Quality and Public Transport Service Contracts Service contracts are the natural method to set bilateral commitments. In transport service context, public authorities and transport operators have different goals, therefore regulation plays an important role especially failing competition. After a brief description of the most important regulatory procedures, we focus our attention on the quality framework [...]
The analysis of service quality through stated preference models and rule-based classification 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 of a given service is crucial to determine its success in [...]
The potential demand for a urban freight consolidation centre 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 freight consolidation centre in the city of Fano, Italy. Because there are no revealed preference data, [...]
Specific vs. generic goods: implications for transport demand analysis 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. Specific goods are made for a single customer while generic goods are produced irrespective of which final customer will buy [...]
Special issue: Transport and Urban Economics 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., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., van Delft, H., Verhoef, E.- Introduction, pp. 1-2 Koh, A., Shepherd, S. - Tolling, collusion and equilibrium problems [...]
Special Issue: "Transport and Urban Economics" , from the 4th Kuhmo-Nectar Conference held in Copenhagen from 29 June 2009 to 03 July 2009 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 Palma, E. Marcucci, [...]
Urban Freight Modelling and Policy Analysis 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, and which are the most appropriate modelling methods to estimate policy impacts. Marcucci E., Musso E., (2010), “Urban Freight Modelling [...]
Environmental quality and accessibility trade-offs in household residential location choice: a test of the representative member hypothesis and relative power analysis 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 members influence family choices. We performed a stated [...]
Urban freight policies and distribution channels 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 with difficulties because of infrastructure congestion, external costs, conflicting objectives among stakeholders, and asymmetric information. In order to improve the performance [...]
The Urban Road Pricing Scheme to Curb Pollution in Milan, Italy: Description, Impact and Preliminary Cost-Benefit Analysis Assessment 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 objective of the scheme: a [...]
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