Wafaa Saleh BEng MSc PhD MICE MILT MILT(ed.) MIHT Reader School of Engineering and the Built Environment Room: Merchiston E46 Phone: +44 131 455 2371 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Wafaa Saleh is a Reader in Transportation in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, and a member of the Transport Modelling and Transport and the Environment Research Groups at Edinburgh Napier University’s Transport Research Institute (TRI). Her research and teaching areas include transport modelling, travel demand forecasting, modelling travel behaviour, transport and the environment, transport safety, transport management in developing countries and traffic engineering. Wafaa’s first degree is in Civil Engineering and her Master and PhD degrees are in Transportation Engineering and Modelling. Wafaa is a programme Leader of the BSc Transport Management and teaches on Edinburgh Napier’s MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering and on a number of undergraduate programmes.

Research Interests

Subject Areas: Transportation Engineering and Modelling/ Transport and the environment / Transport Safety
Special Interests: Modelling travel behaviour/ safety and the environment

Professional Activities/ Achievements

Honorary Professorship at the Egypt National Institute for Transport
Organiser of a number of workshops on the area of road pricing
Organiser of two symposium on travel demand management
Member of the international scientific committee of the international symposium of network reliability
Chair of the transport track at the World Association of Sustainable Development (WASD)
Editorship of a number of books and Transport Journals special issues

Current and Recent Research Projects

Saturation flows modelling in development countries: A comparative analysis New Delhi and Edinburgh 2008. The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Impacts of traffic heterogeneity on roadside air pollution concentration in Edinburgh. (With Dr. Ethan (Ying-en) Ge).

Current Teaching

MSc Transport Planning and Engineering
Traffic Models, Traffic Engineering and control, Traffic Management and supervision of dissertations.

BEng/MEng Civil and Transportation Engineering
Network Management, Analytical Transport Planning

BSc Transport Management - Programme Leader
Transport Management in World Cities, Transport Control and Telematics, Transport Models and Integrated Transport Management Project.

PhD Students

Chih Wei Pai
Accident severity of heavy-engined motorbikes at T-Junctions 2005 to 2008. Taiwan Government.

Ravindra Kumar
Driving cycle analysis of motor bikes and its impacts on the environment. 2006 to 2008. India Government.

Khalfan Saeed Al Naqbi
Pedestrian accidents analysis and modelling in UAE: The effective way forward. 2007 to 2010. UAE Government.

Ahmed Al Zaidi
Modelling of driving behaviour 2008 to 2011. UAE Government.

Raed Al Ahmadi
Modelling Pedestrian behaviour in congested areas in Saudi Arabia: problems and solutions. 2007 to 2009. Saudi Government.

Shucheng Hu
Modelling trip generation using logistic analysis. Edinburgh Napier University PhD-studentship 2003 to 2008.