City Logistics
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 [...]
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 [...]
Regulating Transport in Europe This article concerns the regulation of transport within a European context, covering air, inland waterways, rail, road passenger and freight, urban public transport, and short sea shipping. Marcucci, E., (2014), "Regulating Transport in Europe", Regional Studies, 48 (7), pp. 1308-1309
Urban freight, parking and pricing policies: an evaluation from a transport providers & perspective This paper investigates transport providers’ preferences for alternative loading bays and pricing policies. It estimates the importance of loading bays, the probability of finding them free and offers strategically relevant information to policy makers. The results underline the relevance of both [...]
The Geographies of Air Transport The book edited by Goetz and Budd represents a timely contribution with respect to an important and critical industrial sector for economic development and well being throughout the world. In fact, air transportation constitutes a strategic sector for ensuring the timely movement of passengers and freight in a cost-effective way [...]
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