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Committees and chairmen

Chairman of the 15th Road Safety on Four Continents conference was H.E. Shaikh Hamdan bin Mubarak AlNahyan, Minister of Public Work, Chairman of NTA.

National organizing committee

  • H.E. Dr. Nasser Saif Al Mansoori , Director General of NTA, Chairman
  • Eng. Abdullah Salem Al Katheeri - National Transport Authority
  • Mr. Nedal Faisal El Batayneh - National Transport Authority
  • Bregadair General Ghaith Hasan Al Zaabi - Ministry of Interior
  • Mr. Khaled Hashem - Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
  • Eng. Maitha Bin Adi - Road and Transport Authority - Dubai
  • Mr. Abdullah Al Zari - Sharjah Transport
  • Eng. Abdullah Saeed Al Shamsi - Abu Dhabi Municipality
  • Bregadair General Hussain Mohammad Al Harthi - Saaed for traffic Systems
  • Bregadair General Hasan Al Housani - Emirates Traffic Safety Society
  • Dr. Gehad Youssef Asbaita - Emirates Driving Company
  • Deputy Director General Kent Gustafson - VTI

International advisory committee

  • H.E. Eng. Abdullah Al Katheeri, NTA, chairman
  • Nedal F. El Batayneh, NTA
  • Kent Gustafson, VTI
  • Peter Elsenaar, GRSP
  • Richard Pain, TRB
  • Evangelos Bekiaris, Hellenic Institute of Transport (FERSI)
  • Horst Schultze, BASt (FERSI)
  • Andrew Parkes, TRL (ECTRI)


Scientific committee

Kent Gustafson, Chairman VTI Sweden
Yaser Hawas UAE University Al-Ain UAE
Richard Pain TRB USA
Karl Kim Univ. of Hawaii (TRB) USA
Kenneth Opiela FHWA (TRB) USA
Michael Griffith FHWA (TRB) USA
Bhagwant Persaud Ryerson University Canada
Juha Luoma VTT Finland
Péter Holló KTI Hungary
Mary Lydon University of Adelaide Australia
Michael Tziotis AARB Australia
Pieter Venter ITSE South Africa
Åsa Forsman VTI Sweden
Astrid Linder VTI Sweden
Robert Thomson VTI Sweden
Magnus Hjälmdahl VTI Sweden
Jan Andersson VTI Sweden
Björn Peters VTI Sweden
Ho Seng Tim LTA Singapore
Alberto José Silveira Luchemos por la Vida Argentina
George Giannopoulos Hellenic Institute of Transport Greece
Evangelos Bekiaris Hellenic Institute of Transport Greece
Per Löken SafeTraffic Norway
Michael Lenné MUARC Australia
Xiaoduan Sun Univ. Of Louisiana USA
Joanna Zukowska Gdansk Univ. Of Technology Poland
Terje Assum TÖI Norway
Hans Joakim Vollpracht PIARC Germany
Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah MIROS Malaysia
Tuenjai Fukuda Nihon Univ. Japan
Atsushi Fukuda Nihon Univ. Japan
Fridulf Sagberg TÖI Norway
Laurent Carnis INRETS France
Richard Cuerden TRL United Kingdom
Juergen Rataj DLR Institute of Transportation Germany
Dieter Willersinn Frauenhofer-Institute for Information and Data Processing Germany
Horst Schultze Bast Germany
Mohammed Taleb Obaidat Jordan University of Science and Technology Jordan
Rikke Rysgaard GRSP Switzerland
Kohinoor Kar Arizona DOT USA
Azim Eskandarian The George Washington University USA
Karel Pospisil CDV - Transport Research Centre Czech Republic


Changed date 2010-04-06

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