Francesca Pagliara

University of Naples Federico II | UNINA · Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Today, the question of inequality related to transport systems is becoming an issue that governments, at the different territorial scales, should confront in order to find solutions and restrict the consequences [...]

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this paper a before and after analysis of the impacts of the inauguration of a new metro station in Garibaldi square in Naples in Italy will be presented. This station is part of Line 1 and it was inaugurated in January 2014. Moreover, many interventions have been carried out in Garibaldi square, surrounding the station. Therefore a reorganizati...

Tourists have different pictures of their ideal holidays which can be heterogeneous. Market segmentation is the strategic tool to account for heterogeneity among tourists by grouping them into market segments including members similar to each other and dissimilar to members of other segments. An important aspect is the study of the accessibility pr...

In Italia concepire e realizzare infrastrutture di trasporto è molto difficile, ormai da decenni. E pensare che il nostro paese è stato, dall’antichità romana fino al dopoguerra, la “patria” delle infrastrutture. Le discussioni e le polemiche che accompagnano qualunque progetto, i lunghissimi tempi di completamento, le tante opere incompiute, i cos...

Today, rail stations tend to be considered as nodes but also as places within an area. In this respect, different types of shops and services can be present in rail stations. High Speed Rail services tend to increase the importance of the train station as a place. Our aim is to show that in some cases, some firms extend the role of the station as a...

Marketing decisions and strategic planning of tourism provisions require knowledge of factors affecting this choice and type of trips and forecast of tourism flows in the short and long term. It is interesting to know how holidaymakers select their holiday destinations and investigate which factors are determining their choices. Indeed the objectiv...

Fighting against the “car only” nature of towns, the bicycle has been gaining constant ground in the urban space since the 1970s. Much more than just a sport or leisure accessory, it has become a simple and efficient means of transport that, today, is an integral part of mobility services. The bicycle is ideal for short daily journeys, lends itself...

The aim of this paper is to propose a state‐of‐the‐art about the interactions between High‐Speed Railway systems and the tourism market. Because of changes in accessibility, provided to the territories supplied by these systems, the actors expect a dynamic economy, in general, and of the tourism in particular. Although expectations are important in...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the factors influencing tourists' choice of a destination and the role of High Speed Rail (HSR) systems in this choice. The methodology proposed consists in analysing two capitals in Europe, i.e. Paris and Madrid where HSR services are important, to investigate the factors influencing holidaymakers in choos...

The continuing growth of urban regions coupled with their strong interactions with transportation systems places great emphasis on the coevolution of these systems. In this paper we introduce three developments. First, as a preliminary, the dynamic model of the evolution of retail structure is extended to show how hierarchies emerge. Secondly, thes...

Marketing decisions and strategic planning of tourism provisions require knowledge of factors affecting this choice and type of trips and forecast of tourism flows in the short and long term. It is interesting to know how holidaymakers select their holiday destinations and investigate which factors are determining their choices. Indeed the objectiv...

Informed debate can generate democratic consensus over controversial issues, effective engagement can bring about better policy directions, improved local services, possibly new ways to initiate or plan for a particular situation and a better understanding of the local context by technical experts and community members. Moreover, any transport poli...

Major investments on High Speed Rail (HSR) systems have been carried out all over the world. The existing and planned lines generate many expectations in served cities in terms of economic growth. In particular, HSR is intended to increase the number of business travellers and to foster economic activity by encouraging the development of offices in...

A contribution to hedonic price theory is provided by proposing and testing a new formulation derived from assuming that bids for dwellings follows the extreme value Fréchet distribution. The hedonic pricing method is a method for estimating the market value of certain characters or services, based on market prices of goods that incorporate, isolat...

The Campania Regional Metro System (RMS) project is an example of integrated land-use, infrastructure and operational planning. The whole project is based on the idea of integrating the existing railway lines into a single physical network by building some new links, new stations and new modal interchange facilities. The RMS project integrates also...

Public Engagement (PE) can be considered as the process of involving stakeholder concerns, needs and values in the transport decision-making process. The overall goal of engagement is to achieve a transparent decision-making process with greater input from stakeholders and their support of the decisions that are taken. Often transportation planning...

This chapter presents a spatial firm demographic model (SFM) that simulates changes in states of individual firms and their location choice behaviour. Firm location choice in such disaggregate models is characterised by large numbers of alternatives and complex spatial interdependencies among them. This chapter deals with a particular issue of firm...

Induced travel is an important component of travel demand and increasing attention has been paid to building analytical model to get more precise travel demand forecasting. In general, induced demand can be defined in terms of additional trips that would be made if travel conditions improved (less congested, lower vehicle costs or tolls). In this p...