Giulio Mattioli
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Giulio Mattioli
@giuliomattioli.bsky.social

Transport researcher with views on + than 1 topic - EU / Italian citizen with views on + than 1 country. Used to be in the UK. Now in Germany at TU Dortmund. Views my own https://t.co/ltfHVOHZe4

Engineering 25%
Energy 23%
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It's that time of the year again and I am chuffed to be included in Elsevier list of the top 2% of most-cited authors for the year 2024 (at rank 51 within the field "Logistics and Transportation") as well for the whole career (rank 326) lnkd.in/e6QprVQh

Great to see @vallert.bsky.social research in the spotlight! :)
"Public discourses of delaying climate action manifest in local debates and are referenced by citizens to criticize proposed changes to the mobility system"

German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Local citizen assemblies to overcome resistance to the mobility transition? Analyzing discourses in a municipality in rural Germany
Policy changes in the mobility transition will only be possible with sufficient public support for shifting mobility cultures and the necessary lifest…
www.sciencedirect.com

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"Public discourses of delaying climate action manifest in local debates and are referenced by citizens to criticize proposed changes to the mobility system"

German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Local citizen assemblies to overcome resistance to the mobility transition? Analyzing discourses in a municipality in rural Germany
Policy changes in the mobility transition will only be possible with sufficient public support for shifting mobility cultures and the necessary lifest…
www.sciencedirect.com

Onward and upwards!
The German train company DB had its worst month ever, only 51.5% of its long-distance trains were on time.

I am sure by the end of the year, they can get this below 50%.

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Well, Italy's press freedom hit the headlines around the world.

#TheIntercept reports on how #AgenziaNova fired its reporter @gabrielenunziati.bsky.social for asking a question about #Israel

theintercept.com/2025/11/04/j...
A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.
theintercept.com

Very interesting-looking new systematic literature review on Low Emission Zones in Europe and their effects doi.org/10.1186/s125...

Blog about my talk yesterday and rare laughing professional picture of me here

Thanks again @hertiedatascience.bsky.social for having me and for the great discussion
What happens when climate ambition meets everyday dependence on the car?
That question was at the heart of the #BrownBag seminar at @hertieschool.bsky.social, where Dr @giuliomattioli.bsky.social examined how rising fuel prices affect vulnerable households and what his decade-long research on

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Daily Briefing: World ‘heading for 2.8C’ | EU agrees 90% cut | Lula’s forest ‘vision’

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What happens when climate ambition meets everyday dependence on the car?
That question was at the heart of the #BrownBag seminar at @hertieschool.bsky.social, where Dr @giuliomattioli.bsky.social examined how rising fuel prices affect vulnerable households and what his decade-long research on
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

www.unep.org/resources/em...

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The German train company DB had its worst month ever, only 51.5% of its long-distance trains were on time.

I am sure by the end of the year, they can get this below 50%.

Thank you Joanna, also for your questions during the seminar 🙏
Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com

Looking forward to talk about transport poverty, vulnerability to fuel price increases and data at this event at @hertiedatascience.bsky.social next week
www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

Interesting-looking article on the concept of "Universal Basic Mobility" which apparently is increasingly being used in the US doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Support among Dutch voters for Wilders' PVV has plummeted, from a (ridiculous) high of 31% in the beginning of last year to less than 18% now.
Three days left to fall further.

It was a pleasure to be part of this yesterday :)
It was a pleasure to be part of the PhD jury of the new doctor @jaimesierra.bsky.social on car dependence in Lombardy, at Politecnico di Milano - with Paola Pucci, Biagio Ciuffo, Louison Duboz, @giuliomattioli.bsky.social and Paolo Beria. No cars or planes involved, just trains and bicycles.

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It was a pleasure to be part of the PhD jury of the new doctor @jaimesierra.bsky.social on car dependence in Lombardy, at Politecnico di Milano - with Paola Pucci, Biagio Ciuffo, Louison Duboz, @giuliomattioli.bsky.social and Paolo Beria. No cars or planes involved, just trains and bicycles.

Chuffed to be at Politecnico di Milano today to examine a PhD thesis on car dependence
Interesting-looking new study finding that the climate mitigation policies of EU Member states in the agriculture, transport, energy consumption & industry sectors are 54 % "Improve", only 14 % "Shift" and just 2% "Avoid" doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:

cssn.org/news-researc...

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💚 this table in Chp 3 How Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Impede Climate Action [in Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment👉 cssn.org/news-researc... that NAMES & DESCRIBES the rhetorical & narratives that the Coal, Utilities, Automotive, Maritime & Aviation sectors use for climate obstruction
Billionaire wealth has gone up by $33 trillion in the last ten years.

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Interesting new report by the German Environment Agency on tourism & long-distance travel, showing (among other things) that the distance travelled by plane was over the pre-COVID peak in 2023 already umweltbundesamt.de/publikatione...

Overall I was struck by the similarities between what happens in the road transport sector and the other sectors examined - certainly demonstrates the value of bringing these sectors together! (End)

...and the narratives they use

...as well as the main action strategies they adopt

The chapter identifies the main actors contributing to climate obstruction within each sector...

I was one of the contributing authors to Chapter 3, which focuses on the role of actors in the coal, utilities and transport sectors.

Transport here includes not just road transport / the automotive industry (on which I provided some input) but also shipping and aviation.

The book (edited by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social and colleagues) really covers an impressive amount of ground
This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc...

A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars

I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)