Francesca Pagliara

• MSc Civil Engineering, PhD in Road Inf. Trans. Sys
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Naples Federico II

Reliable road-network performance is important for socio‐economic development and emergency response. This paper investigates road network vulnerability by assessing traffic disruptions on mobility in the Piana del Sele and Irpinia, two inner regions of Campania (Italy). Different scenarios of traffic disruptions were simulated using the PTV-Visum...

The dramatic experience due to COVID-19 spread has reshaped travel preferences of public transport (PT) users worldwide, especially in urban areas. As the PT is expected to recover its major role in such areas, it is important to understand the factors influencing PT users’ willingness to pay (WTP) for onboard safety measures, in the event of futur...

This textbook provides a comprehensive learning resource material for tourism transportation. Exploring the interrelationship between transport and tourism, it demonstrates how different types of transportation systems interact and are combined within the tourism destination framework. It addresses topics such as the geographical aspects of tourism...

This research aims to assess how residents perceive the impact of tourism on different dimensions, including the economy, environment, culture, society, and politics. Tourism plays a key role in stimulating a city’s economy. Nevertheless, it also presents challenges for residents, influencing their quality of life and mobility. Recently, the city o...

Purpose The objective of this paper is to propose a methodology to estimate the benefits and costs of stakeholder engagement (SE). Indeed, in the transport sector, it is consolidated that a good decision-making process foresees the involvement of the main stakeholders, but what are the benefits and costs of the SE? How to quantify these impacts and...

In 1987, Gro Harlem Brundtland, president of the World Commission on Environment and Development established in 1983, presented the report “Our common future” formulating some guidelines for sustainable development that are still valid today. Sustainable development is intented as the needs satisfaction of present generation, without compromising t...

Introduction The COVID-19 outbreak has not only had a fatal impact on people's lives, but it has also threatened the entire world of transportation. The number of trips, the mobility habits and the users’ mode choices from the beginning of the pandemic has changed significantly over the last year. Objective This manuscript analyzed the effects of...

This research evaluates the advanced rail transportation infrastructure as the foundation of sustainable urban mobility. Sydney's rail transportation was evaluated as a smart city. To undertake this evaluation, twelve of Sydney’s inner municipalities were selected within Sydney's urban area – a 35 km radial distance from the CBD. To further examine...

The role played by High-Speed Rail (HSR) systems in terms of encouraging travel, tourism and boosting the labor productivity of the cities and regions served has been widely studied. Since 2008 Italy has experienced the launch of HSR in the country. Despite the great innovation in Italy, impacts of HSR on property prices remain unexplored. The adde...

In the international literature, several studies have analyzed the impact of HSR on tourists' behavior with qualitative and quantitative approaches. However, they have not been able to solve the problem of capturing the spatial and temporal variation by fitting a regression model at a local point. The spatial heterogeneity within local models, such...

Transportation remains one of the most significant elements in the Tourism system and is all-pervasive in the geographical constituents of it. The transportation systemTransportation system forms a network in every site connecting its nook and corner, linking its attractions, industries, gatewaysGateway, and connecting transportation nodesNode with...

Transportation is integral to tourism, as it makes destinations accessible to tourists. While accessibilityAccessibility is critical to a destinationDestination for its competitive survival, the significance of tourism transportation in a destination is not just limited to ensuring accessAccessto destinationsDestination or attractions located withi...

Waterborne transport, which refers to the transportation of people or cargo via waterways, is a significant component of tourism. Water tourism represents the use of different types of sailing equipment and appliances for transportation and recreationRecreation purposes by visitors. Whether used to transport cargo or passengers, water transportWate...

Transport is integral and inherent in the process of tourism, and the increase in tourism would certainly lead to an increase in transportation. When destinations emerge and turn out to be major tourist centers, demand for transport will also increase by default, which will have a consequent increase in transport infrastructure. This is in addition...

Cycling first developed in the late nineteenth century, and, during then, the bicycle was considered an independent means of transport for the upper class of the society.

Rail tourism is heterogeneous and attractive to all types of customers such as young people, adults, retired, families, railway enthusiasts, and domestic and international tourists, and the opportunities to promote and enjoy leisure by rail are several. Some of these include trains as hotels and unique rail tour packages. Digital technologies provi...

The term “transportation systemTransportation system” is usually referred to the equipment and logistics of transporting passengers and goods. It covers the trips by all means of transport, from cars and buses to boats, aircraft, and even space travel. The objective of a transportation system is to coordinate the movement of people, goods, and vehi...

Road transport is the most inevitable form of transportation in the sphere of tourism, and other modes of transport certainly need road transport in varying degrees to ensure accessibility to destinations and tourist attractions.

Travel has been a euphoric recreational activity of people for centuries. When it takes place with the freedom of movement, its experience is greatly enhanced. Some people prefer to enjoy the experience of movement by driving a vehicle to visit places and this preference has led to the rise of Drive Tourism, often used interchangeably with the term...

The transport sector occupies an important place in a tourism system and is one of the most critical components of the tourism infrastructure. Of late, public transportation has increased significantly in the parlance of tourism. In a destination, public transportPublic transport (PT) services are developed to provide accessAccessand accessibilityA...

AccessibilityAccessibility needs to be among the prime priorities of a destination. It is central to the spatial interactionsSpatial interaction that occur as part of people's movement for the purpose of visiting. According to van der Berg et al. (Urban tourism: Performance and strategies in Eight European cities. Ashgate, Aldershot, 1995), externa...

Space is no longer the domain of just professional astronauts or for scientific explorations; it is now accessible to all, even for recreation. The platform is ready for people to explore Space, up to the Karman Line, or the International Space Station (ISS, and efforts have begun to visit even the Moon and Mars.

As there are many types of tourism, related activities, behaviors, and movement patterns, various approaches, and levels of analysis have been developed in academia and tourism practice. While some may not be very sensitive concerning data used and definitions applied, others may be very demanding in this respect.

Drive tourism is coined interchangeably for self-drive car tourism as well. Indeed, drive tourism is dominated by automobile/car drive tourism. Earlier, Prideaux (2001) noted that the drive tourists travel from the origin point to the destination by car, which can be either owned or rented.

The roles of transportation have already been discussed in the previous chapters. The intricate relationship between tourism and transportation has multiple dimensions, and the role of transportation for recreationRecreation purposes is being increasingly noticed in the tourism literature. Modern tourism is featured with an increased presence of re...

Indeed, the majority of the tourists, more than fifty percent of those crossing borders each year, arrive at their destinations by air transport. According to United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO. (2012). Global Report on Aviation: Responding to the needs of new tourism markets and destinations. Madrid, Spain: World Tourism Organization...

Carrying out correctly and objectively a CBA (Cost Benefit Analysis) means planning and designing sustainable infrastructures. For the case of infrastructures, it is very important to demonstrate in the most efficient way the impacts that would result from its construction, and to show them to all the involved stakeholders. In this context, the mar...

International literature on High-Speed Rail (HSR) systems has comprehensively analysed the different socioeconomic impacts derived from the deployment of these infrastructures. The increasing phenomena of business tourism and events organisation in recent years have been identified as potential sources of revenue for cities interested in holding th...

Equity and inclusion are important issues for a sustainable society, so we should promote transport infrastructures that are equitable and inclusive. The socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR) systems are important considerations for policymakers when planning new lines, assessing their feasibility, and identifying financing sources for sus...

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), an...

In recent years, the air transport sector has played a significant role in the economy of the areas served. The demand for air travel has doubled every fifteen years and has grown faster with respect to other industries. This is also due to the introduction of low-cost airlines (LCA). In the coming decades, more efficient management of airports wil...

Purpose Through the significance matrix, this paper aims to investigate and explore the main sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructure projects. Sydney’s Metro mega transportation infrastructure is used as a case study. Sydney’s Metro was selected because of its sustainability challenges faced because of the areas’ diverse ecolog...

The extent to which high-speed rail (HSR) could be socially egalitarian has been disregarded, despite evidence that upper social-occupational groups are the primary users of high-speed trains (HSTs). In this context, this review aims to fill the gap by investigating the social attributes of HSR passengers based on worldwide, available ex post data...

Over the centuries, the means of transport have changed due to the technological development, and one of the most interesting sectors is that of rail, which has experienced a real revolution. Indeed, investments in High Speed Rail (HSR) have been significant and new projects are going to be built around the world. Fast trains represent comfortable,...

The choice of locating a retail store in a given area is among the most important decisions that retailers have to make for the long term success of their business. A good location allows for easy access, attracts customers and increases sales. This paper proposes an ex-ante analysis by measuring retailers’ perceptions with respect to the inaugurat...

An economic analysis identifies, measures, and compares the costs and benefits of alternative interventions, with the objective of supporting decisions concerning the best use of limited resources. The cost benefit analysis (CBA) has played a significant role within the entire decision-making process, and is the principal assessment methodology. In...

High-speed rail (HSR) and tourism are closely related activities since improved mobility is perceived to facilitate tourist behavioral changes. The interest in research is very high and this contribution tries to provide an insight into this topic by making a comparison between the estimation of the parametric Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE)...

Airport planning is usually defined as a systematic process that considers the future management of airport operations. There exist different airport planning studies which are usually known as airport masterplans that include as important sections: (1) facilities; (2) financial; (3) economic; (4) environmental; (5) organizational; and (6) strategi...

Retail location choice and transportation systems are strictly dependent on each other. If, from one hand, the former has clear effects on the latter (being one of the determinants of travel demand), it is interesting to assess also the reverse impact. In this respect, notwithstanding the impact of accessibility to metro stations has been investiga...

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 objective of this manuscript is to understand whether the policies regarding tourism and transport affect positively citizens ‘trust in local institutions. A survey was employed to citizens of the metropolitan area of Naples (in Italy), aiming at capturing citizens’ perceptions with respect to the positive and negative impacts concerning touris...

This proposal adopts a holistic approach to strategic transport investment by discussing the wider economic impacts (WEIs) analysis method in terms of several dominant and emerging methods. The WEIs analysis goes beyond the effects captured in a standard cost-benefit analysis (CBA). A CBA addresses the market for transport services and infrastructu...

The objective of this paper is to highlight the link between the development of the transport system and the trust that citizens place in institutions' initiatives. A theoretical model has been specified according to which perceived power and knowledge of the transportation system influence the perceived benefits of local policies as well as the aw...

This research establishes the theoretical link between the development of tourism and citizens' trust. The research is grounded in political economy of state intervention in tourism and draws from social exchange theory to build the theoretical model. The latter incorporates variables such as trust, power, knowledge, and benefits and costs of touri...

Background Route choice set definition is a very sensitive phase of the route choice simulation. Several heuristics, generally based on shortest path algorithm repetition, give as output choice sets that are very large, lading to questions about their behavioural consistency. Objective This paper proposes a comparison of the main route choice set...

In this paper the impact of High Speed Rail (HSR) on the tourism market is analysed. The original and added value of this contribution is in the proposed methodology, which considers the Geographically Weighted Regression technique, incorporated within a Poisson model. This approach allows measuring the relationship between independent and dependen...

This paper provides a contribution to the international literature by applying regression tree methods to the analysis of the expected effects of the High Speed Rail project in Italy on the tourism market. This approach, as far as the author knows, has never been applied in this context. Tourism and transport information have been gathered for 99 I...

This study deals with the ex‐post evaluation of ten major transport projects which were co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund in the period 2000‐2013 and located across nine EU Member States. The original contribution of this study is represented by the combination of the traditional ex‐post Cost‐Benefit approa...

Although transport infrastructure is one of the prominent factors that make Spain a major tourist destination, the international literature has revealed that the opening of new High-Speed Rail (HSR) lines is not sufficient by itself in order to increase tourist outputs in the new connected destinations. Nevertheless, the roles played by different c...

Alan Wilson’s contributions to the development of dynamic models of network evolution are presented in this manuscript. His ideas, first represented in the dynamic retail model, were transferred to the task of modelling the evolution of transport networks. He also anticipated the question of handling multi-modal situations. Indeed, his model could...

Background The transportation industry and the tourism market are related to each other. Specifically a place with an efficient transportation system can be in general considered a good tourist destination. Objective In this manuscript, the objective is to demonstrate whether the presence of High Speed Rail can affect tourists' choices of a given...

The objective of this study is to analyze the tourism spatial interaction that defines two scenarios, i.e., the actual one with the current high-speed rail (HSR) network, and the future one with an extension of the HSR network, considering as a case study the Capital region of China. The impact of HSR on the spatial distribution characteristics is...

The aim of this paper is to analyse through a systematic literature review the main topics studied on a relatively new concept: e-grocery. This study examines the existing literature through the use of some interactive Scopus applications with the goal to provide: (1) a better understanding of the main topics that have been analysed up to now; (2)...

Airport Management is fundamental to support and enhance airport operations from landside to airside, from landing to take off. In this respect, the question to improve the access to an airport infrastructure becomes a crucial point to be investigated. Indeed the objective of this manuscript is to analyse the impacts on road mobility in the forecou...

en Traditional cost/benefit analysis does not explicitly consider public participation in its computation. It neglects that stakeholders should be considered during the process of project evaluation. In this paper the costs and benefits of participatory activity are measured with the aim of analysing whether this economic measurement provides a way...

Airport accessibility is an important criterion for airport choice and therefore also for an airport competition. When users choose an itinerary, they think about the transport chain from an origin to a destination. Therefore, the variables having an impact on their decision for a given alternative go beyond the price and quality of air services fr...

This paper defines a need-based theoretical framework for evaluating transport policies and investment. It focuses on the assessment of personal transport needs as a fundamental part of human rights and social inclusion. The paper starts by elaborating a need-based methodology, where users’ satisfaction together with the identified time threshold d...

Introduction Very few authors in the literature have dealt with the issue of social exclusion related to HSR systems. Methods A Revealed Preference survey has been delivered to English users of transport systems for long distances journeys in order to investigate their perception of HSR-related social exclusion. Results The main result of the sur...

This paper highlights the expected impacts of the High Speed/High Capacity Rail project in Italy on tourism. An empirical analysis has been carried out with the aid of a database containing information both on tourism and transport for 77 Italian municipalities, during the 2006–2013 period. The specification of a panel model simultaneously consider...

Most of the impacts brought about by high-speed rail (HSR) systems have been widely examined in the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the question of social exclusion and economic investments in HSR systems. This paper aims to fill this gap by focusing on understanding the reasons why users feel they are socially excluded from...

In this paper transport infrastructures are presented highlighting their role in promoting sustainable mobility, I.e. reducing congestion and therefore improving the quality of the environ-ment within which they are conceived. The implementation of the Great Project Naplest in the city of Naples in the south of Italy is here reported as case study....

There is a growing but controversial literature concerning the link between high-speed rail (HSR) services and the tourism market. The aim of this paper is to identify this link in the case of two theme parks, namely Disneyland Paris and Futuroscope Parks, both served by an HSR station. Two revealed preference surveys were carried out interviewing...

It is recognised in the literature that spatial accessibility is a measure of spatial equity and can be represented by the ease of travelling from an origin to a given destination via a given mode or set of transport modes. Although urban areas can benefit from improvements in accessibility when a new high-speed rail line is built, equity issues ma...

This chapter shows through the explicit introduction of hierarchies into dynamic models of evolution that the ideas represented in the dynamic retail model can be transferred to the task of modelling the evolution of transport networks. If each iteration is considered to be a time period, the model can then be applied in transport planning. The mod...

Very few contributions in the literature have dealt with the issue of social exclusion related to High Speed Rail systems. The objective of this manuscript is to understand what are the factors excluding users from choosing High Speed Rail services considering as case study Spain. For this purpose, a Revealed Preference survey was employed in Novem...

Many medium sized Italian cities present pollution problems, due to their geographical position and climate conditions and mainly due to congested traffic flows. Impacts on the health of residents are becoming more frequent and also risky. Thus different policies have been proposed to reduce environmental effects. Among these, the use of low or zer...

According to the innovation in services theory any substitution or addition of characteristics to a service is considered as incremental innovation with the objective of improving the final client’s utility. Moreover by service relationship, it is meant the establishment of relationships between the client and the provider with the objective of pro...

The Brundtland Commission's report in 1987 defined sustainable development as development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. On the basis of this statement Travel Demand Management policies have been proposed with the objective of changing travel behaviour and...

The Brundtland Commission's report in 1987 defined sustainable development as development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. On the basis of this statement Travel Demand Management policies have been proposed with the objective of changing travel behaviour and...

The analysis of how tourists select their holiday destinations along with the factors determining their choices is very important for promoting tourism. In particular, transportation is supposed to have a great influence on the tourists' decisions. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of High Speed Rail (HSR) systems with respect to a d...