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

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant reviewer for the Israeli Smart Transportation Center
  • Grant reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation
  • 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
  • Presentation at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 organised by TRB
  • Invited panelist at MFTS20
  • 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
  • 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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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...

Strategy choice in transit networks.

Presentation / Conference
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J., Kurauchi, F. & Hemdan, S. (2012, July)
Strategy choice in transit networks. Paper presented at CASPT12 - Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport, Santiago, Chile

Estimation of weights of times and transfers for hyperpath travellers.

Conference Proceeding
Kurauchi, F., Schmöcker, J., Fonzone, A., Hemdan, S., Shimamoto, H., & Bell, M. (2012)
Estimation of weights of times and transfers for hyperpath travellers. In 91st Annual TRB Meeting

Frequency-based maritime container assignment model for global liner services.

Conference Proceeding
Bell, M. G. H., Angeloudis, P., Liu, X., Fonzone, A., & Hosseinloo, S. H. (2011)
Frequency-based maritime container assignment model for global liner services. In TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
This paper transposes the classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian to containers demonstrating its promise as the basis for a global maritime co...

A frequency-based maritime container assignment model

Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Angeloudis, P., Liu, X., Fonzone, A., & Hosseinloo, S. H. (2011)
A frequency-based maritime container assignment model. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 45, 1152-1161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2011.04.002
This paper transfers the classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian to containers demonstrating its promise as the basis for a global maritimecont...

Frequency-based transit assignment considering seat capacities.

Journal Article
Schmoecker, J., Fonzone, A., Shimamoto, H., Kurauchi, F., & Bell, M. G. H. (2011)
Frequency-based transit assignment considering seat capacities. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 45, 392-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2010.07.002
This paper proposes a frequency-based assignment model that considers travellers probability of finding a seat in their perception of route cost and hence also their route cho...

Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks.

Presentation / Conference
Bell, M. G. H., Trozzi, V., Hosseinloo, S. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2010, July)
Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks. Paper presented at 4th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability
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...

Dynamic route choice in a congested transit network with uncertain carriers’ arrival times

Presentation / Conference
Trozzi, V., Bell, M. G. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2010, July)
Dynamic route choice in a congested transit network with uncertain carriers’ arrival times. Paper presented at 12th World Congress on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of exploiting the hyperpath paradigm within the framework of dynamic assignment to model the route choice in a cong...

Seat capacity and hyperpath choice on-board: alight or remain seated?

Presentation / Conference
Schmoecker, J., Shimamoto, H., Kurauchi, F., Fonzone, A., & Bell, M. G. H. (2010, July)
Seat capacity and hyperpath choice on-board: alight or remain seated?. Paper presented at 12th World Congress on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal
The rationale for the definition of a set of paths referred to as “hyperpath” is that some uncertainty (for example waiting time) means that the choice of a specific option is...

Do “hyper-travellers” exist? – Initial results of an international survey on public transport user behaviour.

Presentation / Conference
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J., Bell, M. G. H., Gentile, G., Kurauchi, F., Noeckel, K., & Wilson, N. H. M. (2010, July)
Do “hyper-travellers” exist? – Initial results of an international survey on public transport user behaviour. Paper presented at 12th World Congress on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal
Transport modelling – both in traffic and transit fields – has been traditionally based on the assumption of the utility maximization principle. In public transport networks w...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

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