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2026
Marcello Montanino co-organises the ITSC Trajectory Data Camp 2026 in Naples, bringing together researchers working with large-scale vehicle trajectory data. [September 2026]
Giovanni Albano represents the Lab at the ITSC 2026 Workshop on Computational Models of Human Road User Behavior for Evaluation of Automated Vehicles in Naples. [September 2026]
The Digital Mobility Lab organises MFTS 2026 in Naples, bringing the international traffic-management community together for the 6th Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems. [September 2026]
Marcello Montanino, Vincenzo Punzo and Davide Iannelli represent the Lab at ISTTT26 in Munich, presenting research on how human factors affect the explanatory power of car-following models. [July 2026]
Giovanni Albano presents the Lab's experimental research on human driving behaviour in critical cut-in situations at the SIDT 2026 Scientific Seminar in Gaeta. [June 2026]
New paper from the Lab accepted at ISTTT26 and now in press in Transportation Research Part B. [April 2026]
Ilaria Natale joins the ACUMEN consortium in Barcelona for the project's final meeting, consolidating results on mobility choices, energy use and user-centred decision support. [April 2026]
The MATLAB source code supporting the Lab's ISTTT26 methodology for assessing how human factors affect driver-model explanatory power through falsification and verisimilitude is now available in the Download area. [March 2026]
Vincenzo Punzo represents the Lab at the i4Driving final meeting, concluding the project's scientific coordination on human-driver modelling for automated-mobility safety assessment. [March 2026]
Vincenzo Punzo presents i4Driving results at RTR 2026 in Brussels, highlighting the value of realistic human-driver models for safer connected and automated mobility. [February 2026]
2025
Vincenzo Punzo represents the Lab in Linköping for an i4Driving simulator experiment testing whether observers can distinguish human driving from model-generated behaviour. [November 2025]
Giovanni Albano and Fabrizio Pelella present research developed within their PhD programmes at MT-ITS 2025 in Luxembourg, contributing to the discussion on intelligent transport models and technologies. [September 2025]
The Digital Mobility Lab organises the i4Driving Summer School in Capri, bringing researchers together for lectures and hands-on work on human-driver modelling, experiments and automated-vehicle safety. [June 2025]
New paper from the Lab about EV energy consumption modelling for dynamic routing applications. [June 2025]
Vincenzo Punzo and Ilaria Natale represent the Lab at hEART 2025 in Munich, where Natale presents her research on macroscopic modelling of electric-vehicle energy consumption. [June 2025]
Vincenzo Punzo presents the Lab's i4Driving activities alongside the BERTHA project at EUCAD 2025 at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra. [May 2025]
Vincenzo Punzo and Giovanni Albano conduct controlled i4Driving test-track experiments at CTAG to measure human-driver responses to critical cut-in manoeuvres. [February 2025]
Giovanni Albano, Fabrizio Pelella and Davide Iannelli present the Lab's research on driver behaviour, vehicle automation and energy at the TRB 104th Annual Meeting. [January 2025]
2024
Glad to welcome Manon Seppecher from Gustave Eiffel University for a short stay in the Lab on the ACUMEN project - bienvenue! [November 2024]
Vincenzo Punzo presents i4Driving's integrated framework for modelling human driving under uncertainty at the TRC-30 Conference in Heraklion. [September 2024]
Ilaria Natale joins the TRAIL/DIT4TraM International Summer School at TU Delft, focusing on multimodal traffic and mobility management. [July 2024]
The Digital Mobility Lab organises and hosts the ACUMEN consortium meeting in Naples, coordinating joint work on mobility choices, energy use and the project decision-support platform. [June 2024]
Vincenzo Punzo, Marcello Montanino, Davide Iannelli, Fabrizio Pelella and Gaetano Zaccaria join international partners in Naples for the i4Driving Modelling Workshop. [June 2024]
PhD student Ilaria Natale is heading to Gustave Eiffel University for a 1-month mission on the ACUMEN project! [May 2024]
Vincenzo Punzo and Andrea Papola represent the Lab at the metaCCAZE kick-off meeting in Brussels, launching work on the transferability of shared zero-emission mobility solutions across European cities. [February 2024]
Ilaria Natale, Vincenzo Punzo, Gaetano Zaccaria and Davide Iannelli represent the Lab at TRB 2024, where Natale presents ACUMEN research on link-level electric-vehicle energy uncertainty. [January 2024]
2023
The 2021 paper by Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo on string stability in mixed and heterogeneous traffic ranks among Transportation Research Part B's most cited articles since 2020. [October 2023]
Our PhD student Davide Iannelli is heading to Munich for a 2-month research stay at BMW - good luck! [October 2023]
We will join the 2024-2028 EU Horizon Europe project "metaCCAZE" on the design and deployment of shared zero-emission mobility services for people and goods in urban areas. [July 2023]
The Digital Mobility Lab organises and hosts the i4Driving consortium meeting in Naples, bringing project partners together around scenarios, data, driver models and experiments. [June 2023]
The Digital Mobility Lab joins the ACUMEN kick-off meeting in Helsinki, launching its work on mobility-choice and energy-consumption modelling for seamless multimodal network management. [June 2023]
Vincenzo Punzo showcases i4Driving at EUCAD 2023 in Brussels, presenting the project's approach to realistic human-driver modelling for connected and automated mobility. [May 2023]
We will join the research team of the 2023-2026 EU Horizon Europe project "ACUMEN" on the design and testing of seamless multimodal network and traffic management strategies. [January 2023]
2022
Vincenzo Punzo and Marcello Montanino join the i4Driving kick-off meeting in Munich, launching the project's scientific coordination on human-driver modelling for automated-vehicle safety assessment. [October 2022]
New publication from the Lab with the EC JRC on physics-augmented modelling of adaptive cruise control (ACC). [June 2022]
We will be the scientific coordinator of the 2022-2025 EU Horizon Europe project "i4Driving" on human-driver behavioural modelling for AV road-safety assessment. [April 2022]
2021
New publication from the Lab, in collaboration with Volvo and the University of Luxembourg, on modelling the energy consumption of e-buses. [September 2021]
New paper from the Lab with Zuduo Zheng just published! We propose guidelines for calibrating car-following models and ACC using trajectory data (download the paper's source code here). [July 2021]
Prof. Punzo is appointed as a delegate to the Governing Board of the European Partnership CCAM, representing the Partnership's 40 university members. [June 2021]
Two new publications from the Lab! We analyse string stability of car-following models and ACC systems in mixed, heterogeneous traffic. [Feb-Apr 2021]
2020
New paper from the Lab about calibration and validation of microscopic traffic simulation models. [December 2020]
Vincenzo Punzo and Marcello Montanino present two works on microscopic traffic-model calibration and validation at the TRB CAV Simulation Workshop. [November 2020]
A new study reveals how parametric uncertainty shapes EV energy consumption. [May 2020]
Vincenzo Punzo presents the Lab's research on traffic-flow theory, simulation and energy-consumption uncertainty at the TRB 99th Annual Meeting. [January 2020]
2019
2018
Marcello Montanino, Vincenzo Punzo and the Strappo Hub team receive the Switch to Sustainability award at the Airport Access Hack final in Naples. [July 2018]
Marcello Montanino and Vincenzo Punzo present a theoretical framework for uncertainty and stochasticity in human driving behaviour at the TRB 97th Annual Meeting. [January 2018]
2016
2015
NGSIM I-80 dataset reconstructed! Check out our new paper and download the dataset here. [October 2015]