Rick is transportation planning and road safety engineer with nearly four decades of USA and international experience, including roadway safety programs and audits. He has led major transportation and infrastructure investment programs and projects. He served as on-call Statewide Planning Consultant (Lead Consultant and Project Manager) to Ohio Department of Transportation (DOT) for a three-year term, 2010-2013, including system level roadway safety audits and improvement plans. He was a contributor to the development of the ASCE’s Envision sustainability rating system for transportation and infrastructure. Rick is a creative leader in multi-modal transportation planning, and his work in the US has won national recognition from AARTBA, AASHTO, ACEC, and the AIA. In Saudi Arabia, Rick has served as Special Consultant on TEC’s larger projects, including the Riyadh Speed Management Study, Jeddah Traffic Impact Policy Guidelines, Study and Design of Service Roads on Dirab Road, and Jeddah Waterfront Development Project.

Dr. Ibrahim Alsghan was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1987. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2010 and 2013 respectively, and Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2018. Dr. Ibrahim Alsghan is currently an Assistant Professor of transportation engineering with the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, KFUPM. His research interests include traffic safety, traffic operations, Human factors, Automated vehicles, and machine learning.