Rosário Macário

• MSc, PhD, DSc
• Professor at University of Lisbon

Addressing a significant gap in the literature, this study commences with a dual focus: assessing sustainability evaluations, both within the airport sector and across a broader range of industries. Through a comprehensive review of 33 academic articles specific to airport sustainability, we delve into a detailed analysis of 16 papers that implemen...

Understanding customer behaviour is critical to retaining loyal customers and attracting new ones when considering an airline brand. Most airlines have frequent-flyer programs (FFPs) meant to entice passengers' decisions regarding airline brand choice. However, the determinants of the attitudes toward FFPs and their effect on airline brand choice a...

The aviation sector includes a variety of actors, each having many companies throughout the world. These companies can work together (horizontally or vertically), but they can also contend with each other within a competitive environment. These underlying relationships are discussed in the various chapters of this book, thus accounting for the book...

A dynamic aviation sector is characterized as extremely capital-intensive, coupled with a continuous process of rapid technological and organizational developments. This generates a unique industrial-economic structure, with quite a few new market entries, mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcies. The result is a heterogeneous market, with a variety...

Aviation is characterized by stiff competition—amongst all actors and at many different levels. For example, airlines compete with each other for the same passengers and freight. To this end, they often employ a variety of strategies. For example, different airline managers often opt for different pricing strategies. Such variations in strategy tra...

Revenue management (RM) has been a strategic priority for airlines for decades. More recently, ancillary revenues and targeted offers for diverse customers have become increasingly relevant. Hence, airlines need to evolve their RM into offer management, complementing flight pricing with dynamic bundling, ancillary pricing and assortment. This resea...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-021-09544-7

Around the world airports are facing capacity constraints more and more everyday, generally the runway capacities are restricted by governments and airports are unable to accept additional aircrafts. Technological improvements can decrease the necessity of policy limitations in terms of noise and air pollution. Rapidly increasing numbers of traffic...

World population forecasted growth, ageing population, rising urbanization and congestion levels carry several challenges inside urban mobility systems. The digitalization megatrend is reshaping lives worldwide while at the same time “Usership” is thriving along collaborative consumption. “Mobility-as-a-Service” (“MaaS”) emerges as a potential mobi...

O principal objetivo desta investigação é o de contribuir para a melhoria das políticas normativas de tarifação aplicadas ao congestionamento, através da sua melhor adequação às escolhas de cada sociedade e da ampliação dos mecanismos (ou margens) de análise das suas causas/efeitos. Para cumprir este objetivo desenvolveu-se a abordagem da Responsa...

The port sector is often perceived to be lagging behind in terms of innovative initiatives. It is unclear whether this is the result of a more limited engagement of the scientific community, or poor external marketing from port operators or whether the limited number of port-related scientific studies is not representative of the real volume of inn...

Urban Distribution Centres (UDC) are seen with particular interest as a solution to mitigate some of the problems accruing from the logistic activity. Past attempts reveal however that the cases of success are scarce. This manuscript describes the results of a research aimed at evaluating the perspectives of the urban logistics agents regarding the...

Accessibility planning with reference to sustainability and equity principles has been advocated as the best approach to deal with the urban mobility complexity. It has enabled the development of more sustainable and fair policies in relation to access provision. However, despite this paradigm shift, many planning initiatives in practice are still...

This chapter discusses the current trends in urban freight distribution logistics. It presents a characterization of transport operations in the supply chain in the historic centers of Lisbon and Mexico City. This involves: characterization of transport operations in the supply schemes; identification of the transport characteristics; and formulati...

The maritime and port sector is widely considered conservative concerning the ability to introduce innovation in respect to other industries. This may be due to the lack of cooperative interactions among the several players involved. It does not mean that innovation does not occur in this industry. Along with some technical innovations, managerial,...

Flexibility has been proposed as a suitable alternative or a complement to the traditional airport development approach based on Master Plans. Flexibility increases airports’ resilience to unexpected or unforeseen events such as economic recessions, regulatory restrictions or technological developments, to name a few. Although the benefits of flexi...

Air transport has many restrictions for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). This study aims to better understand the needs of PRMs and the main constraints they face within airports and aircraft. The passengers’ air rights and how they are being met for PRMs were analysed. An online survey was used to gather information about accessibility constra...

This paper reflects the ageing process as a normal and universal transformation, their physical and cognitive limitations when faced with a mobility system that is not adapted to the reality of the elders and which facts must be considered in a possible restructuring of the system in order to promote the quality of life of the elderly, access to go...

European Union regulations are not sensible to the proportionality of measures and provide fixed orientations and standards irrespective from the dimension of the airports. Additional security measures have been added over the years resulting in increasing security-related costs. The cost structure of security exhibits the existence of a relevant f...

The Master Plan has long been the traditional go-to approach to airport development. It was originally conceived for a scenario of stable growth. In recent decades, however, the airport industry has undergone substantial structural changes, with the traditional Master Plan progressively revealing limitations with regard to airports coping with the...

The success of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) implementation depends from various elements acting simultaneously and this is where complexity is born. Lack of consistency between these elements will inevitably lead the system to underperformance or even blockage. The implementation of a BRT can be the opportunity to ensure smooth mobility chains contemp...

A main success factor in the implementation of BRT systems is the user perception of the advantages of using it. Passenger information is a key tool to decrease the uncertainties of a journey on public transport and convey the benefits of the system. In this sense, BRT presents an advantage over regular bus services; due to its closed nature there...

The promise of BRT is that it can serve as a catalyst for reshaping urban space and embedding sustainable transport into the fabric of the city. In developing cities with informal bus service sectors, BRT can be used as a method to restructure public transport provision by providing the physical infrastructure for the integrated network design and...

Public transport is defined and structured in a wide variety of contractual practices, particularly the way authorities divide regulatory powers upon public transport, the way funding is organised, the ownership and transport operators' structure, the nature of the relationship between authorities and operators and the type of regulatory regime.Thr...

Under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) regulatory framework, governments have found an opportunity window for infrastructure investments beyond the traditional procurement limitations. Nevertheless, success may not be the only destination on this road. Decades after the first initiatives using this procurement method, thousands of failures, renegot...

Introduction: the complexity of urban environments Urban areas have been recognised for decades as complex systems (North 1990), akin to organic structures (Simon 1997). Both comparisons aptly acknowledge the dynamics and interactions at play in cities and metropolitan areas, complexities which tend to scale up with population and size. Transportat...

Introduction Passenger information systems play a key role in the experience of users of public transport. The main role of passenger information systems is to inform users about travel options and modes. As noted in Chapter Twelve, there are many different aspects involved in a user's decision to use specific or combined transport modes. Travel ti...

Today, Third-Party Logistics Providers (3PL) face a great pressure in order to meet its clients’ needs: customers demand a high level of time and place value for their deliveries, at lower prices, making the last mile activity not only a challenge whilst meeting the clients’ requirements but likewise in managing the profitability and the financial...

Airport managers are facing a tough challenge: how to maintain a costly infrastructure with a long life-cycle in an increasingly volatile market? Traditional airport development approaches, based on master plans are no longer adequate. Flexibility has been advanced as a possible solution. We can define flexibility as the capacity of an object to ac...

Over the last few decades, public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly used by governments to finance and manage complex operations in public investment, especially in the provision of transport infrastructure. Portugal has been in the forefront of the most active European countries in the market of PPPs, having adopted a specific leg...

This paper uses the Fertagus renegotiation results as a reference and explores the features that made it such a widely commended case, aiming to identify the best practice to be followed in other cases. The two main questions that this paper aimed to respond were: Was the success of the renegotiation process in the Fertagus contract due to mode-spe...

Over the past few decades, the European Union's (EU's) aviation industries have experienced a dwindling of their long-standing capacity to attract and retain the most promising students. A misalignment or gap between the competencies needed at work and those earned at school is just one of the several potential causes already identified. Such a gap...

The literature shows that the implementation of BRT Systems all over the world emerges as a result of different policy packages, which depend, among others, from the cultural, political, institutional and technical backgrounds of the cities. The design of the packages, in turn, influences the performance of these systems.In this paper we propose an...

In the 2011 White Paper on Transport, the European Commission calls for the provision of seamless passenger transport services across the European Union. The vision entails the integration of two transport systems that are quite independent of each other: the urban and interurban systems. Expectations of extensive integration amongst transport oper...

This research study had two main objectives: (a) to examine the potential of high-speed rail (HSR) to compete against other transport modes currently operating between Lisbon, Portugal, and Madrid, Spain, and (b) to analyze the capacity of intermodal solutions that incorporate HSR to compete with other transport modes when included in air transport...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the Special Issue on public private partnerships in transport: theory and practice, to justify its need, to highlight key issues and propose future research in response to current and future challenges. Design/methodology/approach – Setting the context of public private partnersh...

Fiscal federalism refers to the attribution of public finance functions among different levels of government. We examine Portugal's metropolitan transportation sector through the fiscal federalist lens, in light of the country's decentralization efforts and new relevant legislation. We clarify basic principles of fiscal federalism and adapt them to...

This paper aimed to explore different types of airport business models. The business model structure of Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010) can capture both the operation and the environment in which a company exists and for this reason it was employed to study the operation of twenty airports. These airports were organized into five categories (primary...

The exploring for new possible solutions to the societal problems, such as sustainable mobility, demand that the focus of the studies been in the desirable images of the future. For this scenario planning and backcasting methodologies are useful methods as they can help to build future scenarios and define the pathway or road maps to achieve them....

SUMMARY The world consists of many countries having differences in many areas, ranging from size to economic level, from population to education, etc. Consequently, they are not going to convert to hydrogen-fueled transportation at the same time. Some will have the right conditions to convert to clean hydrogen transportation early, and other countr...

This paper presents findings of a freight transport study carried out for Mumbai city (India). Based on the case study of lunch box delivery system organized by the Mumbai dabbawalas, demonstrated that an informal sector was capable of developing an urban logistics system that was precise, reliable and affordable to the middle class society in Mumb...

In this study, system dynamics (SD) modeling is used as a tool to evaluate the transition to hydrogen within the transportation sector and its effect in reducing of health expenditures. SD modeling is a useful tool for researchers when the system they are studying is large, complex, containing interdependent variables. In order to understand why SD...

Airport operators have to anticipate future possible scenarios which might occur so that their airport can face the changes. Unpredictable changes on the circumstances lead forecasts often to fail as the future is not foreseeable. Flexibility helps to maintain or increase airport’s performance levels by improving the adaptability of the airport’s f...

The future is not foreseeable and forecasts fail most of the times due to unpredictable changes on the circumstances. Airport operators need to anticipate a range of possible scenarios that might occur to face these changes. Flexibility represents the ability to change the function of a certain feature in an efficient and feasible way according to...

A mobilidade pedonal das cidades com orografia desfavorável pode ser melhorada através do uso de escadas rolantes. O objectivo deste trabalho é analisar a viabilidade da introdução de escadas rolantes em três áreas que permitem o acesso de peões ao Campo dos Mártires da Pátria em Lisboa. Começou-se por estimar o custo de cada trecho de escadas rola...

How the real costs of maintenance and renewal of runways and related taxiways and aprons can be assigned to users on the basis of aircraft classification number (ACN) is analyzed, following previous work by Hogan and Starkie, who compared their results with actual fees charged in Dublin, Ireland. This paper furthers the consideration of off-peak ch...

This paper addresses the gap between the competences offered by educational institutions and those required by railway firms. The competences gap has long been recognized as contributing to low job satisfaction and productivity. The term refers to the mismatch between the competences required for accomplishing a task and the actual competences of t...

Policy packaging (i.e. the combination of individual policies and measures in order to achieve a certain goal) is a common practice in urban mobility management used to create synergies between single policies or to mitigate negative effects of a given policy. However this practice is filled with difficulties of different kinds, from conflicting me...

The future is not foreseeable and forecasts fail most of the times due to unpredictable changes on the circumstances. Airport operators need to anticipate a range of possible scenarios that might occur to face these changes. To better deal with future uncertainty, infrastructures that require long-time planning, such as airports, should be embedded...

Recent trends in airport-centered real estate development are addressed, with emphasis on the concept of the airport city. Airport cities are major economic hubs that have exhibited substantial growth and profits. However, evolution toward an airport city is difficult; several airports worldwide have failed in the attempt. The emergence of this typ...

p> Resumo : O presente trabalho pretende definir um modelo conceptual para estruturar a informação destinada a um Sistema de Informação para gerir o Sistema de Mobilidade Urbana, ao nível táctico, pelas entidades competentes. Para tal, será feito um enquadramento teórico relativo ao uso da informação na gestão e aos sistemas destinados a facilitar...

Proposals for mitigation of pollutant emissions from aircraft: application to Lisbon airport

Hydrogen fueled fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) will play a major role as a part of the change toward the hydrogen based energy system. When combined with the right source of energy, fuel cells have the highest potential efficiencies and lowest potential emissions of any vehicular power source. As a result, extensive work into the development of hydrogen...

One of the most striking problems societies currently deal with is to assure adequate quality standards while improving accessibility within and between cities. In addition there is also a growing awareness that, to achieve a sustainable balance between private and public means of mobility, policies have to be able to send the correct signals in or...

The increasing use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) arrangements in the provision of transport infrastructure seems to be a trend all over the world with a very particular incidence in Europe. The arguments supporting these public decisions are several and their validity varies with the different realities where these instruments are applied. T...

In this paper we report the conclusion of a research project dedicated to pricing regimes in public-private partnership contracts for the provision of transport infrastructure (Macário et al., 2009). Several elements have been brought to the bulk of knowledge that supports the design and implementation of public-private partnership in the transport...