The responsibility for ordinary public transport and the various special transport services are in the hands of several different authorities and organisations in Norway. Grappling with questions about how to keep the costs down, while retaining a good quality service level in rural areas, there...

Introduction / Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jørgen Wettestad -- Comparing renewable support mixes / Elin Lerum Boasson and Merethe Dotterud Leiren -- A dynamic multi-field approach / Elin Lerum Boasson -- Europeanization of renewables support / Elin Lerum Boasson -- Germany :...

The responsibility for ordinary public transport and the various special transport services are in the hands of several different authorities and organisations in Norway. Grappling with questions about how to keep the costs down, while retaining a good quality service level in rural areas, there...

The sharing economy has generated interest among economists for its customer focus and potential to enhance competition. However, it has also caused uproar in industries which have felt competitive pressure, for example among the established stakeholders in the taxi industry. While regulations...

Norway and Finland share several commonalities, being Nordic democracies with a population of 5.1 and 5.5 million and large rural areas. With decreasing population in rural areas, given aging and structural changes in society, both countries face challenges in trying to keep the costs of...

In this paper we summarize the knowledge of how toll cordons in Norway have developed thelast 20 years. We compare this with the recent development in the Swedish city Stockholm, inorder to further elaborate the knowledge of conditions for the establishing of congestioncharging regimes in urban...

Despite the deregulation of the market, the Norwegian express bus market is heavilyconcentrated to one major actor; Nor-Way Bussekspress which is owned by 40 different busoperators. We investigate this lack of competiton. Although several entry barriers can beidentified from a theoretical point...

This comparison of the effects of national approaches to encouraging local climate mitigation initiatives in four municipalities in Norway and Sweden suggests that the development of such initiatives depend not only on the comprehensiveness and ambitions of central government efforts, but more...