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Rune Elvik is affiliated with the Institute of Transport Economics in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on Engineering, with a substantial number of publications in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Subfields such as Automotive Engineering and Transportation also feature among their academic interests.

The main topics covered in Rune Elvik's work include Traffic and Road Safety, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Risk and Safety Analysis, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention.

Frequent venues for their research dissemination comprise:

  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Traffic Safety Research
  • Journal of Safety Research
  • Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Rune Elvik's published papers include:

  • Does empirical evidence support the effectiveness of the Safe System approach to road safety management? (2023), Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • The demand for automated vehicles: A synthesis of willingness-to-pay surveys (2020), Economics of Transportation
  • Risk factors as causes of accidents: Criterion of causality, logical structure of relationship to accidents and completeness of explanations (2024), Accident Analysis & Prevention

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Rune Elvik include Tor-Olav Nævestad, Jenny Blom, Lars Even Egner, Vibeke Milch, and Alena Høye.

In addition to journal articles, Rune Elvik has contributed to book publications, notably including a title published by Fagbokforlaget eBooks: "Transport i interaksjon mellom marked og offentlig regulering" (2022).

Best Publications

  • The Handbook of Road Safety Measures

    Rune Elvik;Alena Høye;Truls Vaa;Michael Sørensen

  • The non-linearity of risk and the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport

    Rune Elvik

  • Speed and road accidents : an evaluation of the power model

    Rune Elvik;Peter Christensen;Astrid Helene Amundsen

  • Incomplete Accident Reporting: Meta-Analysis of Studies Made in 13 Countries:

    Rune Elvik;Anne Mysen

  • Risk of road accident associated with the use of drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence from epidemiological studies.

    Rune Elvik

  • The effects of cannabis intoxication on motor vehicle collision revisited and revised.

    Ole Rogeberg;Rune Elvik

  • Area-wide urban traffic calming schemes: a meta-analysis of safety effects.

    Rune Elvik

  • Safety-in-numbers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence

    Rune Elvik;Torkel Bjørnskau

  • A re-parameterisation of the Power Model of the relationship between the speed of traffic and the number of accidents and accident victims.

    Rune Elvik

  • The power model of the relationship between speed and road safety: update and new analyses

    R Elvik

  • Why some road safety problems are more difficult to solve than others

    Rune Elvik

  • Effects on Accidents of Automatic Speed Enforcement in Norway

    Rune Elvik

  • EFFECTS ON ROAD SAFETY OF CONVERTING INTERSECTIONS TO ROUNDABOUTS: REVIEW OF EVIDENCE FROM NON-U.S. STUDIES

    Rune Elvik

  • Laws of accident causation.

    Rune Elvik

  • The importance of confounding in observational before-and-after studies of road safety measures.

    Rune Elvik

  • Meta-analysis of evaluations of public lighting as accident countermeasure

    Rune Elvik

  • A survey of operational definitions of hazardous road locations in some European countries.

    Rune Elvik

  • THE SAFETY VALUE OF GUARDRAILS AND CRASH CUSHIONS: A META-ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE FROM EVALUATION STUDIES

    Rune Elvik

  • How much do road accidents cost the national economy

    Rune Elvik

  • Publication bias and time-trend bias in meta-analysis of bicycle helmet efficacy: A re-analysis of Attewell, Glase and McFadden, 2001

    Rune Elvik

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Juan de Dios Ortúzar Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
George Yannis
George Yannis National Technical University of Athens
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah
Michael R. H. White
Michael R. H. White University of Manchester
Cathy Macharis
Cathy Macharis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Constantinos Antoniou
Constantinos Antoniou Technical University of Munich
Carlos A. Perez
Carlos A. Perez The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Alain Verbeke
Alain Verbeke University of Calgary

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