dott. ing. Franco Oboni (Ph.D.) civil engineer EPFL/SIA

STUDIES

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1988 from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland: "The uncertainties and probabilities applied to civil works."

Specialized courses for the improvement of heat buildings, the application of statistics and probability in civil engineering, as well as postgraduate courses of concrete structures, steel and wood, (EPFL) in 1985.

Diploma in civil engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1978.

 

REFERENCES

Department of Road Safety T.T.A. EU.RO.SA.IN: Founder and Principal Advisor (European Road Safety Institute www.eurosain.org).

Riskope International: principal consultant, director since 2000 and technical director of Riskope Italy SRL.

Obon Riskope and Associates: (ex Obon Associates Inc., Obon Associates SA) present in Switzerland and Canada, president, from 1988 to present (www.riskope.com).

CSD SA, Head of Sector and CEO. Geotechnical Laboratory, EPFL, Research Engineer, 1981-1984.

Bureau Schalcher & Associés, Project Engineer, 1978, 1979-1981.

National Informatics Centre, Department of Civil Engineering Director, La Paz, Bolivia, 1978-1979.

 

EXPERTISE

Crisis management, communications and preparedness

Due-diligence, acquisitions, strategic organization

Natural and man-made risk and hazard analyses

Disaster recovery plans and business continuity

Risk assessment and management

Crisis plans drills and instruction

Teaching, training and coaching

Failure and accident analyses

Negotiations and litigations

Landslides and rock falls

Human error analyses

 

PROFILE

Dr. Oboni has managed a broad range of risk & crisis mitigation projects, risk and security audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies as well as planning and management of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary studies, projects review, coaching and communication to technical and non technical stakeholders. Crisis management, catastrophe preparedness and security/communication processes as well as the relative drills constitute one significant sector of activities which also include Risk Based Decision Making (RBDM) and Comparative Decision Analysis (CDA) support.

Dr. Oboni has acted as court expert witness, mediator and facilitator in conflict resolutions in the fields of construction, environmental rehabilitation, catastrophes and accidents.

He has participated in the evaluation and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, advised on strategic organization, structuring businesses and deals and the ownership of large entities (off shore companies, trusts, banking instruments). Dr. Oboni has developed brokering activities to select construction companies on a world-wide basis for a construction portfolio of over 5BUS$. The construction portfolio, mainly located in North Africa and the Middle East encompasses industrial facilities, water infrastructures, airports, harbors and transportation.

Dr. Oboni’s projects include short term missions on five continents, definition of needs studies, training for corporate clients, negotiations with community leaders, as well as the preparation of monitoring programs, cyclic risk reassessment and updating of probabilistic analyses after unusual events. Dr. Oboni has also a strong experience gathered teaching/training/ coaching on Risk and Crisis Management corporate and key personnel of medium to large organizations as well at various universities around the world. Dr. Oboni offers a unique blend of technical expertise and teaching capabilities which, compounded with his deep understanding of cross-cultural environments, enhance the positive results of his short courses and seminars.

With his strong practical and applied engineering/contracting background, coupled with long term research development and continuous scientific updating, Dr. Oboni has been involved in risk and hazard analyses for a number of large facilities and organizations, including entire countries, regions, military, food and non-food industries, large linear facilities (railroads, highways, pipelines, tunnels, power lines), humanitarian demining and unexploded ordnance as well as large hydropower projects (dams, reservoirs and pen-stocks).

Dr. Oboni has supported numerous studies involving the use of innovative mitigative designs and construction techniques, and has provided alternatives evaluation, including financial life-cycle analysis for operations throughout the world. Lately Dr. Oboni has been involved in projects using artificial intelligence (www.ailandslide.com), dealing with information warfare, and developing synthetic environments for training of key personnel.

Dr. Oboni has led multinational groups in the accomplishment of extremely complicated tasks in a timely and effective manner. Assignments include numerous expert missions in Europe and overseas (Algeria, Brazil, Cambodia, Italy, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Libya, Canada, Australia, Gabon, Madagascar, Lao PDR, Chile, Peru, Philippines, the US including Alaska, Japan, Switzerland, France and Oman), including on-site consultation, forensic, expert witness and troubleshooting.

Dr. Oboni is the co-author of a recent book entitled: “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management”, ISBN 978-0-9784462-0-8, www.oboni.net.

 

ing. Marco Dellasette (Ph.D.) traffic and transport engineer

STUDES

Degree in civil engineering - transport address from the Polytechnic of Turin, 1988.

Doctorate (PhD) in transport at the University of Trieste, Faculty of Engineering, 1995.

 

REFERENCES

Founding member and legal representative of the TTA - Transportation, Traffic and Environment.

Appointed in 1995 visiting lecturer in Transport Sector by the Board of Civil-Construction of the Turin Polytechnic.

Deputy Director, Head of Master and teacher of second-tier "Transport and logistics systems, and mobile networks" of the Polytechnic of Turin at the COREP (from 2000 to 2008).

Owner of the Studio Company D7 SAS, specializes in developing software applications engineering of transport and for public transport companies, from 1989 to 2009 - the year when the company was acquired by the TTA.

Founding member of Traffic-eye Company Ltd., which specializes in monitoring and traffic survey, the 2008.

Person of the Institute for Italy Eu.Ro.Sa.In. (Europe Road Safety Institute) working in the field of certification of road safety since 2008.

 

EXPERTISE

Mobility planning and traffic simulation and Macro-Micro-dynamic simulation of traffic Road Safety Education, training.

 

PROFILE

Over the years he obtained extensive experience in the field of mobility and traffic planning, dealing with major infrastructure highways, roads and railways in north-west.

He is also teaching at the Polytechnic of Turin COREP, which coordinated the Master of Transport and Sustainable Mobility in the years 2000-2008 as Deputy Director.

He was involved in the audits of the organization's impact on traffic and roads and parking areas serving the major business parks and outlet of the Piedmont, including the Outlet of Serravalle (McArthur Glen - 180 shops, 5000 parking spaces), Vicolungo (Neinver - 130 brands, 4000 car parks) and Mondovi (150 shops, 4500 parking spaces), the main commercial centers of Panorama / WFP, Bennet and Auchan.

It carries out regular consultation with the municipal and provincial public administrations in the planning of public and private mobility, traffic, road safety and sustainable mobility (environmental mitigation).

He works for the public administration of the Plans of Transportation, Traffic Plans, Plans for Parking, Road Safety Plans, etc. ..

He has collaborated with leading architects and planners, including Benedict Camerana Aimaro Island, Andreas Kipar, Pablo LaGuardia, Carlos Lamela, Franco Mello, for urban design and transport infrastructure.

 

dott. Potito Iascone expert on traffic laws

STUDES

Degree in Law at the University of Pisa with a thesis on maritime law in 1975.

Specialization course in Traffic Law degree from the Institute of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna, in the academic year 1968-69.

 

REFERENCES

An official of the Municipality of Genoa in the Body of the Municipal Police (since 1959 to 1965).

Employee of the Municipality of Viareggio with the rank of Commander of the Corps of Municipal Police (from 1965 to 1982).

Employee of the Municipality of Genoa with the rank of Commander of the Corps of Police and Director of Traffic (1982 to 1985).

Commander of the Interim Municipal Police of Capannori (LU) (1985 to 1987).

Interim Police Commander Body Mass Municipal (1988 to 1989).

Employee of the Municipality of Rome as Director of Operational Services-Coordinator of Traffic and Municipal Police Establishment (from 1996 to 1998).

Consultant at the Ministry of Public Works - General Inspectorate for Traffic and Road Safety on the Road Traffic Law and Technology.

Component expert of the National Commission for the reform of road signs (DM 28 October 1988).

Member of the Ministerial Commission for the Safety of Traffic at the Ministry of Public Works (June 23, 1988 DM).

Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Observatory of traffic for road safety at the Ministry of Public Works (November 25, 1988 DM).

From 1988 to 1992: Secretary General of the Interministerial Commission for the New Highway Code (OF November 28, 1988).

From 1993 to 1995: Member of the Commission to update the New Highway Code (Decree 15 May 1995).

Member of the Ministerial Commission for the evaluation of the parking lot of plans in art. Law 27 of March 24, 1989, No 122 (D.P.C.M. January 10, 1991).

Member of the Technical Committee of C.C.I.S.S. (Information Coordination Centre for Road Safety) of the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of the Interior, from its inception to date.

Member of PIARC, member of the Italian Section, Committee of 13 "Road Safety".

Member of the Technical Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for the reform of the Highway Code (DI 10 May 2001, No 3029).

Member of the Interministerial Working Group to review the legislation on advertising along the roads.

Member of the Interministerial Working Group for review of legislation on road signs (DM 19 May 2004, No 1905).

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

Member of the Technical Committee for Municipal Police and the Urban Mobility ANCI (National Association of Italian Municipalities).

Consultant to the Federtrasporti (Italian Federation of Public Transport Companies in Persons) in the area of ​​mobility and urban transport.

Consultant to the S.T.A. S.p.A. - Mobility Agency of the City of Rome - on the Road Traffic Law and Technology, management of parking in parking areas operated and rates, coordinating services of auxiliary services on traffic management and administrative sanctions.

Consultant ACI (Automobile Club of Italy), ACI Informatica SpA organization of services for the management of administrative sanctions on Road Traffic.

Consultant to the FISE-Aniasi (National Association Car without driver) of Confindustria for the matter of traffic laws and management service "sc car."

Consultant and Lecturer for the organization of the police road for about thirty different Italian provinces.

 

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

Professor of Law and Technology of Traffic for courses organized by: Ministry of Public Works - General Inspectorate for Traffic and Road Safety, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for the Carabinieri in Rome Agriculture, Ministry of Finance at the School of Public Administration "Ezio Vanoni", Rome.

Professor of legislation on road safety to the Masters of the Lazio region organized by the Faculty of Architecture - DIPS - University Roma Tre.

Lecturer at the Seminar of specialization of the Faculty of Engineering of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Department of Hydraulics Transportation and Roads, on "Management and road safety responsibilities by the owner."

Professor of Law and technique of Traffic and administrative police at about fifty different Italian municipalities.

 

RIVISTE PROFESSIONALI

Co-Director of “Rivista Giuridica di Polizia” magazine, Maggioli Editore, Rimini.
Co-Director of “Il Vigile Urbano” magazine, Maggioli Editore, Rimini.

Contributed to the magazine:
“Rivista Giuridica della Circolazione Stradale e dei Trasporti”;
“Archivio Giuridico Circolazione e Traffico”;
“Diritto e pratica dei sinistri stradali e delle assicurazioni”.

 

CO-AUTHORS OF:

“La nuova depenalizzazione”, comment to 24 novembre 1981 law, n. 689, Maggioli Editore, Rimini, 1982.
“Il Codice del commercio e dell’annona”, Maggioli Editore, Rimini, 1984 (and the other editions to follow, latest edition 1998).

 

ing. Giovanni Menotti engineer traffic and transport

STUDES

Degree in civil engineering - transport address at the Politecnico di Torino, 1982.

 

REFERENCES

Traffic and transport engineer, writing in 1983 the Order of Engineers of the Province of Turin.

Member and legal representative of T.T.A.

Founding member of the study PRINCIPIA associated engineering, since 1992.

Co-founder of the Company Traffic-eye Ltd, which specializes in monitoring and traffic survey, since 2008.

Founding member of the Institute Eu.Ro.Sa.In. (Europe Road Safety Institute) working in the field of certification of road safety, since 2008.

Member of the Traffic Engineering and Transport (AIIT).

Member of the Society INFOTRANSPORT.

Register of Technical Consultants Office of the Court of Turin.

 

EXPERTISE

Transport planning and mobility planning business planning road traffic surveys and investigations on the mobility.

 

PROFILE

Since the first work experience was in charge of transport and traffic, gaining extensive experience in the fields of transport and mobility planning and road design.

In these areas is responsible for the management of orders and the coordination of working groups and study and is responsible for general administration.

He was involved in the audits of the organization's impact on traffic and roads and parking areas serving more than 40 commercial settlements of the Piedmont, including the major business parks and outlet, also following the design of the road network at the service works the same (roads, roundabouts, junctions).

In the field of transport planning has been involved in financial analysis and economic feasibility assessments for interventions in the motorway sector.

 

arch. Marco Pinna infrastructure security expert

STUDES

Degree in architecture - from the Polytechnic of Turin, Faculty of Architecture, 2002.

 

REFERENCES

Professional Urbafor at the Studio, which specializes in planning and traffic calming, safety measures for urban and extra-urban roads, rehabilitation of urban spaces, urban furniture.

 

EXPERTISE

Mobility and traffic planning. Planning of road safety.

 

PROFILE

Since 1998 he has worked since 2002 for mobility and is part of the study Urbafor.

Expert in traffic calming, road safety and design, has produced numerous projects for the safety of urban and suburban streets and given expert advice to government agencies at various levels.

Many measures under the National Road Safety Plan, in its various programs for implementation, which took care of the practical application and design / implementation of the final works on behalf of several municipalities.

He designed and implemented the first part of Zone 30 in Italy PNSS for municipalities over 10,000 population.

Since 2002 he has collaborated on numerous urban plans and executive Urbafor Traffic at the studio (which it has drawn more than 70) which is currently co-owner and in which he provides his professional career.