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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 ... -
Estimating Safety Outcomes of Increased Organisational Safety Management in Trucking Companies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-06)The present study investigated possible consequences for the number of killed and seriously injured (KSI) in traffic if trucking companies in Norway introduced the organisational safety management (OSM) measures in the ... -
Estimating stocks and flows of electric passenger vehicle batteries in the Norwegian fleet from 2011 to 2030
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-17)Retired passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are expected to generate significant volumes of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), opening business opportunities for second life and recycling. In order to evaluate these, ... -
Estimating the replacement potential of Norwegian high-speed passenger vessels with zero-emission solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-06)High-speed passenger vessels have high greenhouse gas emissions per passenger kilometre travelled and require optimizations to provide a role in a low carbon society. This article works towards this goal as a study of the ... -
The European road safety decision support system on risks and measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-18)The European Road Safety Decision Support System (roadsafety-dss.eu) is an innovative system providing the available evidence on a broad range of road risks and possible countermeasures. This paper describes the scientific ... -
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 ... -
Examining the most accident-prone sector within commercial aviation: Why do accidents with light inland helicopters occur, and how can we improve safety?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-18)Light inland helicopter has for several years been the most accident-prone sector within commercial aviation, with a more than 10 times higher accident risk than offshore helicopters. The main aims of this article are to: ... -
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 ... -
Explaining prejudice toward the mentally ill: A test of sociopolitical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-03)People with mental disorders often face prejudices that can further deteriorate their condition. We tested whether Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and Belief in a Just World (BJW), ... -
Exploring changes in residential preference during COVID-19: Implications to contemporary urban planning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-23)The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has reshuffled our daily routines and activity spaces. The home and its immediate environment have attained a critical role in coping with the confinement ... -
Exploring factors influencing the strength of the safety-in-numbers effect
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-24)Several studies have found a so-called safety-in-numbers effect for vulnerable road users. This means that when the number of pedestrians or cyclists increases, the number of accidents involving these road users and motor ... -
Exploring how politicians reflect on counteracting measures: the case of the Trondheim package
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-22)Transitioning towards a low-emission society is a goal of numerous international and national political and administrative levels. This includes reducing impacts of road transport. While aiming for a transition towards ... -
Exploring length of stay: International tourism in south-western Norway
(Journal article, 2018-03-20)Exploring length of stay: International tourism in south-western Norway -
Exploring the relationship between the built environment, trip chain complexity, and auto mode choice, applying a large national data set
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-02)In the completion of transport-based activities, some people save time by chaining trips with different purposes. Several studies have found that trip chaining encourages car use, while others find that features of the ... -
Exploring the safety in numbers effect for vulnerable road users on a macroscopic scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-10)A “Safety in Numbers” effect for a certain group of road users is present if the number of crashes increases at a lower rate than the number of road users. The existence of this effect has been invoked to justify investments ... -
Exploring ways of measuring walkability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-28)This article describes and evaluates a three-step methodology for measuring walkability at neighbourhood-scale, aimed at also being usable for planning practitioners. The methodology was developed as part of a larger study ... -
Express coaches: An up-hill battle after liberalization?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-02)Express coach services have thrived in Norway following the stepwise liberalization that started in the mid-1990s. However, recent years have witnessed consolidation, stagnation, and, sometimes, decline in the Norwegian ... -
External communication of automated shuttles: Results, experiences, and lessons learned from three European long-term research projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-26)Automated shuttles are already seeing deployment in many places across the world and have the potential to transform public mobility to be safer and more accessible. During the current transition phase from fully manual ... -
Facilitating adoption of electric buses through policy: Learnings from a trial in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Learning from first experiences of battery-electric bus (E-bus) trials is important to facilitate uptake and develop effective public policy. Here we present initial E-bus trials in Oslo and use the case to 1) model total ...