Achille Fonzone
Achille Fonzone

Prof Achille Fonzone

Professor

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 steering group of the Scottish Transport Applications and Research conference
  • Member of the International Committee of the Travel Demand Management Symposium
  • 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 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
  • Invited panelist at MFTS20
  • Presentation at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 organised by TRB
  • Seminar at UC Davis, USA
  • Keynote presentation at 5th Polish National Scientific Technical Conference
  • Webinar for TRB Traffic Flow Committee
  • Lecture at Smart Mobility Summer School, Universidad de Verano de Maspalomas, Spain
  • Seminar at King’s College London
  • 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

 

Date


90 results

Mobilità e infrastrutture di trasporto: verso uno sviluppo come promozione delle opportunità.

Report
Colonna, P. & Fonzone, A. (2002)
Mobilità e infrastrutture di trasporto: verso uno sviluppo come promozione delle opportunità. Durban, South Africa: Le Strade, Special Issue for XXII AIPCR World Road Congress, Italian Report

An innovative interpretation of reliability as an expression of the expected road service quality.

Presentation / Conference
Colonna, P., Berloco, N. & Fonzone, A. (2007, January)
An innovative interpretation of reliability as an expression of the expected road service quality. Paper presented at 3rd International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, Delft, The Netherlands

Performance of route suggestions in networks with correlated link congestion.

Journal Article
Fonzone, A. & Schmoecker, J. (2013)
Performance of route suggestions in networks with correlated link congestion. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences. 111, 800-809. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.114. ISSN 1877-0428
We evaluate the performance of route suggestions which can be adopted when no real time information is available. We consider that when the available information is limited, r...

The impact of the congestion charge on the retail business in London: An econometric analysis.

Journal Article
Quddus, M. A., Bell, M. G. H., Schmoecker, J. & Fonzone, A. (2006)
The impact of the congestion charge on the retail business in London: An econometric analysis. Transport Policy. 14, 433-444. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2007.04.008. ISSN 0967-070X
On 17 February 2003, London introduced a pioneering congestion-charging scheme. The impact on traffic was sudden and dramatic. For example, car movements within the congestion...

From pavement maintenance to territory enhancement: the global road management system (GRMS).

Presentation / Conference
Colonna, P., Fioretti, G., Fonzone, A. & Sasso, S. (2002, January)
From pavement maintenance to territory enhancement: the global road management system (GRMS). Paper presented at On Safe Roads in the XXI. Century, Budapest, Hungary

COMPASS: optimised co-modal passenger transport fro reducing carbon emissions - An assessment of the potential impact of ICT solutions on a co-modal transport system.

Report
Biosca, O., Ulied, A., Bielefeldt, C., Calvet, M., Larrea, E., de Stasio, C., …Stewart, K. (2013)
COMPASS: optimised co-modal passenger transport fro reducing carbon emissions - An assessment of the potential impact of ICT solutions on a co-modal transport system. Edinburgh, Scotland: European Commission
This deliverable is the synthesis of the work carried out in WP6 of the COMPASS project, centred on the assessment of ITS transport solutions to improve co-modality in Europe....

Compass: Optimised co-modal passenger transport fro reducing carbon emissions: Handbook of ICT solutions for improving co-modality in passenger transport.

Report
Biosca, O., Ulied, A., Caramanico, G., Bielefeldt, C., Calvet, M., Carreras, B., …Franchi, L. (2013)
Compass: Optimised co-modal passenger transport fro reducing carbon emissions: Handbook of ICT solutions for improving co-modality in passenger transport. Edinburgh, Scotland: European Commission
The COMPASS Handbook of ICT Solutions puts together a set of 96 solutions applying to urban and metropolitan mobility, long distance passenger transport and also innovative IC...

Analysis of the interactions between road infrastructures and social-economic development.

Presentation / Conference
Colonna, P. & Fonzone, A. (2002, January)
Analysis of the interactions between road infrastructures and social-economic development. Paper presented at ACE 2002 - International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India

Social economic factors influencing transport supply and demand: a conceptual framework and some evidences from statistical analysis.

Presentation / Conference
Colonna, P. & Fonzone, A. (2001, January)
Social economic factors influencing transport supply and demand: a conceptual framework and some evidences from statistical analysis. Paper presented at AIPCR and IRC International Seminar on Sustainable Development in Road Transport, New Delhi, India

Il Global Road Management System (GRMS): un nuovo approccio per la manutenzione di una rete stradale.

Presentation / Conference
Colonna, P., Fonzone, A. & Sasso, S. (2002, January)
Il Global Road Management System (GRMS): un nuovo approccio per la manutenzione di una rete stradale. Paper presented at XII Convegno Nazionale SIIV – Riqualificazione funzionale e sicurezza del sistema viario, Parma, Italy

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

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