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TRElab member Ila Maltese, together with Jérôme Massiani, researcher of the University of Milano-Bicocca , wrote “Thirty years of socio-economic evaluation of the Lyon–Turin High–Speed …
On August 1st, 2021 the volume Tourism and Regional Science edited by Soushi Suzuki, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp was published in the series “New Frontiers in Regional Science: As…
TRElab member Ila Maltese, together with some colleagues of the Parthenope University of Naples, wrote “The 2020 Italian Spring Lockdown: A Multidisciplinary Analysis over the Milan Urb…
[ITALIANO SOTTO] Roma Tre University, together with Panteia B.V., has carried out a study for the Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Committee of the European Parliament: Relaunching transport and…
On May 12th, 2021 Elsevier, has launched the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Transportation edited by Professor Roger Vickerman (University of Kent). Adopting an…
In the first quarter of 2021, two TRElab papers addressing the hot topic of Active Travel have been published. Giacomo Lozzi (TRElab member), together with Michelle Sara Monachino …
The paper considers random utility models that use a single common vector of random utilities for the computation of best, worst and best–worst choice probabilities, i.e. consistent models. …
Il crowdshipping applica il concetto di crowdsourcing alla consegna personalizzata delle merci. Rappresenta un’alternativa ai tradizionali sistemi di consegna, particolarmente adatta a…
Cities crave innovative logistics solutions dealing with the requirements of the ‘on demand economy’. The paper estimates the willingness to act as a crowdshipper (supply) and to buy a crowd…
Many cities of different size and in different areas of the world have successfully tested the introduction of off-hour deliveries (OHD) on a voluntary basis, reporting positive effects, bot…
This paper aims at understanding and evaluating the environmental and economic impacts of a crowdshipping platform in urban areas. The investigation refers to the city of Rome and considers …
Well-being and economic growth are strictly correlated. Cities are the engines of an innovation-based economy where research and new ideas are the core input of production. Urbanisation is b…
Freight transport systems are fundamental to guarantee urban sustainable development. In fact, their role is essential in harmonising economic growth while minimising territorial externaliti…
The chapter tests stakeholder acceptability and their likely behavior change with respect to innovative solutions for improving urban freight transport efficiency and fostering city sustaina…
The European Commission (EC) has recently developed a growing awareness and interest with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses. Consequently, the EC has started defi…
I datori di lavoro spesso forniscono ai dipendenti un parcheggio agevolato o gratuito presso gli uffici. Ciò distorce i prezzi relativi ai tragitti casa-lavoro alternativi e produce ineffici…
Una recente tendenza per promuovere comportamenti sostenibili nei trasporti prevede l’introduzione di tecniche di gamification, ovvero l’uso di elementi mutuati dai giochi e delle tecn…
The paper analyses the willingness to act as a crowdshipper in the case of a last mile B2C e-commerce for pick up/delivery. Specifically, it focuses on crowdshipping services deployed using …
Large cities like London, Stockholm and Milan have adopted traffic policies for their central areas based on charges applying to the inbound car traffic. The paper, after a comparative revie…
Policy-making on Urban Freight Transport (UFT) is complex because it requires dealing with heterogeneous stakeholders with different objectives. The often unforeseen and undesired results de…
The importance of freight systems to modern economies and as a major source of externalities necessitates achieving a judicious balance between these important aspects. Inducing behavioural …
It is foreseen that this Special Issue will lead to an improved understanding of the various policy assessment tools that can be used when evaluating freight systems and supply chains interv…
The main emphasis of the Special Issue is on gaining a deeper comprehension of the policies capable of influencing practices and measuring policy achievements with respect to the objectives …
The paper reports on the results of an investigation about users’ attitudes towards automated and conventional minibuses for routes within major facilities. A common stated preference questi…
Passengers and freight mobility in urban areas represents an increasingly relevant component of modern city life. On one side, it fosters economic growth, but, on the other, it also generate…
This paper proposes an innovative approach to decision-making processes for urban freight planning that could easily be transferred across cities while capable of jointly taking into account…
This paper investigates the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome. It focuses on retailers that play a fundamental role in the decision making process often determining deliv…
This paper proposes a novel approach to support participatory decision-making processes in the context of urban freight transport through the integration of discrete choice modeling and agen…
This paper addresses the complex problem of multi-stakeholder decisions in urban freight transport policy-making from a public authority perspective, by proposing a procedure based on a mode…
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…
