PROJECT STAFF UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA

Salvatore Cafiso, is the research coordinator at UniCT. Full professor of “Road, Railways and Airport”, Teaching “Highway geometric design” and “Pavement engineering”; Past coordinator of the PhD course in “Engineering of transportation infrastructures”; Delegate for International Relations and Director of the Infrastructures of Transport laboratory (ITlab) at the University of Catania. Member of scientific International committees: TRB AHB65 "Operational Effects of geometrics", TRB ANB10 "Transportation Safety Management"; TRB steering committee of "International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design", Tongji University “Joint International Research Laboratory”, PIARC National Technical Committee "Design and management of safer roads". Author of more than 200 scientific papers and books published in international journal and conference proceedings

Alessandro Di Graziano, phD in "Engineering of road infrastructures", is associated professor of "Road, Railways and Airport" at DICAR. His scientific activity mainly focuses on road and transport management with special emphasis on safety and maintenance. His research products include about 70 published papers. He is member of the Committee of Permanent International Association of Road Congress (PIARC), member of the Board of Transport Agency (ASSTRA) and of the International Organization for Public Transport (UITP). From 2014 to 2018 he was General Manager of the Etna Railway and Metro Catania Agency (Ferrovia circumetnea) and member of the Observatory on Public Transport at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. From 2009 to 2013 he was Vicepresident of the Catania Bus Public Transport Company.

Giuseppina Pappalardo, phD in "Engineering of road infrastructures", is research fellow at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering (DICAR) of University of Catania. Her scientific activity mainly focuses on road and transport management with special emphasis on safety and road asset management. Her research products include more than 60 published papers. She is member of the Committee of Permanent International Association of Road Congress (PIARC).