Cristian Poliziani

Cristian Poliziani

Cristian Poliziani is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Transportation System Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned his PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy, where he developed agent‑based, large‑scale transport system models. At LBNL, he leads the design and evaluation of these models, delivering data‑driven insights that enable more efficient, resilient, healthy and convenient mobility, including traffic related pollutant exposure and health impacts. His integrated approach empowers transport stakeholders to make informed decisions and craft effective, future‑ready solutions.

Contact Information

Phone: 650-539-7730

Education

Transportation Engineering, PhD, University of Bologna - Italy, 2022
Civil Engineering, MS, University of Bologna - Italy, 2018
Civil Engineering, BA, University of Bologna - Italy, 2016

Publications

2024

Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure

Authors: Browne, Axel; David Butts; Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez; Nidhi Parikh; Geoffrey Fairchild; Zachary Needell; Cristian Poliziani; Thomas P Wenzel; Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle.
10/2024

Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0

Authors: Needell, Zachary; Paul Waddell; Juan Caicedo; Haitam Laarabi; Yuhan Wang; Cristian Poliziani; Jessica Lazarus; Dmitrii Openkov; Max Gardner; Nazanin Rezaei; Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer.
05/2024

A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)

Authors: Laarabi, Haitam; Zachary Needell; Rashid Waraich; Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel.
02/2024

At the nexus of equity and transportation modeling: Assessing accessibility through the Individual Experienced Utility-Based Synthesis (INEXUS) metric

Authors: Rezaei, Nazanin; Annika Todd-Blick; K Sydny Fujita; Natalie Popovich; Zachary Needell; Cristian Poliziani; Juan Caicedo; Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock.
02/2024

Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow

Authors: Spurlock, C Anna; Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane; Aaron Brooker; Juan Caicedo; Jeff Gonder; Jake Holden; Kyungsoo Jeong; Ling Jin; Haitam Laarabi; Zachary Needell; Cristian Poliziani; Shivam Sharda; Bingrong Sun; Paul Waddell; Yuhan Wang; Rashid Waraich; Thomas P Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu.
02/2024

Simulating Impacts from Transit Service Enhancements in the San Francisco Bay Area

Authors: Poliziani, Cristian; A Zachary Needell; Haitam Laarabi; Rashid Waraich; Annika Todd-Blick; K Sydny Fujita; Nazanin Rezaei; D Juan Caicedo; Carlos Guirado; C Anna Spurlock, and Tom Wenzel.
11/25/2024

2023

BEAM: The Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility - The Open-Source Agent-Based Regional Transportation Model Unpacked: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Inner Dynamics

Authors: Laarabi, Haitam; Zachary Needell; Rashid Waraich; Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel.
08/2023

Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection

Authors: Poliziani, Cristian; Gary Hsueh; David Czerwinski; Thomas P Wenzel; Zachary Needell; Haitam Laarabi; Joerg Schweizer, and Federico Rupi.
04/2023