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Elena Maggi, PhD in Transport, Traffic and Environment, is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy), where she teaches Industrial Economics, Transport Economics and Innovation, Transport Decision Making. She is Delegate of Rector for Relations with the Territory and Businesses and Mobility Manager of University of Insubria. She is member of the scientific board of the PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions (University of Insubria) and of the board of master “Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics” (University IUAV of Venice). she was member of the Advisory Board of SmartFuSION European project (on city logistics), REGENERA European Network (URBACT Programme; expert on accessibility) and NEPTUNE Supporting Co-operation Network
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October 2005 - October 2012
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Cycling tourism gained a growing popularity in non‐urban travel experiences, but the use of eventual complementary motorised vehicles may generate emissions, negatively impacting the environment. The paper, focusing on the role of public transport for intra‐ and inter‐destination trips, has a twofold objective. First, it aims to identify the differ...
The transition from a linear to a circular production system involves transforming waste into valuable resources, reintroducing them into the production cycle, and thereby generating value. One of the major challenges for the coming years is to implement sustainable strategies for waste management and valorisation. In particular, current recovery s...
The transportation field represents cities major air pollution source, causing around 20% of the total GHG emissions at the European level. Among others, road transport contributes to the highest share of overall transport emissions. In this framework, cities are starting to introduce low and zero-emission zones, restricting access for Internal Com...
This paper investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies adopted by urban consolidation centres on the competition between logistics service providers. Taking into consideration pollution charges issued by city councils to reduce CO 2 emissions in freight distribution, we study a Hotelling-like market setting where log...
In the last years, sustainability has become an important issue in tourism debate, and more, cycling tourism as an alternative and green way of travel during holidays has gained popularity. However, the choice of other transport means, complementary to bikes, is of key importance to address the sustainability of cycling experiences. In this paper,...
In the last years, sustainable travels have included bike tourists visiting cities to enjoy cultural and urban environments. Yet, when considering cycling tourists' intra-destination trips by motorized vehicles, the extent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of those tourism experiences. In this paper we study the bike...
As road traffic accidents (RTAs) cause enormous economic and human losses, especially in developing countries, numerous research efforts are needed to identify the key risk factors that significantly influence accident and crash severity. Despite that Dhaka city is registering alarming rises in related deaths and severe injuries, Bangladesh has yet...
Despite the negative environmental impact of private cars, especially when driven alone, thousands of college commuters around the World are still car dependent. In order to promote eco-friendly commuting and reduce the GHGs caused by cars, different Travel Demand Management (TDM) policies are in place at many colleges, but they do not usually cons...
As sustainability has become a key and urgent challenge both in urban and suburban contexts, in the last years commuting patterns of university populations have received a growing attention from scholars and policymakers. Urgent solutions are required to improve the people quality of life, by encouraging, especially in systematic mobility, the use...
Negli ultimi anni ha assunto particolare interesse il concetto di logistics social responsibility, inteso come un insieme di pratiche di sostenibilità che perseguono lo scopo principale di ricercare soluzioni efficienti nell’organizzazione della supply chain e, nello stesso tempo, disegnare strategie per una mobilità delle merci a basso impatto amb...
In recent decades China has become an important source of official finance for African countries, especially for infrastructures. Most railways in Africa, built in the colonial period and then managed by state owned companies, experienced poor performances and deteriorated since independence. From the end of the last century, international financia...
Cycle tourism is considered as a trendy opportunity of local development that should be taken into consideration by several destinations to (further) increase tourism according to the sustainable development approach. It is a broad and complex phenomenon that involves various social and economic actors. Cycle tourists are looking for new and deep e...
This paper explores the social, demographic, economic, and other relevant determinants of road accident victims’ awareness and knowledge regarding traffic rules. Data were collected from 200 victims of road traffic accidents(RTAs) in Khulna City, Bangladesh, using face-to-face surveys and inter-views. Using probit model estimation, seven factors we...
In many developed countries, ageing trends have called for mobility policies oriented to active travels for older adults, preventing some diseases. As a result, in the transport and health literature, the elderly's psycho-physical health is growingly recognized as linked to the accessibility to local public transport (LPT) and its usage frequency....
The paper aims to assess the potential impact of different public policies for transport sustainability on the commuters' mode choice in an urban area and on the associated PM emissions. An agent-based model simulates the choice of the transport means by a sample of Italian urban commuters according to the means relative price, social influence dyn...
The paper aims to assess the potential impact of different public policies for transport sustainability on the commuters’ mode choice in an urban area and on the associated PM emissions. An agent-based model simulates the choice of the transport means by a sample of Italian urban commuters according to the means relative price, social influence dyn...
In modern societies, the understanding of how active mobility affects the elderly’s psycho-physical well-being is crucial to design ageing-friendly transport measures. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this systematic review points out the mobility impact on three elements of the EU Active Ageing Index: health, independence and social
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1.Background
Together with decreasing birth rates, the advances in medicine pushed up life expectancy and are leading to ageing populations in many industrialized countries. The share of the population over 65 years old in the OECD countries is expected to reach 25.1% in 2050, from 7.7% in 1950 (OECD, 2015). In order to face these demographic chall...
In OECD countries, the population share of people over 65 years old increased from 7.7% in 1950 to 17.8% in 2010 and is expected to reach 25% in 2050. Despite improved healthcare and welfare systems have been increasing life expectancy rates, active ageing should gain larger attention, especially regarding the impact of mobility on elderly life con...
Both medical advancements and decreasing birth rates are among the main contributors of increasingpopulation over 65 years old in the OECD countries,from 7.7% in 1950 to 25.1% by 2050. Nowadays, many older people are living in cities and the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities established by the World Health Organization (WHO) str...
Together with decreasing birth rates, advances in medicine have pushed up life expectancy and are leading to ageing populations in many industrialized countries. The share of the population over 65 years old in the OECD countries is expected to reach 25.1% in 2050, from 7.7% in 1950. In order to face the demographic challenges, policy makers need t...
By 2050, the over 65 years old population group is estimated to reach 25.1% in the OECD countries, from 7.7% in 1950. The ageing population will expose to challenges the healthcare and pension system, thesectors providing ageing-related goods and services, the society and the environment.Nowadays, many older people live in urban places and the Worl...
The demographic projections of the population in the OECD countries indicate that the share of the old people will reach 25.1% in 2050 from 7.7% in 1950. There are a wide number of challenges to be faced by the policy makers ranging from increased healthcare expenditures and pensions to consumer goods and services for the elderly. Following the gui...
The ageing of the worldwide population raises a number of future issues with respect to the provision of services adjusted to the elderly needs and the impact on healthcare and pension system. World Health Organization proposes the approach of active ageing and mobility consists an integrable part of this process.The public transport system can be...
The paper provides an empirical analysis of urban freight transport in the city center of Turin through the use of Agent-based Modelling. The aim is to explore to what extent the policies fostered by Turin’s municipality within the European project NOVELOG (New Cooperative Business Models and Guidance for Sustainable City Logistics) could trigger m...
To develop sustainable communities, car dominance in commuting habits and low
propension to eco-friendly means, especially in small and medium towns, are problems that
need an urgent solution. With the aim to map modal choices and evaluate the usage of
public transit in central and suburban poles of attraction, data of the Mobility Survey of the
Un...
The railway system is a fundamental component of the economy of most countries, since it has the capability to transport every day millions of passengers as well as millions of dollars' worth of goods from origin to destination. According to many empirical CO2 emissions, is one of the most environmentally friendly and safe transportation modes. Mor...
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In the last two decades economics of complexity has provided new tools to improve the analysis of complex systems. The supply of public goods and services is an example of economic problems implying complex systems. This chapter gives some insights on the need to use advanced tools to analyse the effects of the local regulation in high-complexity s...
In recent years several European municipalities have paired market-based measures with urban distribution centres (UDC) in order to reduce CO2 emissions and make more sustainable urban freight flows. However, UDCs may add reloading costs and extra delivery times which have relevant impact on b...
The paper analyses light forms of Public-Private Partnership (PPP), namely management and service contracts, in the water supply sector of Sub-Saharan Africa, based on original research in Malawi and on a review of five additional case studies. We refer to information asymmetries and contract theory to explain the observed performances of the PPPs....
This paper provides a critical review of research on Agent-Based Models (ABMs) focusing on urban mobility, dealing either with passengers or with freight transport. The work concentrates on urban areas where public policies aiming at improving the sustainability of city systems necessarily affect both passengers and freight dimensions. Traffic in t...
The chapter moves from the belief that adopting a supply chain approach is crucial to understand how urban freight distribution works and what will be the impact of the various potential urban transport policies on supply chain performance. According to a recent strand of the literature, the chapter aims at (a) characterizing the urban supply chain...
The present paper deals with the impact of manufacturing internationalisation, in the forms of international trade, cooperation agreements - measured by inward and outward processing trade (IPT and OPT, respectively) - and FDI, on the transport industry employment. Descriptive statistics and econometric analysis are carried out at the ‘regional-ind...
In the last decades the increasing facility in moving and the simultaneous fall of the transportation costs have strongly increased the tourist flows. As a consequence, different destinations, especially those which are rich of natural resources, unable or unready to sustain huge tourism flows, present serious problems of sustainability and Tourism...
The globalisation of the economy, which has been fostered by the trade barriers reduction and the falling transport, communication and co-ordination costs, has changed the structure of the production processes from being concentrated in few plants to being fragmented in different plants and in different countries and has strongly increased the trad...
Le politiche di regolamentazione del traffico urbano merci finora adottate non si sono dimostrate ancora sufficientemente in grado di raggiungere l’obiettivo di migliorare il grado di efficienza privata del sistema distributivo urbano. Di conseguenza, le esternalità negative prodotte da tale traffico, in termini soprattutto di inquinamento e conges...
The internationalisation of the logistics and transport industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Given this rapid growth, fully understanding the determinants and implications of this phenomenon has been high on the agenda for both policy makers as well as academics. The inward FDI (greenfield and M&A), on which the present paper...
The paper reports some analyses put forward in the context of the METHAR Project. The purpose is the evaluation of the impact of the new technologies used onboard ships on the Maritime Education and Training systems in Europe and the identification of the future training needs. This issue is tackled by developing an ad-hoc methodology based upon th...
In the last decades the world tourist flows rapidly grew and travel and tourism has become one of the world’s highest priority industries and employers. According to UNWTO world tourism barometer, in 2008 international tourist arrivals reached 919 million (880 million in 2009, a cause of the international recession), with a growth of about 72% sinc...
Background and aim
The aim of the paper is to investigate the integration strategies (vertical, horizontal and conglomerate) undertaken by foreign logistics multinational enterprises (MNE) in Italy, and analyze the related motivations.
Methods
The empirical analysis consists of descriptive statistics, which makes use of the LogINT database, monitor...
The internationalisation of production has a strong impact on the logistics sector because it increases the flows of goods to be moved and warehousing activities, thus leading to a more complex logistics system. The aim of the article is to investigate the effects of internationalisation, undertaken by the industrial district firms located in Venet...
The aim of the paper is to investigate the indirect impact of internationalisation process, undertaken by the district firms located in Veneto region (north-eastern Italy), on the logistics’ employment change within the same industrial districts. The results of the empirical analysis have showed that within the districts there is not a clear positi...
Logistics is gaining day by day more attention in the business world and in the fields of interest of policy makers. Even so the same people who use this term frequently declare that the concept of logistics is not completely clear to them. The aim of the paper is to clarify this concept, focusing on supply chain management, a new approach that has...
The present paper deals with the impact of manufacturing internationalisation, in the forms of international trade, cooperation agreements - measured by inward and outward processing trade (IPT and OPT, respectively) - and FDI, on the transport industry employment. Descriptive statistics and econometric analysis are carried out at the ‘regional-ind...
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In un mondo dominato dall'elettronica e dall'alta tecnologia in cui la new economy sta crescendo a ritmi incalzanti, anche la logistica è chiamata ad affrontare nuove sfide ed assumere nuove vesti, tanto che ha acquisito l'appellativo di "e-logistics". L'aggiunta del suffisso "e" davanti ad ogni parola rischia però di diventare una moda, per cui tu...
In the last decades the increasing facility in accessing information and moving and the simultaneous fall of the transportation costs have strongly increased the tourist flows. Tourism has become an important industry for stimulating economic development, thanks to its extensive contribution to gross domestic product, employment, international exch...
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 integration strategies are a relatively unexplored area i...
La logistica sta assumendo un ruolo sempre più strategico come leva competitiva necessaria per sostenere l'espansione delle imprese italiane all'estero.
