In this paper we provide a yardstick for measuring the performance of ferries involved in theNorwegian trunk road system. We establish a best practice frontier from which individualferries are measured against. The potentials for efficiency improvements can then be derivedgiving the decision...

Users' reaction to toll user charges is crucial when it comes to policy development in the transport sector. Knowledge about how users will react and what their attitudes will be when tolls are implemented is still scant in the literature. In this paper we study elasticities of travel demand and...

Public funds for road investments have been subjected to constraints in many countries over the past three decades. Many governments have therefore resorted to financing road infrastructure using tolls. This article investigates what the future may offer with respect to toll financing in Norway....

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in seaports’ Mean Technical Efficiency (MTE) scores based on 40 studies published in refereed academic journals. We link the variation in estimated MTE scores to differences in the following factors: the frontier methodology used, which...

The Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration (NCAA) is responsible for investments and operations regarding the Norwegian airport system, and the air traffic management systems. This paper presents methods for economic appraisal in the aviation sector, proposed for use within the NCAA's...

There is widespread scepticism among politicians and authorities concerning CBA as a main instrument for decision-making. This may cause possible bias towards non-quantitative factors as decisive. The challenge is to improve the methological approach, carefully examining the real benefits for...

By applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this study examines the efficiency ofa subset of Norwegian bus companies in order to test the hypothesis that publiccompanies are less efficient than private ones. DEA consists of constructing apiecewise linear best practice frontier enveloping the...