Quality and Public Transport Service Contracts Service contracts are the natural method to set bilateral commitments. In transport service context, public authorities and transport operators have different goals, therefore regulation plays an important role especially failing competition. After a brief description of the most important regulatory procedures, we focus our attention on the quality framework [...]

Local public transport: service quality and tendering contracts Public transport is of extreme relevance for ensuring a sustainable modal distribution in urban areas across the globe (Hensher 2007). Local Public Transport (LPT) policies generally promote collective sustainable mobility in metropolitan areas encouraging travellers to give up mobility with their private vehicle. In recent times much attention has been placed on the [...]

De Gustibus Disputandum Est: Non-Linearity in Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation User perceptions of service quality are essential to promote public transport ridership and trigger positive externalities. Therefore, research efforts need to analyze service quality from the point of view of users. This article builds on the stream of works studying perceptions of public transport service [...]

Special Issue: Measuring Service Quality and Local Public Transport Performance The articles included in this special issue investigate new tools and approaches to assess the service quality and performance of local public transport. The contributions target different levels of analysis, ranging from a theoretical focus, to methodological developments and applied case studies providing evidence from real [...]

Quali sono gli effetti del pagamento del parcheggio sulla scelta modale dei lavoratori? Implicazioni sulle politiche dei trasporti I datori di lavoro spesso forniscono ai dipendenti un parcheggio agevolato o gratuito presso gli uffici. Ciò distorce i prezzi relativi ai tragitti casa-lavoro alternativi e produce inefficienze nel mercato dei trasporti. Per mitigare questa distorsione dei [...]

Lyon–Turin High–Speed rail project: a careful review of the past evaluations TRElab member Ila Maltese, together with Jérôme Massiani, researcher of the University of Milano-Bicocca , wrote “Thirty years of socio-economic evaluation of the Lyon–Turin High–Speed rail project” published in the journal “Research In Transportation Economics” on March 21st, 2022. The paper reviews the past evaluations [...]