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Giulio Mattioli

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Transport researcher with views on + than 1 topic - EU / Italian citizen with views on + than 1 country. Used to be in the UK. Now in Germany at TU Dortmund. Views my own https://t.co/ltfHVOHZe4

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 25d

It's that time of the year again and I am chuffed to be included in Elsevier list of the top 2% of most-cited authors for the year 2024 (at rank 51 within the field "Logistics and Transportation") as well for the whole career (rank 326) lnkd.in/e6QprVQh

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting new report by the German Environment Agency on tourism & long-distance travel, showing (among other things) that the distance travelled by plane was over the pre-COVID peak in 2023 already umweltbundesamt.de/publikatione...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

Overall I was struck by the similarities between what happens in the road transport sector and the other sectors examined - certainly demonstrates the value of bringing these sectors together! (End)

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

...and the narratives they use

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

...as well as the main action strategies they adopt

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

The chapter identifies the main actors contributing to climate obstruction within each sector...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

I was one of the contributing authors to Chapter 3, which focuses on the role of actors in the coal, utilities and transport sectors.

Transport here includes not just road transport / the automotive industry (on which I provided some input) but also shipping and aviation.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

The book (edited by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social and colleagues) really covers an impressive amount of ground

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4h

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc...

A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars

I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 1d

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting-looking study into the drivers of global transport CO2 emissions from 1850 to 2020 finding that efficiency gains were insufficient to counter rising demand driven by GDP per capita, service intensity, and population doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 5d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting-looking article on how technological developments are used as a "technofix" is used to delay real action to reduce emissions in the aviation sector doi.org/10.1080/2158...

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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Ben H. Ansell, Suresh Venkatasubramanian , and 23 more Meredith Broussard, Ben H. Ansell, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Will Jennings, Mary Feeney, Peter Campbell, Gernot Wagner, Jussi T. Eronen, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, David R. Miller, Michael J. Taylor, Jacob T. Levy, Rebecca M. Bratspies, David J. Berri, Evgeny Kuzmin, Mark Rice, Woodrow Hartzog, Richard M. Carpiano, Simon Lester, Isabelle Poutrin, Brandon Whitcher, Sean Latham, Constance Bantman, Giulio Mattioli, David Lay Williams

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 7d

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting event coming up doughnuteconomics.org/events/launc...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting-looking new article into how social practices in the football industry are flight-intensive.

There's been much research on how that's the case within academia, but I feel like we've been overlooking other sectors... doi.org/10.1080/2331...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting-looking article on the uneven development of of e-scooter services in the NRW region in Germany doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d

IDK maybe I just pay less attentions to other sectors 😆

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d

Yes thank you!

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds very interesting thank you!

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d

No I meant more like why did we 10 years ago expect the transport system to change radically because of AVs and 10 years later basically nothing has changed because of that?

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d

Help colleagues!

Does anyone have good references on how in the transport sector we tend to fall prey to the "hype cycle" and keep having unrealistic expectations that new technologies will "change everything" or even "solve everything" in our sector?

a south park cartoon character says i 'm gonna need your help

ALT: a south park cartoon character says i 'm gonna need your help

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fede @hymage.bsky.social · 14d

After exploiting the Italian navy support to the flotilla for electoral purposes in a local election, Giorgia Meloni made the bold move of washing her hands of the matter and, as is now her habit, sitting back and doing nothing except accusing everyone of shady dealings.

Giorgia Meloni
@GiorgiaMeloni

I read with astonishment the words of the Flotilla that accuses me of considering "a danger" unarmed civilians and ships loaded with aid.

The truth is simple: those aids can be delivered without risks through the safe channels already set up. Insisting on wanting to force a naval blockade means making oneself -knowingly or not- instruments of those who want to blow up every possibility of a ceasefire.

Therefore, spare us the lessons in morality on peace if your goal is escalation. And do not exploit the civilian population of Gaza if you are not truly interested in their fate.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting-looking article the impact of boomers entering retirement on tourism and related climate emissions doi.org/10.1080/1368...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 16d

I was very sorry to hear about Oliver Schwedes' passing today

He was my main contact person during my time as a guest-PhD student at TU Berlin in 2011-2012 and I remember him as a kind and professional man

I enjoyed reading his original research contributions on transport policy through the years

Changing Cities e.V. @ccitiesorg.bsky.social · 16d

Oliver Schwedes hat uns gezeigt, dass Verkehrspolitik mehr ist als Infrastruktur und Technik. Er hat sie als ein Spiegelbild gesellschaftlicher Machtverhältnisse verstanden und uns ermutigt, diese Macht zu hinterfragen.

Unser herzliches Beileid seiner Familie und Freund*innen🖤

Zum Tod von Oliver Schwedes | Changing Cities

Die Nachricht vom plötzlichen Tod Oliver Schwedes hat uns tief erschüttert. Wir möchten Familie und Freund*innen unser herzliches Beileid zum Ausdruck bringen. Er war engagierter Mitstreiter für…

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Changing Cities e.V. @ccitiesorg.bsky.social · 16d

Zum Tod von Oliver Schwedes | Changing Cities

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16d

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants »

La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

Join the conversation

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 20d

Hearing reports that TRB is censoring annual meeting content. Authors are receiving a "Notice of Non-Selection" when notified that their papers were not sent out for review. Esp shitty for students who submitted work on Aug 1 only to wait two months for no reviews. Shameful behavior by TRB.

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