Publications de Riccardo Scarinci

Design and analysis of control strategies for pedestrian flows

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Riccardo Scarinci

Exploiting the full potential of pedestrian infrastructure is becoming critical in many environments which cannot be easily expanded to cope with the increasing pedestrian demand. This is particularly true for train stations as in many dense cities space i ...

SPRINGER2021

Special issue on "Modelling passenger flows in multi-modal public transport systems"

Riccardo Scarinci

ELSEVIER2020

Methodologies for understanding and improving pedestrian mobility

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Marija Nikolic, Riccardo Scarinci, Zhengchao Wang, Yuki Oyama

Pedestrian mobility is at the center of urban transportation systems. Therefore, understanding it is a necessary task to improve the mobility in cities. However, pedestrian mobility is extremely complex, and advance methods are needed to capture its dynami ...

Routledge2020

The impact of counter-flow on pedestrian walking times

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Riccardo Scarinci

Exploiting the full potential of pedestrian infrastructures is becoming vital in many environments which cannot be easily expanded to cope with the increasing demand. This is particularly true of train stations in many dense cities since space is limited. ...

2019

Improving pedestrian dynamics by controlling pedestrian flows

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Riccardo Scarinci

2019

Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci

Electric mobility is now a reality, and services based on electric vehicles, such as electric car-sharing and electric buses, are becoming part of urban mobility. These new modes bring new challenges for the design and operations of the systems that requir ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Multiclass Speed-Density Relationship for Pedestrian Traffic

Michel Bierlaire, Marija Nikolic, Riccardo Scarinci, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent

We introduce a probabilistic modeling approach for pedestrian speed density relationship. It is motivated by a high scatter in real data that precludes the use of traditional equilibrium relationships. To characterize the observed pattern, we relax the hom ...

INFORMS2019

Improving pedestrian dynamics by preventing counter-flow

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Riccardo Scarinci

2019

An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers

Michel Bierlaire, André Ourednik, Farzaneh Bahrami, Riccardo Scarinci

Moving walkways (MW) have been imagined as a possible means of transport since the late 19th century, and this system has fascinated urban planners and engineers ever since. Contrary to what has been imagined, moving walkways are only used in transportatio ...

Editorial Board Ejtir2017

Needed reduction in mobility energy consumption to meet the goal of a 2000-watt society

Michel Bierlaire, Frédéric Rast, Riccardo Scarinci

Greenhouse gas emissions related to energy production is the main cause of climate change. Transportation accounts for 30% of the total energy consumption, and a reduction in the energy used for mobility is necessary. The 2000-watt society is an environmen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Definition of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Intelligent Vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

2017

Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

Michel Bierlaire, Iliya Dimitrov Markov, Riccardo Scarinci

Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways

Michel Bierlaire, Iliya Dimitrov Markov, Riccardo Scarinci

Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...

2016

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Riccardo Scarinci

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent pedestrian origin-destination demand within walking facilities. Using that ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Control concepts for facilitating motorway on-ramp merging using intelligent vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Congestion at motorway junctions is a traffic phenomenon that degrades operation of infrastructure and can lead to breakdown of traffic flow and associated reduction in capacity. Advanced communication technologies open new possibilities to prevent or at l ...

2014