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
  • "Friend" of several TRB committees
  • TRI representative in the UK section of UITP
  • 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 International Committee of the Travel Demand Management Symposium
  • Member of the steering group of the Scottish Transport Applications and Research conference
  • Member of the local organising committee of the Travel Demand Management Symposium 2019
  • 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 from a Young Professional at Scottish Transport Applications and Research conference 2016
  • Best paper at mobil.TUM 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

  • Panelist at the CIHT Scotland YPN Event - E-Scooters: The Big Questions
  • Presentation at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2021 organised by TRB
  • 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

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

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Member of the Open Transit Software Foundation

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Referee of PhD thesis at Universita' di Palermo
  • Referee of PhD thesis at Universita' di Bologna
  • PhD examiner at University of Leeds
  • 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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Assessing the Carbon Impact of ICT measures.

Presentation / Conference
Stewart, K., Fonzone, A., & Cooper, J. (2014, May)
Assessing the Carbon Impact of ICT measures. Paper presented at 10th Annual Scottish Transport Research and Applications Conference, Glasgow

Strategy Choice in Transit Networks

Conference Proceeding
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J. D., Kurauchi, F., & Hassan, S. (2013)
Strategy Choice in Transit Networks. In 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)

Strategy choice in transit networks.

Journal Article
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J., Kurauchi, F., & Hemdan, S. M. H. (2013)
Strategy choice in transit networks. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 10, 796-815
Public transport passengers are assumed to choose routes that minimise the expected travel times. In networks with high-frequency services this requires the adoption of hyperp...

Depot location in degradable transport networks

Journal Article
Bell, M. G., Fonzone, A., & Polyzoni, C. (2014)
Depot location in degradable transport networks. Transportation research. Part B, Methodological, 66, 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2013.11.003
Areas subject to natural or man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods or attacks, are reliant on the residual transport network for the rescue of survivors and su...

On how real time information can change the use of transit services

Presentation / Conference
Fonzone, A. & Schmöcker, J. D. (2013, September)
On how real time information can change the use of transit services. Presented at hEART 2013: 2nd Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, Stockholm, Sweden

The impact of the congestion charge on the retail sector in London: an econometric analysis.

Conference Proceeding
Quddus, M., Bell, M., Schmöcker, J., & Fonzone, A. (2013)
The impact of the congestion charge on the retail sector in London: an econometric analysis

Link-based route choice considering risk aversion, disappointment and regret

Conference Proceeding
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J., Ma, J., & Fukuda, D. (2012)
Link-based route choice considering risk aversion, disappointment and regret. In 91st Annual TRB Meeting online
In networks with uncertain link travel times route guidance information should consider traveller preferences (1). Risk-averse travellers prefer safer options but might feel u...

Estimating weights of times and transfers for hyperpath travellers

Journal Article
Kurauchi, F., Schmoecker, J., Fonzone, A., Hemdan, S. M. H., Shimamoto, H., & Bell, M. G. H. (2012)
Estimating weights of times and transfers for hyperpath travellers. Transportation research record, 2284, 89-99. https://doi.org/10.3141/2284-11
In high-frequency transit networks, travelers are often assumed to reduce their travel time by identifying sets of attractive lines. This concept was used in the development o...

Link-based route choice considering risk aversion, disappointment and regret

Journal Article
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J., Ma, J., & Fukuda, D. (2012)
Link-based route choice considering risk aversion, disappointment and regret. Transportation research record, 2322, 119-128. https://doi.org/10.3141/2322-13
In networks with uncertain link travel times route guidance information should consider traveller preferences (1). Risk-averse travellers prefer safer options but might feel u...

Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation.

Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Trozzi, V., Hosseinloo, S. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2012)
Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 46, 790-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2012.02.002
The vehicle navigation problem studied in Bell (2009) is revisited and a time-dependent reverse Hyperstar algorithm is presented. This minimises the expected time of arrival a...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

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