BackForward From ESPO news, August 2005: “since May 2004, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia become EU members, maritime transport in the Baltic Sea decreased 10 percent; while road transport increased almost 50 percent. This means that an inverse modal shift (from sea to road) is taking place as the result of the enlargement”
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about ISIS

ISIS (Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems) is a research and consulting outfit, active since 1971 and specialised in system analysis, design and building of information and decision support systems, mathematical modelling and operational research.


ISIS methodology and tools are applicable to the entire range of sectors and economic activities in which planning and policy design represent aspects of strategic importance.

ISIS has accrued particular expertise in the areas of energy and environment, transport systems, urban policy issues, planning and quality control in the service sector, as can be seen from the list of projects.

For the development of its activities, ISIS employs the professional contribution of about 20 full time partners and collaborators. In addition, ISIS has established a network of alliances with companies and research teams currently active in several European countries.

ISIS is equipped with hardware and software resources in line with the most up-to-date, modern technologies, and has its own capability to develop interactive and user-friendly software tools.
Partners: Carlo Sessa - Andrea Ricci - Stefano Faberi - Donato Pellegrini - Nicola Piccioni - Mario Gualdi - Riccardo Enei - Rita Esposito - Danilo Zaini - Silvia Gaggi - Stefano Proietti - Adele Vendetti - Michela Fioretto -
- Carlo Sessa -
Graduated in Statistical Sciences at the University of Rome. Before joining ISIS in 1983, he has conducted research at NYU, where he worked with Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontieff.
He is President of ISIS, and has specialised in the design and development of statistical indicators systems, methodologies and software.
He is a consultant to many Italian Public Administration bodies, both central and local, in the field of Public Services performances and quality. He was Project Coordinator of several national and EU research projects, including ACT-VILL and ESTEEM for DGXII, and the City of Tomorrow project Transplus.
He was the Italian representative to the COST 332 Action on Land Use and Transport Policies.
- Andrea Ricci -
Managing Director of ISIS. His key qualifications are Transport studies and information systems (sustainable mobility, transport pricing, social and environmental costs, quality of transport systems and services, transport modelling) and Government and Corporate Planning (Transportation, Energy, Environment).
He participated and/or coordinated several EU Transport related projects, among which CAPRI, Concerted Action on Transport; QUITS, a methodology for the evaluation of the quality of transport systems and services; the Pilot Action for the Benchmarking of Urban Transport Systems; the QUATTRO Project, on the quality of Urban Public Transport; ESTEEM - European Scenarios on Transport Energy Environment for Metropolitan areas EU FP4, DG XII, Joule.
He served as evaluator of Transport RTD proposals within the 3rd and 4th Calls for Tenders of FP4 (Road Transport, Strategic Transport and Urban Transport) EU, DG VII.
- Stefano Faberi -
Is graduated in mechanical engineering at the University of Rome. He is currently Managing Director of ISIS.
His key qualifications are Energy studies and information systems (Rational Use of Energy, Energy modelling, Energy planning) and Government and Corporate Planning (Energy, Environment, Transportation).
He is an ENEA (the Italian Energy Agency) consultant in the field of the Regional Energy Planning and participated and/or co-ordinated several Energy related projects, among which the SAVE (DG XVII) projects MURE, a RUE measures database and modelling tools for the evaluation of the energy saving potentials and related costs, SACHA, a state of art survey and energy efficiency improvement analysis on the major appliances standards, market and technology in seven ECE countries, the EU FP4 EURIO project on the East –West co-operation in the energy modelling field (DG XII. Joule) , several SYNERGY (DG XVII) training and co-operation projects.
He is currently leading the ALTENER (DG XVII) project JOB, that aims to develop and validate an operational approach for territorial planning in the field of waste re-use and biomass.
- Donato Pellegrini -
Graduated in Actuarial Statistical Sciences and he is an expert in statistical analysis in the fields of Energy, Environment and Transport with special concern to the development of methodologies for evaluation of the quality of transport systems and simulation mathematical models for urban transport scenarios.
His professional experience includes participation to several transport-related projects within EU DG VII and DG XII. Among them are COST - Action 307: rational use of energy in the transport sector in collaboration with ENEA (National Energy Agency); COST - Action 329: modelling tools in the area of road safety; REFORM: research on freight platforms in Europe; QUITS, Quality Indicators for Transport Systems; ESTEEM: European Scenarios on Transport, Energy and Environment for Metropolitan Areas; INFREDAT, Intermodal FREight transport DATa; various editions of MURE, Mesures d’Utilisation Rationnelle de l’Energie and SAMELEC, Synthetic Assessment Model of ELECtricity Demand.
He acted as a consultant to organisations such as the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research) being charged with the design and development of databases and information systems.
- Nicola Piccioni -
Expert in information science. He has specialised in the the most common programming languages and databases.
He developed for many Italian private and public organisations. His main experience concerns the design, development and implementation of databases, information systems and software packages, using ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP, SADT and other methodologies which he applied in various fields from accounting and administrative management, economic and financial evaluation – in particular of High Speed trains; the nautical sector, sale and distribution forecasting, energy saving interventions in the household sector (ENEA/MURE TERRITORIO).
He was responsible for the EU (DGXVIII) MURE II Project of the development of the software packages for interrogation and simulation of a database on energy saving measures in the household, industrial, tertiary and transport sectors.
- Mario Gualdi -
Holds degrees in Political Science from LUISS (Rome, Italy), and in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA). His professional experience includes project procurement and management for a US based consulting firm working with various international organizations (World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund), and export management for an engineering firm based in Germany. He joined I.S.I.S. in 1999 and became partner in 2000. He has since been involved in FP5 and FP6 research, demonstration and evaluation projects focussing on transport, energy and land use, among which: COST 332 Action, TRANSLAND and TRANSPLUS (transport and land use integration); CUPID and PROGRESS (urban road pricing demonstrations and evaluation); MARETOPE (regulation and organisation of local public transport systems); PLUME (land use and mobility planning). He is currently involved in the CIVITAS Initiative through the project METEOR (technical support, evaluation, monitoring and policy recommendations). He is also actively involved in the development and operation of web-based management applications.
- Riccardo Enei -
Is a research consultant for ISIS. He is expert in the field of economic research and information systems for data analysis.
His professional experience includes consultant activity to CNEL (National Council for Economy And Labour) and to the University of Rome, Faculty of Statistic and Demographic Science in the field of studies and research in economic and sociological matter.
He participated to the drawing up of documents and implementation of studies on urban and regional systems analysis such as "Notebook on the Roman metropolitan area and Law 142" Rome, Lazio region, 1991; "An algorithm for the identification of metropolitan areas", Paper presented at the XII Italian Conference of Regional Sciences, Taormina, 21-24 October 1991; Brodolini Foundation, "Relational goodwill and entrepreneurial vitality in Sicily", Rome, 1994.
He co-operated with the Local Finance Research Group co-ordinated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to the following activities: Annual reports "on the analysis of treasury transfers to the local entities " in the year 1992 and in the year 1993"; "Research on the determination of parameter objectives for the division of treasury transfers to the local entities in the year 1993". CISPEL, "Report on the state of local public services - Activation levels and methods of managing services", Rome, 1996 and "Official Statistical Economic Report" , Rome, 1998; SUDGEST: XI° and XII° "Report on the Situation of Local Power And Services" for the years 1996/1997 and 1997/1998 respectively.
At present, he is involved in the CANTIQUE project, Concerted Action on non-technical measures and their impact on quality air and emissions, EU DGVII.
- Rita Esposito -
Senior Researcher works in ISIS since 1979. She is an expert in statistical analysis in the fields of Energy, Environment and Transport. Her professional history includes consulting activity to CNR (National Research Committee ) and ENEA (the Italian Energy Agency) in the fields or economic and energetic research , implementation of studies on input-output analysis. Since 1998 she has participated to following European Research Project: SACHA 2 and SACHA 2.1 ( a state of art survey and energy efficiency improvement analysis on the major appliances standard); GRIDS ( Government Regulatory Energy Measures Impact and Diffusion Speed Appraisal Method); EUROSTAT, Study on the availability and quality of intermodal transborder data flows in the EU. UNITE (UNIfication of accounts and marginal cost for Transport Efficiency), LTF (Project de nouvelle liaison Ferroviaire Lyon-Turin, tunnel de base franco-italien – etude de traffic voyageurs)E-GRIDS (Enhancing The Government Regulatory Energy Measures Impact and Diffusion Speed Appraisal Method) SEAMATE (Socio-Economic Analysis and Macro-modelling of Adapting to information Technologies in Europe), ETIS BASE (Core Database Development for the European Transport policy Information System) PWC EUROPEAN RAILWAYS INFRASTRUCTURE MASTERPLAN (ERIM) , INDIC – EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DGTREN: Identification of Indicators to assess the implementation of the White Paper on European transport policy , HEATCO – EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Developing Harmonised European Approaches for Transport , GRACE – EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Generalisation of Research on Accounts and cost estimation (Urban Transport Mobility) .
- Danilo Zaini -
Graduated in Statistic and Economic Science. He has been an ISIS consultant since 2000. Involved to European research projects within the 5th and 6th Framework Programmes as web manager: ASSET (Assessing Sensitiveness to Transport), CATRIN (Cost Allocation of Transport Infrastructure Cost), COMPRO (Common Procurement of Clean Collective and Public Service Transport Vehicles), ECOCOLD, ECOWET, GRACE (Generalisation of Research on Accounts and cost estimation), IMPRINT NET (Implementing Pricing Reforms in Transport Net Working), TRANSPLUS (Transport Planning, Land Use and Sustainability), REVENUE (Revenue Use from Transport Pricing), THRESHOLDS (TOOLS for Transport forecasting and Scenario testing), ISHTAR (Integrated Software for Health, Transport efficiency and Artistic heritage Recovery), IMPRINT(Implementing Pricing Reforms in Transport Net Working), TRANSPLUS (Transport Planning, Land Use and Sustainability). Special Tools: online survey for the projects NEEDS (Acceptance of the externality concept), CITYMOBIL (VISIONING OF THE FUTURE) and COMPRO QUESTIONNAIRE
- Silvia Gaggi -
Graduated in International and Diplomatic Science at the University of Trieste in 1995 and took a post graduate degree in European Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, in 1996. During her experience as coordinator of the network Access/Eurocities (Brussels), association of European local authorities promoting sustainable urban transport, she acquired a strong experience in project and communication management as well as policy influencing in the mobility field both at European and local level. Her projects record includes: European Mobility Week, In Town without my Car! Day, EPOMM, TOSCA, MOST, BESTUFS, SMILE. She is now working for ISIS in the management of European research projects.
- Stefano Proietti -
Graduaded in Political Sciences at University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) He held a European Master in Environmental Management (EAEME). His professional experience includes employment at Brussels Institute for the Management of the Environment (IBGE) in the frame of the Information Society DG’s project Ernet (European Recycling Network), a traineeship at the European Parliament (Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection) in Brussels (follow-up of legislative dossiers) and a traineeship at the Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling (ACRR) in Brussels (study on competencies of local authorities on taxes and tariffs for waste collection). At ISIS he has been contributing to several research and consultancy projects, like TRANSPLUS, MARETOPE, METEOR, CUPID, PROGRESS, BEACON, INTEGRATED SERVICES, INDIC, BIOGASMAX, SPICYCLES, ECO BUILD.
- Adele Vendetti -
Graduated in Statistical Science at the University of Rome. She has been an ISIS research consultant since 2002. She has specialised in information systems for data analysis. His professional history includes consulting activity to ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Environment ) in the fields of economic, transport and energy research. At the European level she is currently involved in the EFONET project NEEDS Project BESTRANS Project, Benchmarking of Energy and EmiSsion Performance in Urban Public TRANSport Operations and HEARTS Project, Health Effects and Risks of Transport System.
- Michela Fioretto -
Graduated in Industrial Engineering with a specialisation in the energy field at the University of Udine. She has been working for an ICT company and for ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Environment) in the fields of renewable energies and economic research, transport and land use. She has specialised in data management, evaluation of rational uses of energy and policies’ impact analysis. She has been an ISIS consultant since 2004, and participated to European research projects such as MURE-ODYSSEE, El-Tertiary, ESD (Study on the Energy Savings Potentials in EU Member States, Candidate Countries and EEA Countries), and CIVITAS METEOR.