Fjord crossings by ferries are vital in the Norwegian trunk road system. The ferries areoperated by ferry companies, each ferry company being a monopolist on a bundle ofcrossings. The government regulates prices and service frequencies and awards subsidies tothe companies in order to make the...

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...

<title>Abstract</title> What determines decision‐makers’ preferences for road projects has been a subject of debate in the transport economics literature for decades. Because economic assessments of road projects are conducted subject to demands by decision‐makers in almost all western European countries...

<title/> This paper analyzes efficiency in the Norwegian road sector by using two competing methods. The first is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), while the second is Deterministic Frontier Analysis (DFA) with a Cobb-Douglas kernel specification. Both approaches show similarities with respect to...

In this article we evaluate the technical efficiency of Norwegian container ports relative to a frontier composed of the best performing among themselves and other comparable Nordic and UK ports. The rationale is that a technical efficiency assessment of Norwegian container ports has not been...

Previous applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and its subsequent Malmquist indices to efficiency and productivity measurements have been criticised for not providing statistical inferences regarding the significance of observed results. In this paper, DEA and a Malmquist index are...

DEA is used in this paper to investigate target achievements of the operational units of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) charged with traffic safety services. The DEA framework applied corresponds to a BCC model with a unique constant input, or equivalently, with no inputs. This...

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...