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….
Past publications
Special Issue: Measuring Service Quality and Local Public Transport Performance
The articles included in this special issue investigate new tools and approaches to assess the service quality and performance of local public transport. The contributions target different l…
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 t…
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 …
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, base…
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 assessin…
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 …
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 a…
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 fac…
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 …
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 resu…
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 characteristi…
A medium term evaluation of the Ecopass road pricing scheme in Milan: economic, environmental, and transport impacts
The aim of this paper is to provide an economic, environmental and transport evaluation of the Ecopass scheme implemented since January 2008 in Milan. Building on previous evaluation, this p…
Energy Efficiency in the Transport Sector: Policy Evolution in some European Countries
In the last years Energy Efficiency (EE) has become an important issue in the public policy makers’ agenda due to ambitious objectives of the European Commission to reduce energy consumption…
Special Issue: Stated Preferences: Methodological novelties and new issues in transport
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Stated Preferences: Methodological Novelties and New Issues in Transport”. The special issue consists of selected papers from a special sess…
Stakeholder reactions to urban freight policy innovation
Urban freight policies aim to minimise negative economic and environmental impact of freight movement in cities. At present, sustainable urban freight management is often hampered by a lack …
Local public transport: service quality and tendering contracts
Public transport is of extreme relevance for ensuring a sustainable modal distribution in urban areas across the globe (Hensher 2007). Local Public Transport (LPT) policies generally promote…
Dissecting preference heterogeneity in consumer stated choices
This paper investigates alternative methods to account for preference heterogeneity in choice experiments. Heterogeneity can be explained by assuming its influence to impact the systematic c…
A Stated Ranking Experiment to Study Policy Acceptance: The Case of Freight Operators in Rome’s LTZ
City logistics require an understanding of a number of issues that are seldom accounted for in current research. Policies may produce unsatisfactory results because behavioural and contextua…
Regional airport choice: consumer behaviour and policy implications
The analysis of origin airports in multi-airport regions has a well established tradition in transportation and regional economics. The main goal of the paper is to estimate the importance o…
Urban freight policy innovation for Rome’s LTZ: a stakeholder perspective
This chapter contributes to the understanding of practical issues relating to stakeholder evaluation of urban freight policies. The empirical section of the chapter presents evidence from st…
Comparing single and joint preferences: a choice experiment on residential location in three-member householders
There is growing evidence indicating that there can be significant differences between choices made by single individuals and those made by the same individuals when choosing collectively. T…
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 object…
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 wi…
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 me…
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,…
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 Palm…
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., Mar…
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. Spec…
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…
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 o…
Attribute cut-offs in freight service selection
The paper applies the choice model incorporating attribute cut-offs proposed by [Swait, J.D., 2001. A non-compensatory choice model incorporating attribute cutoffs. Transportation Research: …
Special issue: Pricing, Financing, and Investment in Transport
Editors.: De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. – Introduction, pp. 1-3. Abbes, S. – Marginal social cost pr…
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 pla…
Special issue: Road Pricing: is it needed, is it possible, is it inevitable?
Special Issue on: Road Pricing: is it needed, is it possible, is it inevitable? Guest editors: Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, A. and Wieland, B. Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, …
Logistics managers’ stated preferences for freight service attributes
This paper reports the results of an adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) experiment performed in two Italian regions that estimates logistics managers’ preferences for freight service attribute…
Special issue: Freight transport analysis and intermodality
Special Issues: Freight transport analysis and intermodality Borruso, Giacomo and Danielis, Romeo – From Trasporti Europei to European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, pp. 1-3 Macharis, …
Individual uncertainty and the political acceptability of road pricing policies
This paper presents a model regarding the role and relevance of individual specific uncertainty in explaining the acceptability of road pricing policies (RPP). The main assumptions of the mo…
Special issue: Deregulation and vertical separation in the railway sector
Special Issue on Theoretical issues and institutional design: Edoardo Marcucci -The Motivations of Debate, pp.2-5 John Preston – The Transaction Cost Economics of Railway, pp. 6-15 Chr…
Bottleneck road congestion pricing with a competing railroad service
The paper examines the efficiency of different road pricing regimes in reducing the total costs of travel when a competing railroad service is available. Extending the two-mode model develop…
Special Issue: Measuring Service Quality and Local Public Transport Performance
The articles included in this special issue investigate new tools and approaches to assess the service quality and performance of local public transport. The contributions target different l…
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 t…
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 …
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, base…
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 assessin…
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 …
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 a…
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 fac…
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 …
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 resu…
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 characteristi…
A medium term evaluation of the Ecopass road pricing scheme in Milan: economic, environmental, and transport impacts
The aim of this paper is to provide an economic, environmental and transport evaluation of the Ecopass scheme implemented since January 2008 in Milan. Building on previous evaluation, this p…
Energy Efficiency in the Transport Sector: Policy Evolution in some European Countries
In the last years Energy Efficiency (EE) has become an important issue in the public policy makers’ agenda due to ambitious objectives of the European Commission to reduce energy consumption…
Special Issue: Stated Preferences: Methodological novelties and new issues in transport
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Stated Preferences: Methodological Novelties and New Issues in Transport”. The special issue consists of selected papers from a special sess…
Stakeholder reactions to urban freight policy innovation
Urban freight policies aim to minimise negative economic and environmental impact of freight movement in cities. At present, sustainable urban freight management is often hampered by a lack …
Local public transport: service quality and tendering contracts
Public transport is of extreme relevance for ensuring a sustainable modal distribution in urban areas across the globe (Hensher 2007). Local Public Transport (LPT) policies generally promote…
Dissecting preference heterogeneity in consumer stated choices
This paper investigates alternative methods to account for preference heterogeneity in choice experiments. Heterogeneity can be explained by assuming its influence to impact the systematic c…
A Stated Ranking Experiment to Study Policy Acceptance: The Case of Freight Operators in Rome’s LTZ
City logistics require an understanding of a number of issues that are seldom accounted for in current research. Policies may produce unsatisfactory results because behavioural and contextua…
Regional airport choice: consumer behaviour and policy implications
The analysis of origin airports in multi-airport regions has a well established tradition in transportation and regional economics. The main goal of the paper is to estimate the importance o…
Urban freight policy innovation for Rome’s LTZ: a stakeholder perspective
This chapter contributes to the understanding of practical issues relating to stakeholder evaluation of urban freight policies. The empirical section of the chapter presents evidence from st…
Comparing single and joint preferences: a choice experiment on residential location in three-member householders
There is growing evidence indicating that there can be significant differences between choices made by single individuals and those made by the same individuals when choosing collectively. T…
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 object…
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 wi…
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 me…
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,…
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 Palm…
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., Mar…
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. Spec…
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…
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 o…
Attribute cut-offs in freight service selection
The paper applies the choice model incorporating attribute cut-offs proposed by [Swait, J.D., 2001. A non-compensatory choice model incorporating attribute cutoffs. Transportation Research: …
Special issue: Pricing, Financing, and Investment in Transport
Editors.: De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. De Palma, A., Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., Verhoef, E. – Introduction, pp. 1-3. Abbes, S. – Marginal social cost pr…
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 pla…
Special issue: Road Pricing: is it needed, is it possible, is it inevitable?
Special Issue on: Road Pricing: is it needed, is it possible, is it inevitable? Guest editors: Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, A. and Wieland, B. Marcucci, E., Niskanen, E., de Palma, …
Logistics managers’ stated preferences for freight service attributes
This paper reports the results of an adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) experiment performed in two Italian regions that estimates logistics managers’ preferences for freight service attribute…
Special issue: Freight transport analysis and intermodality
Special Issues: Freight transport analysis and intermodality Borruso, Giacomo and Danielis, Romeo – From Trasporti Europei to European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, pp. 1-3 Macharis, …
Individual uncertainty and the political acceptability of road pricing policies
This paper presents a model regarding the role and relevance of individual specific uncertainty in explaining the acceptability of road pricing policies (RPP). The main assumptions of the mo…
Special issue: Deregulation and vertical separation in the railway sector
Special Issue on Theoretical issues and institutional design: Edoardo Marcucci -The Motivations of Debate, pp.2-5 John Preston – The Transaction Cost Economics of Railway, pp. 6-15 Chr…
Bottleneck road congestion pricing with a competing railroad service
The paper examines the efficiency of different road pricing regimes in reducing the total costs of travel when a competing railroad service is available. Extending the two-mode model develop…
