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Prof. Cristina Pronello
Politecnico di Torino, DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning

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Journal article
Published: 23 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The introduction of shared autonomous vehicles into the transport system is suggested to bring significant impacts on traffic conditions, road safety and emissions, as well as overall reshaping travel behaviour. Compared with a private autonomous vehicle, a shared automated vehicle (SAV) is associated with different willingness-to-adopt and willingness-to-pay characteristics. An important aspect of future SAV adoption is the presence of other passengers in the SAV—often people unknown to the cotravellers. This study presents a cross-country exploration of user preferences and WTP calculations regarding mode choice between a private non-autonomous vehicle, and private and shared autonomous vehicles. To explore user preferences, the study launched a survey in seven European countries, including a stated-preference experiment of user choices. To model and quantify the effect of travel mode attributes and socio-demographic characteristics, the study employs a mixed logit model. The model results were the basis for calculating willingness-to-pay values for all countries and travel modes, and provide insight into the significant heterogeneous, gender-wise effect of cotravellers in the choice to use an SAV. The study results highlight the importance of analysis of the effect of SAV attributes and shared-ride conditions on the future acceptance and adoption rates of such services.

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Amalia Polydoropoulou; Ioannis Tsouros; Nikolas Thomopoulos; Cristina Pronello; Arnór Elvarsson; Haraldur Sigþórsson; Nima Dadashzadeh; Kristina Stojmenova; Jaka Sodnik; Stelios Neophytou; Domokos Esztergár-Kiss; Jamil Hamadneh; Graham Parkhurst; Shelly Etzioni; Yoram Shiftan; Floridea Di Ciommo. Who Is Willing to Share Their AV? Insights about Gender Differences among Seven Countries. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4769 .

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Amalia Polydoropoulou, Ioannis Tsouros, Nikolas Thomopoulos, Cristina Pronello, Arnór Elvarsson, Haraldur Sigþórsson, Nima Dadashzadeh, Kristina Stojmenova, Jaka Sodnik, Stelios Neophytou, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, Jamil Hamadneh, Graham Parkhurst, Shelly Etzioni, Yoram Shiftan, Floridea Di Ciommo. Who Is Willing to Share Their AV? Insights about Gender Differences among Seven Countries. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4769.

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Amalia Polydoropoulou; Ioannis Tsouros; Nikolas Thomopoulos; Cristina Pronello; Arnór Elvarsson; Haraldur Sigþórsson; Nima Dadashzadeh; Kristina Stojmenova; Jaka Sodnik; Stelios Neophytou; Domokos Esztergár-Kiss; Jamil Hamadneh; Graham Parkhurst; Shelly Etzioni; Yoram Shiftan; Floridea Di Ciommo. 2021. "Who Is Willing to Share Their AV? Insights about Gender Differences among Seven Countries." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4769.

Journal article
Published: 23 November 2020 in Sustainability
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The technology that allows fully automated driving already exists and it may gradually enter the market over the forthcoming decades. Technology assimilation and automated vehicle acceptance in different countries is of high interest to many scholars, manufacturers, and policymakers worldwide. We model the mode choice between automated vehicles and conventional cars using a mixed multinomial logit heteroskedastic error component type model. Specifically, we capture preference heterogeneity assuming a continuous distribution across individuals. Different choice scenarios, based on respondents’ reported trip, were presented to respondents from six European countries: Cyprus, Hungary, Iceland, Montenegro, Slovenia, and the UK. We found that large reservations towards automated vehicles exist in all countries with 70% conventional private car choices, and 30% automated vehicles choices. We found that men, under the age of 60, with a high income who currently use private car, are more likely to be early adopters of automated vehicles. We found significant differences in automated vehicles acceptance in different countries. Individuals from Slovenia and Cyprus show higher automated vehicles acceptance while individuals from wealthier countries, UK, and Iceland, show more reservations towards them. Nontrading mode choice behaviors, value of travel time, and differences in model parameters among the different countries are discussed.

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Shelly Etzioni; Jamil Hamadneh; Arnór Elvarsson; Domokos Esztergár-Kiss; Milena Djukanovic; Stelios Neophytou; Jaka Sodnik; Amalia Polydoropoulou; Ioannis Tsouros; Cristina Pronello; Nikolas Thomopoulos; Yoram Shiftan. Modeling Cross-National Differences in Automated Vehicle Acceptance. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9765 .

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Shelly Etzioni, Jamil Hamadneh, Arnór Elvarsson, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, Milena Djukanovic, Stelios Neophytou, Jaka Sodnik, Amalia Polydoropoulou, Ioannis Tsouros, Cristina Pronello, Nikolas Thomopoulos, Yoram Shiftan. Modeling Cross-National Differences in Automated Vehicle Acceptance. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9765.

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Shelly Etzioni; Jamil Hamadneh; Arnór Elvarsson; Domokos Esztergár-Kiss; Milena Djukanovic; Stelios Neophytou; Jaka Sodnik; Amalia Polydoropoulou; Ioannis Tsouros; Cristina Pronello; Nikolas Thomopoulos; Yoram Shiftan. 2020. "Modeling Cross-National Differences in Automated Vehicle Acceptance." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9765.

Journal article
Published: 04 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Autonomous vehicles are anticipated to play an important role on future mobility offering encouraging solutions to today’s transport problems. However, concerns of the public, which can affect the AVs’ uptake, are yet to be addressed. This study presents relevant findings of an online survey in eight European countries. First, 1639 responses were collected in Spring 2020 on people’s commute, preferred transport mode, willingness to use AVs and demographic details. Data was analyzed for the entire dataset and for vulnerable road users in particular. Results re-confirm the long-lasting discourse on the importance of safety on the acceptance of AVs. Spearman correlations show that age, gender, education level and number of household members have an impact on how people may be using or allowing their children to use the technology, e.g., with or without the presence of a human supervisor in the vehicle. Results on vulnerable road users show the same trend. The elderly would travel in AVs with the presence of a human supervisor. People with disabilities have the same proclivity, however their reactions were more conservative. Next to safety, reliability, affordability, cost, driving pleasure and household size may also impact the uptake of AVs and shall be considered when designing relevant policies.

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Miltos Kyriakidis; Jaka Sodnik; Kristina Stojmenova; Arnór Elvarsson; Cristina Pronello; Nikolas Thomopoulos. The Role of Human Operators in Safety Perception of AV Deployment—Insights from a Large European Survey. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9166 .

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Miltos Kyriakidis, Jaka Sodnik, Kristina Stojmenova, Arnór Elvarsson, Cristina Pronello, Nikolas Thomopoulos. The Role of Human Operators in Safety Perception of AV Deployment—Insights from a Large European Survey. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):9166.

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Miltos Kyriakidis; Jaka Sodnik; Kristina Stojmenova; Arnór Elvarsson; Cristina Pronello; Nikolas Thomopoulos. 2020. "The Role of Human Operators in Safety Perception of AV Deployment—Insights from a Large European Survey." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 9166.

Review
Published: 25 August 2020 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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Travel surveys and other traditional methods have been used for collecting mobility data since 1930s. Those surveys have been so far the most reliable approaches to understand people mobility patterns, but their high costs do not allow a high frequency collection to obtain continuously updated data. To overcome these limitations, digitalization opens the gate for renewed travel data collection and analysis methods. To this extent, this paper aims to present a review of the various smartphone applications, classifying them according to three different purposes: 1) Travel Data Collection and Analysis; 2) Travel Surveys; and 3) Promotion of Sustainable Mobility. 81 apps were retrieved and analysed in detail and evaluated according to their features and the methods used for data collection. A subsequent SWOT analysis has then been performed to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of using the smartphone applications to understand mobility patterns. Finally, recommendations for future research are put forward.

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Cristina Pronello; Pinky Kumawat. Smartphone Applications Developed to Collect Mobility Data: A Review and SWOT Analysis. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2020, 449 -467.

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Cristina Pronello, Pinky Kumawat. Smartphone Applications Developed to Collect Mobility Data: A Review and SWOT Analysis. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2020; ():449-467.

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Cristina Pronello; Pinky Kumawat. 2020. "Smartphone Applications Developed to Collect Mobility Data: A Review and SWOT Analysis." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , no. : 449-467.

Article
Published: 12 November 2019 in Transportation
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In the current debate, ecological themes have become a key element that can influence public policy, as recent events involving green activist groups have shown. Public policies targeted to education, along with focused advertising, can strongly influence people’s beliefs and their emotional reactions. Understanding individual behavioural responses is therefore of the utmost importance for policy makers wishing to encourage more sustainable mobility. They could be greatly assisted by an effective measure of ecological behaviour giving them a better understanding of the determinants of travel behaviour, enabling them to analyse the impact of adopted policies. Ideally, such a measure should be simple to use, and it should be usable across different cultural and geographical contexts so as to allow comparisons between different countries. This paper seeks to determine whether the General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) questionnaire—as a dichotomous multi-items Rasch scale for ecological behaviour measurement—is valid for use in a different cultural context. We refer to the relevant literature, and we describe our approach in detail so that it may easily be adopted by interested practitioners. The research was done in the metropolitan area of Torino (Italy), where a multimodal real-time smartphone application to assist travellers and encourage them towards more sustainable mobility was being developed and trialled. Within this framework, an investigation was done into the pro-environmental behaviour of the participants in the app trial. Our aim was to determine whether a general pro-environmental attitude can legitimately be assessed using Item Response Theory and, notably, the Rasch model. Results suggest that, using an Item Response Theory model, GEB is a questionnaire that is able to effectively measure pro-environmental behaviour by travellers. There are no discrepancies between pro-social behaviour (a trait that is known to correlate with environmentally friendly attitudes and that the GEB questionnaire seeks to measure) and actual environmentally friendly behaviour; one-dimensionality, item reliability, and the absence of simple differential item functioning are all good indicators of a model that functions well. GEB has shown its potential in providing an understanding of people’s attitudes towards environmental issues and of how this information might be used to better tailor public policies in a number of sectors, in particular transport.

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Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau; Cristina Pronello. Validation of a unidimensional and probabilistic measurement scale for pro-environmental behaviour by travellers. Transportation 2019, 1 -39.

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Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau, Cristina Pronello. Validation of a unidimensional and probabilistic measurement scale for pro-environmental behaviour by travellers. Transportation. 2019; ():1-39.

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Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau; Cristina Pronello. 2019. "Validation of a unidimensional and probabilistic measurement scale for pro-environmental behaviour by travellers." Transportation , no. : 1-39.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2019
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Cristina Pronello; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau; Valentina Rappazzo; Valerio Operti. Case study on effects of the mandatory validation on bus commercial speed. 2019, 19, 43 -59.

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Cristina Pronello, Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau, Valentina Rappazzo, Valerio Operti. Case study on effects of the mandatory validation on bus commercial speed. . 2019; 19 (1):43-59.

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Cristina Pronello; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau; Valentina Rappazzo; Valerio Operti. 2019. "Case study on effects of the mandatory validation on bus commercial speed." 19, no. 1: 43-59.

Journal article
Published: 29 September 2018 in Sustainability
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This paper aims to define an algorithm capable of building the origin-destination matrix from check-in data collected in the extra-urban area of Torino, Italy, where thousands of people commute every day, using smart cards to validate their travel documents while boarding. To this end, the methodological approach relied on a survey over three months to record smart-card validations. Peak and off-peak periods have been defined according to validation frequency. Then, the origin-destination matrix has been estimated using the time interval between two validations to outline the different legs of the journey. Finally, transport demand has been matched with existing bus services, showing which areas were not adequately covered by public transport. The results of this research could assist public transport operators and local authorities in the design of a more suitable transport supply and mobility services in accordance with user needs. Indeed, tailoring public transport to user needs attracts both more customers and latent demand, reducing reliance on cars and making transport more sustainable.

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Cristina Pronello; Davide Longhi; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. Smart Card Data Mining to Analyze Mobility Patterns in Suburban Areas. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3489 .

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Cristina Pronello, Davide Longhi, Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. Smart Card Data Mining to Analyze Mobility Patterns in Suburban Areas. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (10):3489.

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Cristina Pronello; Davide Longhi; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. 2018. "Smart Card Data Mining to Analyze Mobility Patterns in Suburban Areas." Sustainability 10, no. 10: 3489.

Review
Published: 11 July 2018 in Sustainability
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This paper aims to review variables and behavioural theories originating from social and environmental psychology as applied to transport research, to better understand decision-making mechanisms, information processing and modal choice. The first section provides an overview of the main psycho-social variables which explain behaviour and, notably, pro-environment behaviour. The analysis shows the relations among variables, highlighting some potential cause-effect mechanism or, at least, the influence that such variables can have on behaviour. Furthermore, the strengths and weaknesses of using psycho-social variables to predict travel behaviour are discussed. Such analysis feeds the section related to the behavioural theories. These are reviewed with a focus on potential application to transport sector, showing the would-be added value of introducing a socio-psychological approach in the current vision, focused on stochastic models based on maximisation of personal utility. To this end, attention is paid to the data collection and analysis, basic for any models and even more challenging to collect when they deal with personal characteristics of individuals. Finally, the concept of attitude and intention is discussed, opening the doors between disciplines to overcome the attitude-behaviour gap.

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Cristina Pronello; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. Engaging in Pro-Environment Travel Behaviour Research from a Psycho-Social Perspective: A Review of Behavioural Variables and Theories. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2412 .

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Cristina Pronello, Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. Engaging in Pro-Environment Travel Behaviour Research from a Psycho-Social Perspective: A Review of Behavioural Variables and Theories. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (7):2412.

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Cristina Pronello; Jean-Baptiste Gaborieau. 2018. "Engaging in Pro-Environment Travel Behaviour Research from a Psycho-Social Perspective: A Review of Behavioural Variables and Theories." Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2412.

Conference paper
Published: 01 December 2017 in 2017 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC)
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Greenhouse gas emissions, produced by transport sector, have spurred the rapid growth of the electromobility. Nevertheless, this new form of mobility requires installing recharging infrastructures for electric vehicles (EVs) in urban areas, both self-service and not. This paper aims at: a) presenting an innovative energy system, and b) at highlighting the issues for its implementation in an urban area. The proposed energy system consists of three components: an intelligent charging station for electric vehicles (iCS_EVs), a heterogeneous fleet of electric vehicles (EVs), and a building with a connection to the iCS_EVs. This paper focuses on requirements and feasibility of iCS_EVs best fitting urban areas. This energy system is embedded into the urban space in which is installed through multiple physical and logical interactions. The iCS_EVs is based on a smart microgrid optimizing the power flows in accordance with the requirements of the public power grid. This microgrid contains photovoltaic sources and takes into account the following strategies: vehicle to grid, vehicle to building, and iCS_EVs to building (energy generated by the iCS_EVs and not used by the EVs directly feeds the building). Therefore, the innovative energy system offers new services that can be synergistic with the urban electromobility.

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Manuela Sechilariu; F. Locment; Hipolito Martell Flores; N. Molines; J. Baert; G. Richard; C. Henriot; C. Pronello; Cristina Pronello. Smart Microgrid and Urban Planning for Better Electromobility. 2017 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) 2017, 1 -6.

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Manuela Sechilariu, F. Locment, Hipolito Martell Flores, N. Molines, J. Baert, G. Richard, C. Henriot, C. Pronello, Cristina Pronello. Smart Microgrid and Urban Planning for Better Electromobility. 2017 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC). 2017; ():1-6.

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Manuela Sechilariu; F. Locment; Hipolito Martell Flores; N. Molines; J. Baert; G. Richard; C. Henriot; C. Pronello; Cristina Pronello. 2017. "Smart Microgrid and Urban Planning for Better Electromobility." 2017 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) , no. : 1-6.

Journal article
Published: 22 September 2017 in Sustainability
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Advanced traveller information systems (ATIS) are meant to assist people in their daily travel decisions as well as to prompt a shift from cars to alternative and more environmentally-friendly transport strategies. Not many comprehensive studies have been undertaken so far in order to assess the willingness to pay (WTP) for ATIS, despite a development of these tools during the last two decades. This paper aims at analysing the WTP for Optymod’Lyon, a smartphone application which plans your journey travels using real-time information about all available transport modes. To this end, a quali-quantitative approach was adopted, administering a questionnaire to participants and organising focus groups before and after the test of the application. A sample of 42 people living in the metropolitan area of Lyon was involved. Results showed four clusters of participants: idealists, pragmatics, the ambiguous and opportunists. A strong majority of idealists and pragmatics were unwilling to pay, mainly for economic reasons and the availability on the market of free information. They record a lower share of trips to work and a higher share for leisure, shopping and study purposes. Those willing to pay (of which 37.8% were opportunists) report a low monthly charge level (0.2–3 €/month) and are mainly highly-educated car users, travelling for work.

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Cristina Pronello; Amandine Duboz; Valentina Rappazzo. Towards Smarter Urban Mobility: Willingness to Pay for an Advanced Traveller Information System in Lyon. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1690 .

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Cristina Pronello, Amandine Duboz, Valentina Rappazzo. Towards Smarter Urban Mobility: Willingness to Pay for an Advanced Traveller Information System in Lyon. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (10):1690.

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Cristina Pronello; Amandine Duboz; Valentina Rappazzo. 2017. "Towards Smarter Urban Mobility: Willingness to Pay for an Advanced Traveller Information System in Lyon." Sustainability 9, no. 10: 1690.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Transportation Research Procedia
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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. Users’ needs and business models for a sustainable mobility information network in the Alpine Space. Transportation Research Procedia 2017, 25, 3590 -3605.

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Cristina Pronello, Cristian Camusso. Users’ needs and business models for a sustainable mobility information network in the Alpine Space. Transportation Research Procedia. 2017; 25 ():3590-3605.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. 2017. "Users’ needs and business models for a sustainable mobility information network in the Alpine Space." Transportation Research Procedia 25, no. : 3590-3605.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Transportation Research Procedia
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This paper aims at assessing the effects on travel behaviour of a multimodal real-time information navigator for smartphone, developed within the project Optimod'Lyon and launched in May 2015. To this end, a quali-quantitative approach was adopted, administering a questionnaire and organising focus groups before and after the test of the application, involving a stratified sample of 50 people living in the metropolitan area of Lyon. The Theory of Planned Behaviour was used as the theoretical framework for the questionnaire design, investigating attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control. To evaluate the behavioural change, data were analysed using parametric and non-parametric tests, factor analysis and binary logistic regression. The positive attitude towards Optimod'Lyon lessened over time. After the test, the use of the different travel modes remained stable, showing a consistency on the most used mode, on behavioural patterns and attitudes, strongly related to habits and to the frequency of the past behaviour

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Cristina Pronello; José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão; Valentina Rappazzo. The effects of the multimodal real time information systems on the travel behaviour. Transportation Research Procedia 2017, 25, 2677 -2689.

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Cristina Pronello, José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão, Valentina Rappazzo. The effects of the multimodal real time information systems on the travel behaviour. Transportation Research Procedia. 2017; 25 ():2677-2689.

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Cristina Pronello; José Pedro Ramalho Veiga Simão; Valentina Rappazzo. 2017. "The effects of the multimodal real time information systems on the travel behaviour." Transportation Research Procedia 25, no. : 2677-2689.

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Published: 01 January 2017 in Transportation Research Procedia
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The paper aims at investigating the needs of three sets of stakeholders - retailers and HoReCa, transport operators and local authorities - aimed at designing a dynamic and participatory platform of services and applications for the optimisation of the last mile urban logistics. The research has been carried out in the city of Torino where some integrated services will be introduced: a) management and booking of loading/unloading areas; b) experimental dropbox for collection and delivery; c) the introduction of dynamic access to the limited traffic zone (ZTL, Zona a Traffico Limitato); d) real-time dynamic optimisation of routes. To meet this goal a survey has been administered to a sample of transport operators, points of sale, public administration. The survey has been designed using a quali-quantitative method (web-questionnaire, interviews and focus groups). The results have showed a large gap between the needs of the operators (transport operators and retailers) and the strategies that the administration would seek to implement. A lack of interaction between the stakeholders has led to misperceive the problems that the carriers have to face daily and to overestimate the importance of the technology in solving the last mile issues. Prior to designing complex and expensive platforms, it is fundamental to implement some basic measures, closely related to the efficiency of the unloading and delivery of goods within the urban centre

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso; Rappazzo Valentina. Last mile freight distribution and transport operators’ needs: which targets and challenges? Transportation Research Procedia 2017, 25, 888 -899.

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Cristina Pronello, Cristian Camusso, Rappazzo Valentina. Last mile freight distribution and transport operators’ needs: which targets and challenges? Transportation Research Procedia. 2017; 25 ():888-899.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso; Rappazzo Valentina. 2017. "Last mile freight distribution and transport operators’ needs: which targets and challenges?" Transportation Research Procedia 25, no. : 888-899.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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The paper intends to analyse the different attitudes of residents in urban areas in regard to annoyance induced by traffic noise, account taken of the effects of the street configuration and of the presence of specific public transport modes in the definition of the dose-response curves. People’s annoyance was investigated through a campaign of noise and traffic measurements and an epidemiological survey, administered to a sample of 830 residents in the buildings close to the measurement points. An ordinal regression model taking into account environmental and urban characteristics was used to identify a dose-response relationship. The cumulative probabilities allowed to define two cut points on the dose-response curves (60 and 75 dB(A)), grouping people in three classes and making the representation of the dose-response relationships different from those traditionally defined that use only the percentage of highly annoyed people. The results show different people’s attitudes towards the annoyance in the urban sites while the dose-response relationship shows that the correlation between annoyance and noise is low. For the same value of day equivalent level, 10% more people are annoyed in L sections (broad streets) than in U sections (narrow streets). Furthermore, all the dose-response curves show a higher sensitivity of people living in L sections; this difference can be measured as a shift of about 4 dB(A). Noise levels are, arguably, a useful indicator, but they are not reliable enough to define the discomfort of the residents, while the site characteristics could shed light on annoyance variability.

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Cristian Camusso; Cristina Pronello. A study of relationships between traffic noise and annoyance for different urban site typologies. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2016, 44, 122 -133.

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Cristian Camusso, Cristina Pronello. A study of relationships between traffic noise and annoyance for different urban site typologies. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2016; 44 ():122-133.

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Cristian Camusso; Cristina Pronello. 2016. "A study of relationships between traffic noise and annoyance for different urban site typologies." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 44, no. : 122-133.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2014 in Transport Policy
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Cristina Pronello; Valentina Rappazzo. Road pricing: How people perceive a hypothetical introduction. The case of Lyon. Transport Policy 2014, 36, 192 -205.

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Cristina Pronello, Valentina Rappazzo. Road pricing: How people perceive a hypothetical introduction. The case of Lyon. Transport Policy. 2014; 36 ():192-205.

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Cristina Pronello; Valentina Rappazzo. 2014. "Road pricing: How people perceive a hypothetical introduction. The case of Lyon." Transport Policy 36, no. : 192-205.

Review
Published: 24 July 2012 in Transport Reviews
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The different approaches to noise impact assessment adopted by the individual countries and the scientific community have led to the development of a certain number of indicators, mainly focused on specific transport modes. However, in practice, technicians and decision-makers alike may fail to identify the most appropriate indicators, if they have no specific expertise on environmental noise. This paper presents a review of the main transport noise indicators, both the general acoustic ones and those used for specific transport modes. A critical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of these indicators is provided, as well as a section discussing the framework in which they work, and suggestions for their best use, aimed at assisting decision-makers to ascertain their role in the evaluation process of the transport systems. To this extent, a classification is proposed, supplemented by the DPSIR (driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, responses) approach, in an effort to assess the cause–effect relationship between society and the environment. Decision-makers will also gain insight into the prioritization of the use of the existing indicators in accordance to their own needs, as well as advice on the joint use of socioeconomic variables to fully support their decisions.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. A Review of Transport Noise Indicators. Transport Reviews 2012, 32, 599 -628.

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Cristina Pronello, Cristian Camusso. A Review of Transport Noise Indicators. Transport Reviews. 2012; 32 (5):599-628.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. 2012. "A Review of Transport Noise Indicators." Transport Reviews 32, no. 5: 599-628.

Journal article
Published: 30 November 2011 in Journal of Transport Geography
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This paper aims at presenting a set of travellers’ typologies using attributes characterizing people’s attitude, through an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and a subsequent cluster analysis (CA), based on the obtained latent constructs. The final goal is to contribute to deepen the knowledge on market segmentation in order to define more people-oriented transport policies, focusing on a medium size Italian city, Alessandria. Six factors have been defined on which the k-means cluster analysis has been applied finding four travellers’ profiles. Results confirm certain hypothesis from behavioural psychological theories. Attitude–behaviour relationships loosen when habits, consolidated in time, do intervene; moreover in small-medium urban context, as opposed to large and dense cities, insufficient transport supply does not favour the use of alternative modes to the motor vehicle, if not to the cost of a great loss in efficiency. In fact, the study shows how significant constraints such as necessity, time saving, and low transport supply (mainly designed around students going to school) are in determining a behavioural change, so that the “right general attitudes” are not sufficient to obtain a real modal shift. This leads to expect opportunistic behaviours, even within a overall positive attitude towards the environment. Actually, that overall positive attitude is not enough to prompt consistent behaviour unless a marked self-control and strong motivation are present. These two features seem to be missing in the interviewed sample of population, unlike what emerges from other studies undertaken in Northern Europe. The geographic location most likely plays a significant role in such a difference. Indeed, cultural background and the prevailing habits of the population may well explain the “slackening” of the bond between moral norms and behaviour, and the subsequent search for surrogates (e.g. the high willingness to pay for environmental protection) to justify the unwillingness to forgo the private vehicle on behalf of more sustainable modes. Finally, our study seems to prove that education could play a key role in transport policy formulation but, moreover, in social policy, as individuals more akin to modal shift are those showing higher levels of instruction.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. Travellers’ profiles definition using statistical multivariate analysis of attitudinal variables. Journal of Transport Geography 2011, 19, 1294 -1308.

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Cristina Pronello, Cristian Camusso. Travellers’ profiles definition using statistical multivariate analysis of attitudinal variables. Journal of Transport Geography. 2011; 19 (6):1294-1308.

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Cristina Pronello; Cristian Camusso. 2011. "Travellers’ profiles definition using statistical multivariate analysis of attitudinal variables." Journal of Transport Geography 19, no. 6: 1294-1308.

Journal article
Published: 10 May 2011 in Transportation
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In the last decade, a broad array of disciplines has shown a general interest in enhancing discrete choice models by considering the incorporation of psychological factors affecting decision making. This paper provides insight into the comprehension of the determinants of route choice behavior by proposing and estimating a hybrid model that integrates latent variable and route choice models. Data contain information about latent variable indicators and chosen routes of travelers driving regularly from home to work in an urban network. Choice sets include alternative routes generated with a branch and bound algorithm. A hybrid model consists of measurement equations, which relate latent variables to measurement indicators and utilities to choice indicators, and structural equations, which link travelers’ observable characteristics to latent variables and explanatory variables to utilities. Estimation results illustrate that considering latent variables (i.e., memory, habit, familiarity, spatial ability, time saving skills) alongside traditional variables (e.g., travel time, distance, congestion level) enriches the comprehension of route choice behavior.

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Carlo Giacomo Prato; Shlomo Bekhor; Cristina Pronello. Latent variables and route choice behavior. Transportation 2011, 39, 299 -319.

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Carlo Giacomo Prato, Shlomo Bekhor, Cristina Pronello. Latent variables and route choice behavior. Transportation. 2011; 39 (2):299-319.

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Carlo Giacomo Prato; Shlomo Bekhor; Cristina Pronello. 2011. "Latent variables and route choice behavior." Transportation 39, no. 2: 299-319.

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Published: 01 February 2010 in Transport Policy
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Travel research is increasingly exploring the role of qualitative elements in mobility behaviors, beyond customarily considered factors such as the socioeconomic status of travelers or the characteristic and performances of transport systems. More recent travel surveys are thus increasingly collecting non-metric information through categorical variables such as opinions, which is difficult to exploit with the most widely used analytical tools. The present paper assesses the potential of a nonparametric analysis technique little used in transport research, namely correspondence analysis, in order to define a set of different customer profiles regarding stated mode choices. Data coming from an attitudinal travel survey administered to a representative sample of the population of the city of Novara (Italy) are used to this effect. The resulting clusters are quite informative and policy relevant, mainly because they are based on a variety of metric and nominal variables which would be less easy to consider when using more standard multivariate techniques such as cluster analysis, and also because not all the observation need to be forcedly classified. A simple modal choice modeling exercise illustrates how the derived market segments can provide guidance to improve the results of a standard quantitative analysis, while keeping a low computational complexity. Our study shows the usefulness of the proposed methodology in a transport policy decision-making context.

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Marco Diana; Cristina Pronello. Traveler segmentation strategy with nominal variables through correspondence analysis. Transport Policy 2010, 17, 183 -190.

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Marco Diana, Cristina Pronello. Traveler segmentation strategy with nominal variables through correspondence analysis. Transport Policy. 2010; 17 (3):183-190.

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Marco Diana; Cristina Pronello. 2010. "Traveler segmentation strategy with nominal variables through correspondence analysis." Transport Policy 17, no. 3: 183-190.

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Published: 01 May 2007 in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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The environmental performance of public transport plays a key role in improving air quality in urban areas. An important way of improving existing transit services is to use innovative propulsive systems; however, this needs considerable financial resources that are not always available. Here we assess how the organizational form of the transit system may impact the environment relying on a new methodology that permits comparisons in terms of distance traveled between a traditional fixed-route and a demand responsive transit service. We apply an emission model to find the least polluting transit system under a broad range of scenarios with different road networks, service quality levels and demand densities. Results indicate that demand responsive transit services minimize emissions for high quality service level and low demand density scenarios. Furthermore, the possibility of employing smaller vans with lower emission factors guarantees additional substantial benefits in terms of atmospheric pollution for demand responsive transit services, thereby giving them a competitive advantage in virtually every case

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Marco Diana; Luca Quadrifoglio; Cristina Pronello. Emissions of demand responsive services as an alternative to conventional transit systems. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2007, 12, 183 -188.

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Marco Diana, Luca Quadrifoglio, Cristina Pronello. Emissions of demand responsive services as an alternative to conventional transit systems. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2007; 12 (3):183-188.

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Marco Diana; Luca Quadrifoglio; Cristina Pronello. 2007. "Emissions of demand responsive services as an alternative to conventional transit systems." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 12, no. 3: 183-188.