
Brayan González-Hernández
Current roles
- PhD Student in Infrastructure and Transport at Sapienza University of Rome
- Collaborator at CTL (Centro di ricerca per il Trasporto e la Logistica of Sapienza University of Rome)
Main experiences
At present, Brayan González-Hernández is doing a PhD in Infrastructure and Transport at Sapienza University of Rome and collaborates in research activities for a number of international transport and road safety project at CTL (Centro di ricerca per il Trasporto e la Logistica).
He has taken part in different research projects financed by various organisations in Italy, Spain, Colombia and Africa. His research interests include the following three correlated areas: road safety, sustainable mobility and transport planning and policies, with particular attention to developing countries.
Among the projects of particular importance in which he has recently taken part are:
- AfCFTA project – “Study on the Implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area for Demand of Transport Infrastructure and Services in African Countries” (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa UNECA), for the assessment of the effects of the introduction of the free trade treaty between African countries on national and international transport systems;
- SaferAfrica project (European Commission DG RESEARCH), for the creation of a scientific/institutional Dialogue Platform, which will make it possible to improve the knowledge of the problems of road accidents in Africa and to establish policies and interventions to reduce the number of fatalities and injured;
- ESRA project (joint international initiative with research organisations and institutes for road safety): ESRA is the abbreviation of “E-Survey on Road Users’ Attitudes”. It is a huge survey carried out with a representative sample of the adult population in the countries taking part (using online access panels). The survey addresses over 200 entries;
- Development of a simplified method of road safety assessment and pilot study on motorways in Mozambique and Liberia (World Bank): the project aims at the development and piloting of a new methodology, based on automated image analysis to identify critical road sections. The basic idea is of being able to recognise the problems of road safety linked to road infrastructure features without the specific need for data relative to road accidents;
- Pilot study to collect more reliable accident data in Sierra Leone (ReCAP – Ukaid): the study aims to define a method for road accident data collection and to develop and implement a data management system for the storing and analysis of road accident data.
At national level:
- “General Guidelines for the Implementation of the National Road Safety Plan 2030“ (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport);
- “Plan for the management and optimisation of traffic flows and mobility for the Regional Road Network under Astral S.p.A. management“, whose aim is to supply the Client with an integrated service, including ad hoc developed information systems, which significantly increase the capacity for analysis of the operational and management issues pertaining to the road network of its competence and, more generally, the entire road transport system of the Lazio Region.
He is co-author of over 20 scientific publications including: peer-reviewed articles for journals, conference articles and deliverables. He is an active proof reader of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Transportation Research Record (TRR) and Advances in Transportation Studies (ATS). He is also a member of the International Transport Forum (ITF), the World Bank working group in the implementation of the Safety System approach and the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities – Latin America Chapter (INTALInC-LAC).
Education
He graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Ibague in 2010, obtained a Diploma in “Local Government Public Management” at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in 2015 in Colombia. Lastly, he has a Master’s degree in Transport Engineering from the UPV in Spain, where he graduated with a 1st class honours degree in 2018.
