Under Which Conditions Is Carrier Cooperation Possible? A Case Study in a Seville Marketplace

Abstract

The high volume of traffic originates two well-known problems in many cities: congestion and pollution. In recent years, a social phenomenon is emerging cooperation. This work is aimed at evaluating the circumstances under which transport cooperation is possible between different stakeholders operating in the same geographical area. To this end, a double survey process was conducted in a marketplace situated in the Seville City (Spain) centre. The first survey was designed to know the characteristics of the retailers and their preferences with respect to cooperation and regulations. A relational analysis between retailer features and their willingness to cooperate was carried out. After analysing the motivations for non-cooperation, a mixed proposal was designed and surveyed. Although the research was limited to a marketplace, the relevant data gathered from this double survey process highlights some implications: (a) the importance of personal relations in retailer cooperation; (b) a high volume of freight and the use of vans as on-street warehouses appear as significant motivations for non-cooperation; (c) forcing changes in the statu quo encourages cooperation.

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Urban Transport: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

“…A few of the papers deal with the estimation of those impacts. Although some works deal with estimation (Muñuzuri et al 2018;Gonzalez-Feliu, Morana 2010;Vaghi, Percoco 2011;Andriankaja et al 2015), most of them are based on ex-post evaluations, and are mainly environment-based (only Muñuzuri et al (2018) and, more recently, Faure et al (2016) and Nimtrakool et al (2018) address explicitly monetary issues). Estrada et al (2018) introduce a modelling approach to estimate the costs and impacts of various scenarios, including a UCC, night deliveries with current delivery schemes and a combination of both, showing which is the contribution of each solution (UCCs and night deliveries) and their respective cost.…”

“…Other papers of the selected set contribute to the literature regarding partnerships, under a more general perspective. Muñuzuri et al (2018) focus on multi-stakeholder cooperation in the definition of common objectives and freight systems, so under a broad partnership perspective. To analyse such a collaboration, a survey-based methodology is proposed, and results show the main reactions of stakeholders to various alternatives to deliver the Seville central marketplace.…”