Browsing Import fra Cristin by Title
Now showing items 226-245 of 341
-
Paint It Red - A Multimethod Study of the Nudging Effect of Coloured Cycle Lanes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-02)Many countries colour their cycle lanes, but there is still a lack of research into the impact of this policy. Rather than constraining or regulating movement, coloured asphalt conveys information, and can serve as a good ... -
Paradoxes of rationality in road safety policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-09)Rationality is an ideal for transport safety policy. As developed within normative welfare economics, rationality denotes the efficient use of safety measures based on cost–benefit analyses that include all relevant impacts ... -
Park & Ride - Exploring the demand effects of parking charges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-10)Parking charges can be introduced to control who uses park & ride (P&R) facilities. However, the effect of charges on parking demand is unclear. This paper presents results from a before- and after analysis of fifteen rail ... -
Parking facilities and the built environment: Impacts on travel behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-25)Car ownership and car use depend on numerous factors, among which are parking availability at destination and at home. While the former has attracted considerable research efforts for decades the latter, home parking, has ... -
Patterns of E-Scooter Use in Combination with Public Transport
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-23)Shared e-scooters may complement public transport by offering a solution to the first/last mile problem by easing, or increasing the radius of, access and egress trips. We have gathered real time e-scooter supply and demand ... -
Perspectives on Norway's supercharged electric vehicle policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-17)Norway has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough for battery electric vehicles. The market share reached 17.1% in 2015, and the total fleet passed 2.7%, some 70000 vehicles. The multilevel perspective framework demonstrate ... -
Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-18)Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable ... -
Policy transfer of public transport funding schemes - The case of Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-17)This paper assesses the circumstances under which the schemes and models of public transport funding in one country can be applied in another country. Acceptance and similarity are presented as key concepts when considering ... -
Port efficiency and emissions from ships at berth: application to the Norwegian port sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-03)This paper explores how port efficiency affects the time that ships spend in port and therefore their atmospheric emissions whilst berthed. While the literature on port productivity and efficiency measurement largely ignores ... -
Practices in-between: Norwegian long-term visitors in Mediterranean Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-19)During initial ethnographic fieldwork among Norwegian long-term visitors in the province of Alicante in Spain, these visitors expressed concern about the manner in which they were portrayed in the Norwegian news media, in ... -
Predicting market allocations, user benefits and wider economic impacts of large infrastructure investments for freight transportation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-23)Conventional cost-benefit analyses of infrastructure projects are often partial analyses in which only the transport market is assessed while adjacent markets are neglected. For large infrastructure investments, however, ... -
Present and future changes in winter climate indices relevant for access disruptions in Troms, northern Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-30)A number of seaside communities in Troms, northern Norway, are vulnerable to sudden weather-induced access disruptions due to high-impact weather and dependency on one or few roads. In this paper we study changes in winter ... -
Private public collaboration on logistics in Norwegian cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-23)This paper presents conclusions from a survey among urban freight actors in the four biggest cities in Norway (Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim). The survey focus on logistic operations and transport decisions affecting ... -
Problems in determining the optimal use of road safety measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-18)This paper discusses some problems in determining the optimal use of road safety measures. The first of these problems is how best to define the baseline option, i.e. what will happen if no new safety measures are introduced. ... -
Procedure Negligence in Coastal Cargo: What Can Be Done to Reduce the Gap between Formal and Informal Aspects of Safety?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-14)Previous studies from the coastal cargo sector report of a considerable gap between formal and informal aspects of safety. Several maritime accident investigations point to this gap as an important contributory cause, ... -
Productivity growth in urban freight transport: An index number approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-18)Improvement of operational efficiency is a common goal of most governmental freight transport policies. Productivity and efficiency analysis consequently provides a sound knowledge base. This paper illustrates how axiomatic ... -
Promoting cycling through urban planning and development: a qualitative assessment of bikeability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-23)To increase cycling shares through urban planning and development, planners need sound tools to assess the built environment. This article presents a methodology to qualitatively determine bikeability, the extent to which ... -
Public support of transport policy instruments, perceived transport quality and satisfaction with democracy. What is the relationship?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-20)Lack of public support is regarded as a major barrier for implementing restrictive transport policy instruments. Recent studies have therefore analyzed factors explaining variations in public support and examined strategies ... -
Public transport and people with impairments – exploring non-use of public transport through the case of Oslo, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-11)Despite the attention given to universal design in recent years, many people with impairments still refrain from travelling on public transport. This explorative case study, conducted in the greater Oslo region in Norway, ...