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Dr. Ilaria Henke
University of Naples Federico II

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Published: 04 August 2021 in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
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The international literature has provided significant contributions to recognise the important role of transport and social equity, particularly in the context of participating in key life-activities, and in the quality of life. However, little has been done on the relationship between long-distance rail transport, such as High Speed Rail (HSR), and social equity assessment. The objective of this manuscript is to fill this gap, by recognising that policy makers should be aware about possible effects of disparities brought by the interventions. Indeed, when planning the introduction of similar infrastructures or managing their impacts, they should focus on integrative solutions taking into account that the gap between primary and peripheral areas should not increase. Through a methodology made up of four steps, where the Gini index has been considered, it results that HSR increases inequity in four European countries.

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Francesca Pagliara; Ilaria Henke; Lucia Russo; Marc Guigon. Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 2021, 1 -23.

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Francesca Pagliara, Ilaria Henke, Lucia Russo, Marc Guigon. Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 2021; ():1-23.

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Francesca Pagliara; Ilaria Henke; Lucia Russo; Marc Guigon. 2021. "Is High Speed Rail a Geographically Inclusive System? Evidence from some European Countries." Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy , no. : 1-23.

Conference paper
Published: 01 May 2021 in Inventive Computation and Information Technologies
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Today technological innovation and digital transformation represent a concrete challenge for the transport sector, toward high quality and sustainable infrastructures and services. Within this issue, road mobility is undergoing a digital transformation based on both automation and connectivity, which promises to improve road safety, energy consumption and driving comfort, through vehicles to vehicles and vehicles to infrastructure communication and interaction (devices). The process of digital transformation for road infrastructures (and services) involves many aspects which concerns not only technological problems but also regulatory and legal aspects, both for the construction of new infrastructures (or their revamping) and for the management. Starting from these considerations, the aim of the paper was twofold: i) critically analyze the current state of practice of the Italian smart roads legislation; ii) describe the first smart road pilot project in south of Italy, the A2 Mediterranean Highway, in term of both smart technologies considered and corresponding investment costs.

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Ilaria Henke; Gennaro Nicola Bifulco; Armando Carteni; Luigi Di Francesco; Antonio Di Stasio. A Smart Road Application: The A2 Mediterranean Highway Project in Italy. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2021, 690 -700.

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Ilaria Henke, Gennaro Nicola Bifulco, Armando Carteni, Luigi Di Francesco, Antonio Di Stasio. A Smart Road Application: The A2 Mediterranean Highway Project in Italy. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2021; ():690-700.

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Ilaria Henke; Gennaro Nicola Bifulco; Armando Carteni; Luigi Di Francesco; Antonio Di Stasio. 2021. "A Smart Road Application: The A2 Mediterranean Highway Project in Italy." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies , no. : 690-700.

Journal article
Published: 08 January 2021 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Early known cases of COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan (China) and in a relatively short time, it has reached more than 200 countries up to July 2020. In Italy, from 21 February 2020, (first official Italian positive case of COVID-19) until 27 July 2020, 246,286 confirmed cases were observed of which over 68,150 (28%) needed hospitalization and 35,112 died. In recent scientific research, it has been shown that the severity of symptoms and mortality rates were different not only among the various countries of the world but also in different regions of the same country. This research investigates whether and by how much air environmental conditions (such as exposure to fine particulate matter-PM2.5, sea air masses and altitude) influences the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 in Italy, once the spreading of the virus and the percentage of the elderly in the population have been accounted for. A log-linear multiple regression model was estimated where the log of the ratio of hospitalized patients per inhabitant, since the beginning of the epidemic up to July 27, has been considered as a dependent variable. Among the independent variables, the ones that have been taken into account are the spreading of the virus, the rate of people over 50 years of age, the concentration of PM2.5, the rate of population living by the sea, the rate of green public space for each resident and the ratio of population living at a high altitude. The results showed an increase in the hospitalization rate in terms of the percentage of people over 50 and the average concentration of PM2.5. If average limits of PM2.5 concentration allowed by the current European regulations (25 µg/m3) were respected in all Italian provinces, that would have led to 7339 less hospitalizations for COVID-19 (−11%). On the contrary, near the coast there were lower hospitalized cases in the referred period. In the hypothetical case that no Italians lived near the sea, about 1363 (+2%) more hospitalizations would have been recorded in the analysis period in addition to the effect of a lower PM concentration. This paper wanted to investigate which are the areas with a higher risk of hospitalization in Italy, so as to help the Italian Government to strengthen Health System measures, predicting the most suffering areas and health care systems. According to the results, this is directly related to the severity of symptoms which decreased with the long-time exposure to the sea.

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Ennio Cascetta; Ilaria Henke; Luigi Di Francesco. The Effects of Air Pollution, Sea Exposure and Altitude on COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 452 .

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Ennio Cascetta, Ilaria Henke, Luigi Di Francesco. The Effects of Air Pollution, Sea Exposure and Altitude on COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (2):452.

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Ennio Cascetta; Ilaria Henke; Luigi Di Francesco. 2021. "The Effects of Air Pollution, Sea Exposure and Altitude on COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates in Italy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 452.

Journal article
Published: 25 November 2020 in Sustainability
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In the transport sector, a rational and shared planning process is commonly based on the comparison of different design alternatives through quantitative evaluations and stakeholders’ engagement. Among the most adopted evaluation methods, there are cost–benefit analysis (CBA) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA). Both these methods have strengths and weaknesses, which do not allow the conclusion that one technique is dominant over the other. Starting from these considerations, the aim of this paper is to propose a sustainable evaluation process for investments in the transport sector, based on the combined use of both CBA and MCA analysis and a stakeholders’ engagement. The proposed evaluation method was also applied to a real case study: the decision-making process for a new highway in a high naturalistic and touristic area in north of Italy. Furthermore, a “weighted criteria process definition” based on the Delphi method was also performed within a public engagement process. Research results show that the application of both the evaluation analyses (CBA and MCA) allows the selection of the most rational althernative from a sustainable, shared and technical point of view. Precisely, the estimations performed underline that the CBA analysis significantly underestimated the non-users’ benefits, while the opposite occurred for the MCA analysis. The incidence of the non-users’ benefits is only the 14% of the total for the CBA, while it reaches more than the 79% for the MCA. This result is very relevant underling how, for a decision-making processes aimed in comparing different design alternatives for which non-users impacts are expected as relevant against the users ones, the unique application of the most consolidated CBA analyses are not always adequate, while the joint use of the two evaluation methods ensures robust and rational choices for a sustainable development.

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Ilaria Henke; Armando Cartenì; Luigi Francesco. A Sustainable Evaluation Processes for Investments in the Transport Sector: A Combined Multi-Criteria and Cost–Benefit Analysis for a New Highway in Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9854 .

AMA Style

Ilaria Henke, Armando Cartenì, Luigi Francesco. A Sustainable Evaluation Processes for Investments in the Transport Sector: A Combined Multi-Criteria and Cost–Benefit Analysis for a New Highway in Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):9854.

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Ilaria Henke; Armando Cartenì; Luigi Francesco. 2020. "A Sustainable Evaluation Processes for Investments in the Transport Sector: A Combined Multi-Criteria and Cost–Benefit Analysis for a New Highway in Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9854.

Journal article
Published: 28 August 2020 in Sustainability
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Sustainability can be defined as the capacity to satisfy current needs without compromising future generations. Sustainable development clashes with the transport sector because of the latter’s high fossil fuels usage, consumption of natural resources and emission of pollutant and greenhouse gases. Electric mobility seems to be one of the best options to achieve both the sustainability goals and the mobility needs. This paper critically analysed weaknesses, strengths and application fields of electric mobility, proposing a real case application of an e-mobility bus fleet in Sorrento peninsula (Italy). The aim and the originality of this research was to propose a public transport design methodology based on a “strong sustainability” policy and applied to a real case study. To be precise, the renewing of the “old” bus fleet with a diesel plug-in hybrid one charged by a photovoltaic system was proposed, aiming to both improve environmental sustainability and perform an investment return for a private operator in managing the transport service. The proposed case study is particularly suitable because the peculiar morphology of the Sorrento peninsula in Italy does not allow other types of public transport services (e.g., rail, metro). Furthermore, this area, rich in UNESCO sites, has always been an international tourist destination because of the environment and landscape. Estimation results show that the new e-mobility bus service will be able to reduce the greenhouse gases emissions up to the 23%, with a financial payback period of 10 years for a private investor.

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Armando Cartenì; Ilaria Henke; Clorinda Molitierno; Luigi Di Francesco. Strong Sustainability in Public Transport Policies: An e-Mobility Bus Fleet Application in Sorrento Peninsula (Italy). Sustainability 2020, 12, 7033 .

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Armando Cartenì, Ilaria Henke, Clorinda Molitierno, Luigi Di Francesco. Strong Sustainability in Public Transport Policies: An e-Mobility Bus Fleet Application in Sorrento Peninsula (Italy). Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7033.

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Armando Cartenì; Ilaria Henke; Clorinda Molitierno; Luigi Di Francesco. 2020. "Strong Sustainability in Public Transport Policies: An e-Mobility Bus Fleet Application in Sorrento Peninsula (Italy)." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7033.

Journal article
Published: 07 August 2020 in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
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The deployment of HSR services in the recent decades has been, arguably, the most significant innovation for intercity travel around the globe. HSR has brought impacts which have been widely studied in different countries in relation to the different socioeconomic, territorial and transport characteristics. This paper analyses the economic growth, the transport accessibility and the social impacts observed in Italy after ten years of HSR operation, as well as the estimated impacts of the system completion. The Italian case study is of particular interest since along the 1,467 km of new high speed line (300 km/h), a combination of major cities distances and a unique HSR competitive market, producing prices reductions and more daily trains, brought a 200% increase of HSR demand (from 15 to 45 millions of passengers/year). Estimations results show that, on average, HSR in Italy contributed to a significant increase in transport accessibility (+32%) for the zones along the HSR network, while only marginal for the others (+6%). Impacts on the economic growth show that HSR has contributed to an extra growth of per capita GDP of + 2.6% in 10 years and would have contributed to a further increase of 3.6% if the final project scenario (HSR_N) would had been completed by 2018. Regional (horizontal) equity impacts were evaluated in terms of the Gini indexes variations with respect to the distribution of the transport accessibility. It results that HSR in Italy has decreased equity in terms of users’ travel time accessibility of 11%, increasing the differences between the zones served by HSR and those not. If the HSR_N scenario would have been completed equity indices would have increased of 29% with respect to the pre-HSR 2008 scenario, thus reducing regional inequalities in the country. Results show that the HSR project was a country-level “game changer” in Italy, suggesting that the wider economic benefits, the assumptions on market regulation, the effects on regional disparities and the compensatory measures should be included in the ex ante and ex post evaluation of similar projects.

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Ennio Cascetta; Armando Cartenì; Ilaria Henke; Francesca Pagliara. Economic growth, transport accessibility and regional equity impacts of high-speed railways in Italy: ten years ex post evaluation and future perspectives. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2020, 139, 412 -428.

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Ennio Cascetta, Armando Cartenì, Ilaria Henke, Francesca Pagliara. Economic growth, transport accessibility and regional equity impacts of high-speed railways in Italy: ten years ex post evaluation and future perspectives. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2020; 139 ():412-428.

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Ennio Cascetta; Armando Cartenì; Ilaria Henke; Francesca Pagliara. 2020. "Economic growth, transport accessibility and regional equity impacts of high-speed railways in Italy: ten years ex post evaluation and future perspectives." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 139, no. : 412-428.

Journal article
Published: 21 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The transport sector is often the center of political and scientific debate on sustainability due to negative externalities produced by the daily movement of goods and people which impact both on the environment and on quality of life. Great interest has therefore focused on impact estimation of transport infrastructures/services with respect to social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Among the consolidated assessment methods, the cost–benefit analysis (CBA) is one of the quantitative tools representing the final stage (decision) in decision-making processes, which compares design alternatives and verifies the sustainability of a transport project. Recently the Italian Government proposed the national “Guidelines for Assessment of Investment Projects” based on CBA. The aim of this research is twofold: a) from a research point of view, to propose a sustainable evaluating method for impact assessment of the new transportation infrastructure aimed in performing both rational and shared decisions with the territories; b) for a practical point of view, to propose a first application of the CBA Italian guideline useful for the professional practice in the field of public investment evaluation. A quantitative impacts assessment of social, economic and environmental sustainability was performed for a revamping project of a new “greenway” in the south of Italy. Furthermore, also the social equity impacts produced by the new road infrastructure was also quantified, estimating the GINI indexes variation as a measure of effectiveness.

ACS Style

Ilaria Henke; Armando Cartenì; Clorinda Molitierno; Assunta Errico. Decision-Making in the Transport Sector: A Sustainable Evaluation Method for Road Infrastructure. Sustainability 2020, 12, 764 .

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Ilaria Henke, Armando Cartenì, Clorinda Molitierno, Assunta Errico. Decision-Making in the Transport Sector: A Sustainable Evaluation Method for Road Infrastructure. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):764.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ilaria Henke; Armando Cartenì; Clorinda Molitierno; Assunta Errico. 2020. "Decision-Making in the Transport Sector: A Sustainable Evaluation Method for Road Infrastructure." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 764.