TTC 2025 Agenda

Hybrid – Loughborough University, UK | 13th August 2025

09:15 – 09:35
Welcome and Conference Opening (20 mins) – Room RT 40
Dr ‪Ogochukwu Ugboma, LASU, Nigeria and Dr Yasir Ali, Loughborough University, UK – Conference Co-Chairs

09:35 – 10:20
Keynote 1 – Sustainability (45 mins) – Room RT 40
Mameri Eze – Project Manager, Great Western Railway (GWR)

10:20 – 10:30
Comfort Break (10 mins) – Lobby

10:30 – 12:10
Morning Parallel Tracks (3) – 4 Presentations × 25 mins (100 mins)

Morning Track 1 – Room RT 40

  • Eduardo Mendez – 2036 – Learning to Drive the Future: A Literature Review on Older Adults and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies

  • Tim Wilson – 2049 – Bridging the Gap in Transport Education for Sustainable Mobility

  • Simeon Stevenson Turay – 2076 – From Surveys to Modelling: An AI-Calibrated Paratransit Mode Choice

  • Sudhanshu Bhatt – 2059 – Designing for Dignity: Aligning Policy and Technology for Inclusive Public Transport for People with Disabilities

Morning Track 2 – Room RT 37

  • Sandhya Kalale Srinivas – 2072 – Green Finance Trends in Adopting Electric Vehicles in India

  • Vikrant Yadav – 2073 – Platform Design and Wellbeing in the Transport Gig Economy

  • Dinesh Jain – 2078 – Inclusive Transport for Women Agri-Entrepreneurs

  • Martin Tairo Maseghe – 2034 – Bridging the Mobility Gap: Njia Bora – A Contextual Transport Innovation for Kenya’s Secondary Towns

Morning Track 3 – Room RT 33

  • Shravani Mahale – 2042 – Smart Systems for Shadow Cities

  • Ogochukwu Ugboma – 2051 – Informal Transit for Accessibility Among the Urban Poor in Nigeria

  • Caleb Agbede – 2057 – Mitigating Pedestrian Walkway Capacity Loss in Ibadan

  • Samarth Valte – 2048 – Rethinking Rural Mobility in Semi-Urban India

12:10 – 12:55
Lunch Break (45 mins) – Lobby

12:55 – 13:40
Keynote 2 – Inclusivity (45 mins) – Room RT 40
Erik Matthies – Policy Lead: Inclusive Journeys, RNIB UK

13:50 – 15:30
Afternoon Parallel Tracks (3) – 4 Presentations × 25 mins (100 mins)

Afternoon Track 1 – Room RT 40

  • Princewill Ahante – 2085 – Changing the Narrative of Who Gets to Cycle

  • Joseph Odeh – 2065 – Assessing the Overall Satisfaction of Commuters Using Bus Transportation in Lagos State: Focus on BRT and Yellow Buses

  • Emmanuel Mogaji – 2097 – Beyond the Plug: Reimagining Public EV Charging Through Consumer-Centered Tech Design

Afternoon Track 2 – Room RT 37

  • George Ukam – 2038 – The Calabar Minibus Mapping Project

  • Zaccheaus Olonade – 2089 – Inclusive Organisational Culture in Urban Transit Operators

  • Mukhodeni Muthige – 2071 – Barriers to Universal Accessibility in South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry

  • Hayatullah Busari – 2075 – Cost-Benefit Analysis: CNG vs EV for Net-Zero in Nigeria

Afternoon Track 3 – Room RT 33

  • Eunice Odeghe – 2050 – Women Drivers as Catalysts for Family Economic Resilience

  • Chinebuli Uzondu – 2081 – Equity, Transport Justice and the Older Population in Nigeria and Uganda

  • Ronett Atukunda – 2043 – Energy Transition or Energy Addition in Uganda’s Transport Sector

  • Nnenna Jennifer Nze – 2063 – Modelling Inland Waterways Accident Severities in the Niger Delta

15:30 – 16:15
Keynote 3 – Technology (45 mins) – Room RT 40
Prof. Marcus Enoch – Professor of Transport Innovation, Loughborough University

16:15 – 16:50
Panel Discussion – Transforming Transport Through Transformative Service Research (35 mins)

16:50 – 17:00
Closing Remarks (10 mins)
Dr Emmanuel Mogaji – Conference Secretary