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Dr. Rosalia Camporeale
Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden

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Journal article
Published: 17 January 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper focuses on the efficiency evaluation of bike-sharing systems (BSSs) and develops an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to support the decisions regarding the performance evaluation of BSS stations. The proposed methodology is applied and tested for the Malmöbybike BSS in Malmö, Sweden. This was done by employing spatial analyses and data about the BSS usage trends as well as taking into account transport, land use, and socioeconomic context of the case study. The results of the application demonstrate consistency with the literature and highlight meaningful associations between the station relative efficiency and the urban context. More specifically, the paper provides in-depth knowledge about the preprocessing data, selection of input and output variables, and the underlying analytical approach to be potentially applied to other cases and urban contexts. Overall, the DEA-based methodology presented in this study could assist decision-makers and planners with developing operational strategies for planning and management of BSS stations and networks.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Zahra Hamidi; Chunli Zhao. Evaluating the Efficiency of Bike-Sharing Stations with Data Envelopment Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 881 .

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Zahra Hamidi, Chunli Zhao. Evaluating the Efficiency of Bike-Sharing Stations with Data Envelopment Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):881.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Zahra Hamidi; Chunli Zhao. 2021. "Evaluating the Efficiency of Bike-Sharing Stations with Data Envelopment Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 881.

Articles
Published: 01 March 2020 in Transportation Letters
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This study was aimed at comparing cyclists’ perceptions of comfort when in traffic and when online. Questions about comfort were structured according to three hierarchical levels, namely strategic (city level), tactical (frequent route level) and operational (survey spot level). The purpose is to understand how the cyclists’ perceptions of comfort at different levels vary between questionnaire administration methods. The results suggest that cyclists are more positive and optimistic about the cycling comfort when answering online questionnaires than when answering in-traffic questionnaires, but only when the questions refer to the operational level (at a more general level, their answers were not statistically different). Cycling planners and researchers could incorporate these findings in their data collection policies by selecting online approaches, which are generally less expensive than but equally effective as in-traffic approaches, when carrying out studies that concern the strategic and/or tactical levels of comfort.

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Khashayar Kazemzadeh; Rosalia Camporeale; Carmelo D’Agostino; Aliaksei Laureshyn; Lena Winslott Hiselius. Same questions, different answers? A hierarchical comparison of cyclists’ perceptions of comfort: in-traffic vs. online approach. Transportation Letters 2020, 1 -9.

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Khashayar Kazemzadeh, Rosalia Camporeale, Carmelo D’Agostino, Aliaksei Laureshyn, Lena Winslott Hiselius. Same questions, different answers? A hierarchical comparison of cyclists’ perceptions of comfort: in-traffic vs. online approach. Transportation Letters. 2020; ():1-9.

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Khashayar Kazemzadeh; Rosalia Camporeale; Carmelo D’Agostino; Aliaksei Laureshyn; Lena Winslott Hiselius. 2020. "Same questions, different answers? A hierarchical comparison of cyclists’ perceptions of comfort: in-traffic vs. online approach." Transportation Letters , no. : 1-9.

Journal article
Published: 25 October 2019 in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
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Intermodality or combining more than one transport mode during a single trip has been put forward to facilitate a modal shift from private car to more environmentally friendly modes such as public transport, cycling or walking. Bike-and-ride – that is, integrating cycling and public transport in one trip – is an attractive combination, as cycling as an active and clean mode is faster than walking and more affordable and flexible than other alternative modes of transport. Using cycling as a feeder mode to public transport could potentially allow people to reach more opportunities and improve their mobility, and ultimately, their well-being. Therefore, it is relevant to investigate the inequalities in access to bike-and-ride options across population groups. In this context, we suggest assessing the inequalities in bicycle access to the main transport hubs of a city by developing a composite indicator based on accessibility measures and the Theil index of inequality. This indicator captures the role of both private and public bikes – part of a Bike Sharing System (BSS) – in accessing the existing public transport system. The novelty of our approach lies in bringing the distributional justice perspective in the accessibility evaluation of transport and analysing the inequalities within and between any arbitrarily defined population groups. Moreover, in addition to travel time by bike, this accessibility measure incorporates a series of bike-related features, such as the typology of bike lanes (separated from or shared with roads), the presence of a BSS in the network, and bike facilities (e.g., parking racks) in transport hubs. The proposed methodology is applied to a real case study of the city of Malmö, Sweden, to prove its efficacy and usefulness. In particular, we examine how the level of bicycle access to the major public transport destination (including train stations and regional bus hubs) varies across the population. While considering the contextual properties of the city of Malmö, the inequalities are analysed in relation to spatial dimension and social background of the population, it is possible to extend the proposed analysis by including further features of the population, such as income or gender, and apply the same approach to different contexts.

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Zahra Hamidi; Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani. Inequalities in access to bike-and-ride opportunities: Findings for the city of Malmö. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2019, 130, 673 -688.

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Zahra Hamidi, Rosalia Camporeale, Leonardo Caggiani. Inequalities in access to bike-and-ride opportunities: Findings for the city of Malmö. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2019; 130 ():673-688.

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Zahra Hamidi; Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani. 2019. "Inequalities in access to bike-and-ride opportunities: Findings for the city of Malmö." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 130, no. : 673-688.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2019 in Transport Policy
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Over the past decade, the number of ongoing bike-sharing programs has remarkably risen. In this framework, operators need appropriate methodologies to support them in optimizing the allocation of their resources to globally enhance the bike-sharing program, even without massive and costly interventions on the existing configuration of the system. In this paper, we propose an optimization model able to determine how to employ a given budget to enhancing a bike-sharing system, maximizing the global user satisfaction. During the day, each bicycle station has a certain number of bikes that fluctuates according to the travel demand; it happens, however, that for certain time slots, the station is full or empty. Then, we propose to consider as key performance indicators the zero-vehicle time and the full-port time, that reflected respectively the duration of vehicle shortage and parking stall unavailability in the stations. Both these indicators, together with the lost users of the system, need to be kept to a minimum if the final aim is maximizing the customer satisfaction, i.e. not forcing the user to use other stations or turn/shift to other travel modes. We have analyzed the historical usage patterns of the bike-sharing stations, smoothing their trends (by wavelets), and operated a preliminary spatio-temporal clustering. Our model verifies the necessity of adding or removing racks to each station, setting at the same time the optimal number of bikes to allocate in them, and decide the eventual realization of further stations. Then, an application, both on a small test and a real-size network, is presented, together with a sensitivity analysis.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Marinelli; Michele Ottomanelli. User satisfaction based model for resource allocation in bike-sharing systems. Transport Policy 2019, 80, 117 -126.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Mario Marinelli, Michele Ottomanelli. User satisfaction based model for resource allocation in bike-sharing systems. Transport Policy. 2019; 80 ():117-126.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Marinelli; Michele Ottomanelli. 2019. "User satisfaction based model for resource allocation in bike-sharing systems." Transport Policy 80, no. : 117-126.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2019 in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
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In the transportation literature, equity has been and is still used with a variety of meanings and purposes. Traditionally, equity has been considered in strategic transport planning but very few works have been addressing it in a quantitative way, detailing how to explicitly consider it at a transportation design level (tactical and/or operational) focusing on the consequent social role of transportation. This paper deal with how quantitatively incorporate spatial and social equity principles in the Transit Network Design Problem. With respect our previous preliminary study, this paper goes a step further in the definition of the solution to the problem, proposing a starting candidate route set generation procedure as preliminary step to solve before the main optimization. The objective function considers at the same time the cost of users, operators and unsatisfied demand, and a comprehensive horizontal and vertical equity indicator is also specified among the constraints of the problem. An extensive sensitivity analysis investigates how the costs of the system vary with respect to the achieved level of equity. Then, an application to a real case of study is presented to validate of the proposed methodology and highlight its usefulness and performances.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Michele Ottomanelli. Modeling horizontal and vertical equity in the public transport design problem: A case study. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2019, 125, 184 -206.

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Rosalia Camporeale, Leonardo Caggiani, Michele Ottomanelli. Modeling horizontal and vertical equity in the public transport design problem: A case study. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2019; 125 ():184-206.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Michele Ottomanelli. 2019. "Modeling horizontal and vertical equity in the public transport design problem: A case study." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 125, no. : 184-206.

Journal article
Published: 15 May 2019 in Sustainability
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Since bicycles and bike-sharing systems are becoming increasingly important in modern transportation contexts, we suggest in this paper an alternative method to incorporate cycling among the freight transport alternatives within urban areas. We propose pursuing a sustainable initiative of crowdsourced delivery where some of the urban good deliveries may be voluntarily undertaken by users of the free-floating bike-sharing systems while following their prefixed route in exchange for some kind of reward. We believe that a network design model that allows properly allocating the resources of the bike-shared mobility service could improve the potential of crowdshipping, making it a viable support and supplement for the local postal services, and more easily accepted and adopted in urban contexts. An application to a case study has been embodied to show the effectiveness and advantages of our proposal.

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Mario Binetti; Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. A Sustainable Crowdsourced Delivery System to Foster Free-Floating Bike-Sharing. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2772 .

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Mario Binetti, Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli. A Sustainable Crowdsourced Delivery System to Foster Free-Floating Bike-Sharing. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (10):2772.

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Mario Binetti; Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. 2019. "A Sustainable Crowdsourced Delivery System to Foster Free-Floating Bike-Sharing." Sustainability 11, no. 10: 2772.

Chapter
Published: 10 May 2019 in Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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Bike-sharing systems are an emerging form of sharing-mobility in many cities worldwide. The travel patterns of users that take advantage of smart devices to ride a shared-bicycle in two large cities (Chicago and Budapest) have been investigated, with analysis of approximately two million transaction data records associated with bike trips made over a three-month period in each location. Several aspects of user travel behavior—such as day and time of travel, frequency of usage, duration of usage, seasonal and peak/off-peak variations, major origin/destinations—have been included in this analysis. The results show that in both cities the bike-sharing option is a male-dominated alternative, particularly welcomed by younger groups, with the largest share of trips occurring in the afternoon peak. Appropriate usage of open-source big-data provides important lessons for successful vehicle sharing models, allowing the application of the findings to other cities and mobility options where these systems are still developing.

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Ali Soltani; Tamás Mátrai; Rosalia Camporeale; Andrew Allan. Exploring Shared-Bike Travel Patterns Using Big Data: Evidence in Chicago and Budapest. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography 2019, 53 -68.

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Ali Soltani, Tamás Mátrai, Rosalia Camporeale, Andrew Allan. Exploring Shared-Bike Travel Patterns Using Big Data: Evidence in Chicago and Budapest. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. 2019; ():53-68.

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Ali Soltani; Tamás Mátrai; Rosalia Camporeale; Andrew Allan. 2019. "Exploring Shared-Bike Travel Patterns Using Big Data: Evidence in Chicago and Budapest." Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography , no. : 53-68.

Articles
Published: 01 May 2019 in Transportation Planning and Technology
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The implementation of an appropriate pricing policy in an urban area could alleviate both environmental and congestion problems by encouraging a shift towards more sustainable modes of transportation. However, any positive net social welfare balance delivered by the policy can hide unacceptable regressive effects. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate any change in relative levels of accessibility among different categories of transport network users. This study focuses on the application of a cordon-based congestion pricing scheme on a multimodal network, where private cars and public transportation coexist, and includes a sensitivity analysis by varying the size of the charging area and the amount of the toll, for a monocentric urban reality. Taking into account an elastic demand associated with each proposed charging scenario, the related distributional effects are explored using the Theil index, with a quantitative assessment of the inequalities in the accessibility variations across the users of the network.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Achille Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. Study of the accessibility inequalities of cordon-based pricing strategies using a multimodal Theil index. Transportation Planning and Technology 2019, 42, 498 -514.

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Rosalia Camporeale, Leonardo Caggiani, Achille Fonzone, Michele Ottomanelli. Study of the accessibility inequalities of cordon-based pricing strategies using a multimodal Theil index. Transportation Planning and Technology. 2019; 42 (5):498-514.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Achille Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. 2019. "Study of the accessibility inequalities of cordon-based pricing strategies using a multimodal Theil index." Transportation Planning and Technology 42, no. 5: 498-514.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2019 in Research in Transportation Business & Management
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Global society is rapidly ageing. Research on ageing and mobility suggests that better synergies could exist between older people and the built environment. The age-in-place policy will put increased demands on the transport system as a key facilitator for access. The main goal of this study is to examine the spatial distribution of older adults, assessing if it could be affected by selective characteristics of the surrounding built environment and, if so, to what extent. The study district is the region of Scania in the southern part of Sweden. Register-based longitudinal socio-demographic data such as income, employment and education associated with the outcomes of previous travel surveys conducted in the region are the main data sources to be considered. Correlated with population density patterns and expansion of the railway network, this longitudinal approach is expected to reveal causal inferences. Better knowledge may be gained about the environmental and demographic factors that may potentially lead older people to adapt their mobility choices according to the area in which they reside. Research findings could provide useful policy recommendations both to land use and transport planners, contributing to the development of age-friendly neighborhoods, cities and regions.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Anders Wretstrand; Magnus Andersson. How the built environment and the railway network can affect the mobility of older people: Analyses of the southern Swedish region of Scania. Research in Transportation Business & Management 2019, 30, 100368 .

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Rosalia Camporeale, Anders Wretstrand, Magnus Andersson. How the built environment and the railway network can affect the mobility of older people: Analyses of the southern Swedish region of Scania. Research in Transportation Business & Management. 2019; 30 ():100368.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Anders Wretstrand; Magnus Andersson. 2019. "How the built environment and the railway network can affect the mobility of older people: Analyses of the southern Swedish region of Scania." Research in Transportation Business & Management 30, no. : 100368.

Journal article
Published: 24 January 2019 in Transportation Research Procedia
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This study suggests an optimization framework to plan and design a network of bike lanes in an urban context, based on equity principles and subject to a given available budget. The novelty of the proposal consists in an objective function that aims at minimizing the existing inequities among different population groups in terms of accessibility/opportunity to the bikeways. The proposed methodology represents a reliable decision support system tool that could help transport authorities/managers to select the priority areas of their future investments related to the cycling infrastructures. To prove the effectiveness and value of the methodology, an application with relevant analysis to a test case study is presented.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti; Michele Ottomanelli. An urban bikeway network design model for inclusive and equitable transport policies. Transportation Research Procedia 2019, 37, 59 -66.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Mario Binetti, Michele Ottomanelli. An urban bikeway network design model for inclusive and equitable transport policies. Transportation Research Procedia. 2019; 37 ():59-66.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti; Michele Ottomanelli. 2019. "An urban bikeway network design model for inclusive and equitable transport policies." Transportation Research Procedia 37, no. : 59-66.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli; Wai Yuen Szeto. A modeling framework for the dynamic management of free-floating bike-sharing systems. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2018, 87, 159 -182.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli, Wai Yuen Szeto. A modeling framework for the dynamic management of free-floating bike-sharing systems. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2018; 87 ():159-182.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli; Wai Yuen Szeto. 2018. "A modeling framework for the dynamic management of free-floating bike-sharing systems." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 87, no. : 159-182.

Research article
Published: 29 October 2017 in Journal of Advanced Transportation
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Promoting a more sustainable development of urban realities is one of the most important goals of the recent decades. One possible strategy to undertake in order to achieve this objective is the implementation of a road pricing: tolling private cars when passing by certain roads of the network could be a way to tone down the traffic congestion and, at the same time, encourage the shifting towards more sustainable means of transport. In this context, we suggest a method to distribute in a fair way the outcomes/revenues of this pricing strategy. In particular, we propose to design a free-floating bike-sharing system whose resources could be allocated in the territory according to spatial and social equity principles. The relation between the amount of the tolls, the number of days of application of the policy, and the pursued equity is investigated, and both a numerical application (to a test network and to a real case study) and a sensitivity analysis in support of the method are enclosed.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. Planning and Design of Equitable Free-Floating Bike-Sharing Systems Implementing a Road Pricing Strategy. Journal of Advanced Transportation 2017, 2017, 1 -18.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli. Planning and Design of Equitable Free-Floating Bike-Sharing Systems Implementing a Road Pricing Strategy. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2017; 2017 ():1-18.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. 2017. "Planning and Design of Equitable Free-Floating Bike-Sharing Systems Implementing a Road Pricing Strategy." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2017, no. : 1-18.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2017 in Case Studies on Transport Policy
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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti; Michele Ottomanelli. A road network design model considering horizontal and vertical equity: Evidences from an empirical study. Case Studies on Transport Policy 2017, 5, 392 -399.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Mario Binetti, Michele Ottomanelli. A road network design model considering horizontal and vertical equity: Evidences from an empirical study. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 2017; 5 (2):392-399.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti; Michele Ottomanelli. 2017. "A road network design model considering horizontal and vertical equity: Evidences from an empirical study." Case Studies on Transport Policy 5, no. 2: 392-399.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2017 in 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS)
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The attractiveness of cycling- and in particular of bike-sharing systems-as a sustainable alternative of transportation is constantly growing, given the undeniable benefits associated with it. The aim of this paper is to present a multi-objective model based on a Fuzzy Inference System to be embedded in a mobile application that could assist cyclists in the selection of the smartest route to follow to reach their destination, in terms of travel costs (distance or time), level of air pollution and road safety. The features of the bike-sharing system (both traditional and free-floating) are considered in the generation of the final path, and also the starting and final stations to prefer (or the closest bike to pick up for the free-floating option) are provided. The proposed optimization model is dynamic, as it is synchronized with geolocated real time data regarding level of congestion and flows on the network, and availability of bikes/racks in the bike-sharing system. The mobile app gives bike users the possibility to plan, personalize and execute their trip with turn-by-turn guidance, allowing them to select the default optimal path, or to choose the desired travel time among the available route options, each of them accompanied by the related air pollution and safety. An application of the model is carried out through a test case to evaluate the proposed approach. Furthermore, a first study regarding the graphic interface of the mobile platform is presented to recommend some guidelines to follow to have a final product effective and bike users-friendly. The final goal is to improve the cycling experience, encouraging at the same time more people to elect the bike as their preferred mode of transportation.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. A real time multi-objective cyclists route choice model for a bike-sharing mobile application. 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) 2017, 645 -650.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli. A real time multi-objective cyclists route choice model for a bike-sharing mobile application. 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS). 2017; ():645-650.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. 2017. "A real time multi-objective cyclists route choice model for a bike-sharing mobile application." 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) , no. : 645-650.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2017 in Transport Policy
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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. Facing equity in transportation Network Design Problem: A flexible constraints based model. Transport Policy 2017, 55, 9 -17.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli. Facing equity in transportation Network Design Problem: A flexible constraints based model. Transport Policy. 2017; 55 ():9-17.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. 2017. "Facing equity in transportation Network Design Problem: A flexible constraints based model." Transport Policy 55, no. : 9-17.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Transportation Research Procedia
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Recently, vehicle sharing emerged as a new type of mobility service. In particular, if these systems happen to be free-floating, their operating area is typically located within the city and vehicles could be picked-up and parked in any permitted spot, and not only at predetermined stations. This specific feature enables everyone to pick-up and drop-off a rented vehicle close to his demand points, with no need to visit a station before or after the ride, granting greater flexibility for users together with the opportunity of a shorter trip. Free-floating systems, due to their inherent characteristics, are becoming more popular; however, at the same time, they involve additional operational challenges especially in facing the relocation processes, namely displacing vehicles from areas with higher concentration toward those with a higher request of the service. Similar to the station based ones, free-floating vehicle shared-use systems deal with significant fluctuations in demand, depending on day/time and area of a city. Therefore, we suggest a methodology for generating a dynamic zone clustering in order to define cost-efficient relocation strategies. The aim of the proposed flexible clusterization is identifying the optimal size and number of areas among which perform an effective and enhanced vehicle repositioning, reducing the necessity to move vehicles from one zone to another and, accordingly, shrinking the relocation costs. The proposed method is applied to a test case study, in order to verify the accuracy of the suggested model.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. A dynamic clustering method for relocation process in free-floating vehicle sharing systems. Transportation Research Procedia 2017, 27, 278 -285.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli. A dynamic clustering method for relocation process in free-floating vehicle sharing systems. Transportation Research Procedia. 2017; 27 ():278-285.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Rosalia Camporeale; Michele Ottomanelli. 2017. "A dynamic clustering method for relocation process in free-floating vehicle sharing systems." Transportation Research Procedia 27, no. : 278-285.

Conference paper
Published: 05 November 2016 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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Free-floating bike sharing systems are an emerging new generation of bike rentals, that eliminates the need for specific stations and allows to leave a bicycle (almost) everywhere in the network. Although free-floating bikes allow much greater spontaneity and flexibility for the user, they need additional operational challenges especially in facing the bike relocation process. Then, we suggest a methodology able to generate spatio-temporal clusters of the usage patterns of the available bikes in every zone of the city, forecast the bicycles use trend (by means of Non-linear Autoregressive Neural Networks) for each cluster, and consequently enhance and simplify the relocation process in the network.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Michele Ottomanelli; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti. Spatio-temporal Clustering and Forecasting Method for Free-Floating Bike Sharing Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2016, 244 -254.

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Leonardo Caggiani, Michele Ottomanelli, Rosalia Camporeale, Mario Binetti. Spatio-temporal Clustering and Forecasting Method for Free-Floating Bike Sharing Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2016; ():244-254.

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Leonardo Caggiani; Michele Ottomanelli; Rosalia Camporeale; Mario Binetti. 2016. "Spatio-temporal Clustering and Forecasting Method for Free-Floating Bike Sharing Systems." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , no. : 244-254.

Journal article
Published: 13 October 2016 in Transportation Planning and Technology
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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; A. Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. Quantifying the impacts of horizontal and vertical equity in transit route planning. Transportation Planning and Technology 2016, 40, 28 -44.

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Rosalia Camporeale, Leonardo Caggiani, A. Fonzone, Michele Ottomanelli. Quantifying the impacts of horizontal and vertical equity in transit route planning. Transportation Planning and Technology. 2016; 40 (1):28-44.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; A. Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. 2016. "Quantifying the impacts of horizontal and vertical equity in transit route planning." Transportation Planning and Technology 40, no. 1: 28-44.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2016 in Transportation Research Procedia
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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Achille Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. Better for Everyone: An Approach to Multimodal Network Design Considering Equity. Transportation Research Procedia 2016, 19, 303 -315.

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Rosalia Camporeale, Leonardo Caggiani, Achille Fonzone, Michele Ottomanelli. Better for Everyone: An Approach to Multimodal Network Design Considering Equity. Transportation Research Procedia. 2016; 19 ():303-315.

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Rosalia Camporeale; Leonardo Caggiani; Achille Fonzone; Michele Ottomanelli. 2016. "Better for Everyone: An Approach to Multimodal Network Design Considering Equity." Transportation Research Procedia 19, no. : 303-315.