Antonio Avenoso, M. Phil is the Executive Director of the European Transport Safety Council where he has been working since 2001. Within ETSC Antonio has managed several international research networks and road safety programmes. He has worked in the “Railway and Interoperability Unity” of the Directorate General for Energy and Transport of the European Commission. He holds an academic degree cum laude in Political Science from the University of Pavia and an M.Phil. in European Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Professor Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis is Full Professor in Maritime Business and Logistics since 2015. Before he was Full Professor in Industrial Economics and Production Manage-ment since 1994 at the University of Bremen, Germany. In line with this he is Chairman of the International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics as well as member of the Governing Board of the Bremen Research Cluster in Logistics since several years. From 2001 to 2014 he was Managing Director of the ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics in Bremen. Moreover since 2014 he is official member of the Board of Academic Advisers to the German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He also is chairman of the Asian-German Knowledge Network of Transport and Logistics. He recei-ved his Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1983 and he completed his Doctoral Thesis in Karlsruhe in 1987 as well as his Habilitation in 1993. Within the last 30 years he was senior consultant and project manager for nume-rous national and international research and training projects related to the configurati-on and coordination of sustainable logistics systems, maritime business and transportati-on systems, value added services as well as production management and international distributed production networks. He is member of several editorial and scientific advisory boards. Through out his professional career, up tu now he published more than 100 books and papers, and graduated 45 Doctorate students. He is visiting professor at the Technical University in Zhengzhou, China.

Dirk Helbing, PhD is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and wrote his doctoral thesis at Stuttgart University on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods, and complex systems theory. In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization. In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at Dresden University of Technology. Helbing is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the World Academy of Art and Science. In January 2014 he received an honorary PhD from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".

Sebastian BELZ is Secretary General of the EPTS (European Platform of Transport Sciences) Foundation since 2009. He studied at Technical University Dortmund (Diplom-Ingenieur of Spatial Planning) and his examination thesis "European Railways from the Customer´s perspective" was awarded best thesis paper of the University ("Martin-Schmeisser-Medal" 1998). Since 1993 he is an elective member of the German Association of Transport Sciences (DVWG) and the German Young Forum. From 2003 he is a founding member of the Young Forum of European Transport Sciences (YFE), Budapest ("Budapest Declaration") and the first chair of YFE. Since 2004 he is organising the Friedrich-List-Award for Young Transport Scientists and the European Transport Congress (ETC). He is a lecturer and examiner at the Universities of Wuppertal and Budapest. He published several scientific papers in international transport scientific journals. He received several awards, like Carl-Pirath-Medal of DVWG, Germany in 2010, Public Award of HZDP, Croatia in 2015, Badge of Honour of the Young Forum, Germany in 2015 and Medal "sis qui es pro publico bono" of the University of Szczecin in 2018.