Sustainable Transportation for Events: A Systematic Review

Dario Ballarano (), Sergio Maria Patella and Francesco Asdrubali
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Dario Ballarano: Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy
Sergio Maria Patella: Faculty of Economics, Universitas Mercatorum, 00186 Rome, Italy
Francesco Asdrubali: Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Event business is constantly growing in frequency and size, attracting people from nearby areas and different countries as well. Transportation plays a key role in a successful event, especially for major ones, where the large number of participants requires ad hoc designing of event mobility and might include implementation of new infrastructures. In recent decades, environmental issues have emphasized event negative externalities, leading to the design of green events. This paper presents a comprehensive systematic literature review on studies investigating the sustainable practices related to event mobility. The methodology showcases a selection of 32 articles, which were classified according to their main contributions into five categories, for which gaps and trends were shown. Our findings indicate that there are not enough studies to draw conclusions about good practices that can be generalized to each kind of event. Additionally, strong limitations in the reviewed papers are the different contexts of the analysis and the lack of a validation through empirical data. The research presented in this paper adds a contribution to the sustainable event transportation literature reporting the most established models, methods, and interventions. In detail, the most promising interventions involve mass transit and demand-oriented services that rely on intelligent transportation systems and user information.

Keywords: large events; green mobility; sustainable transportation; literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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