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Future Transportation Webinar | Influential Papers in Future Transportation
28 May 2024, 17:00 (CEST)
Transportation, Mobility, Rail
Welcome from the Chair
1st Webinar on Future Transportation
Influential Papers in Future Transportation
Currently, technology and climate change are revolutionizing the way people and goods are moving. I am happy to introduce this inaugural session of presentations devoted to Future Transportation. This is the first in a series of online seminars dedicated to some of the most important papers published in MDPI’s Future Transportation journal.
Future Transportation is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published quarterly online by MDPI that covers civil engineering, economics, environment and geography, computer science and other transdisciplinary dimensions of transportation.
This session presents two highly influential papers in a Special Issue of the journal dedicated to Feature Papers. The presentations cover high-speed rail and mobility apps and the speakers are leading European researchers from Italy and Spain. Given the high-quality research, the topics, and the caliber of the presenters, I expect it to be an exciting session.
Date: 28 May 2024Time: 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT | 10 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 889 8611 4611
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Webinar Recording
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Event Chairs
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Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Ouri Wolfson’s main interests are big data, intelligent transportation, mobile/pervasive computing, and smart cities. Ouri Wolfson has authored over 230 publications, 8 of them award-winning. He holds 7 patents, has over 16,000 citations on Google scholar, and an H-index of 61. Wolfson is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a University of Illinois Scholar for 2009, and he served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, Informix, Accenture, and Hitachi Co.
Keynote Speakers
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DIIES – Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell’Energia Sostenibile (Department of Engineering of Infomation, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Energy), Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Presentation Title: Which High-Speed Rail? LARG Approach between Plan and Design
Prof Francesco Russo is a full professor at the Engineering Faculty of the Università of Reggio Calabria, in Transport System. He was previously Director of the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronics and Transport at the University of Reggio Calabria, director of the Masters in Transport Engineering, and coordinator of the PhD course in Transport and Logistics Engineering. He was also Vice President of the Calabria Region, Councilor for the Logistics System. He was Logistics Advisor to the Italian Minister of Transport, referent for the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Nuclear Chemical Risk, Industrial Transport Sector in the Major Risks Commission and member of the President's Office, coordinator of the Scientific Committee established by the Minister of Transport for the design of the General Mobility Plan for Italy. His main research topics concern the following: the general theory of transport and logistics systems, dynamic components of decisions, assignment to transport systems, city logistics, the evolutionary dynamics of ports, high-speed railways, and risk and exposure in transport systems. His scientific work, comprising more than 250 papers, is included in international databases. He is included in the World's Top 2% Scientists list, both for his entire career and for the last year.
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Civil Eng.–Dept. Transport Engineering, Urban and Regional Planning
TRANSyT-Transport Research Center, Madrid Technical University, Spain
Presentation Title: Key Elements of Mobility Apps for Improving Urban Travel Patterns: A Literature Review
R&D current topics: Sustainable Transport Planning, Urban Mobility and Public Transport, Smart and Integrated Multimodal Transport Systems. Director of the Spanish Metropolitan Mobility Observatory since 2003. Coordinator of Cluster MoviTUR-Mobility of the Future within UPM. Author/co-author of 132 JCR papers -38 Q1- and 36 books and reports. H-index of 35 (Google Scholar), 30 (Scopus), and 25 (Web of Science). He has supervised 45 PhD theses (23 during the last 10 years). Consultant for industry and administrations, including institutions such as the European Investment Bank, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank.