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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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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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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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Willingness to pay measures to tailor policies and foster stakeholder acceptability in urban freight transport

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T16:16:39+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Willingness to pay measures to tailor policies and foster stakeholder acceptability in urban freight transport 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 deriving from UFT policy implementation have induced many researchers to call for an in-depth analysis of [...]

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Analisi ex-ante dell’accettabilità e stima dello shift modale di un sistema di road pricing: il caso di Roma

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T16:14:44+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Analisi ex-ante dell’accettabilità e stima dello shift modale di un sistema di road pricing: il caso di Roma 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 review of the most significant European experiences, offers an [...]

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Sustainable crowdshipping using public transport: a case study evaluation in Rome

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T16:11:55+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

Sustainable crowdshipping using public transport: a case study evaluation in Rome 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 the public transport network and considering passengers as crowdshippers already moving for other reasons. In [...]

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La gamification per favorire il coinvolgimento e il cambio di comportamento degli stakeholder della logistica urbana

Di wp_6399644|2024-12-05T16:07:29+00:00Dicembre 5th, 2024|

La gamification per favorire il coinvolgimento e il cambio di comportamento degli stakeholder della logistica urbana 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 tecniche di game design in contesti non ludici. L'articolo affronta il problema del design della [...]

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