Avishai (Avi) Ceder is the Founder and was the Director, until 2014, of the transportation research centre (TRC) in the University of Auckland. Avi was Head of the Transportation Eng. and Geo-Information Dept. at the Technion, the Chief Scientist at the Israel Ministry of Transport 1994 – 1997, and the Israel delegate to the Transport Program of the European Community. He was a visiting Professor twice at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Universities of Hong Kong and Tokyo, and he is a member of various international symposia and workshops (e.g., ISTTT, CASPT). In 2016 Avi released the 2nd edition of the book ‘Public Transit Planning and Operation’ by CRC Press, that was translated to Chinese (2017) and Korean (2018). Recently (2021) Avi published in one of the journals of Nature, at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93741-4 (free download).

Francesco Viti is head of MobiLab and of the Computational Engineering Institute at the Department of Engineering, and associate member of the MIT Center for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) and of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. His research activities range from mobility and travel behavior analysis to network modelling and control for multimodal systems. Current projects he coordinates include public transport electrification and optimisation, multimodal design and planning, Mobility-as-a-Service and mobility-on-demand modelling, freight logistics and big data analytics. He is author of over 150 indexed journal and conference papers. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of ITS, Transportation Research Part C and Data Science for Transportation. He acts as Expert for the European Commission and for the Luxembourgish Ministry of Mobility and Public Works and of the Ministry of Economy, the Italian Ministry of Research and several funding agencies.

Professor Hong K. LO is Dean of Engineering, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director GREAT Smart Cities Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His expertise includes dynamic transportation system modeling, traffic control, network reliability, and public transportation analysis. He has published extensively in the transportation literature, and is very active in the transportation community, for instance, was Convener of the International Scientific Committee of CASPT, is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Managing Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and on the editorial boards of many international journals. Professor Lo was awarded the prestigious World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Prize, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award, and HKUST School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, among others. Prof Lo is a Justice of the Peace (JP), Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Highway and Transportation (IHT), and Fellow of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. (http://cehklo.people.ust.hk)

Dr. Kiyohito Utsunomiya is a Professor of Economics at Kansai University, Osaka in Japan. He received his B.A. from Kyoto University, his M.A. from Manchester University, and his Ph.D. from Kyoto University. Dr. Utsunomiya had worked as an economist at the Bank of Japan and moved to Kansai University in 2011. He was also a guest professor at the Institute of Transportation at The Vienna University of Technology from 2017 to 2018. His recent research topic is the relationship between public transportation and society. Dr. Utsunomiya won The Japan Society of Transpiration Economics (JSTE) Award 2021 and The International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) Award 2021 for his book, “Integrated Policy of Local Public Transportation.” He is currently vice president of JSTE. He also serves on various committees for public transportation in cities and regions in Japan.

Dr. Marco Nie is currently a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his B.S. in Structural Engineering from Tsinghua University, his M.S. from National University of Singapore and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Nie’s research covers a variety of topics in the areas of transportation systems analysis, transportation economics, and sustainable transportation. Dr. Nie served as a member of the TRB committees on Transportation Network Modeling and Traffic flow Theory and Characteristics. He is currently an Area Editor for Transportation Science and Networks and Spatial Economics, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Transportmetrica-B and Transportation Research Part B. Dr. Nie’s research has been supported by National Science Foundation, Transportation Research Board, US Department of Transportation, US Department of Energy, and Illinois Department of Transportation.