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Sustainable pricing and European maritime policy
No full textDuring the last few years, transport policy, both at national and at a European level, focused on the need to increase efficiency in the mobility of goods and passengers, also in sustainable terms. In this context, ports, considered as crucial nodes in global multimodal transport networks, gained growing importance.
The presence of overcapacity, stemming also from an inappropriate sizing of port infrastructures and the lack of a pricing system related to sustainable and economic criteria are example of interrelated elements that generate losses of efficiency within the port environment and that represent some of the main obstacles to the development of a fair competition, both within and among the different modes of transport.
The present paper intends to provide some reflections on the European port policy and on pricing setting procedures. The idea is to investigate the possibility of using fair pricing and a loyal competition to have, in the future, an evenly transport system based also on the use of more environmentally-friendly transport modes.
This work is organised as follows:
• firstly, recent trends of the maritime transport sector are briefly analysed in order to have a clearer idea of the context in which we are moving;
• secondly, the author focuses on the study and the critical analysis of the tariff system recently proposed by the EC and analyses the possibility to implement an alternative pricing method on the basis of current literature and practical applications;
• finally, the paper provides some indications and sets out recommendations
The Elderly Mobility and Sustainable Development Goals: Composite Indicators for European Countries
No full textScientific literature and policymakers have been focusing for some time on sustainability tools that allow the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, the focus will be on the sustainable mobility of the elderly population, both active and passive, with reference to the European area. The approach will be distinctly methodological and will consider sustainability as a key priority for European governments. For these purposes, specific composite indicators will be developed and compared. They take into account the key mobility variables in terms of infrastructures dedicated to the mobility of the elderly and the consequent services that this population cluster can benefit from. More precisely, elderly mobility will be explained by climate changes, transport infrastructures and services, the social impact of transport, and health conditions. The idea is to be able to develop an initial comparison of different realities and to arrive at a representation of the geographical area that puts sustainable development in terms of equity at the center. This approach provides the basis for monitoring the sustainability of mobility relating to the European countries in the light of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Transport investments: are they crucial for the economic system?
No full textThe main aim of this paper is to look for a causal impact of transport
investment activity on employment and on GDP through an empirical analysis,
and to understand whether or not investments are really important for the
economy. The results of the empirical investigation demonstrate the existence
of such links and that the impact of transport investments can indeed bring
about changes in the economic system, although one must consider that the
nature of investments is a strategic factor to have desirable effects and that
other variables, such as technology, have a greater importance in the short term
on the economic system.
The examples for this investigation have been implemented by using
national and regional Italian data, although results may be easily extended to
other areas, both sectorial and geographical
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