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Role-playing games as a mean to validate agent-based models: an application to stakeholder-driven urban freight transport policy-making

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:52:18+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Role-playing games as a mean to validate agent-based models: an application to stakeholder-driven urban freight transport policy-making 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 model, from assumptions to results, is capable of approximating reality. To this end, [...]

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Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:48:18+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies 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 modelling approach to support stakeholder involvement in the decision-making process. The paper analyses the existing methods [...]

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Simulating participatory urban freight transport policy-making: Accounting for heterogeneous stakeholders’ preferences and interaction effects

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:47:13+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Simulating participatory urban freight transport policy-making: Accounting for heterogeneous stakeholders’ preferences and interaction effects 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 agent-based modeling. The methodology is based on an innovative multilayer network and opinion dynamics models and [...]

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Investigating the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome: Retailers’ perceptions and stated reactions

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:45:42+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Investigating the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome: Retailers' perceptions and stated reactions 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 delivery times. It explores their preferences for three off-hour delivery prototypes [...]

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Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:44:36+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making 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: (1) all the conceivable and updated urban freight transport (UFT) measures that should apply [...]

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Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:42:34+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas 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 generates high social costs. Congestion and pollution are two problems policy-makers [...]

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Using Repeated-Measurement Stated Preference Data to Investigate Users’ Attitudes Towards Automated Buses Within Major Facilities

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:40:37+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Using Repeated-Measurement Stated Preference Data to Investigate Users’ Attitudes Towards Automated Buses Within Major Facilities 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 questionnaire has been used in four European cities. The econometric analysis is based on [...]

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Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: case studies

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:38:59+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: case studies 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 set. This will be performed both by investigating methodological innovations as well as presenting policy relevant case studies. [...]

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Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: assessment methods

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:37:41+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: assessment methods 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 interventions. Marcucci E., Gatta, V., Macharis, C. (2017), “Urban freight policy innovation: assessment methods”, Research in Transportation Economics

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Special Issue: Freight Behaviour Research

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T20:35:26+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Special Issue: Freight Behaviour Research 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 changes on the freight industry and supply chains, in general, could help jointly achieve significant reductions in the externalities produced, as well as improvements [...]

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