Advisers
Ezra Hauer
Ezra Hauer is Professor (emeritus), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto. Active in road safety research and consulting since 1970. Author of more than 200 scientific papers. Recipient of R. Crum Award, U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Engineering (1999) and ITE Transportation Safety Award (1993). Director, Transportation Safety Council, Institute of Transportation Engineers(1993-1995); Member 407 Safety Review (1997), Coordinator of "Safety Research Group Ontario" (1981 1993).Vice President, Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (1987 88); President, Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (1985 86); Member, Advisory Board, International Association of Traffic Safety Sciences, Japan, (1986 ); Member, International Committee of Symposia on Traffic and Transportation Theory (1983 ), Convener (1996-2000); Associate Editor of "Accident Analysis & Prevention (1982 1995); Chairman, Committee on Methodology for Evaluating Highway Improvements, Transportation Research Board (1982 1997), Chairman (1993-1995); Member, Committee to Study Geometric Design Standards, U.S. National Research Council (1984 1987).
Guoqing Hu
Guoqing Hu is Professor and Vice Dean of Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University. GH holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Central South University and a Mastesr degree from Central South University, China, and has received 1.5 years training at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He focuses on injury epidemiology and policy research. GH has published over 100 peer-review articles and serves as the editorial member of two international academic journals (Injury Prevention, Injury Epidemiology) and four domestic academic journals (Injury Medicine, Chinese Journal of Modern Paediatrics, Practical Preventive Medicine), and the reviewer of over ten internal peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Injury, Traffic Injury Prevention, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, BMC Public Health, Plos One, Journal of Public health, international journal of Public Health, and Public Health.
Hermann Knoflacher
Hermann Knoflacher is Professor Emeritus, Institute for Traffic Planning and Traffic Engineering TU. Wien.
1963 – 1970 Traffic safety research at the University.
1970 – 1983 Head of the Traffic Safety Research Institute, Traffic Safety Board Austria.
1975 – 2008 Professor and Head of the Institute for Traffic Planning and Traffic Engineering TU. Wien.
Since 1963 he has been involved in Practical Work in Civil Engineering, Transport Planning, Traffic Safety, Urban Planning. His fields of research are: Design of transport elements; user behavior; Traffic-infrastructure and mobility; Sustainable development of cities and mobility; Traffic safety; Energy-consumption; Environment; Basic interdisciplinary research.
Since 1967 he has published 9 books, more than 500 scientific publications, more than 500 research and Planning projects; lectures in the field of transport planning and traffic engineering worldwide (USA, Europe, Asia, Australia. He has more than 300 realized projects for cities, regions, national transport policy measures. Adviser to Ministers, Majors,EU-Research, WHO, OECD etc.
Mohamed Seedat
Mohamed Seedat is a professor in the University of South Africa’s (UNISA) College for Human Sciences, and Head of the UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences. He is currently researching the social anatomy of (non)-violent public protests, the psychopolitics underlying large scale democratisation initiatives and the social determinants of community- based safety and peace promotion. Mohamed writes on the social-intellectual histories of community engaged social justice programs and liberatory thought in psychology and cognate disciplines. Mohamed serves on the editorial boards of several international journals; is co-editor of the Springer Community Psychology Book Series and an action/associate editor of the Journal of Community Psychology.
Rune Elvik
Rune Elvik (born 1955) was educated as a political scientist at the University of Oslo. He has worked as road safety researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics since 1980. He obtained doctoral degrees from the University of Oslo in 1993 and 1999 and from Aalborg University in Denmark in 2007. He was associate editor of Accident Analysis and Prevention from 1997 to 2004 and editor-in-chief (together with Karl Kim) from 2005 to 2013. He has participated in many research projects funded by the European Commission, and been a member of Transportation Research Board committee on safety data, analysis and evaluation. He is the author of about 120 papers in scientific journals and many research reports.
