The paper provides a review of freight transport demand models for applications in urban
and metropolitan areas. The perspective adopted is the short-term one of public decision …

Recently, the evolution of emerging information and communication technologies (e-ICTs)
has opened the road for developing and implementing new integrated and dynamic city …

Freight transportation in urban areas represents an essential activity from the standpoint of
economic development; in recent years, the spread of e-commerce (also accelerated by …

Today, local administrations are faced with the presence of greater constraints in terms of
the use of space and time. At the same time, large amount of data is available to fleet …

This paper deals with the issue of the production of electricity required for an electric delivery
van to carry out its daily mission. In particular, the technical solutions adopted for the …

A framework to dynamically design routes of emergency vehicles taking into account within-
day variations of link travel times on a road network is presented. The framework integrates …

In this paper, an integrated approach is proposed that incorporates the road network design
problem and the vehicle routing problem, which are very often studied separately. This …

This paper investigates the opportunities offered by floating car data (FCD) to infer delivering
activities. A discrete trip-chain order model (within the random utility theory) for light goods …

The paper presents a City Logistics Analysis and Simulation support System (CLASS) for the
identification of critical stages and the simulation of city logistics scenarios. The analysis of …

This paper proposes the assessment of the impacts of using electric vehicles for urban
service trips. In particular, the focus is on trips performed for delivering and installing …