Francesca Pagliara is Associate Professor in Transport Engineering at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. She has been Visiting Professor at several European and non-European Universities and has participated in several research projects. Her main fields of research are the wider socio-economic impacts of high-speed rail systems, the analysis and quantification of the impact of the transportation system on the tourism market, public engagement in the transportation decision-making process, Transit Oriented Development Policies and Integrated Land-use/Transport models. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the International Railway Transportation Research Center of Silk Road of the Beijing Jiaotong University. She is author of academic books and of more than 100 papers.