Rural Demand Responsive Transport

Tiziano Pavanini is International PhD in Logistics and Transport and currently Research Fellow at Politecnico di Milano of Milan, Italy. Previously he was Research Fellow at CIELI - Italian Center of Excellence on Logistics, Transport of the University of Genoa, Italy. During his work experience he was Visiting Researcher both at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia (2022) and at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan (2023). Dr. Pavanini mainly studies sustainable urban mobility, Mobility as a Service, Demand Responsive Transport, the mobility of the elderly and overtourism.

• Introduction.- Demand Responsive Transport: characteristics and historic evolution.- Demand Responsive Transport: a short review.- Italian “National Strategy for Inner Areas” and analysis of Antola-Tigullio case study.- Hypothesis of DRT services in Antola-Tigullio inner area.- Ex-post evaluation of Val Graveglia DRT pilot results.- Conclusions, research limitations and future agenda.