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R O M E      T W E N T Y          T W E N T Y O N E

                   June 23 – June 26, 2021
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TABLE OF CONTENTS   1. WELCOME TO ITEA2021                                         pag. 4

                    2. HOST INSTITUTIONS                                           pag. 7
                      Sapienza University of Rome
                      Department of Computer Control and Management Engineering

                    3. COMMITTEES                                                 pag. 11
                      Local Organizing Committee
                      Scientific Committee

                    4. PARTNERS AND SPONSORS                                      pag. 13

                    5. INFORMATION FOR ATTENDANTS                                 pag.15
                      Zoom
                      Conference virtual rooms and duration
                      How to make questions
                      Video Recordings
                      Session Chairs
                      Prizes
                      Certificate of attendance

                    6. CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW                                pag. 18

                    7. PLENARY SESSIONS (with Zoom links)                         pag. 22

                    8. PARALLEL SESSIONS (with Zoom links)                        pag. 25

                    9. SCHED                                                      pag. 32
                      Access through APP ITEA2021Rome
                      Access through Sched website

                    10. VIRTUAL COFFEE BREAK: GATHER.TOWN                         pag. 37

                    11. VIRTUAL TOUR                                              pag. 41
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The Colosseum

                WELCOME TO
                ITEA2021
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Dear ITEA2021 Attendees,
On behalf of the Department of Computer Control and Management Engineering at Sapienza
University of Rome, we are delighted to welcome you to the 2021 Conference and School of
the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA).
We find ourselves in unprecedented times as of the uncertainty that is characterizing
everyone’s lives due to the recent spread of COVID 19 in Europe and in the rest of the world.
Research and innovation systems have responded impressively to the pandemic,
underpinning much of the resiliency countries have shown. Both private and public actors
have provided solutions to the crisis, most visibly in the rapid development of vaccines, but
also in the rollout of digital technologies that have helped lessen the pandemic’s impact.
COVID-19 has accelerated trends that were already underway, opening access to scientific
publications, increasing the use of digital tools, enhancing international collaborations and
spurring a variety of public-private partnerships.
However, many uncertainties remain that will shape research and innovation systems and
will impact long-run research in the Economics of Transportation, as well the contributions
Economics of Transportation can make to solving societies’ longer-term grand challenges.
ITEA 2021 offers an excellent opportunity for researchers and professionals interested in
transportation economics to exchange relevant thoughts and discuss both theoretical and
applied research questions in this peculiar context.
The three days school is held on June 21-23, just before the conference. Its aim is to provide
academic scholars and policy analysts a high quality introduction to academic research on
transportation economics. The school program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials
on important and recent topics in the field.
The three days conference is held on June 24-26, and includes parallel sessions, the keynote
speech by Prof. Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College), and the International Transport Forum
(ITF) plenary Session, which will discuss issues related to the impact of COVID-19 on the
economics of mobility.
ITEA2021 presents new organizational challenges, as, for example, the need to account for
the different time zones while organizing the sessions, the new role of session stewards,
managing tools to facilitate interaction among attendants, making sure that technology is
running as expected, designing how to intervene in case of “logistic” problems, and so on.
We accept these challenges and we are committed to host a successful conference, by
combining proficient logistics with demanding academic standards.
We are grateful to Ricardo Flores Fillol for chairing the Scientific Committee as well as all
the members of the Scientific Committee for selecting the best papers to be presented
during the conference, and the school teachers for their expertize on transportation
economics. In addition, we are grateful to Sergio Jara Diaz (ITEA president), Jos Van
Ommeren (Chair of the School Committee), Esko Niskanen (ITEA Communication Director),
Ismir Mulalic (ITEA Secretary), and Eren Inci (Chair of the ITEA Venue Committee) for their
help during the organizing process. We also express our gratitude to our event organizer,
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Consulta Umbria, and to all our sponsors for their generosity and support. Finally, we are
grateful to all our Ph.D. students in supporting a succesfull logitistic of the conference.
We hope you enjoy ITEA 2021!
The ITEA 2021 Local Organizing Committee.

Tiziana D’Alfonso (Chairwoman of the Local Organizing Committee)
Alessandro Avenali
Giuseppe Catalano
Chiara Conti
Martina Gregori
Riccardo Marzano
Giorgio Matteucci
Alberto Nastasi
Pierfrancesco Reverberi
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Sapienza University of Rome - Rectorate

                                              HOST
                     INSTITUTIONS
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SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME
IL      FUTURO                   È      PASSATO                     DI QUI

With over 700 years of history, 112,000 students, 4000 teachers and 2000 employees,
technicians and librarians, in addition to 2000 administrative staff in university hospitals,
Sapienza is the first university in Europe. Our mission is to contribute to the development of
a knowledge society through research, excellence, quality education and international
cooperation.

Sapienza at a Glance - Facts and Figures 2021-2021

International Positioning

The world's leading university rankings place Sapienza at the top of Italian universities for
quality of research, education and international dimension; moreover, Sapienza excels and
leads as a benchmark in many subject areas.

Further Information

Education and Student Services

Sapienza currently offers over 270 degree programmes (Bachelor's and Master's) - among
which over 30 are taught in English- over 200 vocational master courses and almost 80
PhDs. The School of Advanced Studies provides a programme of excellence and free tuition
for the best students.
University services include 55 libraries (two with 24-hour reading rooms), 18 museums, the
Ciao and Hello Orientation Offices, a Sort – Orientation and Tutoring Office in each faculty,
a Disabled Students Office, the Job Soul Placement Office, and a Public Relations Office.
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Sapienza University also promotes a vast range of cultural, social and sports activities and
has various facilities (over 100,000 square meters) for sports, music, and theatre, as well as
the RadioSapienza web radio.
Over 30,000 students come from other Italian cities, nearly 8000 are foreign and over 3300
students a year come to Sapienza on international mobility programmes. Thanks to a wide
network of agreements with universities around the world, Sapienza also provides its
students many international opportunities, including double degrees, scholarships abroad,
internships in European and non-European countries, and international PhDs.

Further Information

Research

Scientific research activity at Sapienza covers an extremely broad spectrum of disciplines,
reaching levels of excellence in many areas, including archaeology, physics and
astrophysics, humanities and cultural heritage, the environment, nanotechnologies, cell and
gene therapy, design, aerospace, social and economic sciences. Nobel Prize winners and
internationally renowned scientists have taught and/or studied at Sapienza.

Further Information

Structures

Sapienza is organized into 11 faculties, one School for Advanced Studies, one post-degree
School for Aerospace Engineering, 59 departments, as well as numerous research and
service centres.
The central administration is organized into areas, offices and sectors.
The rectorate is collegiate with a Rector, a Deputy Rector and a group of Assistant Deputy
Rectors and delegates with specific competences, alongside committees and commissions
for evaluation, strategic planning, quality and integration of activities, as well as for specific
topics.

Further Information
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DEPARTMENT  OF COMPUTER
CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
ENGINEERING

The Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering (DIAG) of Sapienza
University of Rome was established in 1983 as an evolution of the Istituto di Automatica.

Basic research is the main goal of DIAG, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary
research and with a specific attention to technology transfer and dissemination of results.
DIAG offers educational services at undergraduate and graduate level to several programs
of the two schools of engineering at Sapienza (Faculty of Information, Computer Science
and Statistics and the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering), and at graduate level to
the Master in Product Design, of the school of Architecture, with main responsibility in the
curricula in informatics, systems and control, and engineering management.

DIAG offers also two PhD programs: Engineering in Computer Science and in Control
Systems, Bioengineering and Operations Research. It also collaborates with the Ph.D.
Program in Industrial and Management Engineering offered by the Department of
Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering.

Currently, the department is composed by more than 70 faculty members (full, associate
and assistant professors), with the addition of about 70 Ph.D. students, a similar number of
post-docs and nearly 20 staff members.

In 2018, DIAG is awarded as “Department of Excellence” within the framework of the 2017
Italian Budget Law. The aim of the intervention is to identify and finance the best 180
departments of state universities in all areas. These are departments that stand out for the
quality of the research produced and for the quality of the proposed project. Internationally
renowned research groups in computer science, system science, and management science
are active at DIAG. Numerous prizes and awards have been assigned to its members for
their scientific and educational activities. In the last 4 years, 3 DIAG members have been
awarded by the ERC-European Research Council. National and European research contracts
and grants are routinely acquired by the department, totalling more than two million euros a
year.

Further Information
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MAXXI National museum of 21st-century arts

COMMITTEES
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The Mouth of Truth

                      PARTNERS &
                     SPONSORS
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A HUGE THANKS TO ALL OUR AMAZING PARTNERS.
        WE COULDN’T HAVE A CONFERENCE WITHOUT YOU!

Our event organizer
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 Spanish Steps

INFORMATION FOR
ATTENDANTS
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ZOOM
All conference virtual rooms are on Zoom. If you need to download Zoom please visit:
https://zoom.us/download

CONFERENCE VIRTUAL ROOMS AND DURATION
Presenters are invited to come to the virtual room 10 minutes prior to the start of the
session. They will share their screen with the presentation. Each Presenter has
approximately 20 minutes for the presentation, the remaining 10 minutes should be left for
discussion.

Questions will be made by Zoom chat. The Chair will collect all questions and read back
them to the Presenter at the end of the talk. The Presenter answers to each question.

Each room is supervised by a technician. If any speaker needs help just ask for the help of
technician by switching on your microphone.

HOW TO MAKE QUESTIONS
Questions will be made by Zoom chat. The Chair will collect all questions and read back
them to the Presenter at the end of the talk. The Presenter answers to each question.

VIDEO RECORDINGS
All video recordings will be available on the SCHED platform and on your email address.
Notably, an email containing the direct link to view the video recordings will be also sent to
you at the end of each conference day (CET Summer time). Video recordings will be
accessible up to July 15, 2021.

The presentation of speakers who have not granted their permissions to be video recorded
will not be available.

SESSION CHAIRS
The chair is the last presenter of the session.

Chairs are invited to come to the virtual room 10 minutes prior to the start of the session.
They make sure all presenters are in the virtual room.
They introduce the topic and the speakers, make sure that the time rules are followed and
guide the general discussion following the presentation. In the case that some presenter
does not show up, session chairs are asked not to rearrange the presentation times of the
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other papers, so that all conference participants can attend the presentations as originally
planned.

The Chair will collect all questions and read back them to the Presenter at the end of the
talk. The Presenter answers to each question.

PRIZES
Two prizes will be awarded at the ITEA Annual Conference: the Best Paper by a Junior
Researcher (500 euros) and the Best Overall Paper (500 euros).

They will be announced on June 25, 2021 10.30am-11.00am CET Summer Time

Eligibility requirements for the Best Paper by a Junior Researcher prize:
    ▪ The presenter must be the junior researcher.
    ▪ The junior researcher cannot have received his/her PhD more than four calendar
        years ago.
    ▪ Co-authors may be senior scholars, but they cannot belong to the Scientific
        Committee.
    ▪ When submitting a paper, the junior researcher must declare on the title page of the
        paper that he/she is a junior researcher and that he/she wants to be considered for
        the prize.
    ▪ A person who declares himself/herself to be a junior researcher remains eligible to
        win the Best Overall Paper prize that year.
    ▪ No person who has won the Best Paper by a Junior Researcher prize can win it again,
        but he/she is eligible to win the Best Overall Paper prize in the future.

The Scientific Committee may decide not to award the Best Paper by a Junior
Researcher prize in a given year.

Eligibility Requirements for the Best Overall Paper prize are:
    ▪ Neither the presenter nor any co-author can belong to the Scientific Committee.
    ▪ A member of the Executive Committee or School Committee not belonging to the
        Scientific Committee can be presenter or co-author of a paper winning the Best
        Overall Paper
    ▪ When submitting a paper, the presenter must declare on the title page of the paper
        that he/she wants to be considered for the prize.
    ▪ Previous winners of the Best Overall Paper prize are eligible to win it again.
    ▪ The Scientific Committee may decide not to award the Best Overall Paper prize in a
        given year.

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
If you need your certificate           of   attendance,   please    send    an   email   to
tiziana.dalfonso@uniroma1.it
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St. Peter's Square, Bernini’s colonnades

      CONFERENCE PROGRAM
                                           OVERVIEW
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Thursday, June 24 (CET Summer Time)

10am-10.30am    Welcome to ITEA 2021

                Prof. Tiziana D’Alfonso, Chairwoman of the Local Organizing
                Committee ITEA2021

10.30am-12pm    Parallel sessions 1-7

                Airline Management
                Car market
                Car pooling
                Electric vehicles 1: Emissions and adoption
                Infrastructure
                Rail transportation 1: Operators
                Urban economics 1: Rail and air transportation

12pm-1pm        Virtual coffee break (Gather.town)

1pm-2.30pm      International Transport Forum-ITF (OECD) round table

                COVID-19: Does it overturn the economics of mobility?

                      Chair and moderator: Marc Ivaldi (TSE)
                      Introductory speech: Stephen Perkins
                      Presentations:
                      - Leonardo J. Basso: "Mobility and the role of transportation
                      during the COVID-19 crisis"
                      - Julian Ware: "The impact of COVID-19 on investment and
                      financing"
                      - Daizong Liu : "How to save the public transport system using
                      MaaS after COVID-19?"

2.30pm-3.30pm   Virtual coffee break (Gather.town)

3.30pm-5pm      Parallel sessions 8-14

                Airline Emissions
                Congestion permits
                COVID-19 outbreak 1
                Political Economy
                Safety
                Value of time 1
                Urban economics 2: Land use
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Friday, June 25 (CET Summer Time)

10.30am-         Keynote lecture
11.30am
                 Data: Privacy and Competition – Friends or Foes?

                       Presenter:
                       Tommaso Valletti (Professor at Imperial College and former
                       Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission)

11.30am-12pm     Prizes Announcement (follows the Keynote lecture)

12pm-1pm         Virtual coffee break (Gather.town)

1pm-2.30pm       Parallel sessions 15-22

                 Airport management 1
                 Assessment of air and maritime transportation
                 Autonomous vehicles
                 COVID-19 outbreak 2
                 Public transportation 1
                 Rail transportation 2: Intermodal
                 Ridesourcing
                 Value of time 2

2.30pm-3.30pm    Virtual coffee break (Gather.town)

3.30pm-5pm       Parallel sessions 23-29

                 Airline competition
                 Airline pricing
                 Airline scheduling decisions and delays
                 Congestion pricing
                 Electric vehicles 2: Batteries and adoption
                 Parking
                 Road congestion
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Saturday, June 26 (CET Summer Time)

10.30am-12pm       Parallel sessions 30-36

                   Airport management 2
                   Freight transportation
                   Mobility and environment
                   Public transportation 2
                   Rail transportation 3: Regional effects
                   Road networks
                   Value of time and cost-benefit-analysis

12pm-1pm           Virtual coffee break (Gather.town)

1pm-2.30pm         Parallel sessions 37-44

                   Economic impact of air transportation
                   Environment: Biking in cities
                   Environmental impact of air transportation
                   Rail transportation 4: Infrastructure
                   Ridesharing/carsharing
                   Sustainable surface transportation
                   Urban congestion in specific cities: Low emission zones and parking
                   Urban economics 3: cities

2.30pm-4pm         Virtual tour: baroque and Renaissance Rome

                   Dr. Caterina Brazzi Castracane

4pm-5pm            ITEA General Assembly
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Saint Peter in Chains Cloister – Home to the Faculty of Engineering at Sapienza University
of Rome

                                                          PLENARY
                                          SESSIONS
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June 24, 2021 • 10am-10.30am CET Summer Time

   Welcome to ITEA2021

   Prof. Tiziana D’Alfonso, Chairwoman of the Local Organizing Committee ITEA2021

   Zoom Link Welcome to ITEA2021

June 24, 2021 • 1pm-2.30pm CET Summer Time

   International Transport Forum-ITF (OECD) round table
   Zoom Link ITF-OECD Round Table

   Title: COVID-19: Does it overturn the economics of mobility?
   Chair and moderator: Marc Ivaldi (TSE)

   Introductory speech: Stephen Perkins (Head of Research and Policy Analysis at ITF-
   OECD)

   Presentations:
   - Leonardo J. Basso (Universidad de Chile & Director of ISCI-Chile): "Mobility and the
   role of transportation during the COVID-19 crisis"
   - Julian Ware (Head of Corporate Finance-Transport for London): "The impact of
   COVID-19 on investment and financing"
   - Daizong Liu (Director of China WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities): "How to
   save the public transport system using MaaS after COVID-19?"

June 25, 2021 • 10.30am-11.30am CET Summer Time

   Keynote lecture
   Zoom Link Keynote Lecture

   Title: Data: Privacy and Competition – Friends or Foes?

   Presenter:
   Tommaso Valletti (Professor at Imperial College and former Chief Competition
   Economist of the European Commission)
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June 25, 2021 • 11.30am-12.00am CET Summer Time

   ITEA Prizes Announcement (follows Keynote Lecture)
   Zoom Link ITEA Prizes Announcement

June 26, 2021 • 2.30pm-4pm CET Summer Time

   Virtual tour: Baroque and Renaissance Rome

   Dr. Caterina Brazzi Castracane

   Zoom Link Virtual Tour

June 26, 2021 • 4pm-5pm CET Summer Time

   ITEA General Assembly
   Zoom Link ITEA General Assembly
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Sant'Agnese in Agone Church - Navona Square

PARALLEL
SESSIONS
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Parallel sessions 1-7 Thursday, June 24 10.30am-12pm CET Summer Time

                                                                                                              ELECTRIC VEHICLES 1:                                               RAIL TRANSPORTATION 1:            URBAN ECONOMICS 1: RAIL AND AIR
      AIRLINE MANAGEMENT                        CAR MARKET                       CAR POOLING                                                       INFRASTRUCTURE
                                                                                                            EMISSIONS AND ADOPTION                                                     OPERATORS                          TRANSPORTATION

Zoom link                              Zoom link                          Zoom link                      Zoom link                              Zoom link                  Zoom link                               Zoom link
Technician: Silvestro Veneruso         Technician: Davide Merolla         Technician: Anna Livia         Technician: Mirko Giagnorio            Technician: Edoardo        Technician: Eleonora Bernasconi         Technician: Francesca De Luzi
                                                                          Croella                                                               Tronci

Session Chair: Catherine Muller,       Session Chair: Javier Asensio,     Session Chair: Alix Le Goff,   Session Chair: Alexandre Cambo,        Session Chair: Neil        Session Chair: Maria Börjesson, VTI,    Session Chair: Anna Straubinger,
Toulouse Business School               Universitat Autonoma de            Transport and Urban            IFPEN                                  Murray, German Institute   KTH                                     Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V.
                                       Barcelona                          Planning Laboratory, LAET,                                            for Economic research
                                                                          Lyon, France                                                          (DIW)

A Newsvendor with Endogenous           Effects of Railway Logistics       Influence of Dynamic           The paradoxes of emissions in a        Failing Infrastructure,    What is the real power of incumbents?   The impacts of urban rail transit on
Understocking Cost: Insights from      Mode “Forward Stocking” on         Congestion with Scheduling     regulated world: why most              Market Access, and         Case study on the Czech Republic        the job-housing relationship
the Airlines Leasing Industry          China Automobile                   Preferences on Carpooling      estimates of Electric Vehicles         Productivity: Evidence
                                       Transportation Market              Matching                       emissions in regulated economies       from German Firms
                                                                                                         are misguiding

presented by:                          presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by:                          presented by:              presented by:                           presented by:
Hao Lang, Hong Kong Polytechnic        Suxiang Zhang, Tongji University   Patrick Stokkink, Ecole        Alexandra M. Espinosa, Escuela         Dennis Gaus, DIW Berlin    Ondrej Špetík, Masaryk University       Youdan Huang, Chang'an University
University                                                                Polytechnique Federale de      Politécnica Nacional                   e.V.
                                                                          Lausanne (EPFL)

Equilibrium in the Aircraft Leasing    Welfare Inequality for discrete    Carpooling platforms as        Network effects in mature electric     Transport infrastructure   Price elasticity of train regional      Estimating the causal effect of small
Market: Theory and Evidence            choices                            multi-sided platforms:         vehicle markets: Lessons from a        investments in the frame   passenger demand in france              changes in railway infrastructure on
                                                                          same-side effects,             decade of electrification and          of sustainable                                                     housing values – a hedonic approach
                                                                          information asymmetry and      infrastructure subsidies in Norway     development index                                                  using an accessibility measure
                                                                          outside-of-the-platform
                                                                          externalities

presented by:                          presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by:                          presented by:              presented by:                           presented by:
Sylvain Bourjade, TBS Business         Karim Kilani, CNAM, LIRSA          Guillaume Monchambert,         Alexander Rohlf, Mercator              Maria Sartzetaki,          Carlos Olarte Bacares, SNCF Réseau      Jan Weschke, DLR - German
School                                                                    University of Lyon             Research Institute on Global           Democritus university of                                           Aerospace Center
                                                                                                         Commons and Climate Change             Thrace, Greece
                                                                                                         (MCC)

Government Holdings and                Demand impacts of different car    Short distance carpooling:     Preference for alternative vehicles:   Service lives and          The impact of optimal rail access       Urban Air Mobility in a Polycentric
Managerial Incentives in the Airline   market policies in Spain           effects of carpool             an analysis of barriers to adoption    marginal costs of road     charges on frequencies and fares        City – the Welfare and Environmental
Industry                                                                  organization on preference     through a discrete choice              renewals - A duration                                              Impact of Passenger Drones
                                                                                                         experiment                             approach

presented by:                          presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by:                          presented by:              presented by:                           presented by:
Catherine Muller, Toulouse Business    Javier Asensio, Universitat        Alix Le Goff, Transport and    Alexandre Cambo, IFPEN                 Neil Murray, German        Maria Börjesson, VTI, KTH               Anna Straubinger, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
School                                 Autonoma de Barcelona              Urban                                                                                                                                    e.V.
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Parallel sessions 8-14 Thursday, June 24 3.30pm-5pm CET Summer Time

        AIRLINE EMISSIONS                    CONGESTION PERMITS                COVID-19 OUTBREAK 1                POLITICAL ECONOMY                      SAFETY                      VALUE OF TIME 1                 URBAN ECONOMICS 2: LAND USE

Zoom link                                Zoom link                           Zoom link                     Zoom link                            Zoom link                  Zoom link                                Zoom link
Technician: Silvestro Veneruso           Technician: Davide Merolla          Technician: Anna Livia        Technician: Edoardo Tronci           Technician: Eleonora       Technician: Francesca De Luzi            Technician: Mirko Giagnorio
                                                                             Croella                                                            Bernasconi

Session Chair: Xavier Fageda,            Session Chair: Robin Lindsey,       Session Chair: Stef Proost,   Session Chair: Bruno De Borger,      Session Chair: Kevin       Session Chair: Andrew Waxman,            Session Chair: Sofia Franco,
University of Barcelona                  University of British Columbia      economics department,         University of Antwerp                Duncan, Iowa State         University of Texas at Austin            University of California Irvine
                                                                             KULeuven                                                           University

Adopting hydrogen technology in air      Effects of different tradable       Covid -19, the Collapse in    Price versus Quantity Measures to    Speed limits and vehicle   A latent class approach to estimate      Efficiency and substitutability of
transport: An evolutionarygame           mobility permit schemes in a        Demand for Air Transport      deal with Pollution and Congestion   accidents in built-up      millennials’ propensity toward           transport policies: The role of land
theory approach                          monocentric city with a pre-        and Infrastructure Charges    in Urban Areas: A Political          areas: The impact of 30    connecting itineraries                   use
                                         existing labor tax                                                Economy Approach                     km/h zones

presented by:                            presented by:                       presented by:                 presented by:                        presented by:              presented by:                            presented by:
Shangrong CHEN, ENAC (The French         Diego Candia, Vrije Universiteit    Hans-Martin Niemeier,         Ricardo Flores-Fillol, Universitat   Davide Cerruti, ETH        Chiara Morlotti, University of Bergamo   Raul Pezoa, Universidad Diego
Civil Aviation University)               Amsterdam                           University of Applied         Rovira i Virgili                     Zurich                                                              Portales
                                                                             Sciences Bremen

Carbon Tax or Sustainable Aviation       Managing Congestion and             Sharing when stranger         Paying at the Pump and the Ballot    The value of statistical   The time-of-day travel demand            Working From Home and Urban Land
Fuel Quota                               Infection Externalities in a Road   equals danger: Ridesharing    Box: Electoral Penalties of Motor    life in hungarian          elasticity paradox                       Structure
                                         and Rail Network: Pricing versus    during Covid-19 pandemic      Fuels Taxes                          transport based on
                                         Permits                                                                                                willingness to pay

presented by:                            presented by:                       presented by:                 presented by:                        presented by:              presented by:                            presented by:
Changmin Jiang, University of            Kexin Geng, Beijing Jiaotong        Emil Palikot, Stanford        Ross Buchanan, University of         Anteneh Mekonnen,          Cody Nehiba, Louisiana State             Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Swedish
Manitoba                                 University                          University                    Texas at Austin                      Budapest University of     University                               University of Agricultural Sciences
                                                                                                                                                Technology and
                                                                                                                                                Economics

Pricing carbon in the aviation sector:   Tolls vs. tradable permits for      Covid-19 and optimal urban    Rational drivers and the choice      Do Nudges Induce Safe      The Value of Urgency                     They Paved Paradise? Vacant Land
effects of the european emissions        managing congestion on a            transport policy              between congestion tolls and         Driving? Evidence from                                              and Surface Lots in Downtown Urban
trading system                           bimodal network with variable                                     tradeable permits: a political       Dynamic Message Signs                                               Areas and the Role of Regulatory
                                         travel conditions                                                 economy model                                                                                            Delay in Optimal Dynamic Land Use

presented by:                            presented by:                       presented by:                 presented by:                        presented by:              presented by:                            presented by:
Xavier Fageda, University of             Robin Lindsey, University of        Stef Proost, economics        Bruno De Borger, University of       Kevin Duncan, Iowa State   Andrew Waxman, University of Texas       Sofia Franco, University of California
Barcelona                                British Columbia                    department, KULeuven          Antwerp                              University                 at Austin                                Irvine
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Parallel sessions 15-22 Friday, June 25 1pm-2.30pm CET Summer Time

                                                                                                                                                                   RAIL TRANSPORTATION 2:
                                  ASSESSMENT OF AIR AND                                                                            PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 1
 AIRPORT MANAGEMENT 1                                                AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES              COVID-19 OUTBREAK 2                                                INTERMODAL                        RIDESOURCING               VALUE OF TIME 2
                                 MARITIME TRANSPORTATION

Zoom link                        Zoom link                          Zoom link                       Zoom link                      Zoom link                       Zoom link                       Zoom link                         Zoom link
Technician: Silvestro            Technician: Davide Merolla         Technician: Riccardo            Technician: Anna Livia         Technician: Mirko Giagnorio     Technician: Edoardo             Technician: Eleonora              Technician:
Veneruso                                                            Marzano                         Croella                                                        Tronci                          Bernasconi                        Francesca De Luzi

Session Chair: Hideki Fukui,     Session Chair: Saana Ollila,       Alejandro Tirachini,            Session Chair: Paal            Session Chair: Sergio Jara-     Session Chair: Tiziana          Session Chair: Andres Fielbaum,   Session
Ehime University                 Swedish National Road and          Universidad de Chile            Wangsness, Institute of        Diaz, Universidad de Chile      D'Alfonso, Sapienza             TU Delft                          Chair: Henrik
                                 Transport Research Institute                                       Transport Economics                                            University of Rome                                                Andersson,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Toulouse School of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Economics,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     University of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Toulouse Capitole
Airport Benchmarking Studies:    Assessment of surface              Preference Uncertainty,         Health shocks and the          Multimodal substitutes in       High-speed rail and air         Economic analysis of the
A Machine Learning               access at airports                 Departure Time Choice, and      structure of the commuting     public transport: Efficient     transport integration in hub-   competition between ride-         Does WTP for
Bibliometric Analysis                                               Value of Flexibility Afforded   network: evidence from the     variety or wasteful             and-spoke networks: the         pooling platforms with            transport safety vary
                                                                    by Automated Vehicles           COVID-19 outbreak in Italy     competition?                    role of airports                differential pooling sizes        by mode?

presented by:                    presented by:                      presented by:                   presented by:                  presented by:                   presented by:                   presented by:                     presented by:
Kok Fong See, Universiti Sains   Dimitrios Dimitriou,               Baiba Pudāne, Delft             Mattia Borsati, Bocconi        Daniel Hörcher, Imperial        Tiziana D'Alfonso, Sapienza     Zhuoye Zhang, The University of   Henrik Andersson,
Malaysia                         Democritus University of           University of Technology        University                     College London                  University of Rome              Hong Kong                         Toulouse School of
                                 Thrace                                                                                                                                                                                              Economics,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     University of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Toulouse Capitole

The interdependence of           Market Access and Seaport          Autonomous Driving and In-      Marginal external crowding     Optimal Design of Public        How does high-speed rail        Optimal prices for ridesourcing   The goods-leisure
airport demand: a vecm           Performance: The Case of           Vehicle Working                 costs in the era of COVID-     Transport considering the       increase air travel demand?     in the presence of taxi, public   model in the
approach                         Container Handling in Norway                                       19: Assessment and policy      Effect over the Urban           Price competition and           transport and car competition     bottleneck: when
                                                                                                    implications                   Structure                       catchment expansion                                               time is not only
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     money
presented by:                    presented by:                      presented by:                   presented by:                  presented by:                   presented by:                   presented by:                     presented by:
Fabio Simoni da Silva,           Kenneth Rødseth, Institute of      Georg Hirte, Technische         Paal Wangsness, Institute      Nicolás Esperguiel,             Hongyi Gu, Hong Kong            Andres Gomez-Lobo,                Martina Gregori,
University of Valencia           Transport Economics                Universität Dresden             of Transport Economic          Universidad De Chile            Polytechnic University          Universidad De Chile              Sapienza University
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     of Rome

Managing Multiple Airport        Effect of fuel price on vessels’   Multiperiod optimisation of                                    Strategic design of a bimodal   How bus-based disruptive        Scale analysis for on-demand
Regions via Perimeter Rules: A   speed decisions in short-sea       automated public transport                                     public transport network:       business models with            ridepooling systems and
Theoretical and Empirical        shipping                           with fixed and variable                                        analysis and lessons from a     limited capacity impact         comparison against public
Analysis                                                            vehicle capacities                                             parametric corridor             long-haul rail monopolies:      transport
                                                                                                                                                                   social welfare implications

presented by:                    presented by:                      presented by:                                                  presented by:                   presented by:                   presented by:
Hideki Fukui, Ehime University   Saana Ollila, Swedish National     Alejandro Tirachini,                                           Sergio Jara-Diaz, Universidad   Alessandro Avenali,             Andres Fielbaum, TU Delft
                                 Road and Transport Research        Universidad de Chile                                           de Chile                        Sapienza University of
                                 Institute                                                                                                                         Rome
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Parallel sessions 23-29 Friday, June 25 3.30pm-5pm CET Summer Time

                                                                      AIRLINE SCHEDULING DECISIONS
      AIRLINE COMPETITION                    AIRLINE PRICING                                                     CONGESTION PRICING              ELECTRIC VEHICLES 2: BATTERIES AND                      PARKING                      ROAD CONGESTION
                                                                               AND DELAYS
                                                                                                                                                             ADOPTION

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Technician: Silvestro Veneruso         Technician: Davide Merolla     Technician: Anna Livia Croella        Technician: Edoardo Tronci          Technician: Mirko Giagnorio                    Technician: Eleonora              Technician: Francesca De
                                                                                                                                                                                               Bernasconi                        Luzi

Session Chair: Volodymyr Bilotkach,    Session Chair: Alberto         Session Chair: Jan K. Brueckner,      Session Chair: Ruozi Song,          Session Chair: Askill H. Halse, Institute of   Session Chair: Felix Reimann,     Session Chair: Jinwon Kim,
Singapore Institute of Technology      Gaggero, University of Pavia   University of California, Irvine      University of Southern California   Transport Economics                            TU Dresden                        Sogang Univerisity

The Role of Product Differentiation    Purchase discounts and         Mitigating congestion and market      Route Structure and Peak-Load       What drives battery electric vehicle           The effects of information        How do new roads affect
in Profitability Change: An Analysis   travel premiums during         power in multi-national airspace      Pricing: Revisiting the Morning     adoption? The impact of regional               sharing in parking: an analysis   vehicle miles traveled?
of the Domestic US Airline Industry    holiday periods: Evidence                                            Commute Problem                     differences in carbon dioxide emissions on     from agent-based
                                       from the airline industry                                                                                consumer decisions                             microsimulation

presented by:                          presented by:                  presented by:                         presented by:                       presented by:                                  presented by:                     presented by:
Charles Howell, Autonomous             Alexander Luttmann, The        An Vo, Worms University of Applied    Zhiyuan Liang, Beijing Jiaotong     Christina Gore, The Ohio State University      Hoang Dao, State University of    Huibin Chang, Dongbei
University of Barcelona                MITRE Corporation              Sciences                              University                                                                         New York at Buffalo               University of Finance and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Economics

Multimarket Contact and                The optimal taxation of air    Airline Scheduling: learning from     Congestion charges under            Impacts of battery electric vehicle            Spatial Price Competition of      The Taxicab Problem with
Profitability Implications for US      travel under monopolistic      past errors                           market power: An application to     ownership on travel demand and mode            Off-Street Parking Operators      heterogeneous drivers
Airlines                               dynamic pricing                                                      ride hailing in Bogota, Colombia    choice decisions                               and Curbside Regulation

presented by:                          presented by:                  presented by:                         presented by:                       presented by:                                  presented by:                     presented by:
Jules Yimga, Embry-Riddle              Lennart Stern, PSE-EHESS       Chantal Roucolle, Ecole Nationale     Julian Gomez-Gelvez, University     Vegard Østli, Institute of Transport           Albert Gragera, Technical         Lewis Lehe; University of
Aeronautical University                                               de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC)           of Maryland                         Economics                                      University of Denmark             Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Operational and Competitive Effects    Hidden-city ticketing in the   Airline Schedule Buffers and Flight   Using big data to estimate the      Local Incentives and Electric Vehicle          Employer parking and parking      Congestion costs and
of a Major External Supply-Side        U.S airline market             Delays: A Discrete Model              environmental benefits of           Adoption                                       policy: Where we are and          scheduling preferences of car
Shock: Case of Boeing 737 MAX                                                                               congestion pricing in the Los                                                      where we are going with           commuters in California:
Grounding                                                                                                   Angeles area                                                                       autonomous vehicles               Estimates using big data

presented by:                          presented by:                  presented by:                         presented by:                       presented by:                                  presented by:                     presented by:
Volodymyr Bilotkach, Singapore         Alberto Gaggero, University    Jan K. Brueckner, University of       Ruozi Song, University of           Askill H. Halse, Institute of Transport        Felix Reimann, TU Dresden         Jinwon Kim, Sogang
Institute of Technology                of Pavia                       California, Irvine                    Southern California                 Economics                                                                        Univerisity
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Parallel sessions 30-36 Saturday, June 26 10.30am-12pm CET Summer Time

                                                                                 MOBILITY AND                                                                                                                     VALUE OF TIME AND COST-
   AIRPORT MANAGEMENT 2                  FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION                                           PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 2          RAIL TRANSPORTATION 3: REGIONAL               ROAD NETWORKS
                                                                                 ENVIRONMENT                                                                                                                         BENEFIT-ANALYSIS
                                                                                                                                                      EFFECTS

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Technician: Silvestro Veneruso          Technician: Davide Merolla         Technician: Anna Livia         Technician: Mirko Giagnorio      Technician: Edoardo Tronci               Technician: Eleonora          Technician: Francesca De
                                                                           Croella                                                                                                  Bernasconi                    Luzi

Session Chair: Yukihiro Kidokoro,       Session Chair: Martin Koning,      Session Chair: Mariza          Session Chair: Baptiste          Session Chair: Vera Ivanova, HSE         Session Chair: Mogens         Session Chair: Jérôme
National Graduate Institute for         IFSTTAR                            Montes de Oca León,            Bernadac, Ecole Normale          University                               Fosgerau, University of       Massiani, Università Milano
Policy Studies                                                             German Institute for           Supérieure Paris-Saclay                                                   Copenhagen                    Bicocca
                                                                           Economic Research (DIW)

Pricing regime choices for              Corporate social responsibility    Effects of Different           Infrastructure investment in     Cost Function, optimal scale and         Income and Fuel Price         Value of travel time by road
international airports: A rationale     and competition in freight         Environmental Metrics on       public transport: a strategic    organizational structure of China        Elasticity on Car Use using   type and quality
for the non-discrimination              transport markets: the role of     Travel Decisions               real options game                railway                                  FE Models
principle                               urban consolidation centres

presented by:                           presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by                     presented by                             presented by                  presented by
Ming Hsin LIN, Osaka University         Daniele Crotti, Università degli   Thomas Hagedorn,               Maximilian Brill,DIW Berlin      Kemei Yu, Beijing Jiaotong University    Carl Berry, VTI               Knut Johannes Hartveit,
of Economics                            Studi dell'Insubria -              University of Münster                                                                                                                  Institute of Transport
                                        Dipartimento di Economia                                                                                                                                                  Economics (TØI)

Optimal Use-it-or-lose-it Rules for     Contracting Strategies for Price   Removing urban                 Assessing public investments     Benchmarking of rail cargo carriers in   A perturbed utility route     Truck platooning
Airport Slot Management                 Competing Firms under              expressways to decarbonize     in alternative bus powertrains   Italy                                    choice model                  technology diffusion: an
                                        Uncertainty                        cities? An economic            by using life cycle cost                                                                                inter-temporal
                                                                           assessment                     analysis                                                                                                macroeconomic micro-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  founded analysis with
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  profitability condition and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  club effect

presented by:                           presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by:                    presented by:                            presented by:                 presented by:
Achim Czerny, Hong Kong                 You Wu, University of              Lea Bou Sleiman, Ecole         Mirko Giagnorio, Sapienza        Davide Scotti, University of Bergamo     Mogens Fosgerau,              El Mehdi Aboulkacem,
Polytechnic University                  Luxembourg                         Polytechnique                  University of Rome                                                        University of Copenhagen      Gustave Eiffel University

Single-till and dual-till regulation:   The external environmental         The Effects of Air Quality     Last mile commuting in von       Railways and the regional grain market                                 Should Cost-Benefit
A note and a synthesis of               cost of road freight transport:    Alerts on Mobility: Evidence   Thünen’s city                    integration in the Russian Empire                                      Analysis include taxation :
literature                              New evidence from the Paris        From New York City's                                                                                                                   an investigation of the
                                        region using the Olympus multi-    Transportation Network                                                                                                                 European Union Guidelines
                                        agents model                                                                                                                                                              for investment projects
presented by:                           presented by:                      presented by:                  presented by:                    presented by:                                                          presented by:
Yukihiro Kidokoro, National             Martin Koning, IFSTTAR             Mariza Montes de Oca           Baptiste Bernadac, Ecole         Vera Ivanova, HSE University                                           Jérôme Massiani, Università
Graduate Institute for Policy                                              León, German Institute for     Normale Supérieure Paris-                                                                               Milano Bicocca
Studies                                                                    Economic Research (DIW)        Saclay
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Parallel sessions 37-44 Saturday, June 26 1pm-2.30pm CET Summer Time

                                                                                                                                                                                        URBAN CONGESTION IN
 ECONOMIC IMPACT                                        ENVIRONMENTAL
                           ENVIRONMENT: BIKING                                    RAIL TRANSPORTATION                                                 SUSTAINABLE SURFACE                SPECIFIC CITIES: LOW            URBAN ECONOMICS 3:
      OF AIR                                             IMPACT OF AIR                                           RIDESHARING/CARSHARING
                                 IN CITIES                                         4: INFRASTRUCTURE                                                    TRANSPORTATION                   EMISSION ZONES AND                    CITIES
 TRANSPORTATION                                         TRANSPORTATION
                                                                                                                                                                                               PARKING

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Technician: Silvestro      Technician: Davide         Technician: Anna Livia      Technician: Edoardo          Technician: Eleonora Bernasconi     Technician: Francesca De Luzi       Technician: Mirko               Technician: Riccardo
Veneruso                   Merolla                    Croella                     Tronci                                                                                               Giagnorio                       Marzano

Session Chair: Kjetil      Session Chair: Moez        Session Chair: Angela       Session Chair: Andrew        Session Chair: Roman                Session Chair: Elena Maggi,         Session Chair: Guri Natalie     Session Chair: Leonardo J.
Haukås, Institute of       Kilani, University of      Bergantino, University      Smith, Institute for         Zakharenko, National Research       Università dell'Insubria            Jordbakke, Institute of         Basso, Universidad de
Transport Economics        Littoral at Dunkerque      of Bari Aldo Moro           Transport Studies,           Univeristy Higher School of                                             Transport economics             Chile, ISCI
(Norway)                                                                          University of Leeds          Economics
The diffusion of           Bike-friendly cities: an   Environmental impact        Efficiency versus market     Network analysis of socially        Assessment of 2021-2025-            Low emission zones and          A systems-of-cities model
knowledge: Evidence        opportunity for local      of aviation and its         power in the rail industry   optimal ridesharing                 2030 CO2 standards on               traffic congestion:             considering spatio-
from the Jet Age           businesses? Evidence       effects on the demand                                                                        automakers' portfolio vehicles'     evidence from Madrid            temporal agglomeration
                           from the city of Paris     for short-haul flights in                                                                    segments                            Central                         economies
                                                      Europe

presented by:              presented by:              presented by:               presented by:                presented by:                       presented by:                       presented by:                   presented by:
Fernando Stipanicic,       Federica Daniele, Banca    Fernando Seabra,            Pedro Cantos-Sanchez,        Samarth Ghoslya, Sapienza           Bassem Haidar,                      Filippo Tassinari, University   Lu Miao, Kanazawa
Toulouse School of         d'Italia                   Federal University of       Universitat de València      University                          CentraleSupélec                     Of Barcelona & IEB              University
Economics                                             Santa Catarina

Flight routes and firm     The impact of bike-        Airports’ effects on the    Estimating costs for         Connecting rural areas by inter-    Consumers’ stated                   The impact of traffic           The impact of commuter
trade                      sharing systems on         environment and             infrastructure services      city ridesharing intermediary       preferences and attitudes           restriction policies on         market access on a city's
                           congestion. Evidence       consequences for            not caused by traffic-       stops: Evidence from BlaBlaCar      towards electric scooters in        London’s air quality: A         structural density: evidence
                           from European urban        health: evidence from a     induced deterioration                                            Trieste (Italy). An investigation   comparison of Congestion        from a substantial
                           areas                      case study                                                                                   via a hybrid choice model           Charge, Low Emissions           investment in transport
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       infrastructure
                                                                                                                                                                                       and Ultra-low Emissions
                                                                                                                                                                                       Zones

presented by:              presented by:              presented by:               presented by:                presented by:                       presented by:                       presented by:                   presented by:
Kjetil Haukås, Institute   Valeria Bernardo,          Angela Bergantino,          Kristofer Odolinski, The     Dianzhuo Zhu, University of Paris   Mariangela Scorrano,                Dereje Abegaz, Technical        Hugo E. Silva, Pontificia
of Transport               Tecnocampus, Pompeu        University of Bari Aldo     Institute for Transport      Dauphine, PSL Research              University of Trieste               University of Denmark           Universidad Católica de
Economics (Norway)         Fabra University           Moro                        Studies, University of       University                                                                                              Chile
                                                                                  Leeds

                           Evaluating the benefits                                Efficiency analysis of       Optimal pricing for shared          Cycling tourism in Italy:           Causal effect of parking        Welfare analysis of cities:
                           of biking in a medium                                  railway maintenance –        vehicles                            attitudes and motivations in a      policy on car ownership         urban sprawl,
                           scale city                                             the impact of quality                                            latent class segmentation           decision and car use:           transportation pricing, and
                                                                                                                                                                                       results from a natural          the optimal Rawlsian town
                                                                                                                                                                                       experiment in Oslo

                           presented by:                                          presented by:                presented by:                       presented by:                       presented by:                   presented by:
                           Moez Kilani, University                                Andrew Smith, Institute      Roman Zakharenko, National          Elena Maggi, Università             Guri Natalie Jordbakke,         Leonardo J. Basso,
                           of Littoral at Dunkerque                               for Transport Studies,       Research Univeristy Higher          dell'Insubria                       Institute of Transport          Universidad de Chile, ISCI
                                                                                  University of Leeds          School of Economics                                                     economics
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Roman Aqueduts

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Streets of Rome -Trastevere District

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Navona Square

                VIRTUAL TOUR
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A virtual tour: Renaissance and baroque Rome

What
During the modern age, Rome was transformed into the perfect icon of a religious capital.
The huge Cathedral of St. Peter, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican museums are still today
the touchable proof of the masterpieces realized by important architects and painters,
as Bramante, Botticelli, Perugino, Michelangelo and Raffaello according to the Renaissance
and Baroque taste. At the same time, important examples of squares, as Piazza Navona,
were redesigned to be perfect stages for history.

How
In a short conference, we will try to discover about 3 centuries of the history of Rome and
why still today it is considered the Eternal one. An expert historian will lead the audience
through the short tour on Zoom Platform. Questions will be also appreciated to satisfy
one’s curiosity. The video recording will be available to ITEA attendees in following weeks.

Who
Dr. Caterina Brazzi Castracane is an expert historian and a guide, based in Rome. Other than
writing cultural articles for different magazines, Caterina designs creative activities for the
most important modern and contemporary museums of Rome.

When
June 26, 2.30 pm CET time
Zoom Link Virtual Tour
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