Obiora Nnene

Obiora is a civil engineer and transportation specialist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cape Town (UCT), specialising in transportation planning and engineering and previously worked as a highway design engineer in road design and infrastructure provision. He now works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at UCT. His research interests are in public transport network design and optimisation, transport justice, agent-based transport modelling, and big data applications in transport. He teaches courses in transportation engineering, urban transportation planning and transportation modelling at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has also been involved in many projects focused on improving transportation systems.