Pierluigi Coppola has a Ph.D. in Road Infrastructures and Transportation Systems, and is Full Professor of Transport at the Polytechnic University of Milan. His research interests include land-use/transport interaction models, sustainable urban mobility, and dynamic traffic assignment models. Prof. Coppola has been involved in European and national projects in Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. He is the author of more than 130 articles published in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is a fellow of the Council of the Association for European Transport and of the Steering Committee of the World Conference of Transportation Research Society.