 These are the commuter train services least passengers, and the purpose was to use the initial tenders as a "learning exercise" and to create a more efficient system to implement in future tenders.The plans also called for transferring the responsibility for managing and financing the PSO contracts on commuter rail services to the counties, but this was not followed, in part because of a report from the Institute of Transport Economics, which concluded that this would provide a worse service.At the time, the government was spending NOK 1.4 billion annually on purchasing passenger transport from NSB.