CAFISO SALVATORE

Professore Ordinario

Orari di ricevimento

Martedì 15:00-16:30 Giovedì 15:00 - 16:30

Curriculum

Full professor ICAR04 – Road, Rail and Airport Infrastructures
Dept. Civil Engineering and Architecture – University of Catania
Teaching responsibilities
• “Highway Geometric design”, Msc in Transportation Engineering, University of Catania
• “Pavement Engineering”, Msc in Transportation Engineering, University of Catania
Research responsibilities
2012 – 2019 : Research coordinator Road Laboratory for Material testing and Road Monitoring
2019-present: Founder and Scientific coordinator University Spin Off “Infrastructure Transport Engineering Research” (ITER)
Univ. of Catania Delegate and regional coordinator of the “Smart Cities & Communities” S3 Sicilian Region
2002-2013 Head of PhD course "Engineering of transport infrastructures" for the Universities of Catania and Messina
2012 – 2017: Delegate for International Relations
1991-present Coordination and Participation in Research projects
research and teaching activities involve highway geometric design, pavement engineering and road asset management with special focus on highways safety addressing the needs of all facility users (drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists) and of automated vehicles. He has been successful in securing research funds in these areas from local, national and international agencies.
Relevant RESEARCH PROJECTS (last 3 years)
- 2020 SAFE-DEMON: SAFE Driving by E-health MONitoring. P.O. FESR Sicilia
- 2020 EuroS@P : European Road Safety Partnership. EU KA203
- 2021 InfRO@D: European Digital Education in Road Infrastructure Management”. EU+ Strategic Partnerships in response to the COVID-19 situation
- 2022 National Center for High Performance Computing- Spoke 9 – Digital Society & Smart Cities – WP 5 Mobility
- 2022 “SAMOTHRACE - SiciliAn MicronanOTecH Research And Innovation CEnter” – Innovation EcoSystem - Spoke 1 –WP 3 - ICT technologies for the safety and energy efficiency of electrical, connected, autonomous vehicles
- 2023 Erasmus EU KA203 “ EuroS@P : European Road Safety Partnership”
- 2023 Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) - National relevant projects (PRIN 2022) “Smart Road for Smart Drivers toward Smart Vehicles (Smart RoDriVe)
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
1997 Best paper safety awarded by International Road Federation XIII world Meeting: “Statistical Analysis of Accidents on Italian Highways”
2004 Best Paper in poster session awarded by SIIV II International Congress: “in Field Data Collection for Driving Behavior using DIVAS Instrumented Car”
2015 Best paper awarded Transportation Safety Management committee, Transportation Research Board “Reliability Based Assessment of Benefits in Roadway Safety Management”
2021 Best Paper Awarded by International Symposium on Accident Analysis & Prevention: “Safety effectiveness and performance of lane support systems for driving assistance and automation – Experimental test and logistic regression for rare events”
2023 Best paper presentation 35th ICTCT conference (A. Borsos, S. Cafiso, G. Pappalardo “Transferability of safety inspection procedure for network wide risk assessment of two lane rural roads. - An Italian-Hungarian experiment)
2024 Deborah Freund paper award – Transportation Research Board “Truck and Bus Safety Committee”, (X. Wang, Y. Zhou, S. Cafiso “Autonomous Emergency Braking System for Trucks in Longitudinal Scenarios of Collision Avoidance with Two-wheeler”).
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC BOARD
US Transportation Research Board - Transportation Safety Management Systems (ACS10), Performance Effects of Geometric Design (AKD10) Committee
US Transportation Research Board - International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design
Permanent International Association of Road Congress (PIARC) - National Technical Committee C.3.2 " Design and Management of safer roads" - C.2.4 " Road Network Operation - ITS" - TC B5 " Connected Automated Driving"
Member of EDITORIAL BOARD: Transportation Research Record (Handling Editor); Archives of Transportation – Polish Academy of Sciences; International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (ORCID ID 0000-0002-7247-0365)
author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed International journals and conferences.
Metrix (Scopus. Author ID 56962748800): Publications: 104 – Citation: 1797 – Hindex: 24 (12/24)