Papers & Presentations

Journal Publications

  • Tong, X. & Simoni, M.D. (2026). Leveraging Sidewalk Robots for Walkability-Related Analyses. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 124, 102381. [Link]
  • Wang, Q., & Simoni, M. D. (2025). Crowdshipping preferences among public transit riders: Insights from Stockholm, Sweden. Research in Transportation Economics, 113, 101635. [Link]
  • Pfeil, L., Zwick, F., & Simoni, M. D. (2025). Impact of exogenous events on the demand for on-demand ridepooling in Hamburg. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 101572. [Link]
  • Vishnoi, S. C., & Simoni, M. D. (2025). Surrogate-based real-time curbside management for ride-hailing and delivery operations. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 13(1). [Link]
  • Lu, W., Yi, Z., Gidofalvi, G., Simoni, M. D., Rui, Y., & Ran, B. (2024). “Urban network geofencing with dynamic speed limit policy via deep reinforcement learning”. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 183, 104067. [Link]
  • M.D. Simoni (2024). “Parking guidance and Geofencing for Last-Mile Delivery Operations”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [Link]
  • M.D. Simoni & M. Winkenbach (2023). “Crowdsourced on-demand food delivery: An order batching and assignment algorithm”. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 149, 104055. [Link]
  • M.D. Simoni & C.G. Claudel (2021). “A fast lax–hopf algorithm to solve the lighthill–whitham–richards traffic flow model on networks“. Transportation Science, 54(6), 1516-1534. [Link]
  • M.D. Simoni, E. Kutanoglu, C.G. Claudel (2020). “Optimization and analysis of a robot-assisted last mile delivery system”. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 142, 102049. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, E. Marcucci, V. Gatta, & C.G. Claudel, (2019). “Potential last-mile impacts of crowdshipping services: a simulation-based evaluation”. Transportation, 1-22 [link].
  • M.D. Simoni, K.M. Kockelman, K.G. Gurumurthy, and J. Bischoff (2019). “Congestion Pricing in a World of Self-driving Vehicles: an Analysis of different strategies in future scenarios”. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 98 (2019): 167-185. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, C. Claudel. (2018). “A simulation framework for modeling urban freight operations impacts on traffic networks”. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (2018): 86, 36-54. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, P. Bujanovic, S.D. Boyles, and E. Kutanoglu (2018). “An evaluation of urban consolidation center solutions considering location, fleet and route choice”. Case Studies on Transport Policy 6 (2018): 112-124. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, C. Claudel. (2017). “A semi-analytic approach to model signal plans in urban corridors and its application in metaheuristic optimization”. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics (2017): 1-17. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, C. Claudel. (2017). “A fast simulation algorithm for multiple moving bottlenecks and applications in urban freight traffic management”. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 104 (2017): 238-255. [link]
  • M.D. Simoni, A.J. Pel, R.A. Waraich, and S.P. Hoogendoorn. (2015) “Marginal cost congestion pricing based on the Network Fundamental Diagram”. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 56 (2015): 221-238. [link]

Book Chapters

  • E. Marcucci, V. Gatta, M.D. Simoni, I. Maltese (2023). “Pricing in Freight Transport”. Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing. Ed. Edward Elgar.
  • M.D. Simoni & K.M. Kockelman (2021). “Vehicles that drive themselves: what to expect with autonomous vehicles“. Editor(s): Roger Vickerman, International Encyclopedia of Transportation Elsevier, 2021. Pages 19-25. [Link]

Conference proceedings

  • M.D. Simoni (2022) “Pricing Strategies for Competing Shared Autonomous Vehicles and Public Transit”. Proceedings of the 50th European Transport Conference.
  • M.D. Simoni (2021) “Smart Curbside Management for Urban Freight Operations”. Proceedings of the 49th European Transport Conference.
  • M.D. Simoni and M. Vestrucci (2018). “A statistical simulation-based approach to identify network vulnerability to urban freight movements”. 2nd Symposium on Management of Future motorway and urban Traffic Systems (MFTS 2018). Ispra, Italy.
  • Hu, M. B., Simoni, M. D., and Claudel, C. G. (2018, November). “Modeling bus bunching: A comprehensive approach accounting for transit demand and traffic flows”. In 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 3451-3456). IEEE.
  • M.D. Simoni and C. Claudel. (2017). “Traffic management strategies for trucks in urban environments based on a fast traffic simulation algorithm”. 2017 INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society. First Triennal Conference, Chicago, US.
  • M.D. Simoni and C. Claudel. (2017). “A fast algorithm to evaluate signal plans in corridors using semi-explicit solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations”. Proceedings of the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Review Board.
  • M.D. Simoni, P. Bujanovic, S. D. Boyles, and C. M. Walton. (2015) “Heuristic toolbox for the optimal location, routing, and fleet choice of urban consolidation centers” . 2015 Urban Freight and Behavior Change Conference (URBE 2015), Rome, Italy.
  • M.D. Simoni, B. Wiegmans, R. Zuidwijk, and R. van Duin. (2015). “Introducing competition in city freight distribution”. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Review Board.