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Surges in e-commerce sales represent a huge challenge for urban freight transport. Parcel lockers constitute a valid solution for addressing the challenges home deliveries imply. In fact, eliminating courier–consumer contact (also relevant for health-related issues, as made evident by the COVID-19 pandemic) and delivering in fewer predefined places might help coping mechanisms for missed deliveries substantially. Furthermore, this option enables consolidated shipping and reduced delivery trip costs. This paper analyses and compares consumer preferences for alternative collection strategies. It investigates home delivery vs. parcel locker use and forecasts their future market shares. This is performed based on both customer socio-economic variables and the attributes characterising these alternative logistic fulfilment strategies. The case study considered tests upon a stated preference survey deployed in the city of Rome. The investigation specifically targeted young people (i.e., population under 30 years) since they represent early adopters. Discrete choice models allow both quantifying the monetary value of parcel lockers attributes (i.e., willingness to pay measures) and estimating the potential demand for this innovative delivery scheme. Results show that distance and accessibility are the main choice determinants. Furthermore, there is an overall high propensity to adopt parcel lockers. This research can support policymakers when implementing such solutions.
Gabriele Iannaccone; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. What Young E-Consumers Want? Forecasting Parcel Lockers Choice in Rome. Logistics 2021, 5, 57 .
AMA StyleGabriele Iannaccone, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta. What Young E-Consumers Want? Forecasting Parcel Lockers Choice in Rome. Logistics. 2021; 5 (3):57.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGabriele Iannaccone; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. 2021. "What Young E-Consumers Want? Forecasting Parcel Lockers Choice in Rome." Logistics 5, no. 3: 57.
Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Svein Bråthen. Editorial: E-groceries, digitalization and sustainability. Research in Transportation Economics 2021, 87, 101097 .
AMA StyleEdoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Svein Bråthen. Editorial: E-groceries, digitalization and sustainability. Research in Transportation Economics. 2021; 87 ():101097.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Svein Bråthen. 2021. "Editorial: E-groceries, digitalization and sustainability." Research in Transportation Economics 87, no. : 101097.
E-grocery is becoming more and more popular, involving both pure e-commerce players and physical stores in its development and sales. As a consequence, the last mile delivery model has been heavily modified, with ambiguous final impact on the environment. This paper identifies the key elements germane to e-grocery (demand and supply), discusses e-grocery development and investigates the challenges ahead. In more detail, it presents the results of a stated preference survey on consumers’ channel choices for the grocery market. The survey was carried out in Shanghai (China) in order to investigate different purchase attributes, such as product and delivery service price, product range, lead time, time window and travel time. The paper identifies heterogeneous reactions to alternative service configurations, which allows to estimate market shares for e-grocery, with the in-store option as a reference. Policy implications and operational solutions to improve the sustainability of this renewed last mile delivery model are thus proposed.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Ila Maltese; Gabriele Iannaccone; Jiarui Fan. E-Groceries: A Channel Choice Analysis in Shanghai. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3625 .
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Ila Maltese, Gabriele Iannaccone, Jiarui Fan. E-Groceries: A Channel Choice Analysis in Shanghai. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3625.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Ila Maltese; Gabriele Iannaccone; Jiarui Fan. 2021. "E-Groceries: A Channel Choice Analysis in Shanghai." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3625.
Widespread adoption of green vehicles in urban logistics may contribute to the alleviation of problems such as environmental pollution, global warming, and oil dependency. However, the current adoption of green vehicles in the last mile logistics is relatively low despite many actions taken by public authorities to overcome the negative externalities of distributing goods in cities. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on studies investigating the adoption of green vehicles in urban freight transportation, paying specific attention to e-commerce. To shed light on the adoption of green vehicles in city logistics, the paper conducts a systematic review of the empirical literature on the topic. The 159 articles reviewed were classified into the following: (a) Optimization and scheduling (67 papers); (b) policy (55 papers); (c) sustainability (37 papers). Among the 159 articles, a further selection of 17 papers dealing with e-commerce, i.e., studies that highlight the most relevant aspects related to the integration of green vehicles in e-commerce urban logistics, was performed. Our findings indicate that green vehicles are competitive in urban deliveries characterized by frequent stop-and-go movements and low consolidation levels while incentives are still necessary for their adoption. The use of autonomous vehicles results the most promising and challenging solution for last-mile logistics.
Sergio Patella; Gianluca Grazieschi; Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Stefano Carrese. The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2020, 13, 6 .
AMA StyleSergio Patella, Gianluca Grazieschi, Valerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Stefano Carrese. The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 2020; 13 (1):6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSergio Patella; Gianluca Grazieschi; Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Stefano Carrese. 2020. "The Adoption of Green Vehicles in Last Mile Logistics: A Systematic Review." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 6.
Poor logistics efficiency, due to low load factors caused by high demand fragmentation, will have relevant negative consequences for cities in terms of pollution, congestion and overall city liveability. Policy-makers should equip themselves with appropriate tools to perform reliable, comprehensive and timely analyses of urban logistics scenarios, also considering upcoming (i) technological changes, (ii) business model evolutions and (iii) spatial-temporal changes these innovations will produce. This paper discusses the Digital Twin (DT) concept, illustrating the role it might play and clarifying how to properly conceive it with respect to urban freight transport policy-making and planning. The main message is that without a sound theory and knowledge with respect to the relationships linking contextual reality and choice/behaviour, it is not possible to make sense of what happens in the real world. Therefore, the joint use of behavioural and simulation models should characterise a DT within a Living Lab approach so to stimulate effective, well-informed and participated planning processes, but also to forecast both behaviour and reactions to structural changes and policy measures implementations.
Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Lisa Hansson; Svein Bråthen. Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10623 .
AMA StyleEdoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Michela Le Pira, Lisa Hansson, Svein Bråthen. Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10623.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Lisa Hansson; Svein Bråthen. 2020. "Digital Twins: A Critical Discussion on Their Potential for Supporting Policy-Making and Planning in Urban Logistics." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10623.
E-grocery is the fastest growing e-commerce segment, while still a niche market. Notwithstanding the channel choice when buying groceries might have relevant transport and environmental implications, little attention is paid to demand analysis. The paper fills this research gap, by using stated preferences to estimate market shares for e-grocery, distinguishing between home deliveries and click&pick, using the in-store option as a reference, and by considering a case study in Norway. It investigates the role of various purchase characteristics (i.e. product price, service cost, lead-time, time window, travel time and product range) when choosing which purchase channel to use. Results suggest that the most important characteristics for consumers are related to price, in particular product price, but there is also significant heterogeneity in preferences within the sample. Scenario simulations allow estimating transport and environmental impacts deriving from channel market share changes. This information can be useful for developing both managerial strategies to increase e-grocery market share and public policy interventions to minimize negative externalities.
Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Ting Chao; Shengnan Li. Bricks or clicks? Consumer channel choice and its transport and environmental implications for the grocery market in Norway. Cities 2020, 110, 103046 .
AMA StyleEdoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Michela Le Pira, Ting Chao, Shengnan Li. Bricks or clicks? Consumer channel choice and its transport and environmental implications for the grocery market in Norway. Cities. 2020; 110 ():103046.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Ting Chao; Shengnan Li. 2020. "Bricks or clicks? Consumer channel choice and its transport and environmental implications for the grocery market in Norway." Cities 110, no. : 103046.
This paper analyzes the airport/airline choice behavior of tourists for Saxony/Germany. We employ flexible parametric choice methods (mixed logit) in order to test the effect of standard attributes on the choice probability. In addition we extend existing literature with the introduction of parking charges in the choice experiment. Our results show a significant and negative impact of parking charges on airport choice probability. Thus, we can compute high elasticities of parking charges for tourists. These results suggest, that airport managers have in form of parking policies a powerful policy instrument as they can directly affect the size of the airport catchment area.
Christos Evangelinos; Nelly Staub; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. The impact of airport parking fees on the tourist's airport/airline choice behavior. Journal of Air Transport Management 2020, 90, 101961 .
AMA StyleChristos Evangelinos, Nelly Staub, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta. The impact of airport parking fees on the tourist's airport/airline choice behavior. Journal of Air Transport Management. 2020; 90 ():101961.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristos Evangelinos; Nelly Staub; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. 2020. "The impact of airport parking fees on the tourist's airport/airline choice behavior." Journal of Air Transport Management 90, no. : 101961.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci. Editorial. Research in Transportation Economics 2019, 76, 100770 .
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci. Editorial. Research in Transportation Economics. 2019; 76 ():100770.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci. 2019. "Editorial." Research in Transportation Economics 76, no. : 100770.
Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Wafa Elias. Modal shift, emission reductions and behavioral change: Transport policies and innovations to tackle climate change. Research in Transportation Economics 2019, 73, 1 -3.
AMA StyleEdoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Michela Le Pira, Wafa Elias. Modal shift, emission reductions and behavioral change: Transport policies and innovations to tackle climate change. Research in Transportation Economics. 2019; 73 ():1-3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Michela Le Pira; Wafa Elias. 2019. "Modal shift, emission reductions and behavioral change: Transport policies and innovations to tackle climate change." Research in Transportation Economics 73, no. : 1-3.
Cities crave innovative logistics solutions dealing with the requirements of the ‘on demand economy’. The paper estimates the willingness to act as a crowdshipper (supply) and to buy a crowdshipping service (demand) to get goods delivered/picked-up in the last mile B2C e-commerce situation. Specifically, it innovates by considering an environmental-friendly crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city where parcels customers/crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods in automated parcel lockers located either inside the transit stations or in the surroundings. This issue is very important since “standard” crowdshipping is usually not able to reduce congestion and polluting emissions due to the dedicated trips performed using private motorized vehicles. The paper rests on an extensive stated preference survey. The hypothetical scenarios used to acquire both demand (customers’) and supply (crowdshippers’) preferences make use of the most relevant attributes emerging from a preliminary investigation performed in the study context. The investigation is performed in the city of Rome and the metro is the transit system considered. The results are useful in understanding and quantifying the potential of this freight transport strategy for e-commerce in an urban context and in providing local policy makers with a good knowledge base for its future development.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Marialisa Nigro; Simone Serafini. Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries. European Transport Research Review 2019, 11, 13 .
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Marialisa Nigro, Simone Serafini. Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries. European Transport Research Review. 2019; 11 (1):13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Marialisa Nigro; Simone Serafini. 2019. "Sustainable urban freight transport adopting public transport-based crowdshipping for B2C deliveries." European Transport Research Review 11, no. 1: 13.
Many cities of different size and in different areas of the world have successfully tested the introduction of off-hour deliveries (OHD) on a voluntary basis, reporting positive effects, both on freight distribution efficiency and sustainability. However, those initiatives have not been implemented so far at a large scale. This paper investigates OHD potential in Rome, focusing on one of the most important barriers to its adoption, i.e. stakeholder acceptability. The study investigates stakeholders' preferences for different OHD configurations using both a qualitative approach, based on in-depth interviews, and a quantitative analysis, based on an interactive multi-actor multi-criteria analysis. Results show that stakeholders prefer a solution where OHD are jointly implemented together with one or more urban consolidation centres. This preliminary analysis paves the way for further technical/economic evaluations needed for OHD implementation in Rome. Stakeholders’ involvement is of outmost importance to understand their heterogeneous preferences and increase their awareness of urban freight transport problems, with the overall aim to foster behaviour change.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Paolo Delle Site; Michela Le Pira; Céline Sacha Carrocci. Planning with stakeholders: Analysing alternative off-hour delivery solutions via an interactive multi-criteria approach. Research in Transportation Economics 2019, 73, 53 -62.
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Paolo Delle Site, Michela Le Pira, Céline Sacha Carrocci. Planning with stakeholders: Analysing alternative off-hour delivery solutions via an interactive multi-criteria approach. Research in Transportation Economics. 2019; 73 ():53-62.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Paolo Delle Site; Michela Le Pira; Céline Sacha Carrocci. 2019. "Planning with stakeholders: Analysing alternative off-hour delivery solutions via an interactive multi-criteria approach." Research in Transportation Economics 73, no. : 53-62.
This paper aims at understanding and evaluating the environmental and economic impacts of a crowdshipping platform in urban areas. The investigation refers to the city of Rome and considers an environmental-friendly crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city, where customers/crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods in automated parcel lockers located either inside the transit stations or in their surroundings. Crowdshippers are passengers that would use the transit network anyhow for other activities (e.g., home-to-work), thus avoiding additional trips. The study requires firstly, estimating the willingness to buy a crowdshipping service like the one proposed here, in order to quantify the potential demand. The estimation is realized adopting an extensive stated preference survey and discrete choice modeling. Then, several scenarios with different features of the service are proposed and evaluated up to 2025 in terms of both externalities (local and global pollutant emissions, noise emissions and accidents reductions) and revenues. The results are useful to understand and quantify the potential of this strategy for last mile B2C deliveries. Moreover, it provides local policy-makers and freight companies with a good knowledge base for the future development of a platform for public transport-based crowdshipping and for estimating the likely impact the system could have both from an economic and environmental point of view.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Marialisa Nigro; Sergio Maria Patella; Simone Serafini. Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability 2018, 11, 145 .
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Marialisa Nigro, Sergio Maria Patella, Simone Serafini. Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability. 2018; 11 (1):145.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Marialisa Nigro; Sergio Maria Patella; Simone Serafini. 2018. "Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 145.
Employers often provide employees with either subsidized or free parking at work. This distorts relative prices of alternative commuting modes and produces inefficiencies in the transport market. To mitigate this price distortion, parking cash-out has been suggested as an effective and efficient policy to reduce single occupancy car commuting trips. By rewarding the abandonment of car parking use rather than penalizing continued parking, parking cash-out makes commuters sensitive to the opportunity cost of workplace parking while, at the same time, circumventing the opposition usually associated with the imposition of transport user fees. However, practical experiences are rare and only few studies investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of this policy option. This paper empirically tests the effects of parking cash-out on modal choice by performing a two-stage mode choice experiment among commuters in Germany. The first stage collects revealed commuting behavior data. The second stage proposes cash-out scenarios and observes stated mode choice behavior. The joint treatment of regular travel costs and cash outs allows comparing the traditional car travel demand cost elasticity and the parking cash-out elasticity. Results indicate that regardless of model specifications, parking cash-out has a negative and significant effect on the private car choice probability. This bears important implications for future transport policies.
Christos Evangelinos; Stefan Tscharaktschiew; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. Pricing workplace parking via cash-out: Effects on modal choice and implications for transport policy. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2018, 113, 369 -380.
AMA StyleChristos Evangelinos, Stefan Tscharaktschiew, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta. Pricing workplace parking via cash-out: Effects on modal choice and implications for transport policy. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2018; 113 ():369-380.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristos Evangelinos; Stefan Tscharaktschiew; Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta. 2018. "Pricing workplace parking via cash-out: Effects on modal choice and implications for transport policy." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 113, no. : 369-380.
Edoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Cathy Macharis. Urban freight policy innovation: Case studies. Research in Transportation Economics 2017, 65, 1 -2.
AMA StyleEdoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Cathy Macharis. Urban freight policy innovation: Case studies. Research in Transportation Economics. 2017; 65 ():1-2.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEdoardo Marcucci; Valerio Gatta; Cathy Macharis. 2017. "Urban freight policy innovation: Case studies." Research in Transportation Economics 65, no. : 1-2.
Cities, characterised by scarce resources and facing increasing citizens’ requests for more liveable and attractive environments, need to define and implement more efficient urban freight transport policy interventions. It is strategically relevant to perform an ex-ante in-depth policy evaluation. The paper aims at investigating the relevance, the needs and the implications of the data acquisition process by combining a focused review with an original research study. It critically compares five categories of methodological approaches adopted for policy evaluation purposes with an explicit focus on the stated preference method given its behavioural peculiarity and robustness. The review, following a systematic procedure where scientific quality is complemented by relevance and coverage, underlines a high variability in the level of sophistication for data acquisition. While a stakeholder-specific approach seems natural in all those cases where local authorities want to adopt distinct policy instruments for each stakeholder, this is also needed when homogeneous policies impacting the various stakeholders are tested. Stakeholder-specific data acquisition translates into the creation of multiple experimental designs, explicitly conceived for each stakeholder considered. A case study, intended to compare two alternative strategies for data acquisition, provides a quantitative measure of potential distortions in policy evaluation due to the adoption of a stakeholder-generic approach. Results, in terms of willingness to pay measures, show that a stakeholder-specific approach is needed not only when modelling but also in the data acquisition process.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci. Stakeholder-specific data acquisition and urban freight policy evaluation: evidence, implications and new suggestions. Transport Reviews 2016, 36, 585 -609.
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci. Stakeholder-specific data acquisition and urban freight policy evaluation: evidence, implications and new suggestions. Transport Reviews. 2016; 36 (5):585-609.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci. 2016. "Stakeholder-specific data acquisition and urban freight policy evaluation: evidence, implications and new suggestions." Transport Reviews 36, no. 5: 585-609.
This paper systematically compares finite sample performances of methods to build confidence intervals for willingness to pay measures in a choice modeling context. It contributes to the field by also considering methods developed in other research fields. Various scenarios are evaluated under an extensive Monte Carlo study. Results show that the commonly used Delta method, producing symmetric intervals around the point estimate, often fails to account for skewness in the estimated willingness to pay distribution. Both the Fieller method and the likelihood ratio test inversion method produce more realistic confidence intervals for small samples. Some bootstrap methods also perform reasonably well, in terms of effective coverage. Finally, empirical data are used to illustrate an application of the methods considered.
Valerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Luisa Scaccia. On finite sample performance of confidence intervals methods for willingness to pay measures. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2015, 82, 169 -192.
AMA StyleValerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, Luisa Scaccia. On finite sample performance of confidence intervals methods for willingness to pay measures. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2015; 82 ():169-192.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValerio Gatta; Edoardo Marcucci; Luisa Scaccia. 2015. "On finite sample performance of confidence intervals methods for willingness to pay measures." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 82, no. : 169-192.