ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR

Director, Transportation Safety; Assistant Vice President, WSP
Andrew H. Ceifetz, PE, RSP₂I

Andrew is WSP USA’s director for transportation safety and serves as a focal point for WSP's national practice in highway safety, providing technical leadership and support at the national-scale in research, development, implementation, and training of highway safety-related policies, planning, data-driven analyses, safety management systems, safety performance management, and other emerging issues.

As an engineer he has helped agencies large and small identify, quantify, understand, prioritize, and counter safety concerns in proposed projects and existing networks, with the consideration – and for the benefit – of all users. He has a broad range of experience in roadway safety, traffic data and safety analysis, design, transportation engineering, and inspection across the U.S. and Canada. A member of TRB's Standing Committees on Tort Liability and Risk Management (AJL70) and Low-Volume Roads (AKD30), Andrew also sits on multiple NCHRP and BTSCRP Project Panels regarding safety, driver behavior, and collaboration between state, MPO, and local agencies. Andrew serves as co-chair of the Traffic Safety Engineering Action Team for Michigan's Governor's Traffic Safety Advisory Commission and he developed the Highway Safety Manual spreadsheet tool used by the Michigan DOT. Andrew has led more than 60 Road Safety Audits in the US and Canada and has developed and led trainings for Road Safety Audits, the Highway Safety Manual, Performance Based Maintenance, and safety reviews for hundreds of MDOT and Local Agency Staff.

ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR

Director of Transportation Engineering, True North Safety Group
Pedram Izadpanah, P.Eng., Ph.D.

Pedram Izadpanah, Ph.D., P. Eng., is the Director of Transportation with TNS Group. He has more than 18 years of experience in traffic engineering and road safety in Canada and the U.S. Pedram has in all aspects of the road safety management process, including the development of safety performance functions and network screening, road safety audits, in-service road safety reviews, and economic appraisal of countermeasures. He has developed several road authorities in Canada to develop road safety strategic plans (Vision Zero and otherwise). His strength is to utilize transportation data and new technologies in assisting road authorities in decision making.

Pedram has authored in full or partially manuals and guidelines including Ontario Traffic Manual Books (7, 11, 12, and 15), the ITE Before and After Studies in Road Safety, the FHWA Signalized Intersections Informational Guide, the MTO Guidelines for Operational Performance Review, and the TAC Defining and Measuring Urban Congestion.

Pedram has taught traffic engineering and road safety at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo for the past 7 years. He has extensive experience in teaching road safety principles via digital media and classroom settings to professionals with a varying knowledge of road safety as part of his daily responsibilities at TNS.

Pedram was the co-chair of the Workshop and Knowledge Development Subcommittee of the TAC Road Safety Standing Committee (RSSC) from 2014 to 2019 where he assisted in organizing more than 6 workshops and panel discussions in road safety including Vision Zero best practices. He is the past chair of the TAC Road Safety Committee (RSC) and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is currently the Vice President of ITE Canada.