Giulio Mattioli
@giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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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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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

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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...

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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)

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
...as well as the main action strategies they adopt

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

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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.

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
The book (edited by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social and colleagues) really covers an impressive amount of ground
giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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)
cssn.org
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...
giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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...
taras-grescoe.com
“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.
peterwalker99.bsky.social
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

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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...
junoryleejournalism.com
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.
giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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...

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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...

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

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
IDK maybe I just pay less attentions to other sectors 😆

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
Sounds very interesting thank you!

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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?

Reposted by Paul Lehmann

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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
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hymage.bsky.social
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.

22:10-30 Sept 25-306K Views

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

giuliomattioli.bsky.social
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
ccitiesorg.bsky.social
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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ccitiesorg.bsky.social
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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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.
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alexkarner.bsky.social
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.