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
Pinned
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...
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
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Great to see @vallert.bsky.social research in the spotlight! :)
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%.
I am sure by the end of the year, they can get this below 50%.
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Onward and upwards!
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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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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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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...
#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
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
#TheIntercept reports on how #AgenziaNova fired its reporter @gabrielenunziati.bsky.social for asking a question about #Israel
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/j...
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EU agrees 90% emissions reduction target for 2040, with at least 85% domestic.
Daily Briefing: World ‘heading for 2.8C’ | EU agrees 90% cut | Lula’s forest ‘vision’
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November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
EU agrees 90% emissions reduction target for 2040, with at least 85% domestic.
Very interesting-looking new systematic literature review on Low Emission Zones in Europe and their effects doi.org/10.1186/s125...
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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
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
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
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
Thanks again @hertiedatascience.bsky.social for having me and for the great discussion
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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
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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...
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...
www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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...
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...
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Interesting-looking article on the concept of "Universal Basic Mobility" which apparently is increasingly being used in the US doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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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.
Three days left to fall further.
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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.
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.
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It was a pleasure to be part of this yesterday :)
Chuffed to be at Politecnico di Milano today to examine a PhD thesis on car dependence
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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...
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
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It’s gonna trickle down any moment now
Billionaire wealth has gone up by $33 trillion in the last ten years.
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s gonna trickle down any moment now
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BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:
cssn.org/news-researc...
cssn.org/news-researc...
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:
cssn.org/news-researc...
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
October 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
💚 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
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...
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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...
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)
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)
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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)
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)
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It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Interesting-looking study into the drivers of global transport CO2 emissions from 1850 to 2020 finding that efficiency gains were insufficient to counter rising demand driven by GDP per capita, service intensity, and population doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Interesting-looking study into the drivers of global transport CO2 emissions from 1850 to 2020 finding that efficiency gains were insufficient to counter rising demand driven by GDP per capita, service intensity, and population doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
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One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.
October 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
Interesting-looking article on how technological developments are used as a "technofix" is used to delay real action to reduce emissions in the aviation sector doi.org/10.1080/2158...
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Interesting-looking article on how technological developments are used as a "technofix" is used to delay real action to reduce emissions in the aviation sector doi.org/10.1080/2158...