Events

Workshop di fine progetto

Statistical methods to address the nexus between mobility and air quality

3-4 February 2026 - Aula Fornasa, piazzale Sant’Agostino 2, Bergamo 

3rd February, 2026: 

19:00 Internal meeting for project participants

20:00 Welcome dinner

4th February, 2026

9.00 Welcome and registration

Gianmaria Martini (Director of the Department of Economics, U. Bergamo)

9.30 Session 1: Mobility and forecasting (Chair: Lorenzo Tedesco – U. Bergamo)

Arianna Burzacchi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) From mobility data to urban insights: building models of socio-technical systems for policy evaluation (Invited Speaker)

Mattia Cefis (U. Brescia) Statistical estimation and assessment of the risk of extreme traffic loads (co-author: Maurizio Carpita)

Sara Selvaggia Guerini (U. Milano-Bicocca) Forecasting traffic flow time series with Vine-Transform ARMA Copula models (co-author: Rodolfo Metulini)

10.45 Coffee break

11.15 Session 2: Mobility and Air Quality (Chair: Alessandro Fassò - U. Bergamo)

Michela Cameletti (U. Bergamo) A spatio-temporal analysis of NO2 concentrations in the case of policy interventions (Invited Speaker)

Francesco Biancalani (IMT Lucca) Measuring the effect of traffic on pollutants with ARIMA models: the case study of a city in Lombardia (co-authors: Roxana Adam, Rodolfo Metulini)

Muhammad Haroon Shaukat (U. Bergamo) Statistical models and algorithms for the analysis of human mobility data from smartphone  applications

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Session 3: Environment and policy evaluations (Chair: Roberto Patuelli - U. Bologna)

Giulio Grossi (U. Firenze) Direct, spillover and spatial effects of the tramway in Florence using panel data methods (Invited Speaker)

Rodolfo Metulini (U. Bergamo) Eigenvector Spatial Filters Nuclear Norm Matrix Completion with Application to Air Quality Data

Paola Zuccolotto (U. Brescia) Interpreting water scarcity and flooding events in Scotland via the spatial clustering of catchments based on tail dependence (co-authors: Giovanni De Luca, Luigi Spezia)

15:30 Greetings

The event is part of the dissemination activities of the PRIN PNRR 2022 Project "Study of mobile phone siGNals for the evalUation of the interconnections between Mobility and the environment in Lombardia", funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.1, funding call PRIN 2022 PNRR D.D. 1409 published on 14.09.2022 by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca) – CUP: F53D23010910001

WORKSHOP

Innovative Management and Data Analysis for Urban Mobility and Bridge Structural Safety

Thursday, March 27th, 2025, 10:00 AM

Università di Brescia - Dipartimento di Economia e Management - Sala Biblioteca, Via S. Faustino 74/b, Brescia

• Sara Selvaggia Guerini, Rodolfo Metulini (University of Bergamo): Exploring time series copula models for traffic flow data

• Muhammad Haroon Shaukat, Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo): Statistical models and algorithms for the analysis of smartphone-based mobility data

• Rodolfo Metulini (University of Bergamo), Maurizio Carpita, Manlio Migliorati (University of Brescia): Modelling and clustering volatility of multiple traffic flow time series with complex seasonality

• Roxana Adam, Francesco Biancalani (IMT Lucca), Rodolfo Metulini (University of Bergamo):Traffic restrictions and air quality: A causal inference evaluation of Milan’s Area C

• Giovanni De Luca (Partenope Napoli), Luigi Spezia (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland), Paola Zuccolotto (University of Brescia): Analysis and Clustering of Scottish Catchments for the interpretation of water scarcity events

• Roberto Ventura, Benedetto Barabino (University of Brescia): Evaluating and real-time managing the bridge overload risk posed by extreme traffic load hazard

• Luca Biazzo, Livio Fenga: Denoising and forecasting model for structural monitoring of the bridge overload

• Mattia Cefis, Maurizio Carpita (University of Brescia): Statistical modelling of the bridge overload risk caused by extreme traffic load hazard

Studio condotto nell’ambito del Progetto “Study of mobile phone siGNals for the evalUation of the interconnections between Mobility and the environment in Lombardia (SIGNUM)” CUP: F53D23010910001 - PRIN 2022 PNRR M4C2 - finanziato dall’Unione europea – Next Generation EU (DD MUR n. 1409 del 14/09/2022)

Kick-Off Meeting del progetto PRIN/PNRR “SIGNUM”:

Study of mobile phone siGNals for the evalUation of the interconnections between Mobility and the environment in Lombardia

19 Febbraio 2024

Università di Bergamo – Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Via dei Caniana 2, 24127 Bergamo - Aula 22

9:00: Registrazione

9:15: Saluti istituzionali

9:30: Presentazione delle linee di ricerca e degli obiettivi del progetto a cura del PI, interviene Rodolfo Metulini (Università di Bergamo)

9:45: Presentazione dei temi di ricerca delle unità:

·       Muhammad Haroon Shaukat (Università di Bergamo) - Statistical models and algorithms for the analysis of smartphone-based mobility data

·       Selene Perazzini (Università di Brescia) - Unveiling mobile network insights: harnessing data to understand people's movement and presence

·       Paola Zuccolotto (Università di Brescia), Giovanni De Luca (Università Partenope Napoli) - Spatial clustering on extreme values of traffic flows time series

·       Jacopo Rodeschini (Università di Bergamo) - AgrImOnIA (Agriculture Impact On Italian Air) - Exploring the spatiotemporal effects of NH3 emission reduction on PM2.5, from Dataset construction to Scenario Analysis

·        Francesco Biancalani (IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca) – Some techniques for Policy Evaluation

11:15 Pausa

11:30 Tavola rotonda:

·   Discussione sui temi di ricerca del progetto

·   Definizione dei compiti e delle strategie operative

·                Stesura della roadmap dettagliata in vista dei primi milestones

13:00 Chiusura lavori

13:00 Pranzo e saluti

Studio condotto nell’ambito del Progetto “Study of mobile phone siGNals for the evalUation of the interconnections between Mobility and the environment in Lombardia (SIGNUM)” CUP: F53D23010910001 - PRIN 2022 PNRR M4C2 - finanziato dall’Unione europea – Next Generation EU (DD MUR n. 1409 del 14/09/2022)