Cristiana Piccioni holds an MEng in Transportation and Civil Engineering, a Post-Master in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and a Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Transport. She is a researcher and lecturer at the Dept. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, with more than 19-years’ experience in EU-funded projects and international and national studies/researches. Her main areas of expertise include planning and managing transport systems (road & rail-based), intermodal networks, urban mobility, logistics and freight distribution, land use-transport interactions, parking management, and QMSs techniques to air and rail transport. Since 2005 she has been regularly carrying out lecturing and advanced training activities in the field of Transport Systems Engineering at the “Sapienza” University of Rome; currently, she teaches “Transport Networks & Vehicles” at the same University. She authored several papers and essays, most of which published in scientific magazines and books. She is an Editorial Board member of the Case Studies on Transport Policy journal and a longtime experienced reviewer for many indexed international scientific journals. Besides, she is a Board member of the Italian Society of Transport Academicians (SIDT), a member of the Association of Italian Railway Engineers (2004), and the World Conference on Transportation Research Society (2010).