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...

Al fine di valutare il contributo che il settore del trasporto aereo potrebbe offrire all’efficace perseguimento, su scala europea, degli obiettivi del Protocollo di Kyoto, il presente lavoro intende analizzare le caratteristiche del sistema di emissions trading e le implicazioni della sua...

This study applies experimental methods to analyze travel mode choice. Two different scenarios are considered. In the first scenario, subjects have to decide whether to commute by car or by metro. Metro costs are fixed, while car costs are uncertain and determined by the joint effect of casual...

This paper presents some empirical results stemming from the estimation of a random utility model. With regard to the case study, the main findings are that notwithstanding the existence of a mediocre transport urban service, people would be in favour of using buses in the future. But this shift...

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...

Questa ricerca ha un duplice obiettivo. Da un lato ottenere elementi conoscitivi utili alla pianificazione in ambito regionale di iniziative a supporto del trasporto intermodale, con particolare riferimento al trasporto strada-mare (Ro/Ro) e alla realizzazione di autoporti (piattaforme...