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Prof. Dr. Michele Grimaldi
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 14 May 2021 in Sustainability
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To reduce environmental noise pollution and to safeguard people’s well-being, it is urgently necessary to move towards sustainable urban development and reconcile demographic and economic growth with the protection and restoration of the environment and the improvement of the quality of human lives. This challenge should be a concern to policymakers, who must issue regulations and define the appropriate actions for noise monitoring and management, and citizens, who must be sensitive to the problem and act accordingly. Starting from an analysis of several crowdsourcing noise data collection tools, this paper focuses on the definition of a methodology for data analysis and mapping. The sound sensing system, indeed, enables mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to become a low-cost data collection for monitoring environmental noise. For this study, the “NoiseCapture” application developed in France by CNRS and IFSTTAR has been utilized. The measurements acquired in 2018 and 2019 at the Fisciano Campus at the University of Salerno were integrated with the kernel density estimation. This is a spatial analysis technique that allows for the elaboration of sound level density maps, defined spatially and temporally. These maps, overlaid on a campus facilities map, can become tools to support the appropriate mitigation actions.

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Gabriella Graziuso; Simona Mancini; Antonella Francavilla; Michele Grimaldi; Claudio Guarnaccia. Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5486 .

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Gabriella Graziuso, Simona Mancini, Antonella Francavilla, Michele Grimaldi, Claudio Guarnaccia. Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5486.

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Gabriella Graziuso; Simona Mancini; Antonella Francavilla; Michele Grimaldi; Claudio Guarnaccia. 2021. "Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5486.

Journal article
Published: 08 October 2020 in Land Use Policy
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A city comprises an ecological environment, a living and architectural space, the product of a history of human interactions that determines its morphology and destiny. Cities are complex systems that encompass elements of diverse types, such as natural objects, technical artifacts, human actors and social entities, including the rules or laws governing their behavior. Despite cities complexity, conventional urban policy models have focused on expanding and building places geared toward satisfying economic activities and markets. In this paper we propose an agent based model (ABM) for urban development planning based on the relationship between city inhabitants and the satisfaction of their basic needs with their physical environment. Our design recognizes human complexity within the urban contexts and establishes a new method for planning city development with the help of a tool geared toward simulating participation. This simulation platform makes it possible to consider the effects of human behavior as a determinant of the success or failure of urban interventions from the point of view of planning. The central elements of the simulation model are the relationship of each individual to the physical environment of the city and the satisfaction of their basic needs. This simulation platform can be used as a starting point on a collective and prospective vision of the city, grounded in the approach and experience of participatory modeling with multiple stakeholders.

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Mauricio González-Méndez; Camilo Olaya; Isidoro Fasolino; Michele Grimaldi; Nelson Obregón. Agent-Based Modeling for Urban Development Planning based on Human Needs. Conceptual Basis and Model Formulation. Land Use Policy 2020, 101, 105110 .

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Mauricio González-Méndez, Camilo Olaya, Isidoro Fasolino, Michele Grimaldi, Nelson Obregón. Agent-Based Modeling for Urban Development Planning based on Human Needs. Conceptual Basis and Model Formulation. Land Use Policy. 2020; 101 ():105110.

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Mauricio González-Méndez; Camilo Olaya; Isidoro Fasolino; Michele Grimaldi; Nelson Obregón. 2020. "Agent-Based Modeling for Urban Development Planning based on Human Needs. Conceptual Basis and Model Formulation." Land Use Policy 101, no. : 105110.

Journal article
Published: 10 August 2020 in Sustainability
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The demand for water is constantly increasing, while there are factors related to climate change and pollution that make it less and less available. Addressing this problem means being able to face it with a global approach, which takes into account that human beings need water to survive, as well as all the systems on which they rely, namely sanitation, health, education, business, and industry. While human behavior is influenced by the growing awareness on this topic promoted by organizations specifically targeting this mission, the need to protect water resources in operational terms has led mainly to the need for smart urban infrastructure planning, consistent with the objective of promoting sustainable development. To this aim, the authorities in charge of monitoring the implementation of the investment plans by operators need to perform accurate evaluations of the technical quality of the services provided. The present paper introduces a framework to design a Multi-criteria Spatial Decision Support System, conceived to help decision-makers define and analyze the investment priorities of the individual service operators. By building a knowledge model of the network under investigation, decision-makers are aware of physical components of the whole system and are provided with an intervention priority index related to the network objects that could be affected by the planning action to be implemented.

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Michele Grimaldi; Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Vincenzo Pellecchia. Planning and Managing the Integrated Water System: A Spatial Decision Support System to Analyze the Infrastructure Performances. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6432 .

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Michele Grimaldi, Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Vincenzo Pellecchia. Planning and Managing the Integrated Water System: A Spatial Decision Support System to Analyze the Infrastructure Performances. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (16):6432.

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Michele Grimaldi; Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Vincenzo Pellecchia. 2020. "Planning and Managing the Integrated Water System: A Spatial Decision Support System to Analyze the Infrastructure Performances." Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6432.

Journal article
Published: 07 April 2020 in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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In the last decade, there has been a growing awareness that the involvement of citizens in decision making can produce an immediate and positive impact on actions to be taken, as they are the real owners of knowledge about the place where they live. By collecting and geolocating data through smartphones and the Internet, citizens in fact can help decision makers both create sharable spatio-temporal information about objects and phenomena and interpret territorial dynamics. However, although such a role has been definitely recognized, the lack of a homogeneous paradigm for structuring the sensing process, managing the geo big data produced and handling services makes it difficult to exploit such a potentiality. In this paper, we describe a citizen-centric approach conceived to build territorial knowledge useful to provide decision makers with a timely and reliable picture of the status of a given territory. In particular, a visual representation of geospatial knowledge is described, which summaries context-sensitive information about a territory and its citizens, thus improving the land monitoring tasks. An information system, SAFE, is finally presented, which consists of a Web and a mobile component to manage citizen supplied data to be integrated for building reliable dynamic scenarios.

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Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Michele Grimaldi; Antonio De Piano. A Citizen-Centric Approach for the Improvement of Territorial Services Management. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2020, 9, 223 .

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Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Michele Grimaldi, Antonio De Piano. A Citizen-Centric Approach for the Improvement of Territorial Services Management. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2020; 9 (4):223.

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Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Michele Grimaldi; Antonio De Piano. 2020. "A Citizen-Centric Approach for the Improvement of Territorial Services Management." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 4: 223.

Conference paper
Published: 29 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport has started the implementation of SINFI, the National Federated Infrastructure Information Service, whose goal is both to share information about infrastructures and underground utilities, and offer a single dashboard that efficiently manages and monitors all interventions. Although the data model underlying SINFI has been designed with a general-purpose approach, it doesn’t result in line with the actual needs of the operators of the Integrated Water Service that instead has to be compliant with the updating of the plans of intervention according to the macro-indicators of technical quality referred to in the ARERA resolution. The aim of this paper is to propose a data model that allows measuring such macro-indicators and generating interoperable datasets. An ontological approach has been used that has produced a data storage model as implemented in the Semantic Web.

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Michele Grimaldi; Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Vincenzo Pellecchia. An Ontology Based Approach for Data Model Construction Supporting the Management and Planning of the Integrated Water Service. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 243 -252.

AMA Style

Michele Grimaldi, Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Vincenzo Pellecchia. An Ontology Based Approach for Data Model Construction Supporting the Management and Planning of the Integrated Water Service. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():243-252.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Michele Grimaldi; Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Vincenzo Pellecchia. 2019. "An Ontology Based Approach for Data Model Construction Supporting the Management and Planning of the Integrated Water Service." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 243-252.

Conference paper
Published: 29 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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In the field of Civil Protection, there is a growing awareness that the involvement of citizens has an immediate impact on decisions and actions to be taken, thanks to the distributed knowledge they hold about their territory. In this paper we describe SAFE (SAfety for Families in Emergency), an information system conceived to improve the certified emergency response procedures which may benefit from user-generated contents deriving from existing intelligent community networks. SAFE design follows the trend of the current research, namely to identify hybrid solutions that let citizens and experts work together to collect and redistribute the information, once properly processed.

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Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Michele Grimaldi; Dimitri Dello Buono. SAFE (Safety for Families in Emergency). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 424 -437.

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Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Michele Grimaldi, Dimitri Dello Buono. SAFE (Safety for Families in Emergency). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():424-437.

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Monica Sebillo; Giuliana Vitiello; Michele Grimaldi; Dimitri Dello Buono. 2019. "SAFE (Safety for Families in Emergency)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 424-437.

Journal article
Published: 08 May 2017 in Sustainability
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Cities are exploding, occupying rural territory in dispersed and fragmented ways. A consequence of this phenomenon is that the demand for utilities includes more and more extensive territories. Among them, fulfilling the demand for services related to integrated water service presents many difficulties. The economic costs needed to meet service demand and the environmental costs associated with its non-fulfilment are inversely proportional to the population needing service in rural areas, since that population is distributed across a low-density gradient. Infrastructure planning, within the area of competence, generally follows a policy of economic sustainability, fixing a service coverage threshold in terms of a “sufficient” concentration of population and economic activity (91/271/CEE). This threshold, homogenous within the territorial limits of a water infrastructure plan, creates uncertainty in the planning of investments, which are not sized on the actual, appropriately spatialized, demand for service. Careful prediction of the location of infrastructure investments would guarantee not only economic savings but also reduce the environmental costs generated by the lack of utilities. Therefore, is necessary to create a link between water infrastructure planning and urban planning, which is responsible for the future spatial distribution of service demand. In this study, the relationships between the instruments of regulation and planning are compared by a multi-criteria spatial analysis network (analytic network process (ANP)). This method, tested on a sample of a city in southern Italy, allows us to optimize the design and location of the investment needed to meet the service criteria, looking at the actual efficiency of the networks. The result of this application is a suitability map that allows us to validate the criteria for defining urban transformations.

ACS Style

Michele Grimaldi; Vincenzo Pellecchia; Isidoro Fasolino. Urban Plan and Water Infrastructures Planning: A Methodology Based on Spatial ANP. Sustainability 2017, 9, 771 .

AMA Style

Michele Grimaldi, Vincenzo Pellecchia, Isidoro Fasolino. Urban Plan and Water Infrastructures Planning: A Methodology Based on Spatial ANP. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (5):771.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Michele Grimaldi; Vincenzo Pellecchia; Isidoro Fasolino. 2017. "Urban Plan and Water Infrastructures Planning: A Methodology Based on Spatial ANP." Sustainability 9, no. 5: 771.

Book chapter
Published: 06 May 2016 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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The urban transformation is the result of several decisions made in a variety of temporal and spatial scales, which concern the field of urban planning regarding the location of buildings and activities, position of transport networks, that in fact are more persistent (Morris 1994). The urban transformation generates environmental impacts in terms of soil sealing, energy consumption and urban heat island (Ewing and Rong 2008), which result in consequences on stormwater runoff, on raising the temperature and increasing of CO2 emissions. From a representation of the state of the art, the present paper defines a composite index called ISUT (index of sustainability of the urban intervention). The ISUT covers all the essential components of the urban design that condition the energy balance equation (Parham and Fariborz 2010). The composite index value is used to propose better strategies to guide the development of local area plans in conjunction with the City’s Plan using an easy data-set which derives from the knowledge of the territory, which is usually already acquired for urban planning tools on a municipal basis.

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Roberto Gerundo; Isidoro Fasolino; Michele Grimaldi. ISUT Model. A Composite Index to Measure the Sustainability of the Urban Transformation. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2016, 117 -130.

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Roberto Gerundo, Isidoro Fasolino, Michele Grimaldi. ISUT Model. A Composite Index to Measure the Sustainability of the Urban Transformation. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2016; ():117-130.

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Roberto Gerundo; Isidoro Fasolino; Michele Grimaldi. 2016. "ISUT Model. A Composite Index to Measure the Sustainability of the Urban Transformation." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 117-130.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2011 in Procedia Engineering
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The phenomenon of land consumption is connected with different territorial criticalities, such as the impoverishment of very fine agricultural land, urban dispersion, the spatial and ecological fragmentation, the hydrogeological upheaval and so on [1]. Attention to land consumption is by now consolidated and the search for suitable modalities for its measurement gets more and more stronger. Restraint and examination of land consumption are overriding goals which have to be shared at all levels of urban and territorial planning in the context of policies of subsidiarity and interinstitutional cooperation. The intrinsic relationships between the zoning and physical structure of urban environments suggest that the mechanisms through which planners can evaluate the environmental consequences of existing zoning ordinances and improve the scientific basis of future decision making in order to mitigate the negative effects of urban development should be in place [2]. This essay aims to identify the indicators of measurement of land consumption caused by instruments of urban planning in order to support as well during a strategic environmental evaluation polices of territorial government aiming at models of sustainable urban development

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Roberto Gerundo; Michele Grimaldi. The Measure of Land Consumption Caused by Urban Planning. Procedia Engineering 2011, 21, 1152 -1160.

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Roberto Gerundo, Michele Grimaldi. The Measure of Land Consumption Caused by Urban Planning. Procedia Engineering. 2011; 21 ():1152-1160.

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Roberto Gerundo; Michele Grimaldi. 2011. "The Measure of Land Consumption Caused by Urban Planning." Procedia Engineering 21, no. : 1152-1160.