Pierluigi Coppola, Ph.D. in Road Infrastructure and Transportation Systems, is Full Professor of Transportation Planning at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and lecturer of  the “Transportation Networks and Smart Mobility: Methods and Solutions” summer course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He is author of more than 130 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings, and member of the editorial boards of transportation research journals such as Case Studies on Transport Policy (Elsevier). His research interests include Land-Use and Transports Interactions, sustainable urban mobility planning, travel demand behavior modeling and forecasting. He has been the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association for European Transport (AET) and is currently Steering Committee member of the World Conference of Transportation Research Society (WCTRs).
Prof. Coppola has been involved in several transportation projects in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. He is expert advisor of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and Coordinator of the Pillar 2 (Transport sub-group) of the European Strategy of the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR).