Ciari, Francesco

ETH Zürich Francesco Ciari Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT) HIL F 33.2 Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 15 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND Telefon: +41 44 633 71 65 E-Mail:

Main focus

• Car-sharing
• Car-pooling
• Flexible Transport Systems
• Multi-Agent Microsimulations

PhD thesis

• Extensive use of car-sharing and collective taxis as mean to rescale the usage of privately owned cars.

Ongoing Projects

• Estimation of car-pooling potential in Switzerland

Work experience

Since 2006

Researcher at IVT, ETH Zurich

2006

Stage, Arsenal Research, Vienna (A)

Education

1993-2003

Studies at the Università degli studi di Firenze (I), Dipl. Ing. in Environmental Engineering

1993

Baccalaureat, Istituto tecnico per Geometri G.Salvemini, Firenze (I)

Publications

• Ciari, F. (2011), Modeling Location decisions of retailers with an agent-based approach, paper presented at the 11th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 2011.
• Ciari, F., N. Schuessler and K.W. Axhausen (2011) Estimation of Car-Sharing Demand Using an Activity-Based Microsimulation Approach: Model Discussion and Preliminary Results, paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2011.
• Ciari, F., M. Balmer and K.W. Axhausen (2010) Estimating the Potential of a Large Scale Car-Sharing System with an Agent-Based Microsimulation Approach, paper presented at the 12th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Lisbon, July 2010.
• Ciari, F., M. Balmer and K.W. Axhausen (2009) Large scale use of collective taxis: a multi-agent approach, paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Jaipur, December 2009.
• Ciari, F. (2009) Modeling collective taxis in a multi-agent traffic simulation framework, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 578, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Balmer, M., A. Horni, K. Meister, D. Charypar, F. Ciari und K. W. Axhausen (2009) Wirkungen der Westumfahrung Zürich: Eine Analyse mit einer agentenbasierten Mikrosimulation, Schlussbericht, Baudirektion Kanton Zürich, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Ciari, F., M. Balmer and K.W. Axhausen (2008) A new mode choice model for a multi-agent transport simulation, paper presented at the 8th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, October 2008.
• Ciari, F., M. Balmer and K.W. Axhausen (2008) Concepts for a large scale car-sharing system: Modelling and evaluation with an agent-based approach, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs und Raumplanung, 517, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Ciari, F., M. Löchl and K.W. Axhausen (2008) Location choice of retailers - an agent-based approach, paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science, Zagreb, July 2008.
• Meister, K., M. Rieser, F. Ciari, A. Horni, M. Balmer and K. W. Axhausen (2008) Anwendung eines agentenbasierten Modells der Verkehrsnachfrage auf die Schweiz, paper presented at the Heureka '08, Stuttgart, March 2008.
• Ciari, F., M. Balmer and K.W. Axhausen (2007), Mobility tool ownership and mode choice decision processes in multi-agent transportation simulation, paper presented at the 7th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, September 2007.

Presentations

• Ciari, F. (2010) Potenzial von Fahrgemeinschaften, Vortrag, ASTRA-Informationsveranstaltung, Zürich, Februar 2010.
• A. Horni and F. Ciari (2009) Modeling Shopping Customers & Retailers with the Activity-based Multi-agent Transport Simulation MATSim, CCSS Seminar, Zurich, April 2009.
• Ciari, F. (2009) Supply Agents in MATSim: Some Results, presentation at the 1st MATSim Usersʼ Group Meeting, Berlin, April 2009.
• Ciari, F. (2009) Large scale use of collective taxis: a multi-agent approach, presentation at the 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Jaipur, December 2009.
• Ciari, F. and M. Löchl (2008) Location choice of retailers – an agent-based approach, presented at the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science, Zagreb, July 2008.