The performance of Norwegian subsidized urban and rural bus operators is analyzed to gain insight about factors affecting it. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to analyze efficiency differences in the sector. In addition, Mann-Whitney rank test is employed to test for efficiency and scale...

This paper reviews the existing literature on airport benchmarking. In addition to assessing the advantages and disadvantages of partial productivity measures (PPM), we also discuss parametric and non-parametric methods with reference to previous applications to the airport sector. Our...

Economic assessment of universally designed transport projects has not been studied in depth in the transport planning literature. Universal Design (UD) refers to the design of transport systems in a way that they are accessible to all users, irrespective of the users' abilities. This definition...

This paper analyses the level of efficiency at which road toll companies are operated in Norway. Two alternative methods are applied for this purpose: data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The data comprise a total of 20 toll companies that have been in...

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...

This paper evaluates the accuracy of the annual national road traffic growth-rate forecasts that are prepared by the Norwegian road authorities. The rationale for the study is the fact that national and regional traffic growth-rate forecasts are the basis for policy formation, and inaccurate...

All undertakings in the transport sector should be subject to some form of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) as part of an informed decision-making process. CBA is used in this paper to advise the Norwegian government on the impact of limiting the height of heavy vehicles to 4.0m, as suggested in...

Although governments often respond to the prevalent cost overruns of transportation projects by reforming the agencies charged with overseeing the construction of projects, the transportation research literature has not provided statistical evidence as to whether such reforms assist in reducing...

This paper investigates the statistical relationship between actual and estimated costs of road construction using data from Norwegian road construction over the years 1992-1995. Based on this data a regression model is developed. The findings reveal a discrepancy between estimated and actual...

Attitudes towards road user charges have in the last decade become a focus of interest for researchers and planners in a number of disciplines including economics, transport planning and environmental sciences. Most of the literature has been based on single and/or hypothetical schemes and has a...