ManagementAdvisory BoardSteering CommitteeProfessional Committee ChairsStaff
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Prof. Yoram Shiftan Head | Tchiya Allon General Manager |
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Prof. Avigdor Gal Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion | Prof. Itzhak Benenson Department of Geography and the Human Environment Tel Aviv University | Prof. Sarit Kraus Department of Computer Science Bar-Ilan University | Prof. Doron Aurbach Department of Chemistry Bar-Ilan University |
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Erez Dagan Executive Vice President Product & Strategy Mobileye | Gai Berkovich COO Waze | Avi Tamir Co-CEO City Zoom | Dr. Oren Shoval Co-founder and CTO Via |
Dov Moran, Grove Ventures |
Zohar Zisapel, Rad Group |
Rafi Nave, Samuel Neaman Institute |
Barak Goldstein, Terra Venture Partners |
Prof. Nathan Gartner, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
Prof. Dan Ariely, Economics Department, Duke University |
Prof. Nicole Adler, The Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Prof. Hillel Bar-Gera, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT |
Dr. Tsippy Lotan, Or Yarok |
Eviatar Tron, EcoMotion |
STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Prof. Yuval Elovici, Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, The Smart Mobility Initiative (replacing Dr. Anat Bonshtien, former Chairwoman and Director, The Smart Mobility Initiative) |
Dr. Irit Juwiler, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering |
Prof. Daniel Shefer, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion |
Shimon Yitzhaki, Planning & Budgeting Committee, Council For Higher Education |
OBSERVER - Natan Yahav, Planning & Budgeting Committee, Council For Higher Education |
OBSERVER - Amir Gat, Planning & Budgeting Committee, Council For Higher Education |
OBSERVER - Joel Nahum, Israel National Road Safety Authority (Ralbad) |
Professional Committee | Chair | University | Faculty/Department | Research Interest |
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Vehicles and Transport Modes | Prof. Amir Shapiro | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Locomotion of Multi-Limbed Mechanisms in Unstructured Complex Environments, Motion Planning Algorithms for Multi-Limbed Robots, Robot Grasping-Design, Control, and Stability Analysis, Climbing Robots, Snake Like Robots, Multi-Robot On-Line Motion Planning, and Agriculture Robotics |
Traffic Management and Control | Prof. Nathan Gartner | Ariel University | The Department of Civil Engineering | Transportation Systems Analysis, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Optimization and Simulation of Transportation Systems, Project Design and Evaluation |
Innovative Transportation Services | Dr. Yuval Hadas | Bar-Ilan University | Department of Management | Public Transportation, Logistic distribution systems, Routing, Network planning, Evaquaction and Emergency, Logistic Information Systems, GIS in Transportation and Logistics |
Policy, Transportation Planning and Smart Cities | Prof. Eyal Yaniv | Bar-Ilan University | Graduate School of Business Administration; Bar-Ilan Center for Smart Cities | Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management and Smart Cities |
Road Users' Behavior | Prof. Erel Avineri | Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering | Department of Industrial Engineering and Management | Intelligent Transportation Systems, Travel behavior, Connected Vehicles, Private Rapid Transit |
Mobility Safety and Security | Prof. Wafa Elias | Sami Shamoon College of Engineering | Civil Engineering Department | Travel Behavior, Road Safety, Sustainability and Security in Transport |
Big Data and Data Analytics | Dr. Ayelet Gal-Tzur | Ruppin Academic Center | Faculty of Engineering | Mobility Management, Social Media in Transportation, Transport-related Information Quality, Big Data, Transport and Tourism |
Automation and Connectivity | Dr. Igal Bilik | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Sciences | Automotive Radar, Smart Sensing, AI For Radar, Sensor Fusion |
Models and Algorithms | Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein | Technion | Faculty of Computer Science | Traffic Models, Swarming Behaviors, Multi-Agent Systems, Emergent Behaviors Due To Local Interactions |
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Smadar Amir Center Coordinator | Kati Nehmadi Portal and Knowledge Manager |