Urban Transportation Challenges in Saudi Arabia: Micromobility as a Solution to First and Last Mile

Fellow- Transportation & Infrastructure Lama is a fellow working under the Transportation and Infrastructure Content Center. Lama has a B.Sc. degree in computer science…

Lama is a fellow working under the Transportation and Infrastructure Content Center. Lama has a B.Sc. degree in computer science from Effat University and an M.Sc. degree in software engineering from the University of Oxford. Lama is a programmer, data modeler and software engineer working in data modeling and software integration. She is also part of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) team, working in spatial analytics and modeling.

Lama was also one of the main contributors to the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB).

Expertise

• Energy Sustainability and Social Science

Manager- Geographic Information Solution Nourah is a manager in the Solutions Productization program. Her work focuses on geospatial analysis and modeling. Nourah was previously…

Nourah is a manager in the Solutions Productization program. Her work focuses on geospatial analysis and modeling. Nourah was previously in KAPSARC’s Policy and Decision Science program, where she was part of the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB) development team. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Prince Sultan University.

Expertise

• Policy Analysis
• Sustainable Cities and Geospatial Analysis and Modeling

Senior Fellow- Transportation and Infrastructure Ibrahem Shatnawi is a Senior Fellow in the transportation department at KAPSARC with more than 19 years of experience in…

Ibrahem Shatnawi is a Senior Fellow in the transportation department at KAPSARC with more than 19 years of experience in transportation engineering. He is currently leading the development of An Integrated Transport Model for KSA: Modeling Sustainable Pathways in the Transport Sector. His research focuses on transport policies and technologies for decarbonizing road transport and integrated transport demand modeling to estimate energy demand and emissions.

Before joining KAPSARC, Ibrahem gained extensive experience across both public and private sectors. He worked with the Department of Transport in Abu Dhabi, the Road and Transport Authority in Dubai, and renowned consulting firms such as JACOBS, Michael Baker International, and Parsons Corporation. His career has spanned multiple countries, including the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Ibrahem’s expertise includes public transportation fare strategies, transport policies, travel demand modeling, transportation economic impact studies, intelligent transportation systems, traffic operations, and microsimulation projects. He has served as a project manager for large-scale transportation studies and authored numerous technical reports.

Ibrahem holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, specializing in transportation, from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, specializing in traffic engineering, from the University of Akron, Ohio, U.S.

Expertise