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 [...]

European urban freight transport policies and research funding: are priorities and H2020 calls aligned? The European Commission (EC) has recently developed a growing awareness and interest with respect to the challenges urban freight transport (UFT) poses. Consequently, the EC has started defining specific policies and promoted dedicated tools to address them. Transport is a shared [...]

Special Issue: Urban freight distribution, land use planning and public administration strategies Well-being and economic growth are strictly correlated. Cities are the engines of an innovation-based economy where research and new ideas are the core input of production. Urbanisation is becoming synonymous of economic growth. People flock into cities, both in the developed and developing [...]

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 [...]