Adriano Alessandrini

Mechanical engineer since 1998 (the old style Italian Laurea equivalent to B.Sc.+M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in energy technologies since 2003 Adriano is currently Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) at DITS (Dipartimento di Idraulica Trasporti e Strade Universit di Roma La Sapienza).

In March 2006 he was contracted as expert by European Commission Direction I Environment to review the contribution EU R&D Framework Programme (FP) projects to the implementation of ETAP (Action Plan on Environmental Technology). The review assessed how the scientific, technical, economic, environmental, social and cultural outputs of the projects fostered the development and deployment of environmental technologies.

Expert in transport systems and in environmental impact of transport, his main research field, he has been participating and conducting, in 9 years since his graduation, 25 national and EU funded research projects most recent of which are the following:

• Honda Italia SpA: development of a monitoring tool for Civic IMA (2005); Drive-style Emissions Testing on Civic Hybrid (2006);
• DG Research: CityMobil (2006-current), HOST (2005-current) and CyberMove (2001-04);
• DG INFSO: CyberCars (2001-04), CAPITALS ITTS (2002-04) and GIFTS (2001-04)
• DG TREN: FreightWise (2006-current), A Study Of Single Wagonload Rail Traffic (2000); PLATFORM (1998-99), MAESTRO (1998-99), Benchmarking Local Passenger Transport System (1999)
• SAVE EC programme: FLEETS (1996-2000), MALTESE (199799);
• Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR): CTL-Excellence centre for transport and logistics (2003-2006), Design of a low environmental impact power-train for city-cars (2000-2002).

He has participated in national and international conferences and been published in the leading transport journals. Languages: Italian, English and French.