Maria Börjesson

Adjunct Professor

I am a researcher that aim to contribute with an understanding of how societies can balance prosperity, trade and distributional effects with scarce resources, climate, accidents and other negative effects of transport.

Transport systems and public decision-making

My research focuses on the transport system, often public policy-making, and all modes of transport. This includes the design of policies such as taxes, charges, deregulation and infrastructure investment. The transport system is fundamental to all other sectors of the economy.

Publications

2026

Carl Berry, Maria Börjesson (2026) Are the rich reaching saturation: Income and fuel price elasticities of car ownership and use Economics of Transportation, Vol. 45, Article 100448 (Article in journal)

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Carl Berry, Maria Börjesson (2026) Do fringe benefit cars make the car fleet greener?? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 205, Article 104881 (Article in journal)

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Maria Börjesson, Jonas Eliasson (2026) Cost-efficient scenarios for reaching transportation climate targets Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 204, Article 104783 (Article in journal)

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2025

Angelica Andersson, Maria Börjesson, Nils Breyer, Andrew Daly, Leonid Engelson, Ida Kristoffersson (2025) Estimating a nested latent class mode choice model on mobile network data Transportation planning and technology (Print) (Article in journal)

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Maria Börjesson, Gunnar Isacsson, Viktoria Liss (2025) External marginal costs for road accidents Applied Economics (Article in journal)

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Research

Cars driving through bridge tull station

Transport Economics and Policy

We are growing research group at LiU. The core of our research is economic analysis of transport systems, usually applied on or motivated by transport policy issues related to the climate, welfare, equity, gender equality and the labour market.

Coworkers

Chowdhury Abdullah-Al- Baki

PhD student

Ali Ahmed

Professor, Head of Division

David Andersson

Principal Research Engineer

Associate Professor, Docent

Kinga Barrafrem

Associate Professor, Docent

Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan

Adjunct Associate Professor

Patrik Michaelsen

Emil Persson

Associate Professor, Docent

News

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Stanford University has recently released an updated list of the top two percent most cited researchers globally, and it is gratifying to note that once again, several distinguished researchers from IEI are represented on the list.

Future car travel may be cheaper – and more expensive

Fuel taxes are an important source of income for the government. So what happens when most of the vehicle fleet has been electrified? Most effective would be increased congestion tax in larger cities, researchers at LiU concludes in a new study.

IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the two percent most cited scientists in the world. And again several researchers at IEI are on the list.

Organisation

Economics (NEK)

The Division of Economics belongs to the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research in the field of Economics. Economics covers a wide range of different financial aspects.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Maria Börjesson

Transport systems and public decision-making

Publications

2026

2025