David Hale is a senior transportation engineer and project manager for Leidos in the Washington DC area. Over the past seven years, he has worked at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia, carrying out task orders for the Federal Highway Administration. His technical background focuses on traffic analysis, modeling, and simulation.

Xuesong Zhou is a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Zhou’s research work focuses on dynamic traffic assignment, traffic estimation and prediction, large-scale routing and rail scheduling. Dr. Zhou is currently an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C, a Executive Editor-in-Chief of Urban Rail Transit, an Associate Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, an Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research Part B. He was the formal Chair of INFORMS Rail Application Section (2016), and the Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Traffic and Travel Management, as well as a subcommittee chair of the TRB Committee on Transportation Network Modeling. He has published more than 20 papers related to dynamic traffic assignment and rail operations research in Transportation Research Part B. Dr. Zhou has been developed a number of open-source transportation simulation and visualization packages, such as DTALite, STALite and NeXTA GUI, at https://github.com/xzhou99. He has been also assisting FHWA, many state DOT and metropolitan planning agencies to learn and deploy advanced transportation network modeling tools.

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center, and Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has over 35 years of professional, academic and research experience in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, multimodal systems modeling and optimization, pedestrian and crowd dynamics, traffic science, and real-time operation of transportation and distribution systems. He is past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science, senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, founding associate editor of Transportation Research C, and associate editor of Transportation Research Record. He is a past president of INFORMS Transportation Science Section, and a past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the American University of Beirut in 2006, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award of IEEE in 2010, the Transportation Research Board’s Thomas Deen Distinguished Lectureship in 2016, and the inaugural Martin Beckmann Transformative Research in Network Modeling in 2019. He was elected Emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board committees on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior, Transportation Network Modeling and Traveler Behavior and Values.

Vincenzo Punzo received the M.Sc. degree in civil engineering in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in transportation engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2002. From 2011 to 2013 he has been senior researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre. He is now Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. His research interests include the modelling and simulation of road and rail transportation systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), driving simulation and road safety, reflected by more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a Member of the editorial board of Transportation Research – Part C and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS.
In 2012, he was recipient of the TRB Greenshields' Prize and, in 2013, of the Best Simulation Paper of the TRB Joint Traffic Simulation Subcommittee.

Marcello Montanino received the M.Sc. degree in Hydraulics and Transportation Systems Engineering in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering in 2014, from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He is now Assistant Professor at the same University, and he is lecturer on “Traffic flow modelling and simulation” and “Smart and sustainable mobility” in M.Sc. degree programs. His research activities are focused on microscopic traffic flow modelling and simulation, connected and automated vehicles, railway network modelling and simulation, management of uncertainty. In 2012 he was awarded with the “Greenshields Prize” by the TRB’s Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee, and, in 2013, with the “Best Simulation Paper” by the TRB’s Joint Simulation Subcommittee. From 2016, he is co-founder of the innovative start-up and academic spin-off, Inputspace, operating in the field of smart mobility.