I. Cárdenas, W. Dewulf, T. Vanelslander, Christophe Smet, Joris Beckers
{"title":"The e-commerce parcel delivery market and the implications of home B2C deliveries vs pick-up points.","authors":"I. Cárdenas, W. Dewulf, T. Vanelslander, Christophe Smet, Joris Beckers","doi":"10.19272/201706702004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19272/201706702004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117080128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transportation time and reliability in intermodal transport chains.","authors":"J. Bendul, T. Erfurth","doi":"10.19272/201706702005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19272/201706702005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124125568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Institutional Economics Add to Our Understanding of Transportation? Air Transport Policy as an Example","authors":"K. Button","doi":"10.1400/168960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/168960","url":null,"abstract":"The award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics to Oliver Williamson for \"his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm\" highlights the importance now attached to the new institutional economics. The amount of work on transportation organizations explicitly using the tools of new institutional economics is, however, sparse and there is a tendency to continue to rely exclusively on conventional neo-classical economic orthodoxy. But the role of such things as governance, transactions costs, social norms, moral hazard, adverse selection, and property rights are clearly important in the ways that transportation organizations function and interact with one another. This paper looks, as an example, at some of situations where the NIE may shed light on the behavior of various organizations that supply or regulate air transportation services under a variety of institutional conditions. In the NIE, institutions are the “rules of the game”, consisting of both the formal legal rules and the informal social norms that govern individual behavior and structure social interactions whereas, organizations are those groups of people, and the governance arrangements they create, when coordinating their team actions against other teams performing also as organizations. For example, one can think of how the Ryanair “organization” acts in relations to other airline “organizations” within the existing set of legal “institutions” established by the European Union, or why airlines like United and Continental merge and the form mergers take.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126772884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiency and Productivity Growth in a Sample of Italian Container Terminals","authors":"A. Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, C. Ferrari","doi":"10.1400/168962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/168962","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we estimate a production frontier for a sample of Italian container terminals observed over the period 2001-2008 in order to assess the pattern of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Estimates of different stochastic frontier models suggest the existence of a modest but positive TFP growth rate over the period 2001-07 and an abrupt fall in TFP in 2008, which probably reflects the onset of the 2008-9 world recession. We also find that scale economies and technical change have positively contributed to TFP growth over the sample period ; in turn, all models find a decline in technical efficiency. Finally, the different stochastic frontier methods considered in this paper give a broadly consistent picture of the productivity and efficiency developments that have occurred in this sample.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133610167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of the efficiency of italian cruise terminals","authors":"A. D. Vaio, F. Medda, L. Trujillo","doi":"10.1400/159663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/159663","url":null,"abstract":"There has recently been considerable growth in the cruise industry, with an increasingly competitive position being gained by the Mediterranean Basin, particularly the Italian area. Possible partnerships between private and public entities (cruise line companies, cruise terminals, and port authorities) play a significant role in cruise terminal operational efficiency and performance levels and investment and management decisions. This study was designed to measure Italian cruise terminals in the Mediterranean Basin in terms of technical efficiency when terminal management is undertaken by public and private entities. Production calculation with multi-outputs is used to measure cruise terminal efficiency. The authors apply distance function-based stochastic frontier analysis. The study demonstrates the positive impact that public-private partnerships (with strong private management components) have on cruise terminal technical efficiency.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127840735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTERCONTINENTAL FLIGHTS FROM EUROPEAN AIRPORTS: TOWARDS HUB CONCENTRATION OR NOT?","authors":"G. Bel, Xavier Fageda","doi":"10.1400/142972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/142972","url":null,"abstract":"This paper empirically analyzes changes in the supply of non-stop intercontinental flights from European airports. We take advantage of OAG data for air services from a rich sample of European airports to intercontinental destinations in the period 2004-2008. Results of the empirical analysis indicate a tendency towards a more balanced distribution of intercontinental flights across European airports. We also find that the demographic size of a region, its sector specialization, the political role of its central city and the proportion of connecting traffic explain the amount of and changes in long-haul air services supplied from European airports.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125688515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Problem of Timing in Decisions to Buy or to Charter a Vessel","authors":"Alexandros M. Goulielmos, Marcos A Goulielmos","doi":"10.1400/115954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/115954","url":null,"abstract":"This paper dealt with the concept of timing in reaching decisions, especially in connection with freight markets and sale and purchase of second hand ships. Timing is “the calendar time we accept as right just before we take a decision”. First, an extensive literature search has been attempted in such disciplines as Management, Decision- making and Decision Support Systems. Unfortunately, traditional disciplines have frequently offered the excuse for not dealing with timing of decision- making due to ‘lack of information’ and to ‘limited predictive techniques’. Moreover, modern disciplines (in particular chaos theory) also excuse themselves from addressing the question of timing on the grounds that real phenomena are ‘inherently unpredictable’. The concept of time in finance has been presented here as applied by Mandelbrot (1997) [and Albert Einstein (in 1905)] and stressed that time is flexible. Moreover found that time series have a speed and a long-term memory. A non-parametric method called ‘Rescaled Range Analysis’ applied which indeed deals with cycles and long term memories. The research directed also to the discipline of modeling and forecasting, both classical and chaotic (fractal). This brought us to address the question : should ARIMA (random) or ARFIMA (fractal) models be here and in similar applications employed ? The final conclusion was that Rescaled Range Analysis was the most appropriate for the analysis of both freight market and second hand ship price market. Additionally, the normality test by Jarque-Bera test (33>5.99) for freight market has shown the absence of normality and the existence of excess kurtosis (-1.51) as well as excess skewness (0.21). Moreover, a strong memory in freight rates of H=0.92","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115366794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Derived Demand for Traffic at Food Superstores in the UK","authors":"C. Black, D. Broadstock, A. Collins, L. Hunt","doi":"10.1400/80993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/80993","url":null,"abstract":"A composite dataset is used to estimate a United Kingdom food superstore (semi-parametric) trip attraction model. The data comprises site-specific and traffic information from the TRICS (Trip Rate Information Computer System) databases, as well as information from the NOMIS (National Online Manpower Information System) archive and the UK Census of Population. That traffic at a given food superstore, ceteris paribus, increases with distance to the nearest competitor, site size (floor space), store parking provision, and household car ownership, is indicated by the results. Public transportation provision increases, furthermore, are shown to be associated with increasing car trips. This is discussed in light of development control policy planning and a 'food deserts' reinforcement linked role. Activity-specific household economies of scale and scope are also revealed by results. How these may also perpetuate 'food desert' characteristics and unsustainable development is suggested.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116571304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the efficiency of the Portuguese bus industry","authors":"C. Barros","doi":"10.1400/16951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16951","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyse the technical efficiency of a sample of Portuguese bus transport companies with a Cobb- Douglas cost frontier model. The model generates efficiency scores in a simultaneous two-stage procedure. We conclude that inputs and outputs play a major role in transport efficiency and find that the efficiency scores are time-varying and high for some companies but low for others. We therefore suggest an alteration to management procedures so that efficiency can be increased, based on an effective enhanced-incentive policy and taking into account the characteristics of the sample. (A)","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127112512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technical and allocative efficiency in airports.","authors":"C. Barros, A. Sampaio","doi":"10.1400/16922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/16922","url":null,"abstract":"Economic efficiency can be defined as relative productivity over time or space, or both. It relates to the concept of a production possibility frontier and comprises both technical efficiency and allocative efficiency. This article reports on a study of the technical and allocative efficiency of 37 Portuguese airports. The authors used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to rank the airports according to their total productivity for the period 1990 to 2000. The analysis is based on a DEA model that allows for the incorporation of multiple inputs and outputs in determining relative efficiencies. The study was undertaken to seek the best peer airports for improving the performance of least performing airports. The authors' general conclusion is that the Portuguese airports should be privatized, and that an organizational government environment is needed to overcome the deficits in technical and allocative efficiency observed in the study period. The authors list recommendations for establishing a governance framework within the airports, with the aim of improving organizational efficiency.","PeriodicalId":365370,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Internazionale de Economia dei Trasporti","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117219909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}