Cooperation Network
The cooperation network connects th-inc with well known international experts and industry leaders. It is our mutual goal to stimulate innovation and cooperation in transportation and urban development in terms of sustainability.
Kay W. Axhausen
Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Professor of Transport Planning at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
He holds his post in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Before his appointment at ETH he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT) and an MSc from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the last 30 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, micro-simulation of travel behaviour, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling and travel diary data collection. One strand of his current work focuses on the micro-simulation of daily travel behaviour and long-term mobility choices and the response of the land-use system to those choices (See www.matsim.org for details). This work is supported by analyses of human activity spaces and their dependence on the traveller’s personal social network.
The second strand of his work is dedicated to the evaluation of transport projects. The current work on land use transport modelling is motivated by the shortcomings of standard cost-benefit analysis (See www.sustaincity.eu ). He led the effort for the new Swiss cost-benefits guideline (SN 640 820ff) and he and his team contributed the valuation of travel time savings and reliability.
He was the Chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and is an editor of Transportation and earlier of DISp, both ISI indexed journals.
Harald Diaz-Bone
Dr. Harald Diaz-Bone is an international expert on transport and environment with a focus on climate change, air pollution and sustainable mobility. He studied environmental engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated with his thesis on computer-assisted modeling of air pollution from urban transport. He earned his doctorate at the Department of Transportation for his Ph.D. thesis on impact assessment of modal-shift measures in urban transport.
His career took him from prestigious institutions such as the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, the IFEU Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) to the United Nations (UNFCCC and UNIDO). As an author ( "The three-liter car") and by numerous publications and lectures at home and abroad (among others International Transport Forum) he is a recognized expert in his field.
Martin Fellendorf
Graz University of Technology, Head of Institute of Highway Engineering and Transport Planning
Since 2005 Martin Fellendorf is full Professor at the Graz University of Technology, Austria teaching transport planning and highway engineering. His research interests focus on Transport Modelling and Intelligent Transport Systems issues mainly traffic control in urban areas as well as motorway control.
Currently he and his team of twelve Ph.D. candidates and researchers are involved in several national and European projects on travel surveys, activity-based demand modelling, vehicle emission modelling and transport management schemes. He has recently finished two multimodal demand models for the Austrian states of Salzburg and Styria Currently he is supervising a demand model for an Austrian state capital.
Before joining the University he worked for 17 years at PTV in Karlsruhe developing traffic engineering and traffic management software. While marketing the software internationally he introduced activity-based travel demand modelling in Asia. He initiated and supervised the Bejiing Olympic Parc System, a demand model, which was utilized to organize public transport and passernger cars during the Olympics in 2008. Martin also trained the demand modelling software in Dubai (UAE) which was applied to build a multimodal transportation model for Dubai in 2006 focusing on public transport.
Martin has a Masters in Industrial Engineering and received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) 1991 in Civil Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Markus Friedrich
University of Stuttgart, Head of Institute of Road and Transportation Science, Department for Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering
Markus Friedrich has held the Chair of Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart since 2003. From 1995 to 2003, he was head of the Transport Planning Systems division at PTV AG in Karlsruhe. VISUM is one of the software tools developed by PTV. From 1989 to 1995, he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Urban Transportation Planning at the Technical University of Munich.
The principal focus of Markus Friedrich's research is on methods for transportation network planning and assessment of service quality in road networks and public transport. His research interests also include travel demand modelling and forecasts, the use of new data sources for the collection of travel time and route data as well as the analysis of the effects and potential of individual and collective traffic management systems.
Markus Friedrich is a member of the Research Association for Roads and Traffic (FGSV) where he is head of the working committees Network Design and Decision-making & Optimization Methods.
Hans Hubschneider
Karlsruhe
Hans Hubschneider holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, and a PhD in Transport Science. Following his graduate studies in Mathematics and Computer Science, he worked for 7 years as a research assistant at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and as project manager at the “Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr” in Hamburg. In 1979, he founded PTV AG, which he led from 1981 to 2011 as Managing Director and later as CEO. PTV AG is the international leader in the field of "Design and Optimization of Mobility Systems". Today, the company has 600+ employees.
Since 2011, Hans Hubschneider has been working as consultant in the field of traffic and transportation. He supports the th-inc team’s innovative project and research activities.
At the same time, he got involved in the field of renewable energies. He represents the start-up company AVA-CO2 (Switzerland) in external affairs, amongst others, and he supports KIC InnoEnergy, the leading European engine for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Enrique Penalosa
Enrique Penalosa is a leader in the urban field, whose vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies throughout the world. His advisory work concentrates on sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and quality of life; and the organizational and leadership requirements to turn ideas into projects and realities. He is also an accomplished executive, who has achieved positive results in diverse activities in which he has been involved.
Penalosa has lectured internationally in numerous environmental, urban design and policy and university forums and has advised governments in Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and the United States. He is currently a consultant on Urban Vision, Strategy and Policy. He is President of the Board of the ITDP (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) of New York and member of the London School of Economics´ Cities Program Advisory Board.
At the end of 2009, Penalosa together with other three former mayors re-founded the Green Party of Colombia of which he is currently co-president.
As Mayor of Bogota, the 7 million inhabitants’ capital of Colombia, Penalosa profoundly transformed the city, turning it from one with neither bearings, nor self-esteem or hope into an international model for improvements in quality of life, mobility, equity and sustainability and has been awarded important international recognitions such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale or the Stockholm Challenge among others.
During his 1998-2001 tenure –the Colombian Constitution does not allow for immediate reelection, Mr. Penalosa implemented an environmentally and socially sustainable model which prioritizes public transport, public pedestrian spaces and children’s happiness. “In a good city every detail should show respect for human dignity,” Penalosa says.
He created TransMilenio, probably the world’s best bus-based transit system; a network of bicycle paths; slum improvement projects; a land bank to provide low income housing with quality urbanism; greenways and pedestrian promenades through low income neighbourhoods; radical improvements to the city centre; daily car use restrictions during peak hours and an annual Car Free Day; formidable libraries and parks; high quality public schools managed through an innovative scheme by the best private schools in the country.
Penalosa emphasizes quality of life as the best instrument for competitiveness in the new century, when attracting highly qualified and creative individuals will be especially crucial for economic development.
Penalosa holds a BA in Economics and History from Duke University, a Master’s Degree in Government from the IIAP in Paris and a DESS in Public Administration from the University of Paris II. He was also a Visiting Scholar at New York University for 3 years.