SIMON HAKIM is professor of economics and the director of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University in Philadelphia. His special research and consulting areas are privatization of government services, security, and economics of crime. He earned an M.A in City & Regional Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, MA and Ph.D in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

GILA ALBERT is Senior Researcher in Or Yarok Association for Safer Driving in Israel and a faculty at HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Faculty of Management of Technology, Israel. She has a Ph.D. in Transportation Sciences from the Technion, Israel. Dr. Albert collaborates on projects funded by the European Commission, Transportation Research Institute at the Technion, National Road Safety Authority, and the Israeli Ministry of Transport.

YORAM SHIFTAN is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Technion, Israel. He is the Editor of Transport Policy and the Chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT and since then has published dozens of papers and coedited the books Transportation Planning in the series of Classics in Planning and Transition towards Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions.