Robert is a PhD in Civil Engineering (Transportation Safety) student from the Department of Civil Engineering at Stellenbosch University. His areas of research interest encompass road safety – relationships between human-related factors and road characteristics, transportation planning and design. Robert holds a Masters in Engineering degree, which focused on investigating the impact of the road environment on human factors in road crashes. His PhD research – titled “Developing road crash prediction models to investigate the combination of effects of roadway conditions on national rural road crashes” – explores the interactive relationship between road characteristics on national rural roads with fatal and serious road injury crashes, through novel predictive models. Robert has participated in multiple road safety projects and strategy development workshops, notably the development of the new “Road Safety Strategy for the Decade of Action (2021-2030) for Namibia.

MJ (Thinus) Booysen is Professor at the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department at Stellenbosch University. He has been with Stellenbosch University from 2009 and his research is on the Internet of Things, with a focus on Smart Energy, Water and Vehicles (specifically its application to paratransit in Sub-Saharan Africa). He is also a founder of Bridgiot (Bridge-to-the-Internet-of-Things), and co-creator of Geasy and Count Dropula. He is the Director of the MTN Mobile Intelligence Lab and co-founder of the Stellenbosch Smart Mobility Lab. He is a Member of the Institution of Engineering Technology (MIET), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) at the Engineering Council (UK), and a Professional Engineer (PrEng) with the Engineering Council (SA). He has over ten years’ international industry experience in the aerospace and automotive industries with companies that include SunSpace, Rolls-Royce, Boeing, BMW, and Jaguar Land Rover.

Megan Bruwer is a transportation engineer and qualified with a B.Eng degree in civil engineering in 2008 and an M.Eng degree in transportation engineering in 2010, both cum-laude, from Stellenbosch University. After qualifying, Megan worked as a consultant engineer, involved in the design of rural and metropolitan public transport systems and road based traffic accommodation for new developments. Megan joined the Civil Engineering Department of Stellenbosch University in 2015 as a lecturer in transportation engineering and the project coordinator of the Stellenbosch Smart Mobility Laboratory (SSML). Since returning to academia full time, Megan has enjoyed her role as a lecturer and researcher. In 2017 she was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award presented by the Dean of the Engineering Faculty, recognising Teaching and Learning Scholarship, curriculum development and positive student feedback.

Brandon is a Master of Commerce (Transport Economics) student from the Department of Logistics at Stellenbosch University. His areas of academic interest include behavioural economics in the context of transport, urban- & spatial development and transport infrastructure economic evaluation. Brandon’s current research—titled Usage-Based Insurance: Nudging Towards Responsible Driving—explores how innovative vehicle insurance schemes can be used to incentivise desirable driving behaviour. During his Honours degree, his research involved undertaking various accessibility-based analyses aimed at providing site selection decision support for an education provider from the private sector. In 2019, Brandon received a Rector’s Award for his academic efforts.

Sophia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Stellenbosch Unversity. She has been with the Department in a part-time capacity since 2001. Sophia has done research on a variety of topics within the field of New Institutional economics: growth differences of African countries, civil war as well as different topics in Economic History. For the last couple of years her research focused on road users and specifically how to change the behaviour of all road users in order to reduce the cost burden on the economy.

Jacomine Grobler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University. Her main fields of expertise are supply chain optimization, optimization algorithm development, and data science applications in industrial engineering. She is also specifically interested in decision support systems for freight transport. She spent seven years in industry before completing her PhD in 2015. She received the 2015 JD Roberts emerging researcher award and also the 2017 South African Institute for Industrial Engineering Most Outstanding Young Industrial Engineering Researcher Award.

Ada is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Stellenbosch Unversity. She has been with the department since 2004. Her main research interests are applied microeconomics and public finance. She has published research in taxation, public finance, civil war and economic history. In recent times her research activities have included traffic policy such incentive structures, for example the payment of traffic fines. Her current focus is to study policies that will alter road user behaviour to improve road safety, and their economic implications.

Krige is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. He joined Stellenbosch University in 2008 after lecturing Economics at the University of South Africa for ten years. Before that he worked for four years as an economist in the South African Department of Finance (now National Treasury). Krige completed all his academic qualifications, including a PhD in Economics, from Stellenbosch University. His main research interests are fiscal policy, economic policymaking, and the economic effects of institutions. His research on aspects of traffic policy stems from his interest in the policy implications of the joint effects of formal and informal institutions on human behaviour.

Marion is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, specialising in transportation safety. She has over eighteen years working in road safety; spread between international road safety planning and implementation (primarily in the UK), and research and teaching of road safety in South Africa, She is responsible for teaching road safety to undergraduate and postgraduate civil engineering students, and for multiple research projects and commercial contracts in the state and private sector. Her speciifc reseacrh interests are : human factors in crashes (notably the intersection between human perception and behaviour, and the environmental cues provided in the design and layout of roads themselves); and the safety of children and pedestrians in the road transport system.