Prof Chandra Bhat

University Distinguished Teaching Professor

Joe J. King Endowed Chair Professor in Engineering
Director, D-STOP USDOT Tier 1 Center
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
 

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Prof. Chandra R. Bhat is a world-renowned expert in the area of transportation and urban policy design, with far reaching implications for public health, energy dependence, greenhouse gas emissions, and societal quality of life. Methodologically, he has been a pioneer in the formulation and use of statistical and econometric methods to analyze human choice behavior. His current research includes the social and environmental aspects of transportation, planning implications of connected and automated smart transportation systems (CASTS), and data science and predictive analytics.

He is a recipient of many awards, including the 2017 Council of University Transportation Center (CUTC) Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Research and Education, the 2015 ASCE Frank Masters Award, and the 2013 German Humboldt Award. He was listed in 2017 as one of the top ten transportation thought leaders in academia by the Eno Foundation. He is also a top-cited transportation engineering researcher (web of science h-index of 51 and google scholar h-index of 83), and was listed in the most cited researchers in civil engineering by Shanghai Ranking’s global ranking of academic subjects 2016 by Elsevier. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research – Part B.

Prof. Juan de Dios Ortúzar

Honorary Full Professor, Emeritus Professor

Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering.
Associate Researcher, BRT+ Center of Excellence, Researcher, Institute for Complex Engineering Systems Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Topic: The Importance of Habit and Perceptions in Understanding the Choice of Unsustainable Modes

Prof. J. de D. Ortúzar got his PhD from Leeds University in 1980, became Full Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1986 and Emeritus in 2017. He was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) in 2018, the Life Achievement Award (International Association for Travel Behaviour Research) in 2012 and the Humboldt Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) in 2010. Prof. Ortúzar pioneered the development of discrete choice modelling techniques and their application to determine willingness-to-pay for reducing externalities (accidents, noise and pollution).

The valuation methodologies developed with his research team have been applied in Australia, Colombia, Germany, Norway and Spain. He is founding member of the Institute in Complex Engineering Systems (2007); of the Chilean team leading the Centre of Excellence BRT + (funded by the Volvo Research & Educational Foundations), with MIT, Sydney University, University of Pretoria and EMBARQ (2010), and of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) at PUC (2012). He also led the interdisciplinary project Understanding Wine Preferences with the Centre for Aromas and Flavours at PUC and the participation of the Beijing Agricultural University.

He has formed several generations of professionals and specialists (including 15 PhD and 45 MSc) with a profound service vocation, who work in academia, government and professional practice in Chile, Latin America and Europe. He has published over 180 papers in archival journals and book chapters. Co-author of Modelling Transport, a book published by Wiley reflecting the state-of-practice in this discipline, which has sold over 20,000 copies and is now in its fourth edition. Finally, he is currently Co-Editor in Chief of Transportation Research A and member of the editorial board of several international journals.

Prof. Michael Bell

Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics

Chair of Ports and Maritime Logistics
Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) 
University of Sydney Business School
The University of Sydney

Michael Bell is the Foundation Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics at the Institute of Transport and Logistics. Prior to his commencement at the University of Sydney in August 2012, he was Professor of Transport Operations and Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC) at Imperial College London. Having graduated in 1975 from Cambridge University with a BA in Economics, he obtained an MSc in Transportation (1976) and a PhD in Freight Distribution (1981), both from Leeds University.

Between 1979 and 1982, he worked as a Research Associate at University College London, before moving to the Institut für Verkehrswesen at the Technical University of Karlsruhe as an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral Research Fellow. He returned to the UK in 1984 to a New Blood lectureship at the University of Newcastle. In 1992 he became the Deputy Director of the Transport Operations Research Group (TORG), becoming its Director in 1996, when he was also promoted to a Personal Chair.

In January 2002, he moved to Imperial College London. His research and teaching interests are catholic, spanning ports and maritime logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering, and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including Transportation Network Analysis, published in 2007) and was for 17 years an Associate Editor of Transportation Research B. In 2005 he founded the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC), a virtual centre spanning both Civil Engineering and the Business School dedicated to research and consultancy in the field of ports and maritime logistics.

Prof. Glenn Lyons

Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility

Centre for Transport and Society
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of West England Bristol

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Topic: What do we mean by climate action? Your role in making a change

Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at the University of West of England, Bristol, UK. He is also Vice-President of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation. Spanning between academia and practice, he specialises in addressing transport sector developments in the context of ongoing and uncertain social and technological change. He has been instrumental in bringing forward the ‘decide and provide’ transport planning paradigm and led the development of FUTURES – a six-stage vision-led approach to strategic planning for an uncertain world.

He is the overall co-ordinator of the three-year pan-European project ‘Triple Access Planning for an Uncertain World’ (https://www.tapforuncertainty.eu/) and since 2019 has been the technical lead in a ‘Futures Support’ call-off contract with the UK Department for Transport (DfT). With his recent roles as a member of the Wales Roads Review Panel, Chair of the Road Investment Scrutiny Panel, and previous senior-level secondments into the DfT and the New Zealand Ministry of Transport, Glenn has considerable experience of stakeholder engagement across policymaking, consultancy and academia.

He is also a trustee of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund and a member of the DfT’s Joint Analysis Development Panel which advises DfT on its modelling and appraisal methods and strategies. A former Chair of the Transport Planning Society (TPS), Glenn led the CIHT/TPS 10-year review of the Transport Planning Professional competencies in 2017/18, following on from recommendations arising from the CIHT FUTURES initiative which he also led.

Glenn is a vocal supporter of the need for decisive and urgent action to address the climate emergency, as well as the need for further progress on diversity and inclusion within the transport sector. He emphasises the importance of constructive challenge, especially in these difficult and changing times for highways and transportation. He is keen to support emerging professionals, in particular, in being able to bring their authentic selves to the fore as they play their parts in shaping the future of the profession.

Prof. Wafaa Saleh

Professor of Transport Engineering

School of Engineering & the Built Environment 
Edinburgh Napier University, UK 

Visiting Professor, PNU, Riyadh Saudi Arabia 

Wafaa is a Civil Engineer and a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in teaching, research and industrial engineering projects. The main focus of her research interests includes modelling travel behaviour, transport and the environment, accident analysis and investigations, modelling pedestrian’s behaviour and traffic engineering. Wafaa has successfully directed several PhD completions and published over 160 articles. She has edited a number of books and special issues at top academic international transport Journals, and has been invited to peer review in international applications, keynote addresses and to international external examinations.

Wafaa is applying her working knowledge of theory and practice which is reflected in various publications and academic work. Her work at professorial level has been recognised internationally through international appointments, election to Chair and contribute to a number of national and international scientific committees’ conferences and symposia. She has sat on a number of Faculty and School committees at Edinburgh Napier University over the past 20 years, and has led the development of the environmental engineering lab at Edinburgh Napier University.

This development involved collaborations with engineering colleagues at the university and external funding on research on motorbike simulations, GPS and EEG applications, gas analysers, emission monitoring and modelling and other research applications. Wafaa has led and contributed to research projects in excess of £2 million, including securing research grants as Principal Investigator/ Project Supervisor from EU, EPSRC, DfT, Scottish Executive, Saudi Arabia and UAE Governments and other research councils. Wafaa has led a number of collaborations with commercial software companies, Lothian buses, Scottish Enterprise and the EU.

Prof. Charles Anum Adams

Professor at the KNUST

Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Civil & Geo-Engineering
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi, Ghana.

Prof Charles Anum Adams is a distinguished educator, Associate Professor, with over 25 years professional practice as a Civil and Transportation Engineer. He is the Programme manager of the Road and Transportation Programme at KNUST and the Lead of the road and Transportation group at the KNUST. He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, MSc in Transport, DIC from Imperial College/University College, London and a PhD in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Transportation.

He serves as moderator of Civil Engineering Programmes in KAAF University college and Accra Institute of Technology and served as external examiner and assessor on several programmes.

Prof. Jan-Dirk Schmöcker

Associate Professor

School of Global Engineering and the Department of Urban Management
Kyoto University

Jan-Dirk Schmöcker is an Associate Professor within the School of Global Engineering and the Department of Urban Management at Kyoto University. He studied at Technical University Berlin, Newcastle University and Imperial College London from where he obtained his PhD. A major longstanding research topic of his is modelling of passenger behaviour in public transportation networks including aspects such as fare structures, crowding, bunching and real-time information. Jan-Dirk’s current research interests further cover the usage of crowdsourced data for understanding travel behaviour in general and urban tourism in particular.

The overall motivation is to induce more sustainable travel patterns within cities and to stimulate a discussion on “transport sufficiency”.

Dr. Grigorios Fountas

Assistant Professor of Transport Engineering

Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering Depart.
Faculty of Engineering, 
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh)

Grigorios (Greg) Fountas is Assistant Professor at the Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and Transport Engineering and Highway Design in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at the Edinburgh Napier University. Greg is also a member of the Transport Research Institute of the Edinburgh Napier University.

He received his 5-year diploma (combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree) in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and his doctorate from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA. He also holds a Post-graduate Certificate (PgCert) in Learning, Teaching and Assessment Practice from the Edinburgh Napier University

Prof. Karen Lucas

Professor of Human Geography

Manchester Urban Institute
University of Manchester, UK

Topic: Researching transport poverty with informal settlers in the African context

Dr Karen Lucas is Professor of Human Geography and Research Director at the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester and leads the Manchester Urban Institute’s theme on Transport and Mobilities.  Karen is a world-leading expert on transport and social justice in the Global North and South. She leads the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities (INTALInC), which is a global network of academics, policymakers, NGOs and frontline agencies to promote transport justice in Global South cities.

She also researches issues of energy poverty and environmental and climate justice in the UK context, currently leading the High-End Energy Consumers project for the Centre for Research of Energy Demand Systems (CREDS), which is funded by UK Research and Innovation. 
For further information visit: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/karen.lucas.html 

Prof. Karel Martens

Azrieli Chair in Architecture and Town Planning 

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, 
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Topic: Eradicating transport poverty from the ground up

Karel Martens holds a master degree in Spatial Planning (1991) and a PhD in Policy Sciences (2000), both from Radboud University, the Netherlands. He is a Full Professor of Transport Planning and holds the David J. Azrieli Chair in Architecture and Town Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he also heads the Fair Transport Lab. 

Martens is an international expert on transport and justice. He has authored numerous publications on the topic, culminating in his book Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems, which has been described by colleagues as “ground-breaking”, a “landmark”, and a “revolution”. He was one of the initiators of the EU COST Action on Transport Equity Appraisal (TEA), which brought together European experts to develop novel approaches to the integration of equity in the assessment of transport projects. 

In 2014, Martens was elected Transport Professional of the Year in the Netherlands, in part because of his inspiring work on transport and justice.

Dr Maria Chiara Leva

Senior Lecturer 

Technological University Dublin

Topic: A white paper on fairness and inclusivity in mobility. Evaluating services against user needs

Dr Maria Chiara Leva is the Lead of the Human Factors in Safety and Sustainability Research Group in TU Dublin, the co-chair of the technical committee on Human Factors for the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), the chair of the Irish Ergonomics Society and co-chair of the Symposium on Human Mental Workload. In 2016 she was awarded a Female Founder Competitive Start Fund by the National Digital Research Centre and Enterprise Ireland for her Campus Company ‘Tosca Human Factors Solutions’.

The company is a spin out of one of the EU project Dr Leva led as a PI. She currently holds a scientific advisory role in the business. Dr Leva has more than 70 publications on Human Factors (HF), Operational Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Science and Engineering Journals. She is a Lecturer in TU Dublin and visiting lecturer for Risk Assessment and Safety Management in the School of Engineering, associated PI in the Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing research centre and in the Centre for Innovative Human Systems in Trinity College Dublin.