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Papers by Enrico Musso
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, Sep 3, 1997
The purpose of this paper is to check the effectiveness of "project financing" techniques in fund... more The purpose of this paper is to check the effectiveness of "project financing" techniques in funding urban transport infrastructures and long run transport policies. It is well known that in recent years urban transport policies have been mainly concerning short run tools and traffic regulation. This trend has been caused by the growing lack of available funds for city administrations and transit companies. As a result, the difficulties in financing long run and infrastructural policies cause policy makers to turn to short run regulations, even when the expected results of such policies are clearly less effective both for the users and for the companies. The financial technique considered in this paper prove to be useful namely for public transport infrastructures and point out the following benefits: ability to draw capital market on urban transport financing, reduction of construction times and costs, private management of transit facilities, optimization of resources' allocation, as capital goes towards more profitable projects. Thus, only tasks of planning, control, and residual financing to the global expenditure, are left to the "public hand". Finally, a case study is proposed, concerning a people mover system in a medium-size metropolitan area. [1] 1 Recent trends in urban mobility policies Urban mobility is evidently related to the production cost of transport service. This cost is borne by: 1. users of transport services; 2. public administrations (infrastructures, public transport services);
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 1998
The paper's aim is to evaluate the impact of an urban motorway infrastructure on the city of Geno... more The paper's aim is to evaluate the impact of an urban motorway infrastructure on the city of Genoa, its shape and its socioeconomic system, focusing on the project of its demolition and the contextual, supposed, implementation of an undersea tunnel across the historical harbour docks of the city [1].
Journal of European economy, 2002
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 1970
In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short... more In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short run, may induce unoptimal choices, due to two major problems: • who has to take the decisions concerning priority and relative importance of the different goals; • the process through which decisions are taken. Both problems have clearly a political nature, but could be satisfactorily faced by using multicriterial analysis techniques. A model derived from these techniques is proposed in this paper, in the aim of: • allowing comparison and ranking among non-homogeneous options; • monitoring a given set of indexes, referring to relevant features of urban transit and environment, for a given group of cities, thus allowing comparisons over space (among cities) and over time; • widening the process of selection of priorities, by involving in goalwheighing either a greater number of subjects or a sample of resident households and/or firms; The model is based on two sets of grids, stating (i) the links among instruments and goals, and (ii) the evaluations concerning priorities among them. The eventual aim of the model is to optimize the choice of policy instruments with respect to the links between goals and policies. While it is impossible to make "impartial" the choice among different goals, yet it should be possible to make impartial-and thus more understandable and acceptableat least the decision-making process in urban transport policies. Some further advantages of the proposed tecnique are: easy implementation, flexibility with respect to goals and indexes, possibility of
10th World Conference on Transport ResearchWorld Conference on Transport Research SocietyIstanbul Technical University, 2004
Abstract: The de-verticalization process of railways in Italy is described. The debate, not only ... more Abstract: The de-verticalization process of railways in Italy is described. The debate, not only academic, aroused because it has deeply concerned different aspects on the role of public transport services in urban areas. Moreover, the railways de-verticalization process is ...
Cooperation has always marked out the liner sector, even in a variety of forms. Nowadays it arous... more Cooperation has always marked out the liner sector, even in a variety of forms. Nowadays it arouses a wide interest as a consequence of (1) the increase in ships' size, (2) the decrease of liner freight rates, and (3) the lesser role of Conference agreements. The privatization of port terminals also enhanced co-operation in this industry. The paper analyzes the different economic background of both market frameworks, liners and ports. In the latter, actually, co-operation strictly depends on equity holding. The main and evident effect of co-operation is concentration (in terms of slot supply, on the liner side, and boxes handled, on terminal side). The work focuses on the increase in market concentration, not necessarily affecting competition among players, and of vertical integration leading to multimodal transport operators (MTO).
Demand-Responsive Transport Services (DRTS) are an attempt to improve the efficiency of public tr... more Demand-Responsive Transport Services (DRTS) are an attempt to improve the efficiency of public transport when demand is sporadic. The DRT service simulator that we have developed analyses most of the random events, such as traffic congestion and the arrival time of passengers at their pickup points, which ultimately affect the quality of the service. We assume that vehicles are moving within the traffic flow on the network, and a microscopic traffic simulator was therefore used to observe the dynamics of congestion.
This paper describes a methodology for facing the problem of goods distribution in historical cit... more This paper describes a methodology for facing the problem of goods distribution in historical city centres, while taking into account the particular infrastructural restrictions and especially the narrow streets to which such areas are subject. Research has focused on the transportation supply and demand in Genoa's historical area, starting from a statistical investigation that has allowed to quantify the flow of goods traffic and to know the origin and destination of goods, the organization of supply and the requirements of the traders operating in this area The paper proposes a new transport system that would organize and rationalize the distribution of goods (gathered in a storage area) to and from the historical area To this end, the system could employ electric vehicles whose dimensions, in terms of both carrying capacity and power, are suitable for the traffic level in the area considered.
International Journal of Transport Economics, 2015
This introductory article considers the recent Volkswagen case, presenting it from an economic pe... more This introductory article considers the recent Volkswagen case, presenting it from an economic perspective. The authors note that transportation as a sector has always provided interesting cases for the study of market failures, particularly those connected to external costs. The article discusses the higher costs borne by companies to limit polluting emissions, hiding real emissions values, the motivation behind the cheating, sustainability and its real economic costs, the role of consumer’s trust in a specific company and in a sector as a whole, how much consumers will pay for true sustainability, educational approaches to remedy the lack of understanding of environmental problems, and the role of government and regulatory bodies in addresses these issues. The authors recommend that governments establish goals and undertake efforts toward environmental sustainability that can internalize external costs, such as local congestion traffic schemes, road tolls based on distance, etc., ...
In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short... more In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short run, may induce unoptimal choices, due to two major problems: • who has to take the decisions concerning priority and relative importance of the different goals; • the process through which decisions are taken. Both problems have clearly a political nature, but could be satisfactorily faced by using multicriterial analysis techniques. A model derived from these techniques is proposed in this paper, in the aim of: • allowing comparison and ranking among non-homogeneous options; • monitoring a given set of indexes, referring to relevant features of urban transit and environment, for a given group of cities, thus allowing comparisons over space (among cities) and over time; • widening the process of selection of priorities, by involving in goalwheighing either a greater number of subjects or a sample of resident households and/or firms; The model is based on two sets of grids, stating (i) the links among instruments and goals, and (ii) the evaluations concerning priorities among them. The eventual aim of the model is to optimize the choice of policy instruments with respect to the links between goals and policies. While it is impossible to make "impartial" the choice among different goals, yet it should be possible to make impartial-and thus more understandable and acceptableat least the decision-making process in urban transport policies. Some further advantages of the proposed tecnique are: easy implementation, flexibility with respect to goals and indexes, possibility of
Abstract: Port competition concerns fares as well as quality of services, since rates of throughp... more Abstract: Port competition concerns fares as well as quality of services, since rates of throughput are more and more important as ships size increases; and port is increasingly integrated within other states of intermodal transport. Besides, the growing importance of ...
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 2000
The reurbanisation trends emerging in a number of developed and post-industrial cities are possib... more The reurbanisation trends emerging in a number of developed and post-industrial cities are possibly related (also) to the key role played by transportation system in determining urban size and its shape, as well as urban location patterns. Because of the dynamic interaction between urban transport and land use, of relevant scale- and time-indivisibilities, and of long-lasting effects of urban infrastructure network, accuracy in demand forecasts is more and more crucial for planning transport infrastructure networks in this phase of urban life-cycle. The paper includes results of a case study concerning the city of Genoa, where re-urbanisation is apparently emerging in recent years, with relevant consequences on transport demand and infrastructural system. The case study includes the analysis and comparison of two infrastructural projects connecting East and West districts across the inner city. Since the feasibility of these projects is partially based on tolls, the road pricing hyp...
International Journal of Transport Economics, 2015
This article serves as an introduction to this special issue that presents papers from the Intern... more This article serves as an introduction to this special issue that presents papers from the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conference, held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA from July 15-18, 2014. The authors of this introduction stress that the analysis of economic impacts has become one of the main building blocks of economic theory, primarily by designing and revising measures used for the assessment of economic welfare. They go on to discuss this in some detail, covering a history of the contributions of maritime transport on societies; methods that can be used to investigate the economic, environmental, and social impacts of activities such as infrastructure expansion; cost-benefit analyses; the evaluation of modal shift and traffic flows; the balance of economic interests against larger environmental and societal factors; microeconomics; and the assessment of carbon emissions in shipping. They conclude that maritime and more general transportation studie...
Home Contact Us Directory E-Newsletter Follow Us RSS, About TRB. Annual Meeting. Calendar. Commit... more Home Contact Us Directory E-Newsletter Follow Us RSS, About TRB. Annual Meeting. Calendar. Committees & Panels. Programs. Projects. Publications. Resources & Databases. TRID HOME. RECENTLY PUBLISHED. RECENTLY ADDED. ADVANCED SEARCH. ...
European Spatial Research and Policy
The world is facing a series of changes that will modify the way we envisage transport planning i... more The world is facing a series of changes that will modify the way we envisage transport planning in our cities. Demographic ageing as a consequence of higher life expectancy and lower fertility rates is a world-wide phenomenon. While ageing is indeed a triumph of scientific progress and increasing longevity is perceived as one of humanity’s greatest achievements, the transition in society needs to be managed. In the urban context, any increase in age, health, and economic conditions determines one’s ability to enjoy the urban milieu and the so-called economies of urbanisation (advantages gained from an urban location, e.g., proximity to a market, labour supply, good communications, and financial and commercial services) longer. As there are more and more elderly people in cities, urban mobility becomes crucial in making the urban environment more inclusive. In order to provide suitable policy guidelines, it is, therefore, necessary to investigate and understand senior traveller behav...
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, Sep 3, 1997
The purpose of this paper is to check the effectiveness of "project financing" techniques in fund... more The purpose of this paper is to check the effectiveness of "project financing" techniques in funding urban transport infrastructures and long run transport policies. It is well known that in recent years urban transport policies have been mainly concerning short run tools and traffic regulation. This trend has been caused by the growing lack of available funds for city administrations and transit companies. As a result, the difficulties in financing long run and infrastructural policies cause policy makers to turn to short run regulations, even when the expected results of such policies are clearly less effective both for the users and for the companies. The financial technique considered in this paper prove to be useful namely for public transport infrastructures and point out the following benefits: ability to draw capital market on urban transport financing, reduction of construction times and costs, private management of transit facilities, optimization of resources' allocation, as capital goes towards more profitable projects. Thus, only tasks of planning, control, and residual financing to the global expenditure, are left to the "public hand". Finally, a case study is proposed, concerning a people mover system in a medium-size metropolitan area. [1] 1 Recent trends in urban mobility policies Urban mobility is evidently related to the production cost of transport service. This cost is borne by: 1. users of transport services; 2. public administrations (infrastructures, public transport services);
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 1998
The paper's aim is to evaluate the impact of an urban motorway infrastructure on the city of Geno... more The paper's aim is to evaluate the impact of an urban motorway infrastructure on the city of Genoa, its shape and its socioeconomic system, focusing on the project of its demolition and the contextual, supposed, implementation of an undersea tunnel across the historical harbour docks of the city [1].
Journal of European economy, 2002
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 1970
In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short... more In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short run, may induce unoptimal choices, due to two major problems: • who has to take the decisions concerning priority and relative importance of the different goals; • the process through which decisions are taken. Both problems have clearly a political nature, but could be satisfactorily faced by using multicriterial analysis techniques. A model derived from these techniques is proposed in this paper, in the aim of: • allowing comparison and ranking among non-homogeneous options; • monitoring a given set of indexes, referring to relevant features of urban transit and environment, for a given group of cities, thus allowing comparisons over space (among cities) and over time; • widening the process of selection of priorities, by involving in goalwheighing either a greater number of subjects or a sample of resident households and/or firms; The model is based on two sets of grids, stating (i) the links among instruments and goals, and (ii) the evaluations concerning priorities among them. The eventual aim of the model is to optimize the choice of policy instruments with respect to the links between goals and policies. While it is impossible to make "impartial" the choice among different goals, yet it should be possible to make impartial-and thus more understandable and acceptableat least the decision-making process in urban transport policies. Some further advantages of the proposed tecnique are: easy implementation, flexibility with respect to goals and indexes, possibility of
10th World Conference on Transport ResearchWorld Conference on Transport Research SocietyIstanbul Technical University, 2004
Abstract: The de-verticalization process of railways in Italy is described. The debate, not only ... more Abstract: The de-verticalization process of railways in Italy is described. The debate, not only academic, aroused because it has deeply concerned different aspects on the role of public transport services in urban areas. Moreover, the railways de-verticalization process is ...
Cooperation has always marked out the liner sector, even in a variety of forms. Nowadays it arous... more Cooperation has always marked out the liner sector, even in a variety of forms. Nowadays it arouses a wide interest as a consequence of (1) the increase in ships' size, (2) the decrease of liner freight rates, and (3) the lesser role of Conference agreements. The privatization of port terminals also enhanced co-operation in this industry. The paper analyzes the different economic background of both market frameworks, liners and ports. In the latter, actually, co-operation strictly depends on equity holding. The main and evident effect of co-operation is concentration (in terms of slot supply, on the liner side, and boxes handled, on terminal side). The work focuses on the increase in market concentration, not necessarily affecting competition among players, and of vertical integration leading to multimodal transport operators (MTO).
Demand-Responsive Transport Services (DRTS) are an attempt to improve the efficiency of public tr... more Demand-Responsive Transport Services (DRTS) are an attempt to improve the efficiency of public transport when demand is sporadic. The DRT service simulator that we have developed analyses most of the random events, such as traffic congestion and the arrival time of passengers at their pickup points, which ultimately affect the quality of the service. We assume that vehicles are moving within the traffic flow on the network, and a microscopic traffic simulator was therefore used to observe the dynamics of congestion.
This paper describes a methodology for facing the problem of goods distribution in historical cit... more This paper describes a methodology for facing the problem of goods distribution in historical city centres, while taking into account the particular infrastructural restrictions and especially the narrow streets to which such areas are subject. Research has focused on the transportation supply and demand in Genoa's historical area, starting from a statistical investigation that has allowed to quantify the flow of goods traffic and to know the origin and destination of goods, the organization of supply and the requirements of the traders operating in this area The paper proposes a new transport system that would organize and rationalize the distribution of goods (gathered in a storage area) to and from the historical area To this end, the system could employ electric vehicles whose dimensions, in terms of both carrying capacity and power, are suitable for the traffic level in the area considered.
International Journal of Transport Economics, 2015
This introductory article considers the recent Volkswagen case, presenting it from an economic pe... more This introductory article considers the recent Volkswagen case, presenting it from an economic perspective. The authors note that transportation as a sector has always provided interesting cases for the study of market failures, particularly those connected to external costs. The article discusses the higher costs borne by companies to limit polluting emissions, hiding real emissions values, the motivation behind the cheating, sustainability and its real economic costs, the role of consumer’s trust in a specific company and in a sector as a whole, how much consumers will pay for true sustainability, educational approaches to remedy the lack of understanding of environmental problems, and the role of government and regulatory bodies in addresses these issues. The authors recommend that governments establish goals and undertake efforts toward environmental sustainability that can internalize external costs, such as local congestion traffic schemes, road tolls based on distance, etc., ...
In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short... more In most socioeconomic systems, decisions concerning urban transport planning, namely in the short run, may induce unoptimal choices, due to two major problems: • who has to take the decisions concerning priority and relative importance of the different goals; • the process through which decisions are taken. Both problems have clearly a political nature, but could be satisfactorily faced by using multicriterial analysis techniques. A model derived from these techniques is proposed in this paper, in the aim of: • allowing comparison and ranking among non-homogeneous options; • monitoring a given set of indexes, referring to relevant features of urban transit and environment, for a given group of cities, thus allowing comparisons over space (among cities) and over time; • widening the process of selection of priorities, by involving in goalwheighing either a greater number of subjects or a sample of resident households and/or firms; The model is based on two sets of grids, stating (i) the links among instruments and goals, and (ii) the evaluations concerning priorities among them. The eventual aim of the model is to optimize the choice of policy instruments with respect to the links between goals and policies. While it is impossible to make "impartial" the choice among different goals, yet it should be possible to make impartial-and thus more understandable and acceptableat least the decision-making process in urban transport policies. Some further advantages of the proposed tecnique are: easy implementation, flexibility with respect to goals and indexes, possibility of
Abstract: Port competition concerns fares as well as quality of services, since rates of throughp... more Abstract: Port competition concerns fares as well as quality of services, since rates of throughput are more and more important as ships size increases; and port is increasingly integrated within other states of intermodal transport. Besides, the growing importance of ...
WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 2000
The reurbanisation trends emerging in a number of developed and post-industrial cities are possib... more The reurbanisation trends emerging in a number of developed and post-industrial cities are possibly related (also) to the key role played by transportation system in determining urban size and its shape, as well as urban location patterns. Because of the dynamic interaction between urban transport and land use, of relevant scale- and time-indivisibilities, and of long-lasting effects of urban infrastructure network, accuracy in demand forecasts is more and more crucial for planning transport infrastructure networks in this phase of urban life-cycle. The paper includes results of a case study concerning the city of Genoa, where re-urbanisation is apparently emerging in recent years, with relevant consequences on transport demand and infrastructural system. The case study includes the analysis and comparison of two infrastructural projects connecting East and West districts across the inner city. Since the feasibility of these projects is partially based on tolls, the road pricing hyp...
International Journal of Transport Economics, 2015
This article serves as an introduction to this special issue that presents papers from the Intern... more This article serves as an introduction to this special issue that presents papers from the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conference, held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA from July 15-18, 2014. The authors of this introduction stress that the analysis of economic impacts has become one of the main building blocks of economic theory, primarily by designing and revising measures used for the assessment of economic welfare. They go on to discuss this in some detail, covering a history of the contributions of maritime transport on societies; methods that can be used to investigate the economic, environmental, and social impacts of activities such as infrastructure expansion; cost-benefit analyses; the evaluation of modal shift and traffic flows; the balance of economic interests against larger environmental and societal factors; microeconomics; and the assessment of carbon emissions in shipping. They conclude that maritime and more general transportation studie...
Home Contact Us Directory E-Newsletter Follow Us RSS, About TRB. Annual Meeting. Calendar. Commit... more Home Contact Us Directory E-Newsletter Follow Us RSS, About TRB. Annual Meeting. Calendar. Committees & Panels. Programs. Projects. Publications. Resources & Databases. TRID HOME. RECENTLY PUBLISHED. RECENTLY ADDED. ADVANCED SEARCH. ...
European Spatial Research and Policy
The world is facing a series of changes that will modify the way we envisage transport planning i... more The world is facing a series of changes that will modify the way we envisage transport planning in our cities. Demographic ageing as a consequence of higher life expectancy and lower fertility rates is a world-wide phenomenon. While ageing is indeed a triumph of scientific progress and increasing longevity is perceived as one of humanity’s greatest achievements, the transition in society needs to be managed. In the urban context, any increase in age, health, and economic conditions determines one’s ability to enjoy the urban milieu and the so-called economies of urbanisation (advantages gained from an urban location, e.g., proximity to a market, labour supply, good communications, and financial and commercial services) longer. As there are more and more elderly people in cities, urban mobility becomes crucial in making the urban environment more inclusive. In order to provide suitable policy guidelines, it is, therefore, necessary to investigate and understand senior traveller behav...