WeTransform: Addressing AV Workforce Needs in Europe
Date and Time: Monday, July 10, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Cristina Pronello
Chair, Transport Research for Innovation and Sustainability (TRIS), Politechnico di Torino
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
Cristina Pronello, Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, coordinates the TRIS (Transport Research for Innovation and Sustainability) research group. She is member of SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory. Former professor at Université Lumière Lyon2, LET (Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports) and, till to November 2019, Chair holder of “Intelligent Transport Systems and Territorial Dynamics” at Sorbonne Universités – UTC, where she is still affiliated to the AVENUES laboratory. She is member of OPSTE (Observatory of transport policies and strategies in Europe), of ECTRI (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes), of the US TRB Committees RIIM (Research, Innovation, and Implementation Management) and serves as evaluator of EU (Horizon Europe, H2020, 7th FP, ERANET, ESF), French (ANR, HCERES), and Italian (MIUR) projects. She was member of the Board of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (2018-2021) and President of the Regional Transport Authority of Piedmont Region (2016-2018). She is the winner of TRA VISIONS 2020 from (https://www.travisions.eu/TRAVisions/) for the cross-modal section of the competition given to transport innovators, who have carried out highly impactful research funded by the EU. She coordinates the H2020 project WE-TRANSFORM. In December 2020 she founded the innovative start up Mobyforall. Her main research fields are Intelligent Transport Systems, transport systems’ environmental impacts, travel behaviour and travel surveys.
