Dr Wael Alhajyaseen

Dr. Alhajyseen is currently an assistant professor at Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center in the College of Engineering of Qatar University. He received the M.S. degree in transportation engineering from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 2005 and the Doctor of Engineering degree in civil engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2010. He is specialized in traffic safety (human factors, crash data and causality, driving simulation), road traffic control & operation, road user behavior analysis (including naturalistic driving), non-motorized traffic especially pedestrians and cyclists (facilities design, control and operation), and Intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

Currently, Dr. Alhajyaseen is the representative of Qatar University in the coordinators group of the National Traffic Safety Committee of the State of Qatar to follow up the implementation of the National Traffic Safety Action Plan 2013-2022. Furthermore, he is member of the Speed Management and Pedestrian Safety task force groups of the National Traffic Safety Committee of the State of Qatar. Furthermore, Dr. Alhajyaseen is the lead developer and the manager of the Traffic Safety Professional Training Program at Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center, Qatar University.