Special Issue: Freight Behaviour Research
The importance of freight systems to modern economies and as a major source of externalities necessitates achieving a judicious balance between these important aspects. Inducing behavioural …
2017
Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: assessment methods
It is foreseen that this Special Issue will lead to an improved understanding of the various policy assessment tools that can be used when evaluating freight systems and supply chains interv…
Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: case studies
The main emphasis of the Special Issue is on gaining a deeper comprehension of the policies capable of influencing practices and measuring policy achievements with respect to the objectives …
Using Repeated-Measurement Stated Preference Data to Investigate Users’ Attitudes Towards Automated Buses Within Major Facilities
The paper reports on the results of an investigation about users’ attitudes towards automated and conventional minibuses for routes within major facilities. A common stated preference questi…
Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas
Passengers and freight mobility in urban areas represents an increasingly relevant component of modern city life. On one side, it fosters economic growth, but, on the other, it also generate…
Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making
This paper proposes an innovative approach to decision-making processes for urban freight planning that could easily be transferred across cities while capable of jointly taking into account…
Investigating the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome: Retailers’ perceptions and stated reactions
This paper investigates the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome. It focuses on retailers that play a fundamental role in the decision making process often determining deliv…
Simulating participatory urban freight transport policy-making: Accounting for heterogeneous stakeholders’ preferences and interaction effects
This paper proposes a novel approach to support participatory decision-making processes in the context of urban freight transport through the integration of discrete choice modeling and agen…
Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies
This paper addresses the complex problem of multi-stakeholder decisions in urban freight transport policy-making from a public authority perspective, by proposing a procedure based on a mode…
Role-playing games as a mean to validate agent-based models: an application to stakeholder-driven urban freight transport policy-making
Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used to replicate transport environments accounting for interaction among stakeholders. Validation of ABMs implies assessing the extent to which the mode…
Measuring the effects of an urban freight policy package defined via a collaborative governance model
In recent years the European Commission has increasingly focused its attention on the development of sustainable city logistics by promulgating legislation and formal directives. Despite the…
Come valutare l’accettabilità delle politiche sulla logistica urbana? Integrazione di modelli di scelta discreta e modelli basati sull’agente
Questo documento discute i potenziali vantaggi della combinazione di modelli a scelta discreta (DCM) e modelli basati sull’agente (ABM), per fornire un’analisi degli attori della logis…
Le politiche per la mobilità urbana sostenibile. Le sfide del futuro
About 70% of the continent’s population lives in European cities; here over 80% of total GDP is generated; about 23% of total CO2 emissions are produced by the transport sector and con…
Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: assessment methods
It is foreseen that this Special Issue will lead to an improved understanding of the various policy assessment tools that can be used when evaluating freight systems and supply chains interv…
Special Issue: Urban freight policy innovation: case studies
The main emphasis of the Special Issue is on gaining a deeper comprehension of the policies capable of influencing practices and measuring policy achievements with respect to the objectives …
Using Repeated-Measurement Stated Preference Data to Investigate Users’ Attitudes Towards Automated Buses Within Major Facilities
The paper reports on the results of an investigation about users’ attitudes towards automated and conventional minibuses for routes within major facilities. A common stated preference questi…
Connected shared mobility for passengers and freight: Investigating the potential of crowdshipping in urban areas
Passengers and freight mobility in urban areas represents an increasingly relevant component of modern city life. On one side, it fosters economic growth, but, on the other, it also generate…
Smart urban freight planning process: integrating desk, living lab and modelling approaches in decision-making
This paper proposes an innovative approach to decision-making processes for urban freight planning that could easily be transferred across cities while capable of jointly taking into account…
Investigating the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome: Retailers’ perceptions and stated reactions
This paper investigates the potential for off-hour deliveries in the city of Rome. It focuses on retailers that play a fundamental role in the decision making process often determining deliv…
Simulating participatory urban freight transport policy-making: Accounting for heterogeneous stakeholders’ preferences and interaction effects
This paper proposes a novel approach to support participatory decision-making processes in the context of urban freight transport through the integration of discrete choice modeling and agen…
Towards a decision-support procedure to foster stakeholder involvement and acceptability of urban freight transport policies
This paper addresses the complex problem of multi-stakeholder decisions in urban freight transport policy-making from a public authority perspective, by proposing a procedure based on a mode…
Role-playing games as a mean to validate agent-based models: an application to stakeholder-driven urban freight transport policy-making
Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used to replicate transport environments accounting for interaction among stakeholders. Validation of ABMs implies assessing the extent to which the mode…
Measuring the effects of an urban freight policy package defined via a collaborative governance model
In recent years the European Commission has increasingly focused its attention on the development of sustainable city logistics by promulgating legislation and formal directives. Despite the…
Come valutare l’accettabilità delle politiche sulla logistica urbana? Integrazione di modelli di scelta discreta e modelli basati sull’agente
Questo documento discute i potenziali vantaggi della combinazione di modelli a scelta discreta (DCM) e modelli basati sull’agente (ABM), per fornire un’analisi degli attori della logis…
Le politiche per la mobilità urbana sostenibile. Le sfide del futuro
About 70% of the continent’s population lives in European cities; here over 80% of total GDP is generated; about 23% of total CO2 emissions are produced by the transport sector and con…
