Francesco RussoFrancesco Russo, since 1999, has been a Full Professor in Transportation with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell’Energia Sostenibile, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria (Italy). At this university, he lectures on Transportation Systems, Logistics Systems, and Sustainable Mobility. He is the author of more than 300 papers in the field of transportation and logistics. He is a distinguished researcher at his university and is listed in the “Stanford-Elsevier List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists,” both for single-year impact (including 2025 and previous years) and for career- long impact. His research interests include the development and application of methods and models for the analysis and design of freight and passenger transport systems at urban and extra-urban scales, the development and implementation of ITS (intelligent transportation systems), and the analysis of emergency issues and evacuation of urban systems, as well as the analysis of the risk in the transport system. He is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals and a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee. He has been and is the Principal Investigator for many national and in ternational research projects and is member of the Editorial Board of several international high-impact journals. He is on the steering committee of various international projects, including the coordination of the General Mobility Plan prepared by the Italian Government, membership of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Mayor Risks and co ordination of its Chemical, Nuclear, Industrial and Transport Risk Section. He was Head of the Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettron ica e Trasporti, and the coordinator of the PhD course in Transportation Engineering and Logistics at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Read More Read Less