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Ready for a Carbon Tax? An Explorative Analysis of University Students’ Preferences
Full text linkGreenhouse gases emissions are inexorably rising worldwide and the frequency and disruptive power of extreme weather phenomena are dramatically increasing. Although command-and-control and regulation policies have been extensively used to mitigate climate change, more effective and potentially efficient policies are needed to curb the negative externalities produced by human activities. A carbon tax could make the case, but is seldom implemented due to its assumed political unpopularity. In order to estimate the acceptability and the willingness to pay (WTP) for a carbon tax, a contingent valuation experiment was administered in USA and in Italy to a sample of 150 university students. The research is innovative both for the topic chosen, since there are no studies testing the WTP for a carbon tax in the Italian context nor comparing it with the estimates obtained for other countries,
and for the methodology used to estimate the WTP, making use of random parameters logit models to obtain individual specific estimates of the median WTP. The results show that the median WTP ranges between a minimum of 242, and varies according to the purposes proposed for the tax revenue use, the respondents’ beliefs and knowledge about climate change, and some sociodemographic characteristics of the
respondents (age, gender, and political affiliation). The students’ preferences seem to be quite similar when the nationality of the respondents is taken into account
Shippers’ preferences for freight transport services: a conjoint analysis experiment for an Italian region
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Carsharing Services in Italy: Trends and Innovations
Full text linkTransport is a critical factor for social-economic development, however, its environmental footprint cannot be neglected and is increasing over time. New mobility services based on collaborative consumption, such as peer-to-peer carsharing, have been developed with the aim of improving accessibility and reducing the negative externalities produced by transport. However, in the literature, there are very few documents that analyze collaborative consumption in the transport sector. To shed light on this topic, we described the Italian carsharing market and explained how it has changed over time. Moreover, we studied the potentialities of peer-to-peer carsharing in a less densely populated
Italian region on the basis of a survey we conducted through face-to-face interviews. We found that the main reason preventing its spread is that individuals are not yet aware of its existence. We also analyzed the motivations of those who would like to use it and of those who stated the opposite. Suggestions are presented on the strategies to be implemented to facilitate the adoption of the service for the benefit of both platform providers and local administrators
La stima della domanda di trasporto merci attraverso la tecnica delle Stated Preferences: aspetti teorici e metodologici
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The impact of transportation demand management policies on commuting to college facilities: A case study at the University of Trieste, Italy
No full textUniversities, like other types of public and private institutions, when located in a city, have
both positive and negative impacts on the area where they are situated. On the one hand,
they contribute to the prestige of the area; on the other hand, they are large generators/
attractors of traffic. The ability to successfully balance the pros and cons of the urban
location of these large traffic-generating institutions is crucial for their success and for
the livability of the city. In this paper this issue has been analyzed selecting as a
representative case the University of Trieste.
The aim of the research is to understand: (a) how mode choice decisions are made by the
teaching and administrative staff and by the students at the various locations where academic
activities take place, and (b) how they would be affected by 8 different transport
management policies. It is found that changing the parking regulations (via the annual permit
cost, the hourly parking fee, the number of parking spaces and the location of the parking
lots) greatly influences mode choice in favor of bus use, especially for teaching and
administrative staff and in the suburban locations. The students would be impacted by
such changes only if an hourly parking tariff is introduced. The alternative approach of fully
subsidizing the bus services would also have a large impact on bus ridership, affecting the
mode choice in particular of the teaching staff and in the main university suburban sites.
Since the implementation of these bus-favoring policies could face the opposition either
of the university staff or of the bus company, two more balanced policy mixes were tested:
the first one, increasing parking price and imposing new parking restrictions, would
increase bus ridership by 19%; the second one, reducing both bus and parking subsidies,
would increase bus ridership by 13%
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