• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in ten countries and associated perceived risk for all transport modes 

  Barbieri, Diego Maria; Lou, Baowen; Passavanti, Marco; Hui, Cang; Hoff, Inge; Lessa, Daniela Antunes; Sikka, Gaurav; Chang, Kevin; Gupta, Akshay; Fang, Kevin; Banerjee, Arunabha; Maharaj, Brij; Lam, Louisa; Ghasemi, Navid; Naik, Bhaven; Wang, Fusong; Foroutan Mirhosseini, Seyed Ali; Naseri, Sahra; Liu, Zhuangzhuang; Qiao, Yaning; Tucker, Andrew; Wijayaratna, Kasun; Peprah, Prince; Adomako, Solomon; Yu, Lei; Goswami, Shubham; Chen, Hao; Shu, Benan; Hessami, Amir; Abbas, Montasir; Agarwal, Nithin; Rashidi, Taha Hossein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The restrictive measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered sudden massive changes to travel behaviors of people all around the world. This study examines the individual mobility patterns for ...

• Modeling occupant behavior in buildings 

  Carlucci, Salvatore; De Simone, Marilena; Firth, Steven K.; Kjærgaard, Mikkel B.; Markovic, Romana; Rahaman, Mohammed Saidur; Annaqeeb, Masab Khalid; Biandrate, Silvia; Das, Anooshmita; Dziedzic, Jakub Wladyslaw; Fajilla, GIanmarco; Favero, Matteo; Ferrando, Martina; Hahn, Jakob; Han, Mengjie; Peng, Yuzhen; Salim, Flora; Schluter, Arno; Van Treeck, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power, and technical solutions. This study reviews ...

• Understanding structure/function relationships in nitrifying microbial communities after cross-transfer between freshwater and seawater 

  Gonzalez Silva, Blanca Magdalena; Jonassen, Kjell Rune; Bakke, Ingrid; Østgaard, Kjetill; Vadstein, Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  In this study, nitrification before and after abrupt cross-transfer in salinity was investigated in two moving bed biofilm reactors inoculated with nitrifying cultures that had adaptation to freshwater (FR) and seawater ...

• GDPR Compliance for Blockchain Applications in Healthcare 

  Hasselgren, Anton; Wan, Paul Kengfai; Horn, Margareth; Kralevska, Katina; Gligoroski, Danilo; Faxvaag, Arild (Chapter, 2020)

  The transparent and decentralized characteristics associated with blockchain can be both appealing and problematic when applied to a healthcare use-case. As health data is highly sensitive, it is therefore, highly regulated ...

• Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Lou, Baowen; Barbieri, Diego Maria; Passavanti, Marco; Hui, Cang; Gupta, Akshay; Hoff, Inge; Lessa, Daniela Antunes; Sikka, Gaurav; Chang, Kevin; Fang, Kevin; Lam, Louisa; Maharaj, Brij; Ghasemi, Navid; Qiao, Yaning; Adomako, Solomon; Foroutan Mirhosseini, Seyed Ali; Naik, Bhaven; Banerjee, Arunabha; Wang, Fusong; Tucker, Andrew; Liu, Zhuangzhuang; Wijayaratna, Kasun; Naseri, Sahra; Chen, Hao; Yu, Lei; Shu, Benan; Goswami, Shubham; Peprah, Prince; Hessami, Amir; Abbas, Montasir; Agarwal, Nithin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception ...

• The impact of hydropeaking on juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a Norwegian regulated river 

  Saltveit, Svein Jakob; Brabrand, Åge; Juarez, Ana; Stickler, Morten; Dønnum, Bjørn Otto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  The Norwegian electrical energy supply system is based on hydropower. The now deregulated energy market has led to increased use of hydropeaking production, leading to greater fluctuations in discharge and water levels ...

• Raske vannstandsendringer i elver - Virkninger på fisk, bunndyr og begroing 

  Harby, Atle; Alfredsen, Knut; Arnekleiv, Jo Vegar; Flodmark, Lars Erik Wilhelm; Halleraker, Jo Halvard; Johansen, Stein W; Saltveit, Svein Jakob (SINTEF Rapport;, Research report, 2004)

• Rolling Resistance Measurements on Cycleways Using an Instrumented Bicycle 

  Fenre, Mathis Dahl; Klein-Paste, Alex (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Snow and ice on roads often lead to increased rolling resistance that makes roads less accessible and less attractive for cyclists. Introducing a minimum requirement for rolling resistance in winter maintenance of cycleways ...

• The effect of rolling resistance on winter cycling 

  Fenre, Mathis Dahl (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:287, Doctoral thesis, 2021)

  Authorities in many countries facilitate increased bicycle use in urban areas due to its numerous benefits. Still, the number of bicycle trips drops drastically during the wintertime, especially in areas with harsh winters. ...

• Life cycle assessment of roads: Exploring research trends and harmonization challenges 

  Hoxha, Endrit; Vignisdottir, Hrefna Run; Barbieri, Diego Maria; Wang, F.; Bohne, Rolf André; Kristensen, Terje; Passer, A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  The transparency, heterogeneity and hypotheses considered in the calculation of the environmental impacts of roads are still barriers to the identification of low-carbon solutions. To overcome this problem, this study ...

• Designing and Maintaining Roads to Facilitate Automated Driving 

  Storsæter, Ane Dalsnes (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:240, Doctoral thesis, 2021)

  Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are common in modern cars. ADAS features such as lane keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) represent forms of lateral and longitudinal vehicle control, i.e., the basis for ...

• Human thermal comfort under dynamic conditions: An experimental study 

  Favero, Matteo; Sartori, Igor; Carlucci, Salvatore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Although thermal comfort has been a research topic since the 1960s, some knowledge gaps still affect understanding of the human response to changing thermal environments. To enhance knowledge in this regard, an exploratory ...

• Combining green LiDAR bathymetry, aerial images and telemetry data to derive mesoscale habitat characteristics for European grayling and brown trout in a Norwegian river 

  Sundt, Håkon; Alfredsen, Knut; Museth, Jon; Forseth, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  While many studies provide microscale relationships between fish and habitat characteristics, studies covering longer river reaches are scarce. Modern remote sensing techniques may enable new and effective ways of mapping ...

• Operation of Norwegian Hydropower Plants and Its Effect on Block Fall Events in Unlined Pressure Tunnels and Shafts 

  Neupane, Bibek; Vereide, Kaspar; Panthi, Krishna Kanta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of hydropower plant operation on the long-term stability of unlined pressure tunnels of hydropower plants in Norway. The authors analyzed the past production ...

• Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects 

  Baer, Daniela; Loewen, Bradley; Cheng, Caroline Y; Thomsen, Judith; Wyckmans, Annemie; Temeljotov Salaj, Alenka; Ahlers, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The Positive Energy District (PED) concept is a localized city and district level response to the challenges of greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy transition. With the Strategic Energy Transition (SET) Plan aiming ...

• A Conflict between Traditional Flood Measures and Maintaining River Ecosystems? A Case Study Based Upon the River Lærdal, Norway 

  Juarez, Ana; Alfredsen, Knut; Stickler, Morten; Adeva Bustos, Ana; Suarez, Rodrigo; Seguin Garcia, Sonia; Hansen, Bendik Kristoffer Torp (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Floods are among the most damaging of natural disasters, and flood events are expected to increase in magnitude and frequency with the effects of climate change and changes in land use. As a consequence, much focus has ...

• Finding transport projects with high value for money - what are the socio-geographic determinants? 

  Hammes, Johanna Jussila; Volden, Gro Holst; Welde, Morten; Börjesson, Maria; Odeck, James (VTI Working Paper;2021:4, Report, 2021)

  We use cost-benefit data from 1052 projects in Norway and Sweden to analyse ex ante factors that can explain which characteristics of transport infrastructure projects explain high value for money. The aim is to identify ...

• Characterization and Engineering properties of Natural Soils used for Geotesting 

  L Heureux, Jean-Sebastien; Lunne, Tom (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Benchmarking is of significant importance in geological and geotechnical engineering, for testing and verifying innovative soil investigation methods and foundation solutions. This Special Issue aims to present detailed ...

• Numerical Investigation of Sloshing under Roll Excitation at Shallow Liquid Depths and the Effect of Baffles 

  Kamath, Arun; Grotle, Erlend Liavåg; Bihs, Hans (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Sloshing is relevant in several applications like ship tanks, space and automotive industry and seiching in harbours. Due to the relationship between ship and sloshing motions and possibility of structural damage, it is ...

• A new CFD-based framework for modelling the interaction of open ocean aquaculture structures and complex free surface hydrodynamics 

  Martin, Tobias (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:203, Doctoral thesis, 2021)

  The work presented in this PhD thesis provides the first numerical framework for the detailed simulation of open ocean aquaculture structures in the sea environment. It enables the simulation of the fluid-structure interaction ...

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