Regional Development

Disaster Management Planning

Roles of the Experts

The overall roles of the Experts are defined as follows:

• Provide over all advisory support, strategic and policy guidance in promoting EST in Asian countries vis-a-vis in the implementation of the EST project;
• Participate in the Regional EST Forum and share best practices/experiences/tools/technologies in the relevant areas of EST;
• Participate in national level meetings/consultations/training programmes as resource persons as and when necessary; and
• Review and provide comments/feedback on the relevant sections of the draft national EST strategies

The Experts are expected to provide their contribution in twelve specific thematic area(s) underlined/defined in the Aichi Statement as listed below.

1. Public health
2. Land-use planning
3. Environment and people friendly urban transport infrastructures
4. Public transport planning and transport demand management (TDM)
5. Non-motorized transport (NMT)
6. Social equity and gender perspectives
7. Road safety and maintenance
8. Strengthening road side air quality monitoring and assessment
9. Traffic noise management
10. Cleaner fuel
11. Vehicle emission control, standards, and inspection and maintenance (I/M)
12. Strengthening knowledge base, awareness, and public participation

List of Experts of the Regional EST Forum in Asia

No.	Name of Expert	EST Thematic Areas	photo
1	Heather Allen Programme Director, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)	Climate Change & Transport
2	Anup Bandivadekar Passenger Vehicles Program Lead, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)	1) Vehicle Emissions Control & Standards 2) Inspection & Maintenance (I/M)
3	Manfred Breithaupt Senior Transport Adviser and Project Director of Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP), Transport and Mobility Division (Environment and Infrastructure), German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GIZ)	1) Public Transport Planning 2) Transport Demand Management (TDM) 3) Non-Motorized Transport (NMT)
4	Clean Air Asia	Roadside Air Quality Monitoring
5	Holger Dalkmann Director, EMBARQ - The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport	1) Low Carbon Transport 2) Transport Financing
6	Yoshitsugu Hayashi Professor, Sustainable Transport and Spatial Development, Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University	Land Use Planning
7	Cornie Huizenga Secretary General, Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Clean Air Asia	Strengthening Knowledge Base, Public Education, Health & Awareness
8	Alexis Kai-Hon Lau Manager, Environmental Central Facility, Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Roadside Air Quality Monitoring
9	Todd Alexander Litman Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI)	1) Transport Demand Management 2) Sustainable Transport Indicator 3) Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis 4) Non-Motorized Transport (NMT)
10	Charles Martin Melhuish Transport Policy and Transport Economics Specialist (Ex-Technical Director, Global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP))	Road Safety & Maintenance
11	Yoshitaka Motoda Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University	1) Road Safety & Maintenance 2) Environment and People Friendly Urban Transport Infrastructures
12	Simon K.W. Ng Research Fellow, Civic Exchange and Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Environment, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Land Use Planning
13	Katsutoshi Ohta Emeritus Professor, Tokyo University President, Toyota Transport Research Institute	1) Public Transport Planning 2) Transport Demand Management (TDM) 3) Non-Motorized Transport (NMT)
14	Madhav Pai Director (India Program), EMBARQ - The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport (CST)-India	1) Public Transport Planning and TDM 2) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
15	Carlos Felipe Pardo Executive Director, Fundacion Despacio	1) Urban development and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) 2) Non-motorized transport (NMT) 3) Travel Demand Management (TDM) 4) Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)
16	Michael Replogle Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)	1) Public Transport Planning 2) Transport Demand Management (TDM) 3) Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) 4) Law Carbon Transport 5) Environment and People Friendly Urban Transport Infrastructures
17	Sanjivi Sundar Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and NTPC Chair Professor, TERI University	1) Regulatory Reform 2) Governance 3) RoadSafety 4) Low Carbon Transport 5) Financing Infrastructure Investment in the Transport Sector
18	Marie Thynell Researcher, Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University	Cross-cutting Thematic Area: Social Equity & Gender Perspectives