Below is a list, sorted alphabetically, of the members of the Chapter.
Senior Members
Gennaro Nicola Bifulco
Contact: gnbifulc@unina.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Role: Full Professor
Keywords: CCAM; C-ITS; ATIS; ADAS; Networks; Transportation Engineering; MaaS; Traffic; Testing; Simulation
Short Bio: Cino Bifulco is a full professor in Transportation Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, where he chairs the MSc in Transportation Engineering and Mobility. He has been involved in the preparation of the EU Strategic Transportation Research and Innovation Agenda for Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) and the current Italian National Research Plan. Cino is an expert in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and cooperative ITS (C-ITS) and participates in government, institutional, and corporate consultancy bodies on these topics. Cino has been the Principal Investigator for two Projects of Relevant National Interest in ITS and CCAM.
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Antonio Bucchiarone
Contact: bucchiarone@fbk.eu
Area: Academic
Affiliation: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy
Role: Senior Researcher at the Motivational Digital Systems (MoDiS) research unit
Keywords: Self-Adaptive Systems, Smart Mobility, Software Engineering, Gamification, Model-Driven Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing
Short Bio: Antonio Bucchiarone research activity focuses principally on many aspects of Software Engineering for Adaptive Socio-Technical Systems. He has investigated advanced methodologies and techniques supporting the definition, development, and management of distributed systems that operate in dynamic environments, where being adaptable is a key intrinsic characteristic. In 2018, he started a new research topic in his research group on Gamified Software Modeling to define methods, theories, and tools to bind gameful mechanisms to existing software applications and create gamified scenarios in Software Engineering.
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Alessandro Colombo
Contact: alessandro.colombo@polimi.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Role: Associate Professor
Keywords: Active safety, cognitive models; nonlinear dynamics complexity; multiagent systems
Short Bio: Alessandro Colombo works on control design for active safety, the modeling of the interplay of human behaviour and cognition, and the dynamics of traffic systems.
Stefano De Luca
Contact: sdeluca@unisa.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy
Role: Professor of Transportation Planning and Transportation Systems Theory with the Department of Civil Engineering – Director of the Transportation Planning and Modelling Laboratory
Keywords: Transportation Planning; Discrete choice modelling; Travel behavior; Traffic assignment; Signal Setting Design; Discrete event simulation; Freight and Passengers terminal simulation; External Impacts of transport; Aviation
Short Bio: Stefano De Luca research activity includes transportation planning techniques, choice modelling, signal settings design, traffic assignment models and algorithms, freight/passenger terminal simulation, and optimization. He advises city, regional, and national governments on transportation planning issues, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Transportation Research part F, the Journal of Advanced Transportation and Sustainability.
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Martina De Sanctis
Contact: martina.desanctis@gssi.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila
Role: Assistant Professor
Keywords: Software Engineering; Self-adaptive Systems; Autonomous Systems; Collective Systems; Software Architectures; Service-oriented Applications; Internet of Things; Smart Cities; Smart Mobility; eHealth
Short Bio: Martina De Sanctis research interests include behavioral and architectural adaptation of service- and IoT-based systems, collective aspects and modeling of multi-agent systems, dynamic adaptations and its application to several domains, i.e., mobility, smart cities, IoT, eHealth. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Doctoral School in Information and Communication Technology (2018), from the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento. During her Ph.D., she actively participated in European Projects in the large-scale collective systems (ICT-FET Proactive project) and digital industry (EIT Digital project) sectors. She has been previously working in companies as a software developer in the business sectors of Web-based software applications.
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Roberta Di Pace
Contact: rdipace@unisa.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy
Role: Associate Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering
Keywords: Transportation Engineering; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Travel behavior; Network Signal Setting; Design Traffic control
Short Bio: Roberta Di Pace is associate professor in Transportation Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno. She is a member of several boards at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno and since 2019 she is also a member of the board of Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Systems. She serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Advanced Transportation, Mathematical problems in Engineering, Smart cities and Sustainability in Environment. She cooperates with international research groups [the TUDelft University, the Luxembourg University, the University of Bristol, the Technion University, The City University of Hong Kong, the LISER research center of Luxembourg, the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene of Algerie, the Beijing Jiaotong University]. She also cooperates on several national (PRIN 2020- Digit-CCAM: Digital Twins for Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility, BORGO 4.0) and international research projects (Cost Action – CA18232: Mathematical models for interacting dynamics on networks /Mat-Dyn-Net). The research and teaching are focused on several relevant topics of transportation systems analysis, such as: intelligent transportation systems, within-day traffic flow modelling, traveler information systems, traffic management and control, discrete choice models and alternative paradigms for travel behavior analysis and modelling, models and algorithms for travel demand assignment to congested transportation networks, enhanced paradigms for traveler learning process modelling, smart/sustainable mobility, transportation environmental impacts.
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Chiara Fiori
Contact: cfiori@unisa.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy
Role: Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering
Keywords: sustainable mobility;
electrified vehicles;
electric power grid;
microscopic traffic and consumption modeling, testing modeling and simulation;
eco-routing strategies;
eco-driving strategies;
well-to-wheels analysis;
modeling, simulation, and impact assessment of port operations in urban contexts;
Multi-Vehicle Dynamic Traffic Assignment
Short Bio: Chiara Fiori received a Ph.D. degree from the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), in 2015. From 2016 to 2019, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II (Italy). She has also an international research experience as Visiting Research Scientist at the MobiLab Transport Research Group of the University of Luxembourg (2020-2021), Visiting Scientist at the European Commission, Joint Research Center, Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate Change (2017-2018); at the Center for Sustainable Mobility of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, USA (2015-2016); and at the Center for Automotive Research of the Ohio State University, USA (2013). She was also involved as a researcher in the 7FP European Project PlanGridEV.
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Michele Fiorini
Contact: mfiorini@ieee.org
Affiliation: Leonardo s.p.a.
Role: Project Engineering Manager providing technical and management leadership on maritime transport and border control systems
Keywords: Systems Engineering, Engineering Manager, Maritime, Digitalisation, Ports, Shipping, Vessel Traffic Services (VTS), e-Navigation, Coastal Surveillance Systems (CSS), Cybersecurity
Short Bio: Educated at Ancona (Italy), Bath (United Kingdom) and Gdańsk (Poland) Universities, Michele Fiorini holds a Ph.D. in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in Italy and an M.B.A. in Strategy, Programme and Project Management in Poland. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered to the Engineering Council UK and an active volunteer at the IET in London (UK), where he served on different boards and committees as well as the IEEE.
Michele Fiorini has been Product Owner (Consortium Leader) for the realisation of the “Zautomatyzowany System Radarowego Nadzoru (ZSRN) polskich obszarów morskich / Automatic National System of Radar Control for Maritime Areas of Poland” realized by Selex – Sistemi Integrati (now Leonardo s.p.a.) in consortium with local partners.
Dr. Fiorini sits on the Advisory Board, MBA Programme, at the Gdańsk University of Technology and has been Finalist for 2021 IET Achievement Medal in Systems Engineering.
News: Journey of a droplet to the ocean of decarbonisation – GUTTA project workshop
Diego Marino
Contact: marinodiego@gmail.com
Area: Industry
Affiliation: ITS Society
Role: Urben System Technical Manager
Keywords: Engineering Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Product Safety, Predictive Diagnostics, Railway Signalling, Public Transportation Systems, Electronics, Telecomunications
Short Bio: Diego Marino has 29 years experience in Railway Sector
2021-2017 Bombardier Transportation Italy: Sales Director Italy, Engineering Director sede Roma. (Roma Tiburtina, Monfalcone-Bivio Aurisina, Guidonia-Sulmona)
2017-2009 Alstom Ferroviaria: Foreign Projects Engineering Manager, Trackside Products Deirector (Pancevo (SRB), Curtici Arad (ROM), Tithorea Domokos (GRE)), Public Funding R&D projects
2008-2006 Alstom Transporte SA: Engineering Director Sede Madrid (Madrid Chamartin, Castelbisball-Can Tunis, Madrid Metro Ligero ML1, ML2, ML3)
2005-1998 Alstom Ferroviaria: Responsabile prove e Messa in Servizio, Ingegnere di sistema (ERTMS Roma Napoli, SCMT Milano-Chiasso, SCMT Padova-Vicenza, SCMT Roma Napoil, Roma Ostiense, Bivio Crociali, Casalecchio Garibaldi)
1997-1992 Sasib Railway R&D Electronic boards
1992 Master Graduate Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna.
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Paolo Nesi
Contact: paolo.nesi@unifi.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Firenze, Italy. DISIT Lab, Snap4City
Role: Professor – Chair of DISIT lab and Snap4City.org
Keywords: big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, IoT, traffic flow predictions
Short Bio: Paolo Nesi is the coordinator of the Sii-Mobility MIU, RESOLUTE EC, Snap4City, as well as a partner in TRAFAIR, MOBIMART, TRACEIT, etc.
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Luigi Pariota
Contact: luigi.pariota@unina.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Role: Associate Professor
Keywords: driving behavior, assessment of C-ITS services, urban traffic estimation and control, mobility as a service (MaaS)
Short Bio: he received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in transportation engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Since 2022, he has
been an Associate Professor with the University of
Naples Federico II, where he coordinates research
activities on various topics, including the modeling
of driving behavior, and the assessment of the
impacts of new technologies on both drivers and
traffic flow, urban traffic estimation and control,
and mobility as a service
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Stefania Santini
Contact: stefania.santini@unina.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Role: Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Infomation Technologies
Keywords: Networked Control Systems;
Autonomous Driving;
Cooperative driving;
Time-delay systems;
Design of resilient cooperative control strategies
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Michele Segata
Contact: michele.segata@unibz.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Role: Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science
Keywords: cooperative driving
vehicular networks
platooning
wireless networks
software-defined radios
Short Bio: Michele Segata main research focus is on cooperative driving, studying the impact of the wireless network on the dynamics of the vehicles and vice versa. He is also involved in the TPC of international conferences. He also serves as a Reviewer for journals, such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, and IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING; a member of the Editorial Board of Electronics journal (MDPI); and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Future Transportation.
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Silvia Siri
Contact: silvia.siri@unige.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Genova, Italy
Role: Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering
Keywords: Ramp-metering traffic control schemes;
Freeway traffic control with CAVs
Traffic flow models in presence of CAVs;
Sustainable mobility for smart cities
Optimal design and management of electric mobility systems;
Modelling and control of transport networks affected by disruptive events;
Optimization of road operations in intermodal logistics networks
Optimization-based algorithms for train loading in seaport container terminals
Short Bio: Silvia Siri received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in 2002 and 2006, respectively, from the University of Genoa, Italy, where she is currently Associate Professor of automatic control. Her research interests deal with modeling, optimization and control of transportation systems, with specific focus on vehicular traffic, freight logistics, electric and smart mobility. She is co-author of more than 120 papers in international journals, international books and international conference proceedings and she is also co-author of a Springer monograph. Silvia Siri is Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and Editor of the Newsletter of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. She was Co-Chair of the National Organizing Committee of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, and co-Chair of the International Program Committee of the 16th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems. During the triennium 2019-2021 she was Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. Presently, she is Chair of the Technical Committee on Smart Cities of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
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Giorgio Domenico Sorrenti
Contact: domenico.sorrenti@unimib.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Milan “Bicocca”, Italy
Role: Associate Professor in computer engineering, with the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication.
Keywords: Computer and robot vision, mainly for autonomous vehicles (3D reconstruction, SLAM, self-localization, tracking, etc.)
Short Bio: Degree (Master) in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, February 1989.
Research assistant with IBM / Semea fellowship, at Politecnico di Milano, for the contract “” Automatic error recovery in assembly robots “”.
Ph.D. in Computer and control engineering, Politecnico di Milano, December 1992.
Research associate at “” Vision and robotics laboratory “”, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, King’s College, London (U. K.).
CNR fellowship, at Politecnico di Milano, under the contract “” URMAD: mobile robotic unit for the aid to handicapped people “”.
Assistant professor in computer science, with Dept. Information Sciences, University of Milan.
Tenured assistant professor in computer science, with Dept. Information Sciences, University of Milan. In January 1999, when the University of Milano – Bicocca was founded, he moved there, with Dept. Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione.
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Luca Studer
Contact: luca.studer@polimi.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano – Laboratorio Mobilità e Trasporti – Dip. Design
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Keywords: ITS, C-ITS, Impact evaluation, Transport planning, Transport modelling.
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Junior Members
Angelo Coppola
Contact: angelo.coppola@unina.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Role: Ph.D. Candidate
Keywords: Transportation Engineering; Cooperative Driving; Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
Short Bio: He received the M.Sc. in Transportation Science Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. His research interests include, but are not limited to, the design of cooperative intelligent transportation systems.
Cecilia Pasquale
Contact: cecilia.pasquale@edu.unige.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Genova, Italy
Role: Research Fellow (RTD A)
Keywords: Vehicle traffic modeling, vehicle traffic control, logistics networks, maritime container transport planning, seaport operations
Short Bio: Cecilia Pasquale received the bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 2009 from the Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy, the Master degree in Transports and Logistics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Monitoring of Systems and Environmental Risk Management from the University of Genova, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Genova. Her research interests include modeling, optimization, and control methods applied to the field of transportation systems. Presently she serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
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Alberto Petrillo
Contact: alberto.petrillo@unina.it
Area: Academic
Affiliation: University of Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Role: Research Fellow (RTD A)
Keywords: Networked Control Systems;
Autonomous Driving;
Cooperative driving;
Time-delay systems;
Design of resilient cooperative control strategies
Short Bio: Alberto Petrillo received the M.S degree in Automation Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control Systems from the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy, in 2015 and 2019 respectively. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activity concerns both theoretical and applicative topics in the field of Automatic Control Systems and combines the methodological aspects with in-the-field experimentation. Specifically, the research activity mainly focuses on the design of Networked Control Systems for cyber-physical systems in the presence of communication impairments (such as packet losses and time-delays) and security vulnerabilities with application to vehicular networks in the automotive and railway sectors.
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Facundo Storani
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Area: Academic
Affiliation: University Salerno, Italy
Role: Post Doc. with the Department of Civil Engineering
Keywords: Transportation Engineering; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Travel behavior; Network Signal Setting; Design Traffic control
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