Keynote speakers

Prof Currie is a transport research leader/ policy advisor and Directs the Public Transport Research Group (PTRG) at Monash University Australia.   He has published over 200 research papers in leading international research journals and specialises in research on transport policy, social needs in transport, travel behaviour and sustainability in transport.   In 2013 he won the TRB William W Millar prize for best research paper in public transit at the US Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting the largest transport research conference in the world.  In 2016 he won the prize again and was also awarded best paper in transport policy at the World Conference in Transport Research in Shanghai.   In 2024 he won another Outstanding Paper award at TRB.  Prof Currie was Chair of the Light Rail Transit Committee at US Transportation Research Board between 2016 and 2022.  He is a Board member of the Singapore LTA Research Advisory Board and the International Advisory Board of the Swedish Centre for Research on Public Transport.  In 2020 he was presented with the Transport Medal for outstanding contributions to transport by Engineers Australia.  

Prof Currie is President of the Australasian Transport Research Forum and a Fellow of the Academy of Technology Science and Engineering.

Website: http://publictransportresearchgroup.info/our-team/staff/prof-graham-currie/ 

Cinzia Cirillo is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland (USA) and the Director of the USDOT University Transportation Center for MultiModal Mobility (CMMM). An expert in discrete choice analysis, travel demand modeling, and survey methodologies, Dr. Cirillo specializes in national household travel surveys, stated preference methods, large-scale model systems, and activity/agent-based modeling. Her major contributions include advanced optimization methods for mixed logit estimation, dynamic discrete choice models, and integrated models for vehicle ownership, usage, and greenhouse gas emission estimation.  Her research is highly multidisciplinary, involving collaborations with mathematicians, statisticians, survey methodologists, operational researchers, and economists. In recent years, she has focused on big data analytics, data linkage for small-area transportation statistics, population synthesis, and agent-based simulation. Dr. Cirillo’s research has been funded by major public institutions, including the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Federal Highway Administration, the Maryland Department of Transportation, and the Washington Council of Development. She has led large-scale, real-world projects involving data collection and model estimation in Qatar and Dubai. She also serves as an expert for scientific panels, a technical advisor for agencies worldwide, and a consultant for private companies.

Website: https://cee.umd.edu/clark/faculty/253/Cinzia-Cirillo

Angela Barbanente is Professor in Urban and Regional Planning. Her main research interests include the analysis of processes and practices of territorial transformation, investigated through the lenses of theories of social learning and social mobilization. In this perspective, her research investigates the knowledges mobilized by individuals and social groups in the organization of their living spaces and the role of institutions and regulatory systems in troubling and uncertain situations of practice. These research fields were also developed focusing on planning for environmental regeneration and local development in Eastern Adriatic and Mediterranean regions using participatory scenarios and evaluation approaches.

She coordinated and participated in several research projects funded by the Italian National Research Council, Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, European Union, as well as Italian institutions such as SVIMEZ, Censis, Cresme-Credito Fondiario, and Ministries.

Website: https://dicatechpoliba.it/dicatech-scheda-personale?idp=176

Jens S. Dangschat is Professor Emeritus for Urban and Regional Sociology and Demography at the TU Wien Faculty for Architecture and Planning (1998–2016). An urban sociologist by trade, he is interested in social structures and processes as they relate to (urban) spaces. This includes socioeconomic, sociodemographic and sociocultural inequities as forms of social structuring, but also inequitable (spatial) actions as a differentiating criterion, particularly in the areas of choice of residence location (segregation), mobility and energy consumption.

He was President (2009–2011) and Vice President (2011–2013) of the Austrian Association for Sociology (ÖGS) and since 1989, is a full, voting member of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (Hannover), since 2006, a member of the Federal Foundation of Baukultur convention (Berlin), since 2009, a member of the board of trustees of the vhw – Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (Berlin), and since 2011, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EU Joint Programming Initiative, „More Years, Better Lives“.

Website: https://www.tuwien.at/en/ar/soziologie/about-us/team/emounivprof-mag-rersocoec-drphil-je