Publications de Silvia Francesca Varotto

Modelling travel behaviour: A choice modelling perspective

Michel Bierlaire, Silvia Francesca Varotto

Choice models have been applied to explain and predict the transportation choices of individuals for half a century. The advent of big data brings about new opportunities and poses new challenges for forecasting. This chapter discusses the major methodolog ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2024

Modelling travel behaviour: a choice modelling perspective

Michel Bierlaire, Rico Krüger, Silvia Francesca Varotto

Elgar2024

An integrated accident injury severity and risk-taking behavior model for the evaluation of Via Sicura

Michel Bierlaire, Nicola Marco Ortelli, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent, Silvia Francesca Varotto

2024

Do adaptive cruise control and lane keeping systems make the longitudinal vehicle control safer? Insights into speeding and time gaps shorter than one second from a naturalistic driving study with SAE Level 2 automation

Silvia Francesca Varotto

Advanced driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane keeping system (LKS) potentially contribute to reducing crash rates and traffic congestion. On-road studies based on early ACC systems operational at medium-high speeds only ...

2022

Caught in the blind spot of a truck: A choice model on driver glance behavior towards cyclists at intersections

Silvia Francesca Varotto

Vulnerable road users (VRUs) constitute an increasing proportion of the annual road fatalities across Europe. One of the crash types involved in these fatalities are blind spot crashes between trucks and bicyclists. Despite the presence of mandatory blind ...

2022

Mitigating the impact of errors in travel time reporting on mode choice modelling

Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum, Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos, Giovanni Longo, Silvia Francesca Varotto

Travel time is a major component in understanding travel demand. However, the quantification of demand and forecasting hinges on understanding how travel time is perceived and reported. Travel time reporting is typically subject to errors and this paper fo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017