“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

An exemplary sustainable mobility strategy is planned in the early stages of the planning and design process. Analysing the territory, considerations of environment and energy related aspects as well as ...

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 ...

As Tehran grows, mobility demand steadily increases: a change in travel modes can be a great opportunity. A few cities in the world represent better than Tehran the ambitions of ...

  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, ...

Over dimensioning transport infrastructure is as bad as under dimensioning. Planning the road access system of the largest planned Retail Park proposed by Lend Lease in Pescaccio, Rome, is a ...

Pedestrian distribution patterns are influenced by visibility and connectivity conditions. Traditional traffic engineering practice describes pedestrian movements in a very similar way to vehicle trips, where users should move through ...

EXPO 2015 Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life held in Milan was a unique major event of extraordinary relevance that made Milan the main gateway of Italy throughout the six ...