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Factors influencing whether safety management systems are living after extensive reforms: An analysis of four Norwegian county authorities

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Norwegian county authorities’ management of road safety has undergone major changes since 2020, when a structural reform was implemented. County authorities merged into fewer administrative units, and took over the responsibility for administering the ...
Tor-Olav Nævestad   +7 more
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Reducing air pollution from urban passenger transport : a framework for policy analysis [PDF]

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This paper develops a simple framework to analyze various pollution control strategies that have been used or are proposed in the urban passenger transport sector.
Heil, Mark, Pargal, Sheoli
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices

open access: yesEuropean Transport Research Review, 2017
Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) guidelines ...
Karin Fossheim, Jardar Andersen
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The limits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries [PDF]

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The authors make the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing countries. During the past three decades urban public transport policy has gone through several phases.
Estache, Antonio, Gomez-Lobo, Andres
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subsidising urban and sub-urban transport – distributional impacts

open access: yesEuropean Transport Research Review, 2019
Background and methods This paper studies distributional effects of public transport (PT) subsidies focusing on the Greater Oslo region. We identify how different PT markets enjoy different levels of subsidies.
Nils Fearnley, Jørgen Aarhaug
doaj   +1 more source

Fiscal policy instruments for reducing congestion and atmospheric emissions in the transport sector : a review [PDF]

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This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by 9 to 12 percent and significantly improve environmental ...
Dulal, Hari B., Timilsina, Govinda R.
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the impact of the River Information Services Directive on the Performance of inland navigation in the ARA Rhine Region

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2022
River Information Services (RIS) are harmonized digital services that support safety, transport and traffic management in the inland navigation. RIS refer mainly to four key technologies such as Vessel Tracking and Tracing (VTT) with onboard Inland ...
Edwin Verberght   +3 more
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