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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.

Publications

2026

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) Continue to DOI

2025

Maria Börjesson, Gunnar Isacsson, Viktoria Liss (2025) External marginal costs for road accidents Applied Economics (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Elisabeth Lang, Maria Börjesson (2025) Gender differences in commuting distance: A temporal analysis of changes and (Un)explained gaps Research in Transportation Economics, Vol. 112, Article 101597 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Börjesson, Stef Proost (2025) Costs and benefits of e-roads versus battery trucks: Uncertainty and coordination Resources and Energy Economics, Vol. 82, Article 101492 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Saana Ollila, Axel Merkel, Maria Börjesson (2025) Effect of fuel prices on sailing speeds in short-sea shipping Applied Economics, Vol. 57, p. 4938-4954 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

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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.

Organisation

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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.
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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.
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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

News

Autumn at the Campus Valla and bikes.

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.
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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.
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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.

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