Dr. Claudio Roncoli

• Real-time traffic management of motorway systems in presence of automated and connected vehicles
• Optimisation and control of traffic systems
• Macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow modelling
• Static and discrete-time transport systems modelling, optimisation, and control
• Real-time monitoring of large-scale transportation systems

01/2010 - 04/2013	Doctor of Philosophy in System monitoring and environmental risk management
	University of Genova, Italy
	PhD thesis: Dangerous Goods Transport management: methods and models to enhance the safety of transport by road
09/2006 - 07/2009	Master degree in Computer Engineering - Production and Services Management
	University of Genova, Italy
	MSc Thesis: Design and development of a decision support system for inventory routing problems. An application to petrol products transportation
09/2003 - 09/2006	Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering
	University of Genova, Italy
	Thesis: Application of Web Services, TCP/IP, and UDP/IP in a transmission system from moving vehicles to a control centre and performance analysis

05/2013 - current	Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory
	Technical University of Crete, Greece
01/2011 - 07/2011	Visiting Research Assistant at Centre for Transport Studies
02/2012 - 06/2012	Imperial College London, UK
01/2007 - 04/2013	Research Assistant/Associate at Industrial Automation Lab / DELAB
	University of Genova, Italy

05/2013 - current	TRAMAN21 - “Traffic Management for the 21st Century”
	Funded by the European Commission, through an ERC Advanced Grant
04/2009 - 03/2012	SECTRAM - “Securite du transport de marchandises - Sicurezza nel trasporto merci”
	Funded by the European Commission under ALCOTRA (2007-2013)
01/2007 - 02/2008	Da.Go.T. - “European Reference Framework on Dangerous Goods Transport”
	Funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme
01/2007 - 04/2013	TIP - “Transport Integrated Platform”
	Funded by Eni R&M - Secondary Logistics

International Journals

13. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M.: Lane-changing feedback control for efficient lane assignment at motorway bottlenecks. Submitted to Transportation Research Record.
12. Han, Y., Hegyi, A., Yuan, Y., Hoogendoorn, S., Papageorgiou, M., Roncoli, C.: Resolving freeway jam waves by discrete first-order model-based predictive control of variable speed limits. Submitted to Transportation Research Part C.
11. Fountoulakis, M., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Highway traffic state estimation with mixed connected and conventional vehicles: Microscopic simulation-based testing. Submitted to Transportation Research Part C.
10. Iordanidou, G.R., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M.: “Feedback-based integrated motorway traffic flow control with delay balancing”. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
9. Kontorinaki, M., Spiliopoulou, A., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M.: “First-order traffic flow models incorporating capacity drop: Overview and real-data validation”. Submitted to Transportation Research Part B.
8. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M.: Motorway traffic state estimation using speed measurements: Case studies on NGSIM data and motorway A20 in the Netherlands. Accepted in Transportation Research Record.
7. Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M.: Highway traffic state estimation with mixed connected and conventional vehicles. Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
6. Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., 2016: Hierarchical model predictive control for multi-lane motorways in presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems. Transportation Research Part C, vol. 62, pp. 117-132.
5. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., 2015: Traffic flow optimisation in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems - Part I: A first-order multi-lane model for motorway traffic. Transportation Research Part C, vol. 57, pp. 241-259.
4. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., 2015: Traffic flow optimisation in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems - Part II: Optimal control for multi-lane motorways. Transportation Research Part C, vol. 57, pp. 260-275.
3. Pasquale, C., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C., Sacone, S., Siri, S., Papageorgiou M., 2015, “Two-class freeway traffic regulation to reduce congestion and emissions via nonlinear optimal control”, Transportation Research Part C, vol. 55, pp. 85-99.
2. Iordanidou, G. R., Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., 2015, “Feedback-based mainstream traffic flow control for multiple bottlenecks on Motorways”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, vol. 16, n. 2, pp. 610-621.
1. Roncoli, C., Bersani, C., and Sacile, R., 2012, “A Risk-Based System of Systems Approach to Control the Transport Flows of Dangerous Goods by Road”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 7, n. 4, pp. 561-570.

International Conferences

24. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M.: Lane-changing feedback control for efficient lane assignment at motorway bottlenecks. Submitted to the 96^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
23. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M., “Optimal lane-changing control at motorway bottlenecks”, Submitted to the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2016).
22. Fountoulakis, M., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., “Highway traffic state estimation with mixed connected and conventional vehicles: Microscopic simulation-based testing”, Submitted to the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2016).
21. Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., “Predictor-based adaptive cruise control design”, Accepted for the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2016).
20. Iordanidou, G.R., Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., “Feedback-based integrated motorway traffic flow control with delay balancing”, 14^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation (CTS 2016), pp. 315-322, Istanbul, Turkey, 18-20 May 2016.
19. Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., “Highway traffic state estimation with mixed connected and conventional vehicles”, 14^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation (CTS 2016), pp. 309-314, Istanbul, Turkey, 18-20 May 2016.
18. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M., “Motorway traffic state estimation using speed measurements: Case studies on NGSIM data and motorway A20 in the Netherlands”, 95^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), paper no. 16-2071, Washington, D.C., USA, 10-14 January 2016.
17. Kontorinaki, M., Spiliopoulou, A., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., “Capacity drop in first-order traffic flow models: Overview and real-data validation”, 95^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), paper no. 16-3541, Washington, D.C., USA, 10-14 January 2016.
16. Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., “Highway Traffic State Estimation With Mixed Connected and Conventional Vehicles Using Speed Measurements”, Proceedings of the 18^th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015), pp. 2806-2811, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 15-18 September 2015.
15. Pasquale, C., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C., Sacone, S., Siri, S., Papageorgiou, M., “A nonlinear optimal control approach for two-class freeway traffic regulation to reduce congestion and emissions”, Proceedings of the 14^th annual European Control Conference (ECC 2015), pp. 2651-2656, Linz, Austria, 15-17 July 2015.
14. Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., “Model predictive control for motorways in presence of mixed manual and VACS-equipped vehicles”, Proceedings of the 18^th meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2015), Delft, The Netherlands, 14-16 July 2015.
13. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., “An optimisation-oriented first-order multi-lane model for motorway traffic”, Proceedings of the 94^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), paper no. 15-2905, Washington, D.C., USA, 11-15 January 2015.
12. Roncoli, C., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., “Model predictive control for multi-lane motorways in presence of VACS”, 17^th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2014), pp. 501-507, Qingdao, China, 8-11 October 2014.
11. Iordanidou, G. R., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., “A feedback-based approach for mainstream traffic flow control of multiple bottlenecks on motorways”, 19^th IFAC World Congress (IFAC'14), pp. 11344-11349, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-29 August 2014.
10. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., “Optimal control for multi-lane motorways in presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems”, 19^th IFAC World Congress (IFAC'14), pp. 4178-4183, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-29 August 2014.
9. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., “Motorway flow optimization in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems”, Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science Optimization (OPT-i), pp. 519-529, Kos, Greece, 4-6 June 2014.
8. Laarabi, M.H., Roncoli, C., Sacile, R., Boulmakouly, A., and Garbolino, E., “An Overview of a Multi-Agent-Based Simulation System for Dynamic Management of Risk related to Dangerous Goods Transport”, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon 2013), pp. 830-835, Orlando, FL, USA, 15-18 April 2013.
7. Roncoli, C., Bersani, C., and Sacile, R., “Distributed control of dangerous goods flows”, Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2012), pp. 325-328, Rome, Italy, 28-31 July 2012.
6. Roncoli, C., Bell, M.G.H., and Sacile, R., “Operational and Real-Time Team Decision Problems in the Risk-Averse Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Road”, Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2012), pp. 209-213, Genoa, Italy, 16-19 July 2012.
5. Bersani, C., and Roncoli C. 2012, “Real-time risk definition in the transport of dangerous goods by road”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2012), pp. 131-136, Genoa, Italy, 16-19 July 2012.
4. Benza, M., Bersani, C., D'Incà, M., Roncoli, C., Trotta, A., Pizzorni, D., Briata, S., and Ridolfi, R., “Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications on dangerous good transport on road in Italy”, Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2012), pp. 223-228, Genoa, Italy, 16-19 July 2012.
3. Roncoli, C., Bersani, C., and Sacile, R., “A decentralised control model for the risk-based management of dangerous good transport flows on road”, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon 2012), pp. 225-229, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 19-22 March 2012.
2. Roncoli, C., Bell, M.G.H., Kanturska, U., and Haji Hosseinloo, “Hypertours: risk averse distribution of hazardous materials”, Global Supply Chain Security (SCS 2011) conference, London, UK, 7-8 July 2011.
1. Roncoli, C., Bersani, C., Sacile, R., and Minciardi, R., “Optimal traffic flow assignment for planned deliveries in dangerous good transportation”, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon 2011), pp. 292-297, Montreal, QC, Canada, 4-7 April 2011.

Book Chapters

3. Papageorgiou, M., Diakaki, C., Nikolos, I., Ntousakis, I., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C. 2015, “Freeway Traffic Management in Presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems” In: Meyer G., Beiker S.; Road Vehicle Automation 2, Springer-Verlag.
2. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I. 2015, “Motorway traffic flow optimisation in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems” In: Lagaros N.D., Papadrakakis M.; Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization, Dedicated to the memory of Professor M.G. Karlaftis, Vol. 38, pp. 1-16, Springer Switzerland.
1. Benza, M., Bersani, C., D'Incà, M., Roncoli C., Sacile, R., and Tomasoni, A.M. 2012, “Technical and Functional Standards to Provide a High Quality Service for Dangerous Good Transport on Road” In: Garbolino E., Tkiouat M., Yankevich N., Lachtar D.; Transport of Dangerous Goods: Methods and Tools for Reducing the Risks of Accidents and Terrorist Attack, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, Springer Netherlands.

Scientific presentations (presenters are underlined)

9. Roncoli, C., Bekiaris-Liberis, N., Papageorgiou, M. “Optimal lane-changing control at bottleneck areas”, 1st Symposium on Management of Future motorway and urban Traffic Systems, Chania, Greece, 2-3 June 2016.
8. Roncoli, C., “Introduction to Intelligent Transport Systems”, Invited lecture, Aalto University, Finland, 24 May 2016.
7. Roncoli, C., “Traffic management applications based on linear systems”, Guest lecture for the course “Linear Systems”, Technical University of Crete, Greece, 17 December 2015.
6. Roncoli, C., “Traffic management in the era of Vehicle Automation and Communications Systems (VACS) and Smart Infrastructure”, Invited lecture, University of Glasgow, UK, 9 December 2015.
5. Roncoli, C., “Network-wide motorway traffic control in presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems”, at: IPAM Workshop on Traffic Control, Part of the long program "New directions in mathematical approaches for traffic flow management", University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA, 26-30 October 2015.
4. Papageorgiou, M., Diakaki, C., Iordanidou, G.R., Karafyllis, I, Nikolos, I., Ntousakis, I.A., Papamichail, I., Roncoli, C., “Traffic management in presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems: the project TRAMAN21”, at: 94^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C., USA, 11-15 January 2015.
3. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, “Optimal control for multi-lane motorways in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems”, at: 20^th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Barcelona, Spain, 13-18 July 2014.
2. Roncoli, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, “Motorway Traffic Control in Presence of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems”, at: TRAMAN21 Workshop 2013, Chania, Greece, 1 November 2013.
1. Benza, M., D'Incà, M., Roncoli C., “DGT information system architecture”, at: Risk Prevention for Environment and Human Society against Dangerous Goods Transport accidents and malicious intents: Methods and Tools; NATO advanced training course, Paris, France, 5-9 July 2010.