Instructor Information


NameBio
Rafat Raie T.E., Principal at Advanced Mobility Group

Mr. Raie has nearly 35 years of traffic engineering & planning experience in both the public and private sectors. As a City Traffic Engineer for several cities, he is well experienced in the design, operations, planning, and maintenance. Mr. Raie has delivered numerous courses for professionals as an instructor with ITS Tech Transfer and conducted many safety assessments for tribal communities as part of the UC Berkeley SafeTREC program. In the past decade of his public sector experience, he led the deployment of several Smart City technologies for improved communications, parking management, detection, multi-modal data collection and signal preemption.

Meghan Mitman AICP, Principal, Fehr & Peers, Walnut Creek, CA

Ms. Mitman has over 15 years of transportation planning and engineering experience. She is an expert in active transportation planning and safety, having co-authored the multi-award winning California Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Assessments Technical Guidebooks and served as the project manager for pedestrian and bicycle safety assessments and active transportation plans statewide. She is a national instructor for the FHWA's pedestrian and bicycle planning, safety, and design courses. Meghan has published numerous articles based on her safety research in TRB's Transportation Research Record, which have included a specific focus on crosswalk behavior, safety, and countermeasures as well as pedestrian demand forecasting. She is lead author for the ITE Recommended Practice on Accommodating Pedestrians and Bicyclists at Interchanges. Meghan is a member of the TRB Pedestrian Committee and the international Chair of the ITE Complete Streets Council.