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ABOUT NSA HUB

Your strategic mobility & urban planning BrainHub.

We envision cities, regions, and countries shaped by seamless, multimodal mobility systems that connect people to opportunities and places with speed and efficiency at scale. We partner with cities and national stakeholders to shape high-capacity, integrated mobility—delivering fast, reliable access that boosts productivity, attracts investment, and strengthens long-term, sustainable growth. The result is a superb urban environment: greener streets, vibrant public spaces, and excellent quality of life—alongside stronger safety, resilience, and climate performance.

 

TEAM MEMBERS & PARTNERS

 
 
Dr. Nir Sharav
Dr. Nir Sharav

Team Leader

Maayan Nesher
Maayan Nesher

Economics and Management

Tal Eyal
Tal Eyal

Architecture and Design

Dr. Yoav Lerman
Dr. Yoav Lerman

Urban and Transportation Planning

Dr. Aleksey Ogulenko
Dr. Aleksey Ogulenko

Transport Simulations

Yonatan Lebendiger
Yonatan Lebendiger

Urban and Transportation Planning

Elad Mokadi
Elad Mokadi

PSN | Transportation Planning

Eitan Nordmann
Eitan Nordmann

Psychology

Prof. Yoram Shiftan
Prof. Yoram Shiftan

Travel Behavior Expert

Eran Melamud
Eran Melamud

Mass Transit Planning

Dr. Itai Van Rijn
Dr. Itai Van Rijn

Data Science

Prof. Doron Balasha
Prof. Doron Balasha

Technion | Transportation Engineering

Avner Barak
Avner Barak

PSN | Transportation Strategy & Policy

Sharon Malki
Sharon Malki

Public Transportation Operations

Guy Kazakov
Guy Kazakov

GIS Analysis

Prof. Ithzak Benenson
Prof. Ithzak Benenson

Transport Simulations Expert

Yuval Shiftan
Yuval Shiftan

Transport Economics & Modelling

Dr. Robert Ashak
Dr. Robert Ashak

RobertTP | Public Transportation Planning

Carlos Cristóbal-Pinto
Carlos Cristóbal-Pinto

UITP | Mass Transit

Shachar Bar
Shachar Bar

Economics & Government

Shira Steinberg
Shira Steinberg

Graphic Design

Marcos Szeinuk
Marcos Szeinuk

Transportation Engineer

Prof. Amnon Frenkel
Prof. Amnon Frenkel

Urban Planning Expert

Dr. Hend Manasra
Dr. Hend Manasra

EnMotion | Transportation Modelling

Anan Maalouf
Anan Maalouf

Urban & Transportation Planning

Lior Steinberg
Lior Steinberg

Urban Planning

Gal Sinai
Gal Sinai

Economics & Finance

Yoav Grospa
Yoav Grospa

Legal Adviser

Yehuda Elbaz
Yehuda Elbaz

Public Transportation Operations

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS OF TEAM MEMBERS

 

Preferences for shared automated vehicles: A hybrid latent class modeling approach — Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 125, 103013 (2021).

Optimal Urban Transit Investment Model and Its Application — Sustainability (2021).

What do we (not) know about our future with automated vehicles? — Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 123 102948 (2021).

Shade maps for prioritizing municipal microclimatic action in hot climates: Learning from Tel Aviv-Yafo — Sustainable Cities and Society 53, 101931 (2020).

Applying space syntax for surface rapid transit planning — Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 128, 59-72 (2019).

Social justice and spatial inequality: Toward a conceptual framework — Progress in Human Geography 42 (5), 647-665 (2018).

Network analysis of the Tel Aviv mass transit plan — Urban Rail Transit (Springer) (2018).

Does your city need a metro?–A Tel Aviv case study — Case Studies on Transport Policy (2018).

User preferences regarding autonomous vehicles — Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 78, 37-49 (2017).

Transport equity analysis — Transport Reviews 37 (2), 139-151 (2017).

Mapping national innovation ecosystems: Foundations for policy consensus — Mapping National Innovation Ecosystems (2014).

Using space syntax to model pedestrian movement in urban transportation planning — Geographical Analysis 46 (4), 392-410 (2014).

The impact of travel information’s accuracy on route-choice — Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 26, 146-159 (2013).

Exploring cruising using agent-based and analytical models of parking — Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 9 (9), 773-797 (2013).

Residential location choice of knowledge-workers: The role of amenities, workplace and lifestyle — Cities 35, 33-41 (2013).

The impact of fare integration on travel behavior and transit ridership — Transport Policy 21, 63-70 (2012).

The influence of individual’s risk perception and attitudes on travel behavior — Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (8), 1241-1251 (2012).

The actual impact of comprehensive land-use plans: Insights from high resolution observations — Land use policy 29 (4), 862-877 (2012).

The Schelling model of ethnic residential dynamics: Beyond the integrated-segregated dichotomy of patterns — Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 15 (1), 6 (2012).

Public transport versus private car GIS-based estimation of accessibility applied to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area — The Annals of Regional Science 47 (3), 499-515 (2011).

Which road do I take? A learning-based model of route-choice behavior with real-time information — Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 44 (4), 249-264 (2010).

The combined effect of information and experience on drivers’ route-choice behavior — Transportation 35 (2), 165-177 (2008).

Transit market research using structural equation modeling and attitudinal market segmentation — Transport Policy 15 (3), 186-195 (2008).

PARKAGENT: An agent-based model of parking in the city — Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32 (6), 431-439 (2008).

Measuring urban sprawl: how can we deal with it? — Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 35 (1), 56-79 (2008).

Geographic automata systems — International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19 (4), 385-412 (2005).

R&D, firm size and innovation: an empirical analysis — Technovation 25 (1), 25-32 (2005).

Geosimulation: Automata-based modeling of urban phenomena — Wiley (2004).

Geosimulation: object-based modeling of urban phenomena — Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 28 (1-2), 1-8 (2004).

The potential effect of national growth-management policy on urban sprawl and the depletion of open spaces and farmland — Land use policy 21 (4), 357-369 (2004).

Scenario building as a tool for planning a sustainable transportation system — Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 8 (5), 323-342 (2003).

Barriers and Limitations in the Development of Industrial Innovation in the Region — European planning studies 11 (2), 115-137 (2003).

Modeling response to parking policy — Transportation Research Record 1765 (1), 27-34 (2001).

Why high-technology firms choose to locate in or near metropolitan areas — Urban Studies 38 (7), 1083-1101 (2001).

Demonstration of an activity-based model for Portland — World Transport Research: Selected Proceedings of the 8th World Conference (1999).

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