Zahwa Al Ayyash

Senior Transport Specialist at Roads and Transport Authority

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Zahwa is a Civil and Environmental Engineer with a master’s degree in Transportation Planning. She has 9 years’ experience in transport master planning, strategic travel demand modeling, traffic engineering, model calibration and validation, traffic impact studies, mobility and parking strategies, and traffic and capacity analysis. Being the main author, she has published five research papers, three of which are associated with transport demand modeling, commute satisfaction, public transport, and discrete choice modeling. Key transport topics involved modeling the demand of shared-ride taxi service in a developing country context and investigating differences in the commute satisfaction of public transport and private car users using state-of-the art discrete choice models. In the Consultancy field, Zahwa worked on key projects in the Middle East including transport masterplans and traffic impact assessments for the King Salman Energy Park in KSA, Infrastructure Master Plan for Qiddiya and Safaniyah Master Plan Update, Jeddah Central Development, and Green Riyadh Al Urubah Park in KSA. Zahwa has a wide range of experience in developing strategic travel demand models supporting scheme assessments. She has an extensive experience working with PTV VISUM modelling software including the specification, delivery, and application of strategic transport models. Additionally, she has a substantial experience in a series of other transportation software such as EMME, Synchro, Simtraffic , HCS7, and Sidra.