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Under-reporting bicycle accidents to police in the COST TU1101 international survey: Cross-country comparisons and associated factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10-26)Police crash reports are often the main source for official data in many countries. However, with the exception of fatal crashes, crashes are often underreported in a biased manner. Consequently, the countermeasures adopted ... -
Understanding the Geographies of Transport and Cultural Heritage: Comparing Two Urban Development Programs in Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-26)This paper elaborates on how policies and strategies for sustainable urban development can be understood and shows how development programs can be strategically important and flexible tools in the creation of the modern ... -
Universal Design as a Way of Thinking About Mobility
(Chapter, 2018-09-19)The concept of universal design in reference to a strategy to counter social exclusion was first coined by the architect Ronald Mace. He defined Universal design (UD) as “the design of products and environments to be usable ... -
Universell utforming i kollektivtransporten
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Updated estimates of the relationship between speed and road safety at the aggregate and individual levels
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-23)Recent studies of the relationship between the speed of traffic and road safety, stated as the number of fatalities and the number of injury accidents, are reviewed and their results synthesised by means of meta-analysis. ... -
Urban commuting – A threat to the work-family balance?
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Urban contractual agreements as an adaptive governance strategy: under what conditions do they work in multi-level cooperation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-22)The Norwegian urban growth agreement (UGA) is a governance platform combining transport-infrastructure development with land-use and transport policy. It is a policy package of measures involving network cooperation between ... -
Use of public information for road-capacity reductions: a study of mediating strategies during tunnel rehabilitations in Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-22)In this paper, two public information campaigns were analysed. These were related to capacity reductions, caused by maintenance work, in two main road tunnels—at Smestad and Bryn in Oslo. The paper analyses the campaigns’ ... -
Using elemental analyses and multivariate statistics to identify the off-site dispersion from informal e-waste processing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-29)Electronic waste (e-waste) is informally processed and recycled in Agbogbloshie in Accra (Ghana), which may be the largest such site in West Africa. This industry can lead to significant environmental contamination. In ... -
Valuation of cycling facilities with and without controlling for casualty risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-14)Barrier effects can impact cyclists’ travel time, level of comfort, and risk of accidents. When eliciting the valuation of these elements, simultaneous estimation is called for because the perceived level of comfort may ... -
Valuing casualty risk reductions from estimated baseline risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-01-05)Stated choice studies have been applied regularly to the valuation of time savings and other attributes of travelling as perceived by individuals. In such experiments, respondents often provide reference levels for the ... -
Vehicle choices and urban transport externalities. Are Norwegian policy makers getting it right?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-15)Norway has the world’s highest share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in its passenger car fleet, thanks to a set of policies that has included high purchase taxes for fossil fueled cars, and no tolls, no VAT, and free ... -
Vehicle choices and urban transport externalities. Are Norwegian policy makers getting it right?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-15)Norway has the world’s highest share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in its passenger car fleet, thanks to a set of policies that has included high purchase taxes for fossil fueled cars, and no tolls, no VAT, and free ... -
Vehicle registration year, age, and weight – Untangling the effects on crash risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-15)The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of passenger cars’ first year of registration, weight, and age on the number of killed or seriously injured (KSI) car drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists. Poisson ... -
Visitors' acceptance of negative ecological impacts in national parks: comparing the explanatory power of psychographic scales in a Norwegian mountain setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-06-11)Even in protected areas, it is inevitable that any human use will produce some impact on natural resources. This study identifies visitors’ tolerance of potential negative ecological impacts from tourism activities and ... -
Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-06)In general, the identification and protection of vulnerable groups in the case of hazards or when a crisis unfolds is an issue that any crisis and disaster risk management should address, since people have different levels ... -
Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A cross-comparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-24)With climate change, weather has emerged as an important theme in transport research and planning. Although recent studies demonstrate profound weather effects on mobility in single case study areas, international ... -
What Factors Affect Cross-Modal Substitution - Evidences from the Oslo Area
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-27)The vast majority of studies on urban travel demand focus on the effect on the demand of one travel mode given a change in the characteristics of that same transport mode, for example, own-elasticities. comparatively little ... -
Which D’s are the important ones? The effects of built environment characteristics on driving distance in Oslo and Stavanger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-20)Based on a study in the Greater Oslo and Greater Stavanger urban areas in Norway, this paper employs quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the influences of residential location and neighborhood ... -
Who are most likely to adapt their travel behaviour to changes in weather conditions? A study of weather tolerance and travel behaviour in Norway
(Journal article, 2019-01-31)This study, based on two questionnaire surveys from two cities in Norway with different climate conditions, explores to which extent weather tolerance in terms of travel behaviour – here defined as using a non-motorized ...