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## **About the Editors**

#### **Vittorio Di Vito**

Vittorio Di Vito, Ph.D., is the head of the CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Center) Air Traffic Efficiency Dept. (since 2015). He was previously Senior Researcher and System Engineer in CIRA in the Air Traffic Management Dept. (2009–2014), and Research Engineer in the CIRA Flight Systems Dept. (2004–2008). His research and development activities are in the fields of Air Traffic Management (ATM); Urban Air Mobility (UAM); multimodality in transport, aviation sustainability, Detect and Avoid (DAA), and surveillance systems; autonomous flight systems development; and aviation operations and aircraft trajectory optimization. He served as Consortium Manager of the project X-TEAM D2D (Extended ATM for Door-to-Door travel) funded by the European Commission SESAR JU, which supported the preparation of this book. He works in several international projects, with coordination as well as technical leadership roles, addressing both fundamental research and applications development, up to flight demonstration, in the fields of Urban Air Mobility, Flight Management Systems, Conflict Detection and Resolution, trajectory optimization, and decision-making support systems, for applications in both manned and unmanned aircraft and drones as well as for ground-based aerial traffic management. He is the author of more than 80 papers, in journals and conference proceedings, and is an Associate Editor (since 2016) and Editorial Board Member (since 2014) of the *SAGE Journal of Aerospace Engineering*. He previously carried out research activities in the field of Power Systems analysis and optimization at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy), Industrial Engineering Dept., where he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering (2005) and his cum laude master's degree in Electrical Engineering (2001).

#### **Gabriella Duca**

Gabriella Duca, PhD, is the President of the Institute for Sustainable Society and Innovation, where she also leads the research laboratory of Human Factors Integration. She is a Human Factors scientist, with a background in architectural design. She obtained her PhD on Human–Built Environment interaction at Genoa University (Italy) and has held the Eur.Erg. (European Ergonomist) qualification since 2003. Her research interests address the transdisciplinary application of human factors, with a focus on task analysis and human performance assessment, safety culture, human and organizational factors in systems sustainability and efficiency, human–built environment interaction, and inclusive and service design. She worked as an academic researcher from 2004 to 2016 at Naples University Federico II (Italy) and has conducted national and European research projects for a variety of private companies and public authorities. She has authored and co-authored more than 80 scientific publications and is an associated editor of *Frontiers in Sustainable Cities—Urban Resource Management Journal*. She is a former member (2010–2019) of the national board of the SIE Italian Ergonomics and Human Factors Society and is a member of the European Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

#### **Raffaella Russo**

Raffaella Russo, M.Sc. in Economics and Finance, is a Senior Scientist and Senior Project Manager at ISSNOVA (2019–current), where she leads the Knowledge Transfer Lab. She worked for several institutions, such as AMRA scarl (2011–2018), where she supported the coordination of several H2020 and FP7 projects, contributing in the field of cost and benefits analysis connected with the exploitation of conventional and unconventional energy sources, and in the identification of key factors underpinning risk perception. Raffaella is also a consultant for the University of Salerno (2018–current). Raffaella's current research analyses are mainly devoted to developing indicators to measure the social and economic impact of some hazardous events and to the identification of socio-economic barriers to systems resilience. Presently, she is involved in several European and Italian projects, where her expertise is mainly focused on socioeconomic stressors, social aspects of trust, social acceptance, and in the identification of the socio-economic impact related to the deployment of new technologies in different fields. Furthermore, she is interested in the transport sector, with a special focus on sustainability and on the promotion of passengers' inclusiveness.
