Salvatore CAFISO

Autore di oltre 200 articoli scientifici su riviste e atti di convegni internazonali

Le principali aree di ricerca sono riconducibili a:

Sicurezza Stradale in relazione alla progettazione geoemtrica e funzionale: Modelli statistici per la stima dgli incidenti - Ispezioni di sicurezza per l'adeguamento della viabilità esistente - Sicurezza Utenti vulnerabili (pedoni, ciclisti, motociclisti) con tecniche di conflitti di traffico - Monitoraggio comportamento di guida del conducente tramite studi naturalistici - Definizione del dominio operativo dell'infrastruttura fisica per la guida autonoma - Monitoraggio e manutenzione programmata dell'e infrastrutture di trasporto

Author of over 200 scientific articles in international journals and conference proceedings

The main research areas are: Road Safety in relation to geometric and functional design: Statistical models for crash prediction - Safety inspections for the risk assessment of existing roads - Safety of Vulnerable users (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) with traffic conflict techniques - Monitoring of road users (driver, motorcyclist, bicyclist) behavior through naturalistic and in field studies - Physical infrastructure and operating design domain for automatic driving - Monitoring and maintenance systems of transport infrastructure

RESPONSABILITY IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

- PRIN 99: Italian Ministry of Research: Analysis of the interactions between road system elements and the human factor for optimizing design standard criteria (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2000: Italian Ministry of Research: Pavement maintenance system and treatments effectiveness for road safety (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2001: Italian Ministry of Research: Relevance of driver – highway system on human behaviour with respect to road safety (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2002: Italian Ministry of Research: Model development for safety assessment of road section based on operating speed scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2003: Italian Ministry of Research: Analysis of driver behavior in function of road and environment characteristics. Safety assessment and treatment design. (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2004: Italian Ministry of Research: Integrating human factor evaluation in the design process of roads – a way to improve safety standards for rural roads (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- PRIN 2006: Italian Ministry of Research “Road safety in complex environment. Theoretical experimental models for preventive safety road design” (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- 2004: DGTREN European Commission: Project IASP Identification of Hazard Location and Ranking of Measures to Improve Safety on Local Rural Roads (PI of the project)

- 2004-2011 National Safety Plan: in the field of monitoring centers set up previewed by the National Plan of Road Safety, prof. Cafiso was scientific responsible of research projects with the Sicily Region and the Regional Province of Catania, Siracusa and Ragusa for the Accident Analysis, Safety Audit for new road projects and Safety review for existing roads and the monitoring of the effectiveness of the rehabilitation interventions for road safety

- 2009, Italian Ministry of Industrial development, “Preventive Safety for eco-compatible Urban BUS” (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- 2010: DGTREN European Commission: Pilot4Safety - Pilot project for common EU Curriculum for road safety experts: training and application on Secondary Roads (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- 2013: EU TEMPUS - HiT4Med - Highway and Traffic Engineering: Curricular Reform for Mediterranean Area (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- 2014 CEDR Transnational Road Research Programme (CEDR-TRRP) 2013: ESReT European Safety Review Tool (scientific responsible of the operating unit of the University of Catania)

- 2014: Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR): call MIUR StartUp (PON “R&C”). Project: “WIKI Roads Map” (project PI).

- 2018: Italian Ministry for Environment: Recovery and reuse of volcanic dash from Etna (scientific responsible of the operating unit)

- 2020: P.O. FESR SICILIA 2014/2020: SAFE-DEMON: SAFE Driving by E-health MONitoring

- 2020 EuroS@P : European Road Safety Partnership. EU KA203 - KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education

- 2021 InfRO@D: European Digital Education in Road Infrastructure Management”. EU+ Strategic Partnerships in response to the COVID-19 situation