Alessandro Luè

• PhD
• Head of Department at Politecnico di Milano

This project report presents the rationale and the first results as regards the ongoing learning process of the PROMETEUS (PROMotion of EmobiliTy in EU regionS) project, co-financed by the Interreg Europe program, in the context of EU policies and programs dedicated to the promotion of sustainable mobility, and electric mobility in particular. Elec...

In recent times, the digitalization of urban areas has got considerable attention from the public. As a side effect, there has also been great interest in the digitalization of the rural world or the so-called Smart Villages. Smart Villages refer to the improvement of infrastructure management and planning to fight against depopulation and low popu...

The concept of smartness is an essential topic that was only recently extended to rural areas. Although smartness is already incorporated strongly into numerous urban environments, differences between cities and villages prevent direct transfer of the methods and tools used for the smart transformation. To increase the awareness of newly developed...

In this work, we have developed the first version of a smartness assessment framework that allows the representatives from a village to make a self-evaluation of its current status based on smartness criteria identified by an international group of experts. The framework allows a detailed evaluation of six different aspects including Mobility, Gove...

The expansion of the electricity grid has rapidly emerged to the very top of the de-carbonization agenda, because of its role in transporting the electricity based on renewable sources. One of the essential pillars of the European strategy is the development of an efficient electricity grid and the European Commission has set a target of 10% electr...

The poster summarise the most important results obtained by the INSPIRE-Grid project, aimed at increasing the stakeholders’ engagement in grid expansion projects and better managing conflicts.

The paper approaches the actual situation of carpooling, by reporting the most updated data divided by its different orms: private, corporate and urban carpooling. For this last kind some innovative experience are reported: instant carpooling, carpooling integrated with car sharing and with other transport modes. The potential of carpooling in the...

In many countries, any substantial increase in the share of renewable energy will require a reinforcement of the electricity transmission grid. We examine the value added by Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA), which may support decisions on corridor alternatives for grid reinforcement by including stakeholder preferences. We present the results...

In this chapter, we summarise the main “lessons learned” that originated from the study and the onsite experimentation within the Green Move project. These are presented under the form of brief “guidelines” that may represent launching pads for a complete engineering of an advanced system of vehicle sharing. In the (relatively short, a little more...

This chapter describes a model able to simulate car sharing configuration options, taking into account different dimension of sustainability (environment, economy, mobility and social). We studied the possible effects of such options on the mobility system. In order to identify and structure such effects, we used cognitive maps, elicited by means o...

This introductory chapter briefly outlines the main characteristics of car-sharing services and the main assumptions that authors of this book took into account for designing the innovative service that was the outcome of Green Move project. The second part of the chapter illustrates the overall organization of the book, and the main contents of th...

Large-scale urban development projects featured over the past thirty years have shown some critical issues related to the implementation phase. Consequently, the current practice seems oriented toward minimal and widespread interventions meant as urban catalyst. This planning practice might solve the problem of limited reliability of large developm...

This book examines electric car sharing in cities from a variety of perspectives, from service design to simulation, from mathematical modeling to technology deployment, and from energy use improvement to the integration of different kinds of vehicle. The contents reflect the outcomes of the Green Move project, undertaken by Politecnico di Milano w...

A significant role among soft mobility measures to influence people's mobility choices and to raise awareness is played by the provision of targeted information. The integration of user-centered design, social innovation, portable devices, and sensors may have a role in influencing people's choices and consumption patterns. The paper presents two o...

The paper presents the final results of the Italian pilots of Pro-E-Bike, a project funded under the Intelligent Energy Europe programme, started on April 2013 and ending on March 2016 (www.pro-e-bike.org). The project promotes clean and energy efficient vehicles, analyses the performance of electric bicycles and electric scooters for the deliverin...

This chapter presents a model for the design of an electric car sharing service for the city of Milan. Several options of service configurations have been analyzed and evaluated according to indicators measuring the performance of such options in respect to relevant dimensions such as economic and financial costs and revenues, mobility, social bene...

Promoting the use of public transportation and Intelligent Transport Systems, as well as improving transit accessibility for all citizens, may help in decreasing traffic congestion and air pollution in urban areas. In general, poor information to customers is one of the main issues in public transportation services, which is an important reason for...

In recent years, the issue of vehicle road sharing has attracted growing attention from both researchers and operators, as a potential instrument to improve the sustainability of urban mobility or transport systems. Beside the general concept, different operational models, managerial and technological solutions have been developed, leading to a hig...

The local public administrations of the Italian cities are responsible for the hazardous material transport within the municipality boundaries. The city of Milan is interested in implementing a system to support the municipal transport department in planning the shipments and control their positions. The paper presents an ongoing project to design...

The past decades have seen a great deal of research on algorithms for shortest path problems. However, real-world systems like route planners and mobile navigation systems require to take into account some additional conditions. Our work concerns a truck route planner for real-time navigation developed for an Italian firm and tested on real world d...

Traditional car-sharing services are based on the two-way scheme, where the user picks up and returns the vehicle at the same parking station. Some services permits also one-way trips, which allows the user to return the vehicle in another station. The one-way scheme is quite more attractive for the users, but may pose a problem for the distributio...

Research is a key factor for a successful reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport. This paper summarizes the main results of REACT, a project co-financed by the European Commission, which aimed to develop a European Strategic Research Agenda for low GHG transport. A literature review and a multi-stage expert consultation process...

The paper presents a conflict analysis in an environmental impact assessment. In order to cope with a problem of traffic congestion in a tourist area, alternative transportation services and measures of travel demand management are studied and compared using the multi-attribute value theory. The problem is characterized by the presence of different...

Traditional car-sharing services are based on the two-way scheme, where the user picks up and returns the vehicle at the same parking station. Some services allow also one-way trips, where the user can return the vehicle in another station. The one-way scheme is more attractive for the users, but may pose a problem for the distribution of the vehic...

Vehicle sharing is one of the possible answers to the increasing demand of sustainable way of transport. However, the traditional management models of sharing services are not flexible enough to be a real answer to current and future mobility needs. Green Move, an ongoing project financed by Regione Lombardia that involves eight different research...

We propose a new stochastic traffic flow model for highways (freeways), which is a hybrid between the classical cellular automata and the other microscopic traffic models, using continuous cellular automata. We combine the computational efficiency of cellular automata models with the accuracy of the microscopic models by introducing continuity in s...

Carpooling is a transport system based on a shared use of private cars. The mobility managers of the Università Statale and Politecnico di Milano universities are interested in promoting the use of such system among their students and employees. The paper presents an ongoing project to design, implement and test PoliUniPool, a car pooling service f...

Research funding and innovation processes are key instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport. This paper presents a contribution to the development of a European strategy on climate-friendly transport research funding. A Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) was set up, in order to define research priorities, develop future roadm...

The paper describes AMACI, a software prototype supporting the decision process in the choice among alternatives. AMACI has been designed in the context of environmental assessment, considering participation essential to elicit interests and judgment parameters of the different groups involved in the decision. Therefore, the software makes possible...

Carpooling is a transport system based on a shared use of private cars. This paper presents a web-based software tool for the commute carpooling problem, whose main characteristics are the following: 1) besides suggesting a matching between the users, the system provides the expected schedule and route for their trips; 2) the users are informed imm...

This paper presents DREAMS, a web-based integrated information and management system for mobility services in urban areas, designed specifically for the city of Milan, Italy. The core of the system is the travel planner module, which proposes a set of travel solutions for a specific trip taking into account traditional and innovative mobility servi...

Many vehicle emission models am overly simple, such as the speed dependent models used widely, and other models are sufficiently complicated as to require excessive inputs and calculations, which can slow down computational time. We develop and implement an instantaneous statistical model of emissions (CO₂, CO, HC, and NOx) and fuel cons...