ISTTT26 plenary presentation
A plenary presentation opens the second day of the scientific programme of ISTTT26 at the Technical University of Munich.
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2026
The ISTTT26 community in Munich
Researchers from across the world gather outside the TUM congress hall for the official ISTTT26 group photograph.
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Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo at ISTTT26
Digital Mobility Lab co-directors Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo during ISTTT26 in Munich.
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Testing theories of driver behaviour
The Lab presents a theory-comparison framework for assessing how human factors change the explanatory power of car-following models.
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Digital Mobility Lab researchers at ISTTT26
Marcello Montanino, Vincenzo Punzo and Davide Iannelli at the ISTTT26 conference venue.
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Traffic-flow researchers at ISTTT26
Vincenzo Punzo and Marcello Montanino with Dong Ngoduy of Monash University during an informal ISTTT26 gathering in Munich.
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Vincenzo Punzo with an automated shuttle in Tampere
Vincenzo Punzo explores an automated shuttle demonstration during the metaCCAZE General Assembly in Tampere.
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Giovanni Albano presents research on human driving behaviour in critical cut-in situations
Giovanni Albano presents the Lab's experimental work on unexpected cut-in manoeuvres at the SIDT 2026 Scientific Seminar.
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ACUMEN concludes its project work in Barcelona
Ilaria Natale joins the ACUMEN consortium for the final project meeting in Barcelona.
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Vincenzo Punzo presents i4Driving at RTR 2026
Vincenzo Punzo presents i4Driving results and the project's value at the European Road Transport Research Conference in Brussels.
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2025
Can observers tell human driving from modelled driving?
A Turing-inspired i4Driving experiment asks whether observers can distinguish human driving behaviour from behaviour generated by driver models.
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Giovanni Albano and Fabrizio Pelella at MT-ITS 2025
Giovanni Albano and Fabrizio Pelella represent the Digital Mobility Lab at MT-ITS 2025 in Luxembourg.
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The i4Driving Summer School at Villa Orlandi in Capri
Participants and the Digital Mobility Lab team gather at Villa Orlandi during the i4Driving Summer School organised by the Lab.
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Marcello Montanino teaches driver modelling
Marcello Montanino leads a technical session on driver and car-following modelling at the i4Driving Summer School.
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Giovanni Albano explains the cut-in scenario
Giovanni Albano introduces the experimental context and safety relevance of critical cut-in manoeuvres.
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The hEART 2025 research community
Vincenzo Punzo and Ilaria Natale join the international transport research community for the official hEART 2025 group photograph.
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Ilaria Natale presents research on macroscopic modelling of electric-vehicle energy consumption
Ilaria Natale presents the methodological structure of her research on macroscopic modelling of electric-vehicle energy consumption at hEART 2025 in Munich.
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Vincenzo Punzo at the i4Driving and BERTHA stand
Vincenzo Punzo presents the Digital Mobility Lab's i4Driving activities alongside the BERTHA project at EUCAD 2025.
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Vincenzo Punzo and Giovanni Albano prepare the CTAG tests
Giovanni Albano and Vincenzo Punzo inside the test vehicle during preparation for the i4Driving cut-in campaign at CTAG.
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A critical cut-in unfolds on the CTAG test track
A controlled i4Driving experiment recreates a critical cut-in so that the Lab can measure human-driver reactions under repeatable conditions.
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Discussing human factors in car-following models
A poster discussion turns the Lab's comparison of human-factor formulations into a direct exchange with TRB participants.
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Real-world energy effects of vehicle automation
The Lab presents evidence on how automated-driving functions can change energy consumption under real traffic conditions.
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Giovanni Albano at the TRB podium
Giovanni Albano presents his Digital Mobility Lab research in an oral session at the TRB 104th Annual Meeting.
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Road geometry enters the car-following model
A one-to-one poster discussion explores how drivers adapt their following behaviour to changes in road geometry.
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2024
Vincenzo Punzo presents i4Driving's integrated human-driver modelling framework
Vincenzo Punzo presents an integrated framework for modelling human driving under uncertainty at TRC-30.
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Ilaria Natale at the TRAIL/DIT4TraM Summer School
Ilaria Natale joins the international group attending the TRAIL/DIT4TraM Summer School at TU Delft.
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ACUMEN partners on the Naples waterfront
ACUMEN partners share a moment on the Naples waterfront during the consortium meeting hosted by the Digital Mobility Lab.
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The ACUMEN consortium at Federico II
The ACUMEN consortium gathers at Federico II for the meeting organised in Naples by the Digital Mobility Lab.
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The Digital Mobility Lab team behind the ACUMEN meeting
Members of the Digital Mobility Lab team after organising and hosting the ACUMEN consortium meeting in Naples.
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ACUMEN partners at Federico II
Vincenzo Punzo with Francesco Viti (UniLU), Jordi Casas (AIMSUN), Biagio Ciuffo (EC JRC), Ludovic Leclercq (Université Gustave Eiffel) and Claudio Roncoli (KU Leuven) during the ACUMEN consortium meeting in Naples.
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The i4Driving modelling team at work
Marcello Montanino and the i4Driving team work through models, data and implementation choices during the i4Driving Modelling Workshop.
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Ilaria Natale with ACUMEN partners in Athens
Ilaria Natale joins ACUMEN partners for the consortium meeting in Athens.
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The Digital Mobility Lab team at TRB 2024
Ilaria Natale, Vincenzo Punzo, Gaetano Zaccaria and Davide Iannelli represent the Lab at the TRB 103rd Annual Meeting.
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Ilaria Natale presents macroscopic EV energy modelling
Ilaria Natale presents an ACUMEN study of link-level energy uncertainty for electric-vehicle routing at TRB 2024.
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2023
Vincenzo Punzo aboard an autonomous bus with CCAM Partnership delegates
Vincenzo Punzo and Andrea de Candido, CCAM leader at the EC DG for Research and Innovation, aboard an autonomous bus during the Paris study trip.
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i4Driving partners work through the modelling agenda
Partners work through the scientific and implementation agenda during the i4Driving consortium meeting organised by the Digital Mobility Lab.
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The i4Driving consortium in Naples
The i4Driving consortium gathers for a group photograph during the meeting hosted and organised by the Digital Mobility Lab.
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Vincenzo Punzo at EUCAD 2023
Vincenzo Punzo joins European colleagues at EUCAD 2023 in Brussels.
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2022
Vincenzo Punzo at the CCAM Partnership General Assembly
Vincenzo Punzo represents the Digital Mobility Lab at the 2022 CCAM Partnership General Assembly.
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2020
Vincenzo Punzo presents at TRB 2020
Vincenzo Punzo presents Digital Mobility Lab research in an oral session at TRB 2020.
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Vincenzo Punzo with the TRB poster on energy consumption under uncertainty
Vincenzo Punzo beside the Lab's TRB 2020 poster on modelling energy consumption under uncertainty.
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2019
Commercial ACC systems tested as a real vehicle string
A real convoy reveals how disturbances travel through commercially available adaptive cruise control systems at ZalaZONE.
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The OpenACC vehicle platoon lines up at ZalaZONE
The instrumented OpenACC vehicle platoon lines up for a string-stability run at ZalaZONE.
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Inside the OpenACC lead vehicle
Researchers monitor instruments and surrounding vehicles from inside the OpenACC test convoy.
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The OpenACC team between test runs
Vincenzo Punzo and the OpenACC research team pause between experimental runs at ZalaZONE.
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2018
The Airport Access Hack award for Strappo Hub
Marcello Montanino, Vincenzo Punzo and the Strappo Hub team receive the Switch to Sustainability award at the Airport Access Hack final.
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Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo present research on uncertainty modelling in human driving behaviour
Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo present a theoretical framework for uncertainty and stochasticity in traffic simulation at TRB 2018.
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2013
The 2013 TRB SimSub Best Simulation Paper Award
Vincenzo Punzo and Jordi Casas, on behalf of co-authors Marcello Montanino, Biagio Ciuffo and Josep Perarnau, celebrate the TRB SimSub Best Simulation Paper Award with colleagues in Washington.
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2012
Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo receive the Greenshields Prize
Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo receive the 2012 Greenshields Prize at the TRB Annual Meeting.
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