Achille Fonzone
Achille Fonzone

Prof Achille Fonzone

Professor

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  A.Fonzone@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Achille is Professor of Transport Analysis and Planning at Edinburgh Napier University.
He has a background in Civil Engineering, a PhD in Transport and Planning, a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
He has authored 50 peer-reviewed publications, 20 presentations in conferences, and several book chapters and scientific reports. He has published in the top-ranking transport scientific journals, including Transportation Research Part A, B and C and Analytic Methods in Accident Research. He is Associated Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems and member of the Editorial Board of Sustainability. He has edited special issues of Transportation Research Part A and Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems.
He is leading the evaluation of the large Horizon 2020 project SUNRISE, promoting sustainable mobility at the neighbourhood level through co-creation in 6 countries in Europe, and the societal research in the Innovate UK/C-CAV flagship project CAV Forth, which will build and operate a fleet of level 4 full-size buses for the first time in the world. In response to the challenges generated by the outbreak of COVID-19, Achille has established and is leading a research group on the impacts of the pandemics on transport and location choices.
He has active research collaborations with leading researchers in the UK and the rest of Europe, Japan, and the USA. He has been invited to give talks at top international Universities and transport organisations. He is full member of the EPSRC Review College and fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Member of the steering group of the Zero Emission Mobility them of the Energy Technology Partnership
  • TRI representative in the UK section of UITP
  • "Friend" of several TRB committees
  • Young Member of the TRB committee Transportation and Economic Development

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Member of the committee of the special track on Intelligent Transport Systems, 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing
  • Publication chair of MT-ITS2021
  • Member of the local organising committee of the Travel Demand Management Symposium 2019
  • Member of the steering group of the Scottish Transport Applications and Research conference
  • Member of the International Committee of the Travel Demand Management Symposium
  • Program committee member of KNOWMe - International Workshop on “KNOWledge Discovery from Mobility and Transportation Systems, ECML/PKDD 2017

 

Editorial Activity

  • Member of Editorial Board of Sustainability
  • Guest Editor of Transportation Research Part A
  • Associate editor of Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Guest editor of Transportation Research Part A
  • Guest Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best paper at mobil.TUM 2016
  • Best paper from a Young Professional at Scottish Transport Applications and Research conference 2016

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation
  • Grant reviewer for the Israeli Smart Transportation Center
  • Full member of EPSRC peer review college
  • Associate member of EPSRC peer review college

 

Invited Speaker

  • Presentation at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2021 organised by TRB
  • Panelist at the CIHT Scotland YPN Event - E-Scooters: The Big Questions
  • Invited panelist at MFTS20
  • Presentation at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 organised by TRB
  • Seminar at UC Davis, USA
  • Webinar for TRB Traffic Flow Committee
  • Lecture at Smart Mobility Summer School, Universidad de Verano de Maspalomas, Spain
  • Seminar at King’s College London
  • Keynote presentation at 5th Polish National Scientific Technical Conference
  • Seminar at Kyoto University, Japan
  • Seminar at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

 

Media Activity

  • Articles on several online and paper outlets about the report "Impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and location choices in Scotland"
  • Interview with Radio Forth on the impacts of COVID-19 on transport

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Member of the Open Transit Software Foundation

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Referee of PhD thesis at Universita' di Palermo
  • PhD examiner at University of Leeds
  • Referee of PhD thesis at Universita' di Bologna
  • Member of Final Examination Committee for the PhD programme "Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Civile e Architettura" of the University of Cagliari
  • PhD examiner at KTH, Stockholm
  • PhD viva Rapporteur at Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (LVMT), Paris

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Researcher at University of California Davis
  • Visiting Lecturer at King's College London
  • Visiting Professor (Professore a contratto) at Politecnico di Bari

 

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What do you do with your app? A study of rider decision-making with real-time passenger information.

Journal Article
Fonzone, A. (2014)
What do you do with your app? A study of rider decision-making with real-time passenger information. Transportation research record, 2535(1), 15-24. doi:10.3141/2535-02
Provision of Real-Time Passenger Information (RTPI) is increasingly becoming a fundamental element of the service offered by transit agencies. RTPI changes the way in which tr...

Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised junctions in urban areas: the impact of spatial factors.

Conference Proceeding
Mayeux, A., Lovreglio, R., Saleh, W., & Fonzone, A. (2015)
Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised junctions in urban areas: the impact of spatial factors. In TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Much has still to be done to increase pedestrian safety. Illegal crossing at signalised junctions may increase the risk of accidents at the intersections where it takes place ...

A study of herding behaviour in exit choice during emergencies based on random utility theory.

Journal Article
Lovreglio, R., Fonzone, A., dell’Olio, L., & Borri, D. (2016)
A study of herding behaviour in exit choice during emergencies based on random utility theory. Safety Science, 82, 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.10.015
Modelling human behaviour in emergencies has become an important issue in safety engineering. Good behavioural models can help increase the safety of transportation systems an...

Bus bunching along a corridor served by two lines.

Presentation / Conference
Sun, W., Schmöcker, J., Liu, R. & Fonzone, A. (2015, August)
Bus bunching along a corridor served by two lines. Paper presented at 6th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, Nara, Japan

A model of bus bunching under reliability-based passenger arrival patterns.

Journal Article
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J., & Liu, R. (2015)
A model of bus bunching under reliability-based passenger arrival patterns. Transportation Research Procedia, 7, 276-299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2015.06.015
If bus service departure times are not completely unknown to the passengers, non-uniform passenger arrival patterns can be expected. We propose that passengers decide their ar...

A model of bus bunching under reliability-based passenger arrival patterns

Journal Article
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J., & Liu, R. (2015)
A model of bus bunching under reliability-based passenger arrival patterns. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 59, 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2015.05.020
If bus service departure times are not completely unknown to the passengers, non-uniform passenger arrival patterns can be expected. We propose that passengers decide their ar...

Assessing the Carbon Impact of ICT measures.

Presentation / Conference
Stewart, K., & Fonzone, A. (2015, April)
Assessing the Carbon Impact of ICT measures. Paper presented at 7th International Travel Demand Management Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA

Considerations about the Analysis of ITS Data of Bicycle Sharing Systems.

Journal Article
Bordagaray, M., Fonzone, A., dell’Olio, L., & Ibeas, A. (2014)
Considerations about the Analysis of ITS Data of Bicycle Sharing Systems. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 162, 340-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.12.215
Handling and managing data automatically collected by Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is a major opportunity and challenge for transport professionals nowadays. This study...

The role of herding behaviour in exit choice during evacuation.

Journal Article
Lovreglio, R., Fonzone, A., dell’Olio, L., Borri, D., & Ibeas, A. (2014)
The role of herding behaviour in exit choice during evacuation. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 160, 390-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.12.151
Modelling of human behaviour during emergencies is an important issue to be investigated to improve the safety of transportation infrastructures. This behaviour can be influen...

Effects of transit real-time information usage strategies.

Journal Article
Fonzone, A., & Schmoecker, J. (2014)
Effects of transit real-time information usage strategies. Transportation research record, 2417, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.3141/2417-13
Real-time information is becoming increasingly available to transit travellers. This paper discusses the effects of RTI available before the start of a journey in terms of lin...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • COST Action TU1004 "Modelling Public Transport Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)”

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