Milano Digital Week – Exploring the Potentials of Tech Apps to Enhance Women’s Mobility
November 14th | 3:00 – 5:00pm (CET), Milano Digital Week – Online Exploring the Potentials of Tech Apps to Enhance Women’s Mobility Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, ...
Urban Landscapes in the Green Decade: in Conversation with Andrea Balestrini
Andrea Balestrini is a landscape planner with experience in nature-based solutions, public space design, and landscape governance within international R&I projects and consultancies. He studied at Politecnico di Milano and ...
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 Procaccini (Bologna) near a middle school (see Figure 1), using ...
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 theories during the following decades (Hillier et al., 1996; Hillier, ...
Spatial Data for Low Carbon Cities: in Conversation with Iacopo Testi
Iacopo Testi is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Senseable City Laboratory) where he conducts research at the intersection of urban sustainability, data science and artificial intelligence. ...
Shifting Paradigm: the impact of Covid-19 on transport planning
How to Put AI at the Service of People in Cities, and Not Otherwise: in Conversation with Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva
Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, with over 30 years of experience in theoretical advancements of AI, as well as the development of AI ...
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 of city users into avoiding public transport services in favour ...
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 urban green areas, relying on the capacity of trees to ...
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 pandemic on urban mobility. However, there is still a lack ...
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 (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the high-resolution global positioning system (GPS), ...
Shaping the Future of Society and Cities Worldwide: in Conversation with Andrea Gorrini
Dr. Andrea Gorrini is an environmental psychologist with over 10 years experience in the empirical investigation of pedestrian mobility, walkability, and crowd dynamics. His research work is aimed at supporting ...
Fondazione Transform Transport Launch
On May 11, Systematica celebrated the launch of its research foundation Fondazione Transform Transport with collaborators, friends, and professionals from the mobility engineering field, at the Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia in Milan. Since ...
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 accessibility to daily services on the basis of walking and ...
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 highlighted through a thematic literature review, women experience the city ...
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 the quality and amount of easily accessible data. This enables ...
Tactical Urbanism for Urban Design Interventions: in Conversation with Fabrizio Prati
Fabrizio Prati is an urban designer with 10 years of international experience in safe and sustainable urban design, mobility, street and public spaces design. He joined NACTO in 2015 and ...
Upon the Plurality and Subjectivity of Meaning in Data: in Conversation with Andrea Galli
With a strong background in design (Politecnico di Torino) and innovation management (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Andrea Galli is the Director of Strategy and Development at Accurat and teaches Computational Design ...
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 grasp the importance of neighbourhood-scale urban planning and actively supported ...
Technology is the new democracy for the urban planning: in Conversation with Tiffanie Yamashita
Tiffanie Yamashita is an urban systems engineer and collaborate with Systematica from 8 consecutive years. She started as an intern for her final-year program at the Université Technologique de Compiègne, ...
Publications
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 at assessing the level of walkability for children in the ...
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 published booklet ‘Shifting Paradigm’), this study is focused on the ...
SYS Talks Summer 2021.
This summer we’re hosting a series of webinars, called Sys Talks, to engage with other professionals on topics like big data, placemaking, and transportation forecasting. Sign up to learn, and ...
SYS Talks: Travel Demand Modelling (per Livestream)
Transport modelling has always played a decisive role in supporting the decision-making process, providing evidence-based analysis and a robust technical response to planning transportation infrastructure. This recently gained importance as ...
TRAVEL DEMAND MODELLING: Evolution of travel demand forecasting, new paradigms and technologies
July 20th | Theme: Travel Demand Modeling Evolution of travel demand forecasting, new paradigms and technologies Curator: Alessandro Vacca, Systematica Moderator: Jonelle Hanson, Systematica Register in advance for this meeting. ...
SYS Talks: Inclusive mobility and public space (per Livestream)
Despite recent efforts towards sustainable mobility in urban scenarios, the measures currently in place to design and manage public transport service and infrastructure do not sufficiently consider the needs of ...
USER CENTERED DESIGN IN TRANSPORT PLANNING: Inclusive mobility and public space
July 13th | Theme: User Centered Design in Transport Planning Inclusive mobility and public space Curator: Andrea Gorrini, Systematica Moderator: Jonelle Hanson, Systematica Register in advance for this webinar. After ...
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 biannual event dedicated to research, activities and practices devoted to ...
SYS Talks: The data shall not be standardized (per Livestream)
For planners, big data can be characterized as a steady stream of information that has grown to encapsulate the profession’s foundational skill set. Data has enriched the decision-making process with ...
BIG DATA: The data shall not be standardized. Allowing the customer to deliver the data design insights.
July 7th | Theme: Big Data The data shall not be standardized. Allowing the customer to deliver the data design insights. Curator: Jonelle Hanson, Systematica Moderator: Jonelle Hanson, Systematica Register ...
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 in the last few years. As an example, between December ...
Unveiling Women’s Needs and Expectations as Users of Bike Sharing Services
Within the research activities of the H2020 DIAMOND project, the Use Case ‘Vehicle (Bike) Sharing Fleet Management’ is focused on the investigation of women’s needs and expectations as users of ...
Assessing the Level of Accessibility of Railway Public Transport for Women Passengers Using Location-Based Data
Within the objectives of the H2020 DIAMOND project, the Use Case ‘Public Transport Infrastructures – Railway’ is focused on the investigation of women’s needs as users of metro and urban ...
U.S. Cities: shifting mobility patterns
The modal choice shift: a generational gap?
Evidence of a ‘multi-modal generation’ Across the Western world and particularly in the United States, talk of a rise of a ‘multi-modal generation’ is common. Shifts in behavior are commonly ...
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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 evidence rather than building it on theoretical constructs. Never is ...
Trip trait 5: Trans-locale — the where and when of moving between zones versus moving within them
What cross-cutting trip data from five cities in the U.S. tells us about the overarching tendencies of moving within a zone versus traveling between zones across the city From the ...
Trip trait 4: The Sunday/Monday divide — what are we doing differently on the weekend?
What cross-cutting trip data from five cities in the U.S. tells us about the overarching tendencies to move across the week in different areas within the city The movement density ...
Electric Mobility: towards zero emissions
The Advantages of Mixed-Use Developments in the Case of Munich
Paketposthalle, Munich The project consists of the renovation of the Paketposthalle, the historical post office in Munich West, and the development of an urban, inner-city district with a mix of ...
Trip trait 3: The density dance — how are movements distributed within our cities?
What cross-cutting trip data from five cities in the U.S. tells us about the overarching tendencies of movement concentrations in different areas within the city and some factors that drives ...
Trip trait 2: From-To — A purpose-driven trip analysis
What cross-cutting trip data from five cities in the U.S. tells us about the overarching tendencies to make home-work, home-other and non-home-based trips within cities By collecting location-based data from ...
MIND: A Testbed to Build the City of the Future
… where shared and autonomous mobility reduces the need for private vehicles Milano Innovation District (MIND) is one of the most important European urban regeneration projects, a new urban polarity ...
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 Sustainability (FACTS) Program Scientific Coordinator, ISBN 9791280348029 Abstract FEEM Policy ...
Electrifying a Bus Fleet Takes Transport Planning to Another Level, Bringing Up New Challenges
To plan for the electrification of public bus lines we developed a toolbox that would work across all sorts of route layout. Our Toolbox at a Glance Hypotheses: – Electric ...
Trip trait 1: Trip Lengths, who’s counting? — What makes us most likely to spend more time moving around?
What cross-cutting trip data from five cities in the U.S. tells us about the overarching tendencies to make shorter and longer daily trips One of the biggest advancements allowed by ...
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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 Vaud, and the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie. Composed ...
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 has been an active member of AIVP since 2019. Sustainable ...
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 of Torrance, a city of roughly 100,000-inhabitants located in the ...
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 understand and predict the travel behaviour of the city users. ...
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 (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the high-resolution global positioning system (GPS), ...
Learning from the past to plan for a future of adaptive transportation: in Conversation with Stilla Graf
Stilla Graf was born in Germany and grew up between Bavaria and South Tyrol. In 2019 she started a collaboration with Systematica as the Regional Representative for Germany and German ...
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 (Buhrmann et al., 2019), namely referring to how friendly the ...
Methodology for Gender Analysis in Transport
Within the research activities of the H2020 DIAMOND project, Systematica participated in the execution of a thematic literature review of most relevant scientific contributions related to the concept of fairness ...
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 live and move. Movement within the city has been dramatically ...
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 institutional process to effectively design and plan future cities. This ...
DIAMOND
Access to green areas and public realm: the case of Milan
Driverless: more or less?
Milan Streets Retrofitting Strategy
This article is based on the results of the study Milan sidewalks, in which the width of all the sidewalks of Milan has been mapped and narrow sidewalks were classified ...
Parking Structures Design
Parking structures of the future The implementation of driverless vehicles will play a key role in altering urban mobility and land use structures, as car ownership and parking demand will ...
Milan Sidewalks Map
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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 and economic prosperity is leading to high growth in many ...
Observing UBER Movements
Predicting the movement patterns of driverless vehicles as a fleet which, as we all would like to imagine it, provides a mobility service with its own characteristics, capacity, usage, patronage, ...
New transportation technologies will reshape our cities: in Conversation with Jonelle Hanson
Systematica has appointed Jonelle Hanson as Senior Transportation Consultant, with a focus on developing the transportation planning practice in the newly established New York City office. Jonelle is an experienced ...
Dubai Street Atlas
Future-proofing airport car park provision
Think of an airport and the images that come to mind are planes, polished glass facades, giant chocolate boxes at duty free shops, queues to pass at security control, high-end ...
Tell me your speed and I will tell which street you are
Vehicle speed is the element that has the major impact on the road character and the way it is used. Lower speeds encourage an urban type of development while increasing ...
Milan Innovation District (MIND)
EXPO 2015 was a universal exposition hosted by the City of Milan with the theme, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”. The EXPO spanned six months from May to October ...
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 Promessi Sposi” (The Betrothed), in which the writer paints a ...
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 Development Forum (UDF 2019) in Sofia, Bulgaria. The presentation titled “The ...
Shaping Dubai: an Interview with Arthur Benedetti
Arthur is known best for his design process, which begins with a story. Drawing on themes and motifs to inform his designs, Arthur’s approach is rooted in the contextual meaning ...
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 that has turned the country from one of the poorest ...
Street Elements – Greenery
The introduction of greenery and vegetation requires great coordination among all consultants and designers throughout the different project phases. Vegetation is one of the few elements that is able to ...
Sheikh Zayed Road
E11 is the longest road in the UAE: it connects the entire country crossing six of the seven Emirates, from the Western border with Saudi Arabia to the Northern one ...
Stitching the city: an Interview with Iyad Alsaka
Iyad Alsaka joined OMA as a director in 2007 and became partner in 2011. Responsible for OMA’s work in the Middle East and Africa, Iyad has led projects including the ...
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 to be flexible. There are no solutions that can be ...
Pedestrian Level Of Service (PLOS)
Pedestrian Level Of Service (PLOS) is being increasingly used to assess safety and comfort levels across entire cities, providing effective indications on priority of interventions. With the increase of car-dependence, ...
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, Systematica has recently focused on VT, exploring further state-of-art analytical ...
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 opened to the public for less than three weeks in ...
Transform Public Realm: An integrated approach
Planning and design of the system of public spaces The design of public spaces, considering the upcoming changes in contemporary mobility, opens up for new mobility paradigms that reveal the ...
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 all perspectives, and, in particular, from both cultural and social ...
Junction Spacing: the case of Al Wasl Rd.
Block sizes, junctions spacing and the density of intersections have the greatest impact on the public realm and the pedestrian behavior. Al Wasl Road is a great reference to see ...
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 show that there is room for great improvements. Although Dubai ...
Transform Transport Technologies: Overview on Major Mobility Revolutions
Investigations and explorations on major mobility changes in urban mobility We are witnessing the rise of driverless vehicles as result of a fast-paced technological revolution within the automobile sector. This ...
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 behaviour that can be only revealed through appropriate survey methods. ...
Re-imagining Corso Buenos Aires
Corse Buenos Aires is the longest retail street in Milan and Europe. This book contains a detailed analysis of its current status and it tackles the benefits of its reconfiguration. ...
Transform Retail: Exploring a Better Customer Experience
Explorations on how to better live retail. The Retail is a component more and more integrated in the local context with repercussions on the global economic system. The recent technological ...
Space Syntax and network theories applied to planning
Since the late 1970s, network theories are used to study, understand and plan cities. Very few urban theories succeed in describing our cities in such robust and convincing manner like ...
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 degradation, globalization, spatial segregation, energy consumption, social exclusion, environmental impact ...
Changeable City Shapes
Different times of day, different modes of transport: different city shapes. The “Changeable City Shapes” is a research on cities conducted by Prof. Fabio Casiroli, the founder of Systematica, passed ...
Air-conditioned bus stops: from shelters to service hubs
There are two types of bus stops in Dubai: the majority is the standard pole, with simple bus line information and time schedule and a growing number of air-conditioned stops, ...
Transform Mobility Planning: Big Data Analytics
The use of Big Data within mobility analytical and planning processes The technological and digital innovation applied to Smart Mobility ed Intelligent Infrastructure models is promoting a more effective management ...
Dynamic Spatial Analysis
The following analysis are made with the DeCodingSpaces Toolbox for Grasshopper, a collection of analytical and generative components for algorithmic architectural and urban planning, developed by CPlan group. Corso Buenos ...
Allocation of space – Street space vs. Street proportions
Several streets are surveyed in depth to identify the recurring dimensions and proportions that characterize Dubai streets. The way a street is used is strongly related to allocation of space ...
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 by analysts to be the most influential parameter that determines ...
Mapping Malta
Within the framework of the National Transport Strategy for Malta 2050, a comprehensive and in-depth investigation of transport sector of the Islands of Malta and Gozo is carried out. A ...
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 Mozambique has always had a dual agenda: social and economic. ...
Milan Design Week 2017: Autonomous Cars and the Bumpy Road Ahead!
Systematica, for its event “Autonomous cars and the bumpy road ahead!” during the Milan Design Week, will be opening its doors to the general public from the 4th to the ...
Suburbs: Cities of Tomorrow
Giambellino isochrone map; in red the area reachable on foot in 1 minute; in blue those reachable in 10 minutes. Small but well-designed projects can trigger wider urban regeneration and ...
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 develop a comprehensive mobility plan at city scale for the ...
Launch Event of New Systematica Journal
On the 21st of March 2017, Systematica was delighted to host an evening event in the occasion of the release of its new publication “Transform Transport”. Guests had the chance ...
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 aimed to estimate the benefits of peace between Israelis and ...