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....

L’uscita del volume “Le infrastrutture in Italia: dotazione, programmazione, realizzazione”, pubblicato recentemente dalla Banca d’Italia, a cura di Fabrizio Balassone e Piero Casadio, è un’ottima occasione per fare il punto sulla politica delle infrastrutture e dei trasporti. ll...

During recent years, freight transport has been experiencing an enormous growth, affecting in particular the road transport. In Italy as well as in most developed countries, this has called for appropriate policies aimed at a modal switch. A notable role in this context could be played by...

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...

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...