Jorge Bandeira

Jorge Bandeira is a researcher at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA) from the University of Aveiro, in cooperation with Braunschweig Technical University (Germany). He is also a scientific coordinator of the European project CISMOB – Cooperative Information Platform for Sustainable Mobility in the framework of the INTERREG EUROPE program, and the National R&D project InFLOWence: Optimizing the influence of connected and autonomous vehicles on the environmental efficiency of road traffic flows.

Bandeira obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in December 2013 from a collaborative doctoral program between the University of Aveiro and the Old Dominion University (USA). His previous studies includes a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Systems. Currently his research interests are focused on traffic and emissions modelling, eco-navigation, traffic assignment and network optimization, as well as Intelligent Transportation Systems Impacts and mobility data. He also worked as a transportation consultant.

In 2013 Jorge Bandeira received an award by the European Patent Office Innovation Contest for his project on a framework for assessing eco-routing and traffic management strategies, aimed at minimizing energy consumption and exposure to pollutants and traffic noise (in the Category “Smart transport and traffic management systems”). His research work includes an overall of more than 60 scientific publications, including 25 journal papers/book chapters and conference articles presented in both national and international conferences.

Margarida Coelho

Margarida Coelho finished her PhD at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in 2005, with a thesis entitled “Assessment and Modeling of Traffic Performance and Emission Impacts of Traffic Interruptions in Urban Corridors” focused on the energetic and environmental analysis of traffic interruptions (namely traffic signals, roundabouts and pay tolls). This research was made within a partnership between IST, in Lisbon, and the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), of North Carolina State University (NCSU), in the United States (US). Since September 2005, Margarida Coelho is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Aveiro. She is the Coordinator of the R&D Group on Transportation Technology at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation. She is developing research in the field of energy and transportation since the beginning of 2000, namely in the numerical modelling of road traffic and pollutant emissions. Margarida Coelho has had extensive participation in transport related projects. Her research interests are based on transportation and environmental modelling (namely, on modelling of traffic and pollutant emissions) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) / vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Other fields of interest include energetic and environmental applications of nanotechnology (namely, hydrogen storage) and alternative fuels. Margarida Coelho has been invited to make several presentations in the field of energy, transportation and environment and her research work has been presented in several national and international conferences. She received several prizes for her research and also has more than 100 scientific papers published (or in press) in international journals (such as Atmospheric Environment, Transportation Research Record, Science for Total Environment, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology), chapters of books and proceedings of scientific conferences.

Eloísa Macedo

Eloísa Macedo has a MSc degree in Mathematics and Applications with specialization in Technological and Business Mathematics, and a PhD in Mathematics, both from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has been developing research work in the areas of operational research, optimization and data mining. In particular, during her PhD studies, Eloísa developed numerical applications for testing problem's regularity in Semidefinite Optimization and a new algorithm for data dimensionality reduction that simultaneously performs clustering of objects and a disjoint partitioning of variables. Since her entrance in the Mechanical Engineering Department (R&D TEMA), Eloísa started working in the transport field. Her research interests lie on designing and implementing heuristics and iterative algorithms; multi-objective, multi-level and network optimization; traffic, emissions and safety modelling; and evaluating traffic-related impacts using integrated assessment models with special focus on environmental and safety components. As a researcher of TEMA, Eloísa has been involved in the INTERREG Europe CISMOB Project and, more recently, in the FCT Projects DICA-VE and InFLOWence

Paulo Fernandes

Paulo Fernandes is an Assistant Researcher in the National R&D project MobiWise at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA) in the University of Aveiro.

He got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in May 2017, within the partnership between TEMA and the Institute for Transportation Research and Education of the North Carolina State University. His previous studies includes a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. His main research activities are based on traffic, emissions and safety modelling, noise and emission monitoring, network optimization, Intelligent Transport Systems, quantification of external costs of road transport, and assessment of new forms of mobility. He also works as a transport consultant in Cooperation with Society projects. Between 2013 and 2018, he published 23 scientific papers in International Transport Journals, 26 papers in International Transport Conferences and 2 Book Chapters.

Carlos Sampaio

Carlos Sampaio has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a Masters in Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Aveiro. His Master’s thesis is entitled “Mapping of vulnerabilities due to the impacts of road transport systems” and was concluded in 2017. Currently he is a PhD student in the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change PhD program, and addresses a topic entitled “Evaluation of Impacts on Intercity Corridors for Efficient and Sustainable Mobility – Innovative ways to address corridors pricing”, counting on a FCT scholarship for this work plan. His research interests focus on the development of platforms based on Geographic Information Systems, impacts assessment and their economic externalities and eco-routing.

Mónica Rodrigues

Mónica Rodrigues has a master’s degree in Mathematics and Applications in the field of Statistics and Optimization from the University of Aveiro (2018).

Her scientific interests are within mobility and environmental issues, with a major focus on optimizing and minimizing gas emissions by road vehicles, considering the future increase of autonomous and low-carbon vehicles’ share on the overall road transportations. Currently, she is a research fellow in the InFLOWence project and is attending the PhD programme in Energy Systems and Climate Change in the University of Aveiro.

Pavlos Tafidis

Pavlos Tafidis graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a Master’s Degree in Planning, Organization and Management of Transport Systems with first-class honours. During his studies he took courses and completed projects in Transport Economics and Policies; Organization, planning and management of railway transport; Urban Public Transport Systems; Freight and maritime transport; Air transport and airports; Urban analysis and planning; Urban Transport Infrastructure; Mass Transportation systems design; and in Advanced Transportation demand models.

His interest towards transport policies, behaviour and mobility of road users led him to select respective topics for his Diploma and Master’s dissertation. The subject for his diploma thesis was to identify risk compensation effect (i.e. the tendency of drivers to adjust their behavior in changing conditions of the road environment). His Master’s thesis intended to demonstrate the importance of sustainable urban mobility assessment methodologies, highlighting the main issues arising during the process and, finally, describing the construction progress of a methodological tool based on a group of sustainable urban mobility indicators in order to address the various issues.

After graduation he worked as a researcher in the Hellenic Institute of Transport and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro, in the CISMOB project within an INTERREG Europe Program. Currently he is a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering Technology in Hasselt University, in the field of Safety and Geometric Road Design Implications of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle.

Carlos Borrego

Carlos Borrego is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering, Invited Full Professor at the University of Aveiro (UA). For more than 40 years, he has been working in the field of environment, representing Portugal in international scientific organizations, in committees for research and evaluation of environmental strategy and sustainable development. He was Minister of Environment and Natural Resources (XI and XII Governments), Vice-Rector for Research in the UA, Director of the Department of Environment and Planning, National Delegate to the EU Research and Innovation Framework Program (I&I) on "Climate Action and Environment ", Director of EURASAP (European Association for the Science of Air Pollution). Since 1982 and as coordinator of the Research Group on Emissions, Modelling and Climate Change (GEMAC), he has been involved in more than 70 European and national projects, carried out more than 800 publications (156 with peer reviews) and was editor or co-editor of 26 books.

As Director of the Institute of Environment and Development-IDAD, the interface unit of the University of Aveiro for cooperation with the Society, and since its foundation in 1994, he has developed professional consulting and project activities, coordinating a wide variety of typology of activities: evaluation of environmental impact, environmental monitoring (eg. incineration plants, chemical complexes, airports); strategic environmental assessment (eg. high-speed rail network, Portugal Logistics project to improve the efficiency of logistics and transport chains); selection of locations (eg. new Lisbon airport, waste and wastewater management facilities); environmental policy (studies supporting the government's decision).

Ana Miranda

Ana Isabel Miranda is full professor at the Department of Environment and Planning at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a member of the Associated Laboratory CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) and coordinates the Research Group “Atmospheric Processes and Modelling”. Her working areas include: air quality modelling, urban air quality, health effects of air pollution, climate change, and environmental impact assessment. She participated in 30 Portuguese and 25 European research projects. She was a reviewer of the FP7-ENV-2010 and 2011, and of the H2020-EO-1-2014 and 2016, project applications. Her research work includes over 600 scientific and technical publications, 100 published in peer-reviewed international journals.

Sandra Rafael,

Sandra Rafael holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2017), a Master in Environmental Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2012), and a degree in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Coimbra (2010). Since 2012, she works at the CESAM’s (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) research group Atmospheric Processes and Modelling (GEMAC), where she currently works a post-doctoral researcher. Since 2017, she is coordinator of one of the four research lines of GEMAC, Circular Economy, being responsible for the elaboration of projects in this area of field, as well as, to identify partnerships with other research groups, companies or with the public sector.

She has 17 SCI papers, 8 book chapters, 1 book, more than 40 international communications and more than 30 national communications. She participated in several EU and national funded projects. Currently she participates in 4 national projects and in 3 international projects. Her main research interests include: i) air quality modelling at urban/local scale: ii) assessment of Nature Based Solutions as measures to increase cities resilience to climate change impacts and as a tool to improve air quality; iii) evaluation of the interactions between urban fluxes and climate; and iv) assessment of human comfort.

Diogo Lopes

Diogo Lopes has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2013) and got his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Macau (2018). His main scientific interest are the multi-scale approaches, from regional to local scales, for air quality modelling simulations with special focus on the contribution to the decision-making processes within environmental management.

Luís Correia

Luís Correia obtained a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 2018. His professional activity started in December 2018 as a Research Fellow at the Group of Emission Modelling and Climate Change (GEMAC) at the Department of Environment and Planning of the University of Aveiro. His current research topics are in the field of air quality modelling. He has had the opportunity of joining an internship in Galp, where he managed to work on projects regarding Energy Efficiency at the Portuguese Industry. Currently he is working with numeric and physical modelling to assess the atmospheric flow and the atmospheric pollutants dispersion at local scale.

Micael Rebelo

Micael Rebelo completed a master’s in Mechanical Engineer in July 2020 at the University of Aveiro (UA), with the dissertation "Accident reconstruction involving pedestrians and motor vehicles". Since June 2019, he has been a research fellow at the Group on Emissions, Modelling and Climate Change from UA. Despite having recently started his professional career in research, he is already co-author of 1 article submitted to specialized journals and 1 article in preparation. He is also co-author of 5 abstracts submitted to international conferences, 1 of which he has presented. His research areas include the connection between Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, namely: Mobility, Automatic and connected systems, Emissions, Climate change, Traffic management. He participated as a research fellow in a Life + project. Currently, Micael participates in 2 research projects, 1 national and 1 UIA. He also has experience in organizing and participating in events. He also holds 3 prizes.

Asad Khattak

Asad J. Khattak is a Beaman Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Transportation Program Coordinator in the Department. He is affiliated with the UT Center for transportation Research, where he works on research and educational projects related to the Southeastern Transportation Center and NURail University Transportation Center. He has recently established the Initiative for Sustainable Mobility, a campus-wide organized research unit.

Khattak has over 25 years of research experience and over 20 years of teaching experience in the transportation field, after completing his Ph.D. He has been invited internationally to work at University of Oxford in England, the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research, known as INRETS, Ajou University in South Korea and University of Aveiro, Portugal.

He has authored/co-authored 172 scholarly journal articles and 61 technical reports to research sponsors. His research work has been presented at numerous international conferences. As a principal or co-investigator, he has successfully obtained 66 sponsored research and educational projects totalling more than $8 million.

Bernhard Friedrich

Bernhard Friedrich is Full Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and Director of the Institute of Transportation and Urban Engineering. He is member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering – German Research Society for Road and Traffic Engineering (Committee for Urban Traffic Management, Committee for Traffic Theory and Subcommittee for Optimization and Decision Methods), Automotive Research Centre Niedersachsen, Landesverkehrswacht Niedersachsen (Scientific Board), Zeitschrift Straßenverkehrstechnik (Scientific Board), Association of European Operational Research Societies, Working Group on Transport (Scientific Committee), Chair of forthcoming 21st EURO Working Group Meeting 2018, ITS Bavaria (Honorary Member of the Board), German Association of Transport Sciences (DVWG), and Vereinigung der Straßenbau- und Verkehrsingenieure in Bayern E.V.

He has experience in Traffic Theory, focused in Models for the Estimation of Origin-Destination Matrices, Stochastic Queuing Models, Traffic Flow Theory, Microscopic Simulation Models and Traffic Control Models; Planning and Design, specifically in Regional Planning, Urban Development Plans, Design of Road Facilities and Participation in Urban Planning Competitions; and also Traffic Control, namely Traffic Management Strategies, System Architectures and Development of Commercial Traffic Control Software for Urban Networks and Motorways.

Through his academic career, he coordinated 58 Dissertations and authored/co-authored more than 150 Articles in Journals, Conference Proceedings and Reports on Research Projects. He was distinguished with BMW Scientific Award in 1999 and with Max-Erich Feuchtinger and Bruno Wehner Denkmünze Award from the German Road and Transportation Research Association in 2002.

Gonçalo Correia

Dr. Gonçalo Correia has graduated in IST Lisbon, Portugal, in civil engineering. He took his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems in the same University in close collaboration with the MIT-Portugal program. He was then invited as an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he lectured and developed his first independent research. Since 2014 he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Transport & Planning at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. His main research interest is on the planning and operations of transport systems in urban environments with the objective of sustainable development. He focuses particularly on the use of Transport Demand Management strategies and innovative services, such as ridesharing and carsharing, to tackle urban congestion. At TU Delft he is looking at the impacts of automated driving on mobility and urban development. He has been a member of numerous research projects such as the InnoVshare (carsharing cost-benefit analysis through agent-based simulation) and D2D100%EV (100% Electric automated vehicles for door-to-door transport) where he acted as Principal Investigator.

He has supervised successfully four Ph.D. thesis and 31 master thesis projects in Portugal and the Netherlands. He is the author of 35 scientific publications in several journals including transportation research part A, B, C, D, and E (edited by Elsevier). He is part of the editorial board of 7 international journals edited by Elsevier including Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Reviews, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and he is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine and the Journal of Advanced Transportation. He has taught 12 courses in bachelor, master and Ph.D. programs both in Portugal and the Netherlands in the fields of operations research and transport modeling. Since 2018 he is an invited Lecturer in Beijing Jiao Tong University where he teaches operations research on the new TUDelft+BJTU joint bachelor in Transportation. He advises several companies and institutions on the future of mobility and he is an international speaker on the impacts of mobility innovations.