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Decomposing growth in Norwegian seaport container throughput and associated air pollution
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Different Pathways for Achieving Cleaner Urban Areas: A Roadmap towards the White Paper Goal for Urban Transport
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-27)The 2011 White Paper on Transport of the European Commission spells out a series of targets for 2030 and 2050. One of the 10 targets is explicitly related to urban transport and stipulates: “Halve the use of ‘conventionally ... -
Different types of out-of-home activities and well-being amongst urban residing old persons with mobility impediments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12-17)Independent mobility has been proposed to be a precondition for leading an independent, non-institutionalized life. Supporting independent mobility for the growing senior segment thus has societal importance. The question ... -
Direct and cross price elasticities of demand for gasoline, diesel, hybrid and battery electric cars: the case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-04)Aim: The primary goals of this research is (i) to derive direct and cross demand market response functions for automobile powertrains and their energy carriers and (ii) to assess how CO2 emissions from automobiles depend ... -
Disrespectful or socially acceptable? – A nordic case study of cemeteries as recreational landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-05)Across Scandinavia, we witness an increased interest in making provisions for urban cemeteries to evolve as recreational landscapes. However, this development comes with its own set of challenges when uniting its primary ... -
Distracting or informative? Examining signage for cyclists using eye-tracking
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-30)There is great political motivation to improve conditions for cyclists to help solving the transport needs of the future. We used eye-tracking to collect data and analysed it using a novel machine learning approach. 40 ... -
Do people who buy e-bikes cycle more?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-15)Previous research shows that e-bike owners use private cars less than other transport user groups, and also report to have changed from motorised to non-motorised transport. A challenge with many studies is that they are ... -
Do upfront investments increase cooperation? A laboratory experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-27)In this paper, we experimentally investigate whether decentralized upfront investments increase cooperation in settings where there is no enforcement mechanism and cooperation is not easily sustained voluntarily. Such ... -
Do visitors gaze and reproduce what destination managers wish to commercialise? Perceived and projected image in the UNESCO World Heritage area ‘West Norwegian Fjords’
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-01)Destination image plays a key role in helping people decide where to travel and affects satisfaction, likelihood of return visits and word of mouth. While photography is not the only way of projecting and perceiving an ... -
Do we know why the number of traffic fatalities is declining? If not, can we find out?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-07)The number of traffic fatalities has declined by 80-90 % from the all-time peak number in many highly motorized countries. It would be of great interest to identify factors that explain this decline. Unfortunately, this ... -
Does a tow-bar increase the risk of neck injury in rear-end collisions?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-09)Does a tow-bar increase the risk of neck injury in the struck car in a rear-end collision? The rear part of a modern car has collision zones that are rendered nonoperational when the car is equipped with a tow-bar. Past ... -
Does active transport lead to improved mood and performance? A panel study of travel changes during the Covid-19 lockdown in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-09)Everyday commuting is seen as a burden and an unwanted necessity for people. Recent studies have challenged this notion and have found that certain aspects of commuting can be positive. In particular, research has shown ... -
Does age matter? Examining age-dependent differences in at-fault collisions after attending a refresher course for older drivers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-07)Abstract: The “Driver 65+” course is a voluntary refresher course offered to all drivers aged 65 years or older in Norway. The current study estimated differences in at-fault motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) between older ...