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The mobility referred to the University is a significant part of the urban mobility in Trieste. Therefore a specific project was performed to analyze the main problems, to understand the preference structure of the users and to define some possible solutions to improve the accessibility of the University and to reduce urban congestion, mainly through sustainable transport modes. The survey pointed out features and preferences of different user groups, which were explicitly considered in the AHP assessment framework, and allowed to define criteria and to fix the weights. Also the presence of more than one decision maker was explicitly included in the hierarchy, to model the different impact of different user groups on the decision makers. As a result, the ranking of the alternatives has been defined, which has been taken into account by the decision makers for their planning choices. From a methodological point of view, the specific structure of the AHP hierarchy allowed to model the decisional problem even if a more complex ANP approach would be perhaps more suitable to consider interactions between nodes in this group decision problem

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The paper presents the results of tests performed on an existing iron ore sintering plant to evaluate the limiting capability of dioxins releases to air and of measures and technologies adopted. These measures and technologies are in line with the best available techniques as stated in the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive 96/61/EC, so a measurement campaign was planned to determine the operating conditions capable of complying with the legislation in force. In this paper, the authors define the running conditions tested and the manner in which the testing campaign was performed. The results are presented and analysed in the light of the aims of the study.

The present paper is a result of a research project aimed at limiting the environmental impact of an Italian ironmaking plant. The present study is focused on the sinter plant in view of formulating effective structural, managerial and behavioural practices with regard to the identification and application of the best available techniques (BAT) in accordance with the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control directive 96/61/EC. After a brief description of the plant under study, the most recent and most significant findings of the research with regard to the prevention of dioxin pollution with specific reference to the sinter plant are presented. The main objective is to verify the capability of technologies adopted at the plant to prevent the release to air of dioxins in compliance with limits placed by the local authority.