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2009/03/01

REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS

Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?

aftenposten-090228 Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infrastructure, and roads in particular. Now, aftenposten.no reports that there is some support from the Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum. In overall infrastructure quality, Norway ranks 28/134, behind many other European countries, which is not too bad, but when it comes to road quality, Norway ranks 48/134, even behind countries such as Namibia (23/134), Tunisia (39/134) and Botswana (44/134). This is not good news.

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2009/02/24

IN THE NEWS

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How to count money spent on road investments

tv2-0902241 Following up yesterday’s post on why one of the world’s richest countries has one of the world’s worst road networks, today’s newspapers offer an interesting perspective: According to numbers prepared by Norway Statistics, Norway spent less money on road investments in 2007 than in 1995, that is, if you count in % of GDP. Is that a correct way of looking at it?

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2009/02/23

IN THE NEWS

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How come one of the world's richest countries has one of the world's worst road network?

aftenposten-090220 It is a perpetual topic with the Norwegian public, particularly in election years, like this year: We want better roads. And indeed, it is puzzling that a country ranked as one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, a country whose economy is strong, a country ranked by the UN and OECD as one of the best countries to live in, has such a poor road standard, compared to many other European countries. How come?

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2008/12/11

IN THE NEWS

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Norwegian roads are slooooow...

In a previous post, a while I ago, I stated that Nowegian roads are dangerous…well, not only that, they are among the slowest in Europe, according to a newspaper article in Dagbladet. Comparing average speed on roads in 13 countries, it turns out that travelling in central Europe is several times much faster than in Norway.

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2008/11/04

IN THE NEWS

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Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare for supply chains

E6 Steinkjer Løsberga Now it has happened again. Hardly a week goes by in Norway without a major supply chain disruption. Now the main (and practically only) highway beween the Northern and Southern part of Norway has been interrupted, prompting long detours on smaller roads. Not only that, the in fact only rail line between Trondheim and Bodø has been interrupted as well, a rail line that transports much of the goods between North and South Norway and is a major freight corridor. Normally, eight large freight trains pass every day. The irony is that this happened during construction work aimed at improving said road. In fact, this is the second time this year; in June the road and rail were closed for 12 days. This time, it’s looking like a couple of WEEKS!