GREAT Project

Danang Parikesit is Director of Research and Community Service, Universitas Gadjah Mada (since 2006) and also serves as Chairman of Board of Researcher at The Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada (PUSTRAL UGM) - (since 2005. He is a transport planner and holds Dr. Tech degree from Institut fuer Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria. His passions in transportation include promoting safe, accessible, equitable, competitive and seamless transportation system and infrastructure for Indonesian people to pursue their highest social and economic development potentials. Since 2006 he also serves as the Chairman of The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) - an international NGO based in London.

"John Black is Director of the Botany Bay Studies Unit at the University of New South Wales and a researcher with the Planning Research Centre, University of Sydney. He has taught at the University of New South Wales since 1975 and from 1984 to 1999 was the Foundation Professor of Transport Engineering. He holds an Arts degree from Manchester University, A Masters in Town and Country Planning from Sydney University and an Engineering Degree from Bradford University. He has extensive teaching, research and consulting experience, including in East and South East Asia and has worked in Indonesia since 1978. He has published about 40 books, monographs and chapters in books and some 130 refereed journal and conference proceedings papers."

"John Lea is an Hon Associate Professor at the University of Sydney where he taught from 1975 to 2001. He holds degrees from Cambridge University, the University of the Witwatersrand and Sydney University. He undertook doctoral research in Africa and has subsequently specialised in development studies in SE Asia, northern Australia and the Pacific. He was awarded a DScArch by the University of Sydney in 1999. He is author of several books on urbanisation, housing and regional development and has acted as consultant to the World Bank and UN agencies. In 2002 he was Program Quality Adviser for a year at AusAID in Canberra".

Purwo Santoso is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Social and Political Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada and lecturer on Government Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta (since 1980). He holds PhD degree of Department of Government from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London since 1999. He is author of several books and monographs on governance.

Restu Novitarini Djarwoningrum or Vita is a researcher at The Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies Gadjah Mada University. She has experienced in several projects in transport sector particularly related to sustainable transportation development.

Since 2006 she also serves as the secretary of Indonesia Forum Group for Transportation Development (IFGRTD)

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Harya Setyaka is the researcher at Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI). Beside active at Indonesia Transportation Society as Deputy of Media and Publication since 2007, he is also the member of Jakarta Transport Council. In 2005 with his colleagues, he published a book entitled Satellite Cities Development; The Case of Bumi Serpong Damai: A Chapter in Indonesian Urban Development in the 21st Century, Compilation of Case Studies.