Prof. Hironori Kato is a Full Professor of Civil Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo since November 2013. His main research focuses and teaching subjects are transportation planning and policy, transportation economics, transportation finance, and travel behavioral analysis.

Professor Junyi Zhang is a professor at Mobilities and Urban Policy Lab of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is also the Director of  Center of Asian Sustainable Mobility Research at Hiroshima University, Japan. Prof. Zhang’s research fields include transportation planning, urban and regional planning, traffic engineering, environment and energy policies, tourism policy, and health policy in the contexts of both developed and developing countries.

Rolf Moeckel is Rudolf Mößbauer Professor at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) since 2015. He is the chair of the SIG F1: “Transport and Spatial Development” of the World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS), and the co-chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Travel Forecasting Resources (ADB 45). His past work experiences include working at a consulting firm- Parsons Brinckerhoff in the USA (2007- 2013), and conducting research as a PostDoc at the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, USA (2013- 2015).