Testing for nonlinearity in the choice of a freight transport service 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 characteristics of a transport service, mostly performed by collecting stated-preference data and estimating discrete choice models. Most of [...]
Multi-level governance and transport policy: the case of local roads in Italy 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 results of policy making. In fact, territorial decentralisation implies the delegation of functions to wide multi-purpose tiers [...]
Special Issue: Freight transport analysis: new trends and methodologies 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 policy implications held on November 4th 2009 in Roma Tre University, Faculty of Political Science. CREI was created within the University [...]
Special Issue: Freight Transport : Data, Models, and Policies. Challenges and future perspectives 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 fact. The situation facing transport economics is one in [...]
Intra-agent heterogeneity in urban freight distribution: the case of own-account operators 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 are the agents, both collaborating and competing, involved in providing and buying freight distribution services. Retailers, transport providers and [...]
Urban freight transport modelling: an agent-specific approach The book describes techniques useful in forecasting and aptimizing urban freight movements. Policy interventions often yield unsatisfactory results because insufficient attention is paid to behavioural aspects. The empirical study of relations and interactions between agents within the supply chain is a key area of analysis in order to define [...]
Logistics managers’ stated preferences for freight service attributes: a comparative research method analysis 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 assessing the quality of knowledge applied esearch has produced, its reliability and transferability. The review performed indicates that [...]
Urban freight transport policy changes: improving decision makers’ awareness via an agent-specific approach 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, based on the case of Rome's Limited Traffic Zone, discusses alternative policy scenarios. After describing attribute [...]
Behavioral modeling in urban freight transport 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 related with the extant regulatory framework that also influences the relationships among the various actors interacting along the supply chain. The [...]
De Gustibus Disputandum Est: Non-Linearity in Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation 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 the point of view of users. This article builds on the stream of works studying perceptions of public transport service [...]
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