Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts 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 an environmental-friendly crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city, [...]

Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries 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 crowdshipping service (demand) to get goods delivered/picked-up in the last mile B2C e-commerce situation. Specifically, [...]

Crowdshipping: il potenziale di un sistema di consegna alternativo Il crowdshipping applica il concetto di crowdsourcing alla consegna personalizzata delle merci. Rappresenta un'alternativa ai tradizionali sistemi di consegna, particolarmente adatta all’e-commerce. I benefici potenziali del crowdshipping per la riduzione dell'inquinamento e della congestione potrebbero essere ottenuti perché si eviterebbero alcune consegne ad-hoc. Tuttavia, gli impatti [...]

The 2020 Italian Spring Lockdown: A Multidisciplinary Analysis over the Milan Urban Area 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 Urban Area” published in the newborn Sustainability companion journal "World" on August 2nd, 2021. The paper correlates [...]