Marco Amorim

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering

Urban mobility is currently facing a variety of challenges. Increasing emission levels in cities, growing numbers of private vehicles and constantly changing needs and requirements of the population are only some of them. New mobility concepts and business models are currently emerging in response to these volatile conditions, primarily through imp...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way how the people live, work and move, and naturally the transport sector became one of the most affected by this global crisis. Beyond the sudden fall of mobility at the beginning of the pandemic, it is important to understand how people are regaining trust in travelling, even if it is still unpredictable if...

In response to society’s volatile and changing mobility requirements, many new mobility concepts and business models are currently being developed and piloted. The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) concept attempts to meet rising customer demands in a needs-based and situational manner. For the success of innovative mobility offers, user acceptance and...

countries and economic activities. In the transport sector, stakeholders are still dealing with and learning from its consequences, as many users have changed their preferences towards private and less sustainable modes. In this paper, a mixed logit modelling approach was applied to a vast database from a stated preference survey con-ducted in Germ...

In this study, we conducted a comprehensive survey involving a substantial sample size (n = 6,405) of urban daily commuters across four European nations (Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Czech Republic). Our investigation contributes to an enriched comprehension of the user dynamics associated with Mobility-as-a-Service alternatives and...

This study explores the impact of emerging vehicle technologies on direct urban traffic emissions. It investigates emission reduction potential from shifts in fleet compositions and modal choices, especially considering climate change. To achieve this, three key research areas are explored for historical, current, and future scenarios (up to 2050):...

In this study we conduct a large survey (n=6,405) on urban daily commuters in four European countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Czech Republic), we add richness to our understanding of who will use Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) options and what relationship MaaS has with public transit in terms of choosing how to travel. We explo...

The mobility sector is considered one of the key levers for achieving the climate targets specified in the Paris Agreement and reducing carbon dioxide emissions in cities. To achieve this goal, lower-emission mobility solutions such as public transport, cycling or shared forms of mobility are increasingly strengthened and expanded. Mobility-on-Dema...

Moving via an app? Necessary information or tickets to arrive at the required destination can be accessed via smartphone, which is a constant companion anyway. Whether taking the train, choosing a ride-sharing service or even an electric scooter - all one must do is download the right app to use and operate the preferred means of transport.This wor...

Survey spread within 4 European countries; these included different items found in the literature to build Usefulness and Attitude constructs.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) constitute a crucial pillar of today's cities by providing urgent medical responses to their citizens. Their study is often conducted via simulation, as the assessment of planning decisions is generally unfeasible in the existing systems. However, such models can become computationally expensive to run. Thus, metamo...

Today, and probably for a long time to come, humans will remain an integral part of vehicles for driving tasks. Therefore, it is essential to understand how vehicles and drivers interact with each other and how drivers' behavior and physical and mental states affect vehicle performance and traffic safety. This article explores the relationship betw...

This paper presents a methodology to locate vehicle base stations using a scenario based optimisation to address daily traffic and demand changes, which are due to what we define as city dynamics. The model allows us to understand better how these daily changes affect an urban emergency medical service (uEMS) response system. The methodology incorp...

Choosing locations for emergency medical service stations and vehicles has been thoroughly investigated. However, the formulations presented to solve this question are not always done in a way that can be applied in practice, because they are based on oversimplified mathematical functions, which makes them unrealistic. The problem persists as integ...

Simulation approaches constitute a well-established tool to model, understand, and predict the behavior of transportation systems, and ultimately to assess the performance of transportation policies. Due to their multidimensionality nature, such systems are not often approachable through conventional analytic methods, making simulation modeling the...

This paper presents a methodology to locate vehicle base stations using scenario approach optimization to address daily traffic and demand changes, which are due to what we define as city dynamics. The model allows us to better understand how these daily changes affect an urban emergency medical service (uEMS) response system. The methodology inco...

The recent European debt crisis has led many governments to impose strict measures to alleviate public expenditure and increase revenue, especially in the southern countries. Many public services and infrastructures became more costly for users due to the increase of existing fees or the implementation of new ones. In Portugal, one of the measures...

A solid emergency medical service response is important to saving lives. Most past studies are however focused on the effect of response time on fatalities resulting from cardiac arrest and fewer from traffic crash. The present study aims to present an extensive analysis of the impact of prehospital time on traffic injuries covering two perspective...

In an era of information and advanced computing power, emergency medical services (EMS) still rely on rudimentary vehicle dispatching and reallocation rules. In many countries, road conditions such as traffic or road blocks, exact vehicle positions, and demand prediction are valuable information that is not considered when locating and dispatching...

Most of the existing operating speed statistical models are applicable to individual design elements, particularly horizontal curves and tangents. A segment approach to operating speed has rarely been followed, with a few exceptions mainly related to the performance assessment of urban and freeway corridors, or design consistency studies using spee...

This paper provides a methodology on how to contribute to road safety by improving the vehicle response of urban emergency medical services (uEMS) using road safety investments. The methodology embodies two steps. The first step includes a demand assessment through a model that calculates the frequency of urban emergency events and their priority i...

In order to allow a deep knowledge of the nonfatal injuries, recently the European Commission adopted the maximum abbreviated injury scale classification which is based on medical diagnosis. This classification will open the door to a new source of information based on international hospital data such as diagnosis-related group and international cl...

Background The importance of solid emergency medical response to traffic fatalities has been studied over time, leading for instance to the European Commission action to equipped new vehicles with eCall system. Most studies are however focused on the effect of response time on fatalities resulting from cardiac arrest and fewer from traffic crash co...

Objective: Traffic crashes result in a loss of life but also impact the quality of life and productivity of crash survivors. Given the importance of traffic crash outcomes, the issue has received attention from researchers and practitioners as well as government institutions, such as the European Commission (EC). Thus, to obtain detailed informatio...

Introduction: The most common measurement for road accidents relies in police reports; however, there is a high portion of underreporting and misclassification, mainly concerning elderly causalities, urban accidents, slightly injured, users of two-wheeled vehicles, and car occupants. Methods: In order to assess these issues, road accidents occur...

This study aims to assess the under-reporting and misclassification of the traffic injury severity reported by the police for the first time in Portugal. The non-fatality traffic injuries classified by the police are compared with the information recorded by the hospitals using linked data. The underreporting in the police data was found to be of 2...

Road safety research, in particular road and traffic safety evaluation research, is highly applied and carried out mostly to help reducing the number of road accidents and the injuries resulting from them. This subject has been continuously studied, and in developed countries road safety is improved in a way that, more and more, new measures have l...

This paper presents the description of various steps to be applied in the linkage of road traffic accident records using the case study of the city of Porto, Portugal. The importance of this process is well recognized by institutions such as IRTAD (OECD/ITF) that are promoting the combination of various data sources to fully assess the consequences...

This paper presents a decision supporting tool for the location of electronic toll gantries in freeways, regarding the maximization of the toll revenue. The adopted case study consists in one of the most important Portuguese freeways, with 180 km of extension and a recently introduced electronic toll collection system. In the first stage of the mod...