Publications

This page contains references to all works published and under review by members of the MOVING-STEPS team during their time working on the project. This list was last updated on March 4, 2026.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

Torrisi, V., Leonardi, P., Ignaccolo, M., Inturri, G., & Rossetti, S. (2026). Towards Safer and More Walkable Cities: A Spatial Approach in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2026) Issue 105, Paper n° 3, ISSN 1825-3997
Garau, C., Askarizad, R., & Pinna, F. (2025). Urban governance to support adaptable solutions for conversion of residual street spaces into social spaces. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 32241.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16569-2
Askarizad, R., Lamíquiz-Daudén, P. J., Dastoum, M., Khotbehsara, E. M., Sharifi, A., & Garau, C. (2025). A cross-cultural study to identify social behaviours of pedestrians in urban public spaces: evidence from Iran, Spain, Italy, and Australia. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 31338.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16421-7
Askarizad, R., Daudén, P. J. L., & Garau, C. (2024). Exploring the role of configurational accessibility of alleyways on facilitating wayfinding transportation within the organic street network systems. Transport Policy, 157, 179-194.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.09.001
Askarizad, R., Lamíquiz Daudén, P. J., & Garau, C. (2024). The application of space syntax to enhance sociability in public urban spaces: A systematic review. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13(7), 227.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13070227
T. Campisi, A. Ricciardello, M. Ruggieri, G. Vitanza. Numerical solutions for Riemann problem applied to traffic flow, under review Advanced in Nonlinear Differential Equations: Theory, Methods and Applications, AIMS Mathematics (Under Review).
G. Alì, A. Ricciardello, M. Ruggieri, C. Scuro. Mathematical models for environmental protection: Wildfire Propagation Model with a real domain, the case study of Enna City, Ricerche di Matematica (Under Review)
Cedro, M. & Rossetti, S., Potentialities and criticalities of Street Experiments to plan permanent redesign of public space (Under Review)
Cedro, M., Pellicelli, G. & Rossetti, S., Cognitive protocol for Street Experiments localisation: evidence from Enna, Sicily (Under Review)
Cedro, M., Pirisino, M.S. & Rossetti, S., Where to better localise SEs? Towards the definition of a cognitive protocol for the application on the case study of the Castello neighbourhood in Cagliari (Under Review)
De Noia, I., Zazzi, M. & Rossetti, S. Can Street Experiments Become Adaptive Planned Solutions? Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Urban Mobility Spaces (Under Review)
C. Garau, A. Manca, F. Pinna, M. S. Pirisino, The Permanence of Change: Bridging Temporary Experiments and Urban historical landscapes valorisation. The case study of Castello in Cagliari (Sardinia), (Under Review)

Books:

C. Garau, A. Manca, F. Pinna, M. S. Pirisino, S. Rossetti, (2026) Forme, spazi e processi della transizione. Temporalità variabili nello spazio pubblico della città storica, Unicapress

Working Papers in National/International Conferences:

Campisi, G.G. Iacuzzo, A. Ricciardello, M. Ruggieri.CPSO for Innovative Transport Planning and Designing .Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2026, 15897 LNCS, pp. 304–318.
Campisi, A. Ricciardello, M. Ruggieri, G. Vitanza.A preliminary analysis on Parklets: Can they contribute to the realisation of a walking friendly city in Italy?.Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 14823 LNCS, pp. 168 – 183, (2024).
Cedro, M., Pellicelli, G., Rossetti, S., Torrisi V. (2025) How to Ensure Safety and Promote the Permanence of School Streets?. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Karaca, Y., Faginas Lago, M.N., Scorza, F. Braga, A.C. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025 Workshops. ICCSA 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97660-5 Springer, Cham.
Garau, A. Manca, M. S. Pirisino, F. Pinna, A New Definition of a Smart and Healthy City Through a Literature Review on Accessible Urban Green Space, in Gervasi O., Murgante B., Garau C., Karaca Y., Faginas Lago M. N., Scorza F., Braga A.C.(Eds), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025 Workshops, Proceedings, part XII, (Istanbul, Turkey, June 30-July 3, 2025), Springer, pp. 269-285.
Pellicelli, G., Marinelli, L.,J., Zazzi, M., Rossetti, S., (2024) From Spontaneous to Strategic: Integrating Street Experiments into Urban Planning Practices. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Karaca, Y., Faginas Lago, M.N., Scorza, F. Braga, A.C. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14823. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65329-2_9 Springer, Cham
Rossetti, S. & Cedro, M. Can Street Experiments become permanent solutions for the promotion of active mobility? – Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the XXVII International Conference «Living Walking in Cities». Smart mobility and shared urban spaces. (11-12 September 2025 – Brescia, Italy)
Garau, M. S. Pirisino, F. Pinna, A Literature Review on Street Experiments: A Preliminary Step Towards Adaptive Planned Solutions from Bottom-Up Experiments, in Gervasi O., Murgante B., Garau C., Taniar D., Rocha A. M. A. C., Faginas Lago M. N. (Eds), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops, Proceedings, part IX, (Hanoi, Vietnam, July 1-4, 2024), Springer, pp. 184-196.
De Noia, I., Caselli, B., Rossetti, S. & Zazzi, M. Spazi della mobilità attiva e crisi climatica. Quale ruolo per la città bene comune? – Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the conference “XXVII Conferenza Nazionale SIU Publicness: le sfide della dimensione pubblica nelle città e nei territori”
Pinna, C. Garau, A. Manca, M. S. Pirisino, Active Mobility and Historical Urban Landscape: Tactical Interventions for Safer and Inclusive Cities, paper under submission in RSS2026 (10th International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation). Under revision
Garau, A. Manca, F. Pinna, M. S. Pirisino, From Ephemeral to Permanent: Street experiments and the Evolution of Historical Urban Landscapes, submission in The 26th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications. Under revision