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http://www.csst.it
CSST has operated in the field of transport and traffic studies for twenty-five years and has offices in Turin, Rome and Naples. CSST personnel have a wide range of expertise and experience in various activity areas, including basic transport studies, so that integrated solutions to transport problems at different levels (local, regional, national and international) can be achieved for private or public clients. CSST is operating in six different fields of activity: Intelligent Transport Systems in Urban and Extra-urban Environments, Transport Plans at National, Regional and Local Levels, Feasibility Studies and Design of Transport Infrastructures and Environment and Safety.
The company has a vertical sector covering basic research for each field. In the field of R&D CSST is active in the Italian Transport Research Project of the National Research Council. At international level CSST has been involved in the IST projects SMITH, PEPTRAN, CHAMALEON, PROTECTOR, CHAUFFEUR II and IMAGE. In the area of safety at urban level, CSST has developed a specific tool for collecting accident data. Furthermore CSST has been involved in European Task Forces set up within the DRIVE-ATT Programme. The company has co-ordinated a Task Force on the Evaluation of Driver Assistance and Co-operative Driving Applications and has been a key member of the Automatic Incident Detection Task Force. CSST has also been involved in six projects funded by DGVII (AIUTO, COMMUTE, FATIMA, OPTIMA, FV-2000 and IRIS).
CSST is proprietor of simulation tools (macro, meso and micro) and other software solutions related with mobility, traffic, transport, environment and safety. It possesses a research infrastructure and it can perform evaluation tests of advanced systems, regarding transport, environment and safety. CSST has access to a wealth of tourism, transport and traffic information in the Turin area and for many years has played a key role in the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the Turin area. Many initiatives, starting at the beginning of 1990, have been undertaken and several ITS solutions have been implemented. The ITS background of Turin has a reference into the 5T system which was created in 1992 and is in its 10th year of operation.
In addition, 5T includes an “open telematics platform” (called TITOS), which is a system (both hardware and software components) capable of providing a structured data pool accessible through a set of standard or de-facto interfaces with multiple physical connection. As regards the traffic situation, TITOS provides information about level of service (congestion on the roads), accidents, and roadwork incidents. Furthermore it is possible to access static public transport timetables and dynamic public transport delay information. All traffic information is updated every 5 minutes (on-line).
The TITOS platform is also a neutral demonstration environment for ITS operators. An important objective is to promote the integration and interoperability of ITS technologies, and to reinforce standards at the European level. TITOS is supported by EC funding as part of the SMITH project and it is still operational as a “test bed”. The platform provides the opportunity for testing and upgrading products or services.
Intense work on ITS is now under way for aiding mobility and transportation during the upcoming 20th Winter Olympic Games of 2006 (www.torino2006.org). Thanks to this background and a very sensitive environment Turin is an ideal site for developing, testing, assessing and exploiting innovative systems and service within ITS domain.
Eugenio Morello has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Politecnico of Torino in 1977. Since 1987 he has been at the CSST office of Turin for Design and Development of Traffic Control Systems and since 1991 he has been director and co-ordinator of CSST activities in the ITS field. His work concerns mainly Traffic and Transport Planning, Traffic and Transit Models and Simulation (Assignment, OD Estimation, Macro and Microsimulation), Design of Urban and Interurban Traffic Control systems, Evaluation methodologies of ITS systems, Driver Assistance and Vehicle Control. Main projects: co-ordinator of project for Traffic Management, Surveillance, Monitoring and Control systems (EASY DRIVER, Venice beltway and ring road of Rome); Evaluation Expert for Driver Assistance and Vehicle Control area (CONVERGE-VQ); co-ordinator for CSST activities in DRIVE-TAP projects (CHAUFFEUR, UDC, AC-ASSIST, COSMOS, HANNIBAL, QUARTET+); DRIVE-ATT project (TESCO as Project Manager, HERMES, QUARTET, EMMIS, GEMINI); DRIVE I (DOMINC as project manager); IST (SMITH, PEPTRAN, CHAMALEON, PROTECTOR, CHAUFFEUR II, IMAGE); Member of ATT Task force on Driver Assistance and Co-operative Driving and on Automatic Incident Detection; Scientific Responsible for National Research Council projects.
Silvana Toffolo obtained a degree in Mathematics in 1988 at the Turin University, with a thesis on Air Dispersion Modelling. From November 1988 to January 1989 she worked as consultant at CSST and from February 1990 to date as a project manager. Her main tasks in CSST concern coordination of national or international projects referred to definition of methodologies and mathematical models for the traffic, transport and environment estimation forecasting and assessment both for off-line and real time and application; design and implementation of advanced telematic systems to control and manage traffic and mobility. She is involved in both the definition of the architectural and methodological aspect of projects and in the implementation of real applications while the achievements of the field assessment are compared with the expected objectives. Her key qualifications are: traffic transport mobility and environmental models and simulation; Intelligent Transport System; telematics; system architecture; system assessment; software design; urban and extra-urban traffic control and management (system design and implementation), traffic and transport planning. She has been involved in the following EU projects: ODIN, SPECTRUM, QUARTET/5T, QUARTET+, KITE, COSMOS, DYNA, APAS, OPTIMA, FATIMA, COMMUTE, SMITH, PEPTRAN and IMAGE.
Domenico Inaudi has a degree in Mathematics from Turin University in 1972. Since 1993 he has been director of the CSST office in Turin. His work concerns mainly Traffic and Transport Planning, Traffic and Transit Models and Simulation (Assignment, OD Estimation, Macro and Microsimulation), Design and Implementation of Urban and Extra-urban Traffic Control and Management systems, Traffic Safety. Main projects: DRIVE-TAP and DGVII projects (DYNA, DACCORD, AIUTO); National Research Project (DSS for Urban Transport Planning), PRO-General evaluations; Urban Traffic Adaptive Control System Operation integrated with the Advanced Transit Monitoring System; in Depth Analysis of Traffic Accidents; Urban Traffic Modelling; Adaptive Traffic Control and Monitoring; DRIVE projects (ODIN as Project Manager, MONICA, SPECTRUM); Traffic and Transport Plans (Turin City and County, Aosta, Alessandria); Turin Mobility Demand Survey and Transit Plan (Transit Modelling and Plan Implementation); Services Monitoring System (Requirements and Implementation); Responsible for scientific aspects of various projects in the framework of the National Traffic Research Program; National Scientific Co-ordinator of the PRO.GENERAL Group of PROMETHEUS; Member of the EURO Working Group on Urban Traffic and Transportation; Member of the Scientific Committee of the ELASIS Traffic Laboratory.
Role:
CSST is in charge of the relationships with the cultural heritage of Turin and Piedmont and of the relationship with the traffic and transport control centre , to provide the cultural italian info and the integration with the traffic and transport data for Turin, is responsible of the evaluation and the tests the system in the Turin test site and of expoitation and dissemination.
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