Travel time at sea from Hasvik: effects of a new port of call at Langnes

Reise i tid og rom sjø fra Hasvik: Virkninger av nytt anløpssted på Langnes

Hasvik municipality is located on Sørøya island and is dependent on a good ferry service to the mainland. The municipality is currently connected to the mainland via the ferry connection Hasvik – Øksfjord (in the municipality of Loppa). The municipal administration wants to investigate what advantages and disadvantages a possible relocation of the port of call on the mainland to Langnes in Alta municipality will bring. This report is part of such a study, and primarily highlights travel times, reliability / accessibility and the ferry service's status as a county or national road connection. The most important argument for establishing a new ferry port at Langnes, a little south of the Isnestoften in Alta municipality, is that the traffic from Hasvik thus can avoid the Øksfjord – Langfjordbotn road. Cars (especially trailers), that stand across the road because they do not cope with the combination of turns, climb and narrow road, create uncertainty about the accessibility for both passenger and freight traffic. Moving the port of call to Langnes does not in principle provide any savings in travel time. The speed of future ferries is crucial; with a faster ferry, travel time to Alta will be reduced.

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• Summary URL:
  https://www.toi.no/getfile.php/1351689/Publikasjoner/T%C3%98I%20rapporter/2019/1735-2019/1735-2019_Sammendrag.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2019 Institute of Transport Economics/Transportøkonomisk Institutt. Report in Norwegian; summary in English.
• Authors:
  • Gundersen, Frants
  • 0000-0002-6239-766X
  • Langset, Bjørg
  • 0000-0002-0434-5386
• Publication Date: 2019-11

Language

• Norwegian
• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 44p
• Serial:
  • TØI Report
  • Issue Number: 1735/2019
  • Publisher: Institute of Transport Economics (TØI)
  • ISSN: 0808-1190
  • EISSN: 2535-5104
  • Serial URL: https://www.toi.no/publications/category29.html
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Ferry service; Regional development; Reliability; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: Hasvik Municipality (Norway)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01734337
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9788248022831
• Report/Paper Numbers: 4781
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2020 4:27PM