Estimating the Run Choice Behavior in High Speed Rail (HSR) Mode-Service: A Revealed Preference Survey

High Speed Rail (HSR) passenger services cause competition with other rail services, and other modes of transport. The paper presents the structure of a Reveled Preference (RP) survey which has been submitted to travelers in an Italian HSR context. The objective of the survey is to analyze the travelers’ choice behavior, among the services, the runs and the ticket levels. Hence, the survey investigates the main behavioral variables of HSR travelers to be adopted for the calibration of discret...

ICT Factors Affecting Ship Times in Container Ports: Experimental Analysis at Country Level

One of the characteristics of container ports’ performances, on the sea side, is the time of ships in port from the arrival and entrance to the departure from the port. The time of the ship in a container port, by considering the largest ports of a country, is therefore a synthetic indicator of the ability of each country-system to compete in international trade challenges. It is useful to investigate what are the significant characteristics, aggregated at the country level, that determine th...

National and Local Factors Affecting Ship Time in Container Ports: System of Models at Country and Port Levels

Ship time in port may be considered as an indicator of the performance of a port, and of a country, in order to compete in the international trade challenge. The general objective of the research concerns the development of a system of models that correlates the average ship times in port with various factors, or attributes, related to the port or to the country that hosts the port. The attributes are related, in general, to the position and role of the ports; the organization of the maritim...

Soil and earthworm-derived enzymatic activities in soil microcosms following addition of a N- and P-enriched polysaccharide-based vs a conventional starch-based mulching film