Professor Marianne Vanderschuren
the University of Cape Town
Professor in Transport Planning and Engineering
Professor Marianne Vanderschuren
Marianne has over 30 years’ experience in the field of transport engineering and (smart) mobility. For over 10 years, she worked in the Netherlands at TNO Inro, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (a sister organisation of the TRL), before joining the University of Cape Town in 2000. Marianne has made a major contribution to teaching, research, and practice as an academic in the Centre for Transport Studies. She specialises in sustainable and intelligent transport and the protection of vulnerable road users, through the use of data collection and analysis, transport modelling and assessment tool development.
Marianne is an award-winning author. She has (co)authored 27 Journal papers, 8 books, 16 book chapters, 68 conference paper and numerous other project reports and popular publications. She holds the DSI-NRF/CSIR Co-funded Smart Mobility Research Chair, growing the South African knowledge base and developing the next generation professionals. Marianne is also the past President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering.