Prof. Michele Ottomanelli is a full professor of Transportation Systems at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. He received a PhD in Road Infrastructures and Transportation Systems from the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the Polytechnic University of Bari. He is also the president of the Board of Coordinators of the MOST National Centre for Sustainable Mobility of Italy and the head of the Sustainable Transport Applied Research Team. Prof. Ottomanelli’s research topics include transportation network design, sustainable mobility and equity in transportation planning, and transportation system modelling and optimization.