Publications

Published papers

Vigren, A and Pyddoke, R (2020). The impact on bus ridership of passenger incentive contracts in public transport. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 135, 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.03.003. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript] [Working paper]

Vigren, A (2020). The Distance Factor in Bus Contracts: How far are operators willing to go? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 132, 188-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.11.010. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript] [Working paper]

Vigren, A (2018). How many want to drive the bus? Analyzing number of bids for public transport bus contracts. Transport policy, 72, 138-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.08.008. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript] [Working paper]

Vigren, A and Ljungberg, A (2018). Public transport authorities' use of cost-benefit analysis in practice. Research in transportation economics, 69, 560-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2018.06.001. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript] [Working paper]

Vigren, A (2017). Competition in Swedish passenger railway: Entry in an open access market and its effect on prices. Economics of transportation, 11-12, 49-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2017.10.005. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript] [Working paper]

Vigren, A (2016). Cost efficiency in Swedish public transport. Research in transportation economics, 59, 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2016.05.009. [Publication] [Accepted manuscript]

Book chapter

Vigren, A (2021), Incentives in Public Transport Contracts. In Vickerman, R (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Transportation (volume 1, pp 332-336), Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102671-7.10063-6. [Book chapter]

Other publications

Vigren, A (2017). Competition in public transport: Essays on competitive tendering and open-access competition in Sweden. PhD thesis in Transport science, defended December 8th 2017. Opponent: Prof. Chris Nash, University of Leeds. [PDF]

Vigren, A (2015). Costs in Swedish public transport: An analysis of cost drivers and cost efficiency in public transport contracts. Licentiate thesis in Transport science, defended October 26th 2015. Opponent: Prof. Johan Holmgren, Molde University College. [PDF]