Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) analyses benefits to the society coming from a specific management or infrastructural project, in order to evaluate its economic sustainability; more precisely, the main purpose of CBA is to appraise the real contribution to the overall social welfare of a public...

City logistic policy making requires an understanding of specific issues seldom investigated in current research. Policy implementation produces unsatisfactory results when does not consider behavioural and contextual aspects. Acquiring relevant data is crucial to test hypotheses and forecast...

The internationalisation of the logistics industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Depending on the motivations behind foreign direct investments (FDI), a multinational enterprise (MNE) may invest in a country through horizontal, vertical and conglomerate integrations. The...

L’articolo affronta tematiche riguardanti il ruolo della logistica e dei trasporti nei processi di pianificazione territoriale, con riferimento all’Area vasta pometina, un’aggregazione di 18 Comuni localizzati nel Lazio meridionale. In particolare, si è provveduto alla formulazione di...

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...

According to economic theory, market forces guarantee efficiency and customer orientation. But in public transport, such a market often does not exist, given that most services are provided under licenses which guarantee the operator an exclusive right to provide the service, thus evidently...

The aim of this work is to analyze the role of air transport for the economic development of peripheral areas. Liberalization and deregulation processes have involved all aspects of the air transport activity, producing significant change to the supply side of the air transport market. Airlines...

La scelta dell’aeroporto di partenza in contesti multiaeroporto è un tema di grande interesse non solo per il mondo accademico e per gli operatori di settore (gestori aeroportuali e compagnie aeree), ma anche per le istituzioni pubbliche. Questo lavoro approfondisce gli aspetti teorici,...

The paper presents a model of economic and logistics analysis - ACIT - aimed at assessing potential logistic development that have the territory and metropolitan areas in particular. The model is developed as part of a research funded by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to...

The choice processes of maritime terminals included in the networks have become, in recent times, a significant importance due to the general improvement of accessibility that has characterized most of the infrastructure. The high degree of interconnection of the terminals, achieved thanks to...