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Best Practices in Integrated Demand-Responsive Transport Services for People and Freight

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The integration of freight and passenger transport is a challenging and relevant opportunity for future mobility. This integration combines fixed scheduled transit services, demand-responsive transport services for people (or dial-a-ride) and transportation opportunities for freight, providing users with flexible and synchronised travel options. Special attention must be devoted to the tradeoff in joint transportation services for people and freight. Several planning issues are described to implement these integrated services successfully. This study explores relevant best practices adopted for integrated demand-responsive services for both people and freight, to establish the potential objectives and constraints in the specific area of interest.

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Acknowledgment

This study was accomplished within the RETURN Extended Partnership and received funding from the European Union Next-GenerationEU (National Recovery and Resilience Plan - NRRP, Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.3 - D.D. 1243 2/8/2022, PE0000005).

This study was supported by the MUR through the project SMART3R-FLITS: “SMART Transport for Travellers and Freight Logistics Integration Towards Sustainability” (Project protocol: 2022J38SR9; CUP Code: F53D23005630006), financed with the PRIN 2022 (Research Projects of National Relevance) program. We authorise the MUR to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes, notwithstanding any copyright notations thereon. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the MUR.

This study was carried out within the “e.INS - Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia” funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the Next-Generation EU Programme (National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR, M4C2, INVESTMENT 1.5 - DD 1056 of 23/06/2022, ECS00000038). This manuscript reflects only the authors’ views and opinions, neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be considered responsible for them.

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    Samuele Ennas, Francesco Contu, Massimo Di Francesco & Simone Zanda

  2. Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo 2, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

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This paper is the result of the joint work of the authors. ‘Abstract’, ‘Section 2’, and ‘Section 3’ were written jointly by the authors. Massimo Di Francesco wrote the Introduction. Samuele Ennas wrote the first version Sect. 2 and 3. Chiara Garau wrote “Section 4”. Chiara Garau and Massimo Di Francesco coordinated and supervised the paper.

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Ennas, S., Contu, F., Di Francesco, M., Maltinti, F., Zanda, S., Garau, C. (2024). Best Practices in Integrated Demand-Responsive Transport Services for People and Freight. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14825. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65343-8_5

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