Italian university students often attend a university located in a nearby city, and choose between commuting from their home town and living in the city where the university is located. The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that influence this choice. A conceptual framework is...

Universities, like other types of public and private institutions, when located in a city, have both positive and negative impacts on the area where they are situated. On the one hand, they contribute to the prestige of the area; on the other hand, they are large generators/attractors of traffic....

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...

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 with difficulties because of infrastructure congestion, external costs, conflicting objectives among...

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...

The paper reports on a research project aimed at estimating the potential demand for a rolling motorway service connecting Trieste (Italy) and Chop (Ukraine). More specifically, the study has explored which factors play a role in the choice between the current prevailing mode of transport, that...

The paper provides an evaluation of the Ecopass scheme for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. The term Ecopass conveys the stated political objective of the scheme: a PASS to improve the quality of the urban environment (ECO). The scheme has actually improved the air quality in Milan, although the...

Le politiche di regolamentazione del traffico urbano merci finora adottate non si sono dimostrate ancora sufficientemente in grado di raggiungere l’obiettivo di migliorare il grado di efficienza privata del sistema distributivo urbano. Di conseguenza, le esternalità negative prodotte da tale...

For a firm the logistics challenge consists in the integrated planning, control, realization and monitoring of all internal and network-wide material, part and product flows, including the necessary information flows, for the purpose of satisfying customer needs and realizing a profit. For a...

Le politiche di regolamentazione del traffico urbano merci finora adottate non sono risultate ancora sufficientemente in grado di raggiungere l’obiettivo di migliorare il grado di efficienza privata del sistema distributivo urbano. Di conseguenza, le esternalità negative prodotte da tale...