FARINA A.

Traditional car sharing systems are round-trip and require advance reservations. The advances of ICT and vehicle automation allow to improve car sharing sys-tems and to provide users with greater flexibility. As it concerns reservation, new car sharing systems offer users open-ended reservation and/or instant access. As it concerns the trip...

Purpose: The paper concerns a transport system for pedestrian areas, based on a fleet of fully-automated Personal Intelligent Accessible Vehicles. The following services are provided: instant access, open ended reservation and one way trips. All these features provide users with high flexibility, but create a problem of uneven distribution of...

The paper refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme. Packages are firstly delivered to urban distribution centers (UDCs) on the border of urban areas. Packages should therefore be delivered from the UDC to receivers within the urban area. Each package is characterized by an address and dimensions. FURBOT boxes are consolidated...

The paper refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme, aimed at reducing the externalities connected with the freight delivery process. Both packages destined to commercial activities and to private consumers (e-commerce) are taken into account. Packages are firstly delivered to urban distribution centers (UDCs) on the border of...