freight transport in the Nordics 

      Pinchasik, Daniel Ruben; Hovi, Inger Beate; Mjøsund, Christian S.; Grønland, Stein Erik; Fridell, Erik; Jerksjö, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-24)
      Considering the underachievement on modal shift and environmental objectives for freight transport, scholars and policy makers recurrently ask how more road freight can be shifted to rail and waterborne transport. The ...
    • Cultural Heritage Reuse for Sustainable Development – Opportunities and Challenges 

      Landa-Mata, Iratxe; Krohn, Christin; Haukeland, Jan Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-06)
      Ambitious policies are calling for capitalizing on the opportunities of using underutilized material cultural heritage for sustainable development. In this article, we argue that such strategies must be followed up by ...
    • Cumbersome but desirable—Breaking the code of everyday cycling 

      Bjørnarå, Helga Birgit; Westergren, Thomas; Fegran, Liv; te Velde, Saskia J.; Fyhri, Aslak; Deforche, Benedicte; Andersen, Lars Bo; Berntsen, Sveinung; Bere, Elling Tufte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Introduction Cycling for transport could integrate physical activity (PA) into daily routines and potentially increase total PA levels. However, for parents with young children, most factors affecting transport mode choice ...
    • Cycle-network expansion plan in Oslo: Modeling cost-effectiveness analysis and health equity impact 

      Lamu, Admassu Nadew; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Gregersen, Fredrik A.; Barra, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-05)
      Physical inactivity is the leading cause of non-communicable diseases, and further research on the cost-effectiveness of interventions that target inactivity is warranted. Socioeconomic status is vital in this process. We ...
    • Cyclists' Perception of Maintenance and Operation of Cycling Infrastructure—Results From a Norwegian Survey 

      Aasvik, Ole; Bjørnskau, Torkel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-14)
      The Norwegian authorities want to limit the extent of car use in city areas to existing levels. Such a limitation would help combat climate change, improve health of citizens, and alleviate congestion. This implies that ...
    • Cyclists’ handheld phone use and traffic rule knowledge 

      Brandt, Rebecca Karstens; Haustein, Sonja; Hagenzieker, Marjan Paula; Møller, Mette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-25)
      Phone use is likely to distract cyclists and possibly increase crash risk. Therefore, handheld phone use among cyclists is forbidden by law in some countries, even though cyclists use compensatory strategies to attempt to ...
    • Decomposing growth in Norwegian seaport container throughput and associated air pollution 

      Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold; Schøyen, Halvor; Wangsness, Paal Brevik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-19)
      While policy makers worldwide view maritime transport as a sustainable alternative to road freight transport, increased cargo volumes by sea inevitably boost activities in ports that are in the proximity of where people ...
    • Decreasing popularity of the car? Changes in driving licence and access to a car among young adults over a 25-year period in Norway 

      Hjorthol, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-09)
      The general impression that car-use has reached a peak or the orientation to have a car has stagnated in several Western countries has been associated with young people being less interested in obtaining a driving licence ...
    • The demand for automated vehicles: A synthesis of willingness-to-pay surveys 

      Elvik, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-30)
      This paper synthesises the findings of surveys of consumer willingness-to-pay for vehicle automation. Some studies report only mean or median estimates of willingness-to-pay for vehicle automation. Other studies provide ...
    • Democracy, governance, and road safety 

      Elvik, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-07)
      Countries scoring high on the Democracy Index developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit have fewer traffic fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants than countries scoring low on this index. The statistical relationship between ...
    • Deregulation of the Norwegian long distance express coach market 

      Aarhaug, Jørgen; Fearnley, Nils (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-19)
      This paper offers new insight to the effects of long distance express coach deregulation in Norway, which formally happened gradually between 1998 and 2003. We study data over a period that spans from the years prior to ...
    • Descriptive analysis of reports on autonomous vehicle collisions in California: January 2021–June 2022 

      Pokorny, Petr; Høye, Alena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-28)
      The characteristics of autonomous vehicles’ collisions from 2021 and the first half of 2022 in California confirm trends reported in previous years. Driving in autonomous mode was associated with fewer instances in which ...
    • Developing a tool for assessing park-and-ride facilities in a sustainable mobility perspective 

      Tennøy, Aud; Hanssen, Jan Usterud; Øksenholt, Kjersti Visnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-26)
      This article presents results from context-related empirical case-studies of the traffic-reducing effects of 12 existing Norwegian park-and-ride facilities (P&R), in a sustainable mobility perspective. It further presents ...
    • The development of cycling in european countries since 1990 

      Schepers, Paul; Helbich, Marco; Hagenzieker, Marjan Paula; de Geus, Bas; Dozza, Marco; Agerholm, Niels; Niska, Anna; Airaksinen, Noora; Papon, Francis; Gerike, Regine; Bjørnskau, Torkel; Aldred, Rachel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-18)
      High pre-World-War-2 modal shares of cycling in European countries sharply decreased during the post-war decades. In the 1990s, European governments introduced policies to increase bicycle use. However, a database or ...