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Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-12)Car sharing could support a transition away from private vehicle ownership and use. Attempts to understand participation in car sharing have primarily focused on minor and major disruptions which catalyse change in practices. ... -
Environmental and transport effects of warehouse relocationing: evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-17)Reducing traffic volumes and CO2-emissions from freight transport has proven difficult in many countries. Although the increasing suburbanization of warehouses is seen as a relevant land use trend, comprehensive analyses ... -
Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-14)In 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order toreduce the carbon intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact ... -
Environmental efficiency measurement and the materials balance condition reconsidered
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-11)This note takes up a shortcoming of Coelli et al.’s (2007) popular environmental efficiency measure and its extension to economic-environmental trade-off analysis (see Van Meensel et al. (2010)), namely that they do not ... -
Environmental efficiency measurement with heterogeneous input quality: A nonparametric analysis of U.S. power plants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-11)While there is an abundant theoretical and empirical literature on environmental efficiency measurement, the impacts of heterogeneous input quality on environmental efficiency remain unexplored. Failing to control for this ... -
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-23)Purpose Life cycle assessment (LCA) literature evaluating environmental burdens from lithium-ion battery (LIB) production facilities lacks an understanding of how environmental burdens have changed over time due to a ... -
Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-23)The environmental economics literature has for a long time been occupied with the relationships between environmental regulations, technical efficiency, and productivity growth. This paper extends this discussion by taking ... -
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 ...