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 麻豆社区.
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 鈥淜NOWledge 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
  • Seminar at King鈥檚 College London
  • Webinar for TRB Traffic Flow Committee
  • Lecture at Smart Mobility Summer School, Universidad de Verano de Maspalomas, Spain
  • 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
  • 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 Mobilit茅 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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The need for latent variables for modelling decision-making in evacuation simulations

Book Chapter
Lovreglio, R., Borri, D., Ronchi, E., Fonzone, A., & dell鈥橭lio, L. (2022)
The need for latent variables for modelling decision-making in evacuation simulations. In C. De Lucia, D. Borri, A. Kubursi, & A. Khakee (Eds.), Economics and Engineering of Unpredictable Events: Modelling, Planning and Policies (82-96). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123385-8
Evacuation models generally tend to make over-simplifications in the representation of human behaviour in fire due to the difficulties to capture its complexity. This work sho...

Trips for Outdoor Exercise at Different Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scotland

Journal Article
Semple, T., Fountas, G., & Fonzone, A. (2021)
Trips for Outdoor Exercise at Different Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Scotland 鈥. Journal of transport & health, 23, Article 101280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101280
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had exceptional effects on travel behaviour in the UK. This paper focuses specifically on the outdoor exercise trips of Scottish residen...

Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts

Conference Proceeding
Islam, M. F., Fonzone, A., & Fountas, G. (2021)
Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts. In 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS). https://doi.org/10.1109/mt-its49943.2021.9529270
Due to higher smartphone uptake and Internet penetration rate, Ubiquitous Real-time Passenger Information (URTPI) has become available to and required by larger segments of th...

Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Analysis of Bicycle Crash Injuries in Scotland: A Correlated Random Parameters Ordered Probit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means

Journal Article
Fountas, G., Fonzone, A., Olowosegun, A., & McTigue, C. (2021)
Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Analysis of Bicycle Crash Injuries in Scotland: A Correlated Random Parameters Ordered Probit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2021.100181
This paper investigates the determinants of injury severities in single-bicycle and bicycle-motor vehicle crashes by estimating correlated random parameter ordered probit mode...

Multi-stage deep learning approaches to predict boarding behaviour of bus passengers

Journal Article
Tang, T., Fonzone, A., Liu, R., & Choudhury, C. (2021)
Multi-stage deep learning approaches to predict boarding behaviour of bus passengers. Sustainable Cities and 麻豆社区, 73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103111
Smart card data has emerged in recent years and provide a comprehensive, and cheap source of information for planning and managing public transport systems. This paper present...

Impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and residential location choices in Scotland

Report
Downey, L., Fonzone, A., Fountas, G., & Semple, T. Impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and residential location choices in Scotland. Scottish Funding Council

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Downey, L., Fonzone, A., Fountas, G., & Semple, T. Impact of COVID-19 on travel behaviour, transport, lifestyles and residential location choices in Scotland. Scottish Funding Council
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 21st March 2020 and on 24th March 2020, the UK and Scottish Governments imposed a 鈥榣ockdown鈥, restri...

Bus passenger path choices after consulting ubiquitous real-time information

Journal Article
Islam, F., & Fonzone, A. (2021)
Bus passenger path choices after consulting ubiquitous real-time information. Travel Behaviour and 麻豆社区, 23, 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.01.001
Ubiquitous real-time passenger information (URTPI) enables public transport (PT) users to make better travel choices at both pre-trip and en-route stages. A significant amount...

The influence of traffic, geometric and context variables on urban crash types: a grouped random parameter multinomial logit approach

Journal Article
Intini, P., Berloco, N., Fonzone, A., Fountas, G., & Ranieri, V. (2020)
The influence of traffic, geometric and context variables on urban crash types: a grouped random parameter multinomial logit approach. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2020.100141
Numerous road safety studies have been dedicated to the estimation of crash frequency and injury severity models. However, previous research has shown that different factors m...

The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting

Journal Article
Ababio-Donkor, A., Saleh, W., & Fonzone, A. (2020)
The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting. Research in Transportation Economics, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100966
Research in travel behavioural studies have shown that social forces play a significant role in travel decision making like socioeconomic factors. Several studies have tested ...

UberPOOL Services 鈥 Approaches from Transport Operators and Policymakers in London

Journal Article
Mohamed, M. J., Rye, T., & Fonzone, A. (2020)
UberPOOL Services 鈥 Approaches from Transport Operators and Policymakers in London. Transportation Research Procedia, 48, 2597-2607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.251
Ridesourcing services such as Uber provide a segment of the total daily trips in Urban cities, for instance, its reported that Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) mode share w...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

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