Stefano de Luca is an associate professor of Transportation Planning and Transportation Systems Theory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, in Salerno, Italy, and he is the director of the Transportation Planning and Modelling Laboratory. His research focus includes transportation planning techniques, choice modelling, signal settings design, traffic assignment models and algorithms, freight/passenger terminal simulation and optimization. He advises city, regional, and national governments on transportation planning issues, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Advanced Transportation and Sustainability. He has authored more than 100 book chapters and journal articles, in Elsevier's Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Journal of Transport Geography and Transport Policy.