Transform Transport is a non-profit research foundation focused on innovation in mobility and transport planning
Social Involvement
We are a non-profit organization established to improve the quality of our cities and people’s lives. We are committed to exclusively focus on research initiatives that can have a positive impact on our society and environment.
Worldwide Commitment
We acknowledge the complexity and diversity of mobility challenges in different environments. Our team has extensive experience in a wide array of different social, geographical and climate contexts around the globe.
Collaborative Approach
We tackle complex challenges through an experimental approach, including multidisciplinary expertise within the process. We collaborate with Universities, research centers, innovation hubs, and technology providers.
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Pedestrian thermal comfort is a quantitative and qualitative measure of how comfortable the average pedestrian is when walking, sitting, or ...
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TomTom Data Applications for the Assessment of Tactical Urbanism Interventions: The Case of Bologna
This work aimed at evaluating how a temporary school square, implemented in March 2022 in the city of Bologna under ... -
NYC Urban Air Quality Assessment: Urban Forest Analysis
This research is the first part of a study focusing on New York City’s urban forest infrastructure. In particular, this ... -
Video Analytics for Understanding Pedestrian Mobility Patterns in Public Spaces: The Case of Milan
Thanks to the recent developments in ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment, there is an ever-growing ... -
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Measuring the Fairness of Transit Accessibility: The Case of Affordable Housing in New York City
Affordable housing is an integral aspect that determines the level of equity, for it to function sustainably, it is important ... -
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Video Analytics for the Assessment of Street Experiments: The Case of Bologna
In March 2022, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana and the Municipality of Bologna built a new public space for children in Via ... -
Deep Learning Video Analytics to Assess VGA Measures in Public Spaces
Since the introduction of the Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson, 1984) and the further developments of Space Syntax ... -
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Analysing ‘Twitter Conversation’ of London Tube Stations: The Case of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected urban mobility: the social-distancing strategies adopted to cope with the virus transmission pushed the majority ... -
Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Vehicular Traffic Pollution Beyond SUMPs
The research was aimed at defining an innovative nature-based approach to effectively tackle vehicle emissions by considering the role of ... -
How Covid-19 is Affecting Pedestrian Modeling and Simulation: The Case of Venice
The relevance of computer-based pedestrian crowd simulations has become crucial in transport planning considering the unprecedented effects of the Covid-19 ... -
Looking with Machine Eyes: Understanding Patterns in Urban Spaces
The development of new technologies is shaping the growth of cities in many ways. Among these, the Internet of Things ... -
Walkability and the 15-minute City Model: An Integrated Approach for the City of Milan
The 15-minute city idea is founded on a radical approach to urban planning that revaluates the neighbourhood scale and prioritizes ... -
Assessing the Level of Walkability for Women Using GIS and Location-Based Open Data: The Case of New York City
Utilizing GIS and location-based open data, this study examined the level of walkability for women in New York City. As ... -
Sensors Data for Unlocking Hidden City Metrics
The recent developments of ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment have allowed a tremendous increase in ... -
Stories: a platform built for place–based storytelling
Almost 70 years after Jane Jacobs’ arguments for smaller, mixed-use, connected neighbourhoods were published, the world is beginning to fully ... -
Walkability for Children in Bologna: GIS and Space Syntax Applications
Abstract The research is based on an extended spatial analysis executed through the application of GIS and Space Syntax, aiming ... -
Covid-19 pandemic and activity patterns in Milan. Wi-Fi sensors and location-based data
Within the research activities of Transform Transport on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban mobility (see the recently ... -
Proximity services for children: the case of Bologna
On May 13th, 2021 Systematica joined a roundtable discussion at the 6th Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico – BISP 2021, the ... -
E-scooter accidents and the urban environment: the case of Milan
Abstract The spread of e-scooters in urban regions as a form of shared micro-mobility or last-mile mobility has been impressive ... -
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The role of real-time in times surreal
Big data is often perceived as ‘the end of theory’ because it provides the opportunity to derive insight from empirical ... -
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How Big Data is Transforming the Way We Plan Our Cities
This article was originally published by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Editor: Prof. Stefano Pareglio, Firms and Cities Transition towards ... -
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A Vision for the World’s First and Largest Zero Emission Zone
The Greater Geneva (Grand Genève) is a vast territory of 2,000 sq Km including the Swiss cantons of Geneva and ... -
Multi-scalar nature of port mobility beyond the port-city threshold
The case for two time-tested North-Italian port cities: Genoa and Venice This article was originally published in AIVP’s website. Systematica ... -
Space syntax as a foundation for a transport development strategy
A professional case study in Torrance, California Introduction In 2016, we were appointed to study mobility dynamics in the city ... -
Monitoring (Big) traffic data through Wi-Fi sensors: the evolution of the lockdown phases in Milan
The development of ICT solutions for monitoring (Big) traffic data in real time enables transport planners and decision makers to ... -
Looking with machine eyes: how deep learning helps us read our cities
The development of new technologies is shaping the growth of cities in many ways. Among these, the Internet of Things ... -
WALKABILITY FOR WOMEN: GIS AND APP-BASED TOOLS
Security for women while walking Advanced urban transport planning activities are shifting towards a focus on pedestrian mobility and walkability ... -
Living local: Mapping Milan micro-centers
Proximity, density and diversity: Local centers to support living at neighborhood-scale The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced the way we ... -
How Covid-19 is affecting pedestrian modelling
Sustainable mobility and walkability The rising demand for transport services and infrastructure linked to urbanization (United Nations, 2014) requires an ... -
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Milan Streets Retrofitting Strategy
This article is based on the results of the study Milan sidewalks, in which the width of all the sidewalks ... -
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Urban Air Mobility
Cities are becoming increasingly more urbanized as land is being developed, repurposed, and rising in density. Large concentrations of jobs ... -
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SS36: The Most Strategic ‘No-Toll’ Road Corridor of Italy
“Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno…” This is the beginning of Alessandro Manzoni’s well-known novel “I ... -
Urban Development Forum Sofia 2019
“The role and importance of transport and mobility infrastructure for developing mixed modern zones in brownfields” Systematica participated in Urban ... -
Vietnam is Back on (Rail) Tracks
Following the launch of an important reform program that began in the 1980s, Vietnam has been experiencing remarkable economic development ... -
Minor Interventions for the Largest Metropolis in Europe: Moscow
How to deliver a complete set of transport strategies for a complex megacity like Moscow? First of all, it has ... -
Vertical Transportation: An Integral Building Mobility Component
A detailed analysis of pedestrian circulation in complex buildings needs to integrate the Vertical Transportation (VT) component. For this purpose, ... -
Walking on Water (Lake Iseo)
The Floating Piers, the last conceptual work by the Land Art Artists Christo and Jeanne Claude on Lake Iseo was ... -
Moving in the Greatest Gathering of the World
Planning and design of a new development in the holy city of Mecca has no equal in the world from ... -
Making Walking Pleasant (Even in Dubai!)
Walking in Dubai is certainly not the primary transport mode, however the efforts done in the last couple of years ... -
Analysing User Behaviour in Parking Areas as a Key Step for Designing Better Ones
Analysing existing parking areas and structures has proven to carry a great amount of data on mobility dynamics and user ... -
Masdar City and Its Mobility Paradigm 10 Years Later
Throughout the world, cities are currently facing, to different extents, a variety of global challenges, such as uncontrolled growth, urban ... -
Changeable City Shapes
Different times of day, different modes of transport: different city shapes. The “Changeable City Shapes” is a research on cities ... -
Dynamic Spatial Analysis
The following analysis are made with the DeCodingSpaces Toolbox for Grasshopper, a collection of analytical and generative components for algorithmic ... -
Location, Location, Location: a Park and Ride Structure in Mumbai
Mumbai is paralysed by traffic: multimodal journeys, P&R and TOD can relieve the megalopolis from congestion. Location is often construed ... -
Mapping Malta
Within the framework of the National Transport Strategy for Malta 2050, a comprehensive and in-depth investigation of transport sector of ... -
Planning Railways for Re-stitching a Once-divided Country: Mozambique
The 2,500km-long NS Corridor will boost economy, connect major cities and encourage social cohesion. Developments in the transport sector in ... -
Suburbs: Cities of Tomorrow
Giambellino isochrone map; in red the area reachable on foot in 1 minute; in blue those reachable in 10 minutes. ... -
Bahrain: When Culture Promotes Sustainable Mobility
Cultural preservation, attractiveness index and complex social issues are involved in Pearling Path mobility plan. It is not common to ... -
Re-Giving Value to Time as a First Step Toward Peace
Removing road blocks from Palestinian roads would allow for a generalised cost saving of around €100m/year. A number of studies ...