What is the effect of a new infrastructure on the well-being of a local community? Is a tax
reform desirable? Does the privatization of a telecommunication provider increase social …

The measurement of the economic impacts of transportation investment is a critical input into
the policy process. While most research has focused on aggregate effects, this article …

We explore how benefit–cost efficiency and electoral support affect road investment
decisions in Sweden and Norway. In Norway, neither benefits nor costs seem to affect …

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 …

This paper investigates the perceptions of key participants in the Dutch Cost–Benefit
Analysis (CBA) practice regarding substantive problems when appraising spatial …

This paper studies the impact of expected transport accessibility improvement on house
prices. We identify the effect exploiting a quasi-natural experiment created by the approval …

Ferry service quality is important to the economic and social prosperity of remote island and
coastal communities. This paper shows how users value the quality attributes of ferry routes …

This paper evaluates the extent to which transportation projects affect settlement patterns.
We consider fixed link projects because they provide a large and swift change in …

This study compares 11 fixed link projects in Norway, linking islands to the mainland. The
fixed links substantially increase the accessibility between the islands and the mainland …

Prosjektleder for oppdraget har vært Petter Dybedal. Anne Gjerdåker har skrevet kapitlene
1, 6 og hoveddelen av kapittel 7. Øystein Engebretsen har skrevet de øvrige delene og har …