Academic Area(s) | Civil engineering / Computer science / Mechanical engineering / Multidisciplinary, general & others |
Research Topics | Transport Policy and Mobility Analysis, Traffic Flow Theory and Control, Intelligent Transport Systems, Network Modeling, Travel Demand Estimation |
Faculty or Centre | Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication |
Research Unit | Ingénierie |
Postal Address | Campus Kirchberg, Université du Luxembourg Campus Belval, Maison du Nombre |
Campus Office | 04 35 050 |
Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5352 |
Fax | (+352) 46 66 44 5200 |
Speaks | Italian, English (advanced), French (intermediate), Dutch (basic), Luxembourgish (basic), Portuguese (basic), Spanish (basic) |
Research Stays in | Belgium, Italy, Netherlands |
Francesco Viti is Associate Professor at the University of Luxembourg since 2012. He obtained his PhD at the TU Delft and then he was associate researcher at KU Leuven, both top universities in the transport and mobility field. He is the head of the MobiLab Transport Research Group within the Engineering Unit.
His research activities range from mobility analysis, development of decision support systems for travellers and for transport operators, Intelligent Transport Systems and network modelling and control.
Having a strong interdisciplinary vision, combining engineering, computer science and social sciences, his team has well-established collaborations with different groups within the University of Luxembourg, as well as with international academic and industrial partners.
He is author of about 60 publications indexed by Scopus, and more than 150 conference papers. He is reviewer of most of the top journals in the transportation domain, and is associate editor of Journal of ITS and Transportation Research Part C. Since 2008 he acts as External Expert for the European Commission.
Publications and technical reports
A busy summertime full of conferences for Mobilab!
During summertime, the MobiLab group was represented in several international conferences and workshops. The tour started in June with the participation to the 6th IEEE MT-ITS Conference in Krakow (Viti, Rinaldi, Laskaris, Giorgione, Mazur, Scheffer, [...]
Sydney 2018!
On July 19th Francesco Viti gave a 90 minutes seminar at the University of Sydney on the topic Estimating and Predicting Traffic States in the Era of Big Data. The seminar was well attended by students [...]