Prof. José Ramón Serrano received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 from “Universitat Politecnica de Valencia”, Spain, where he is also working as a Professor. Prof. Serrano manages a research group on turbocharging and after treatment, within the University’s Institute “CMT-Motores Termicos”. His main expertise is related to 1D gas-dynamics modelling, testing and analysis of performance and emissions from turbocharged engines during transient evolutions.

Prof. Bendak holds BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Graduate Diploma of Education from Monash University (Australia), Graduate Certificate in the Global Burden of Injuries from Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and a PhD in Ergonomics from La Trobe University (Australia). He worked in five different countries as an industrial engineer, occupational/transportation safety consultant and university professor. He is currently working as Professor of Industrial Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Halic University, Turkey. His research interests include transportation safety, human factors in transportation, occupational safety and applied ergonomics.

Andrea Mariscotti obtained MS degree in Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He presently conducts the course on Electrical Measurements at the University of Genoa, and is active in the following research fields: EMC applied to industrial, military and transportation systems, including functional safety; power quality and power system analysis; electrical and electromagnetic measurements; earthing, stray current and lightning protection; and energy efficiency of electrified transports. He is the author of more than 200 papers and 3 books.

Stefano Ricci is a PhD in Transportation Engineering. He is a Full Professor and Dean of Transport Area. He is the director of the Post-Master Specialist Course on Railway Infrastructures and Systems Engineering. He is actively involved in European research for European Commission DG TREN, DG Research and DG INFSO, as well as in various transport sectors in Italy. Professor Ricci’s main areas of specialization are railway operation and safety, maritime and intermodal transport systems, transport economy and planning. He has been involved in different EU projects, such as AEROTRAIN, ASSETS4RAIL, ASTONRAIL, CAPACITY4RAIL, CARBODIN, CLEANER-DRIVE, DYNOTRAIN, etc.

Dr. Ashish Bhaskar is a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He holds a PhD degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne Switzerland; Masters’ degree from The University of Tokyo, Japan; and Bachelors’ in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His research interests includes transport data analytics, transport modelling and simulation, and traffic management and control.

Alessandro Calvi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering of Roma Tre University. He is the Editor in Chief of Advances in Transportation Studies and Associate Editor of Traffic Injury Prevention and Journal of Technological Advancements. He is author of more than 100 papers with the main research interests consisting in: road infrastructures design, road safety, road and railway materials, maintenance and rehabilitation. Specifically, the main research interest is the evaluation and assessment of existing roads and new roads design in terms of safety under a multidisciplinary approach, taking into account the analysis of driver’s behavior as well.

Tiziana Campisi is Assistant Professor (scientific sector ICAR/05) at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kore University of Enna, Italy. She teaches several Transport courses for Aerospace and also Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has published more than 50 articles in journals and conferences. The main topic of her publications are road safety, measures of transport pollutant emission, transport demand and supply urban master plan, urban transport systems, sustainable mobility, democratic panning, microsimulation application and multicriteria analysis. Her research interests include transport supply/demand, road safety, road vulnerable users, road traffic microsimulation. She is a co-supervisor of a Ph.D. student, over 40 master and bachelor students. She is responsible for the University of Enna Kore of a National project title “WEAKI Transit”.

Dr. Chandra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). He obtained his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2006. He earned his degrees in MS and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He has more than 20 articles published in papers. His main area of interest are Urban transport, transportation economics and planning.

Mehdi Keshavarz-Ghorabaee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management at Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad Kavous, Iran. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Guilan in 2010, M.S. in production management from Allameh Tabataba’i University in 2013, and PhD in management-operations research from Allameh Tabataba’i University in 2017. He has published several papers in leading international journals such as Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Cleaner Production and Applied Mathematical Modelling. His research interests include multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), genetic algorithm, fuzzy MCDM, inventory control and supply chain management.

Professor of Transport Engineering and Planning at the Università Iuav di Venezia. He earned his PhD at the Technische Universität München. His main research interests span the economic evaluation of transport systems, the external costs of transportation (he investigated deeply the evaluation of carbon dioxide and its effects on global warming), big data and transport, public transport and DRTS, freight and intermodal transport. Silvio’s most recent works have been published in some major journals, and his work is highly cited, with a Scopus H-index of 22. He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Sustainability, and Future Transportation.

Dr. Cristina Pronello has been serving as a full professor at Sorbonne Universités – UTC, Laboratoire AVENUES since 2016. She has also been serving as a President of the Transport Authority of the Piemonte Region since 30th of September 2016. She was a member of Scientific Advisory Board of JPI Urban Europe; Chair of the COST “Transport and Urban Development” Domain Committee (2006-2014). She was also a member of the ECTRI Board (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes) from 2005 to 2013. She is also serving as a member of the US TRB Committees on International Activities, Technology Transfer and Women's Issues in Transportation. Her Main research fields are transport systems’ environmental impacts, travel behavior and travel surveys, ITS.

Dr. Manuel Carlos Gameiro Da Silva, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), Coimbra, Portugal. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas of Fluid Mechanics, Sustainability, Modeling and Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy Technologies, Numerical Modeling, Mechanical Testing, Engineering Thermodynamics, etc. Dr. Da Silva, as an author/co-author, has published more than 45 articles in various journals, having over 845 total citations.

Dr. Chao Wen is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Transportation and Logistics, SWJTU, Chengdu, China. He is a post-doctoral fellow (Research Associate) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the author of more than 120 articles. His research interests include railway timetabling and dispatching, and railway capacity optimization, especially in the field of data-driven high-speed railway operation. He is the Associate Technical Editor and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Rail Transportation, and the International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR).

Dr. Apostolos Ziakopoulos, PhD, MSc DIC is a Research Associate in the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds a Civil Engineering Diploma from NTUA majoring in Transportation Engineering (2013). He also holds a Master of Science – DIC in Transport from Imperial College London and University College London (2014). His Ph.D. dissertation was spatial analysis of road safety and traffic behavior from NTUA (2020). His main research interests involve road crash analyses, statistical and spatial modelling and traffic engineering. He has participated in 8 research and engineering projects and studies and has published 56 papers in scientific journals, textbooks and conferences.

Hongliang Luo, obtained the Doctor degree of engineering from Hiroshima University, now working as an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, Japan. His research focuses on biofuels spray impingement, fuel droplet behavior, hydrogen, and ammonia combustion. He has published more than 30 papers. Among them, 19 papers have been indexed by SCI as the first and corresponding author. His current research projects include one national project from China and two from Japan, focusing on the green powertrain applications.

Dr Kam K.H. Ng (Researcher ID: L-7278-2019; ORCID: 0000-0002-4959-0502) is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong SAR. Before joining AAE, he has been a Research Fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Design and Human Factors Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received the B.Sc. Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Department of ISE, PolyU. His research interests are operations research, robust optimisation, optimisation methods and artificial intelligence in air traffic and airport operations and management.

Dr. Bartosz Sawik holds an Executive Course on Innovation and New Technology in Science at University of California at Berkeley. He Received PhD with honors in Operations Engineering at School of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics, AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakow.He Received MSc, Eng. with honors in Management Science at School of Management, AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakow. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley, Invited Researcher at Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Visiting Professor at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, IN3-UOC, Castelldefels, Barcelona, University of Lisbon, IST, Lisbon.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban is an associate professor of transportation engineering in the Department of Engineering at Utah Valley University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Before joining Utah Valley University, he was with Qatar University and the University of Central Florida. He is a registered professional engineer in multiple states and a professional traffic operations engineer. He has been a principal investigator or co‐principal investigator for many research projects. The outcomes of these projects include numerous published papers and presentations on a variety of transportation engineering topics.

Dr. Soysal is an Associate Professor in the Operations Management section of the Hacettepe University Business Administration Department, in Turkey. He conducted his Ph.D. research regarding decision support modeling for sustainable food logistics management in the Operations Research and Logistics Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He also participated in several European Commission funded projects as a researcher. His main research interest is on developing decision support models for green logistics and supply chain problems. Dr. Soysal’s research is published in international peer reviewed journals, book chapters, technical reports and at international conferences. He also serves as a reviewer in several international journals of operational research, transportation and logistics.

Elena Vasilyeva has the academic degree of PhD in Economics. She works as an associate professor in the Department of management and innovations in Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. Dr. Vasilyeva is the author of more than 170 scientific works, devoted to the issues of development of transport infrastructure in the city, impact of the transport systems on the development of regional economy, on the increase in its investment attractiveness, and on the improvement of the population life quality as well as the ecological impact. Dr. Vasilyeva has received several scientific awards. She also acts as a reviewer.