Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used to replicate transport environments accounting for interaction among stakeholders. Validation of ABMs implies assessing the extent to which the mode…
In recent years the European Commission has increasingly focused its attention on the development of sustainable city logistics by promulgating legislation and formal directives. Despite the…
Questo documento discute i potenziali vantaggi della combinazione di modelli a scelta discreta (DCM) e modelli basati sull’agente (ABM), per fornire un’analisi degli attori della logis…
About 70% of the continent’s population lives in European cities; here over 80% of total GDP is generated; about 23% of total CO2 emissions are produced by the transport sector and con…
Decision makers in urban goods movement (UGM) typically need to assess the impact new policy interventions might have on freight distribution. The effects of policy changes are inextricably …
Cities import goods and freight transport is essential. However, it also generates social costs. Ensuring efficient urban freight transport is important although difficult. Policy makers int…
The success or failure of urban freight transport measures crucially depends on local policy makers’ knowledge and awareness of stakeholders’ preferences. The behavioral approach calls for s…
Degraded air quality severely affects the health of citizens worldwide. The design of effective policies requires exploring public preferences for environmental and air quality policy instru…
Driverless buses running in urban low-speed, mixed-traffic conditions are the subject of current research and demonstration in Europe. The paper aims to assess how automation fares with resp…
The book edited by Goetz and Budd represents a timely contribution with respect to an important and critical industrial sector for economic development and well being throughout the world. I…
This paper investigates transport providers’ preferences for alternative loading bays and pricing policies. It estimates the importance of loading bays, the probability of finding them free …
This paper systematically compares finite sample performances of methods to build confidence intervals for willingness to pay measures in a choice modeling context. It contributes to the fie…
Cities, characterised by scarce resources and facing increasing citizens’ requests for more liveable and attractive environments, need to define and implement more efficient urban freight tr…
This article concerns the regulation of transport within a European context, covering air, inland waterways, rail, road passenger and freight, urban public transport, and short sea shipping….
The articles included in this special issue investigate new tools and approaches to assess the service quality and performance of local public transport. The contributions target different l…
User perceptions of service quality are essential to promote public transport ridership and trigger positive externalities. Therefore, research efforts need to analyze service quality from t…
Decision makers in urban goods movement (UGM) typically need to assess the impact new policy interventions might have on freight distribution. The effects of policy changes are inextricably …
This paper derives policy implications from agent-specific data with respect to the implementation of policy changes in the case of urban freight transport. In particular, the research, base…
This chapter reviews a set of articles, based on stated preferences techniques, focusing on logistics managers’ preferences for freight transport attributes with the intent of assessin…
The book describes techniques useful in forecasting and aptimizing urban freight movements. Policy interventions often yield unsatisfactory results because insufficient attention is paid to …
Urban freight distribution policies aim to improve the efficiency of deliveries of goods in cities. Local policy makers intervene on rooted, complex and pre-existent relationships. Various a…
The main aim of the Journal is to bring together the research work being done in the field of Transport Economics and arrange it organically in the form of a synthesis between theory and fac…
The present special issue is based on papers presented at the Interdepartmental Centre for Research on the Economics of Institutions (CREI) workshop on Transport choice analysis: models and …
Italy is a multi-level polity where policymaking and implementation involves both public and private actors. Both territorial and functional decentralisation have an impact on the final resu…
Manufacturing firms buy transport services with the aim of minimizing their total logistics cost. There is a large amount of literature analyzing how shippers value the various characteristi…
The aim of this paper is to provide an economic, environmental and transport evaluation of the Ecopass scheme implemented since January 2008 in Milan. Building on previous evaluation, this p…
In the last years Energy Efficiency (EE) has become an important issue in the public policy makers’ agenda due to ambitious objectives of the European Commission to reduce energy consumption…
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Stated Preferences: Methodological Novelties and New Issues in Transport”. The special issue consists of selected papers from a special sess…
Urban freight policies aim to minimise negative economic and environmental impact of freight movement in cities. At present, sustainable urban freight management is often hampered by a lack …
Public transport is of extreme relevance for ensuring a sustainable modal distribution in urban areas across the globe (Hensher 2007). Local Public Transport (LPT) policies generally promote…
This paper investigates alternative methods to account for preference heterogeneity in choice experiments. Heterogeneity can be explained by assuming its influence to impact the systematic c…
City logistics require an understanding of a number of issues that are seldom accounted for in current research. Policies may produce unsatisfactory results because behavioural and contextua…
The analysis of origin airports in multi-airport regions has a well established tradition in transportation and regional economics. The main goal of the paper is to estimate the importance o…
This chapter contributes to the understanding of practical issues relating to stakeholder evaluation of urban freight policies. The empirical section of the chapter presents evidence from st…
There is growing evidence indicating that there can be significant differences between choices made by single individuals and those made by the same individuals when choosing collectively. T…
Starting from January 2008 Milan implemented a charging scheme to enter an 8 km2 area of the city centre. The term used to denote the scheme is Ecopass, conveying the stated political object…
Urban areas are vital centers of economic activity and innovation generating large economies of density and proximity. Yet, procuring and distributing goods in an urban context is fraught wi…
The paper illustrates a method to detect and estimate interaction effects in household decision-making and tests the representative member hypothesis by studying how preferences of single me…
This paper describes the most frequently used urban freight policies with the aim of analysing: their characteristics, and the likely impacts, the proper level of analysis of the phenomenon,…
Special Issue: “Transport and Urban Economics” , from the 4th Kuhmo-Nectar Conference held in Copenhagen from 29 June 2009 to 03 July 2009. Guest editors: M. Fosgerau, A. de Palm…
Special Issue: Transport and Urban Economics Guest editors: Romeo Danielis, Andre de Palma, Edoardo Marcucci, Esko Niskanen, Hadewijch van Delft, Erik Verhoef Danielis, R., de Palma, A., Mar…
In this paper, we investigate the theoretical and empirical relevance of the distinction between generic goods and specific goods for the understanding of freight transportation demand. Spec…
This paper reports the results of a stated-preference study aimed at investigating how transport decisions are made by receivers or by transport operators about the potential use of an urban…
The analysis of quality of services is an important issue for the planning and the management of many businesses. The ability to address the demands and the relevant needs of the customers o…
The paper applies the choice model incorporating attribute cut-offs proposed by [Swait, J.D., 2001. A non-compensatory choice model incorporating attribute cutoffs. Transportation Research: …
Editors.: De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. – Introduction, pp. 1-3. Abbes, S. – Marginal social cost pr…
Service contracts are the natural method to set bilateral commitments. In transport service context, public authorities and transport operators have different goals, therefore regulation pla…
Special Issue on: Road Pricing: is it needed, is it possible, is it inevitable? Guest editors: Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, A. and Wieland, B. Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, …
This paper reports the results of an adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) experiment performed in two Italian regions that estimates logistics managers’ preferences for freight service attribute…
Special Issues: Freight transport analysis and intermodality Borruso, Giacomo and Danielis, Romeo – From Trasporti Europei to European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, pp. 1-3 Macharis, …
This paper presents a model regarding the role and relevance of individual specific uncertainty in explaining the acceptability of road pricing policies (RPP). The main assumptions of the mo…
Special Issue on Theoretical issues and institutional design: Edoardo Marcucci -The Motivations of Debate, pp.2-5 John Preston – The Transaction Cost Economics of Railway, pp. 6-15 Chr…
The paper examines the efficiency of different road pricing regimes in reducing the total costs of travel when a competing railroad service is available. Extending the two-mode model develop…
