Dr. Luis Willumsen (UK)
Chief Technical Principal - Multi-Modal Transport Planning & Modelling
Dr. Willumsen has over 35 years of experience as a consultant, transport planner & researcher with a distinguished academic career. He is an internationally recognised authority in Transport and Traffic Modelling. Based in Britain since 1975, he was a researcher and lecturer at Leeds University and then at University College London. Luis was a Director of Steer Davies Gleave having joined it full-time in 1989 with a special responsibility for technical development; he left that company to set up this consultancy in December 2009. He is co-author of “Modelling Transport”, a book published by Wiley and now in its fourth edition. He has written over 50 technical papers and book chapters. His experience covers large transport modelling assignments, direction of numerous traffic &revenue projection projects for the private sector, financial institutions or government sponsors, different types of rapid transit services including operational design of Transmilenio in Bogota; he has experience in Congestion Charging & Area Traffic Control systems. Luis delivered projects in some 30 countries.