Profile

Dr. ir. Haneen Farah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transport and Planning and a co-director of the Traffic and Transportation Safety Lab. She is also currently acting as the head of the Traffic Systems Engineering section in the department. She holds as well a Lise Meitner Guest Professorship at the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University since October, 2025. 

Her research interests lie in the fields of road infrastructure design, road user behaviour, and traffic safety. In her research she combines her expertise in transportation engineering, with her curiosity in the fields of human factors and econometrics. Before joining TU Delft she was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology.

Research

The main aim of her research is to develop theories and models for road user behaviour and traffic safety taking into consideration the impacts of the road infrastructure and the technological developments and advancements in transportation. She is involved in several national and international projects, such as SAMEN (Safe and Efficient OperAtion of AutoMated and Human DrivEN Vehicles in Mixed Traffic) where she focuses on investigating the implications of the advances in vehicle technology and automation on the road infrastructure design, road user behaviour and traffic safety, AfroSAFE (Safe System for radical improvement of road safety in African countries) where she focuses on investigating how to advance the spread of the Safe System mode of operation in the context of road safety initiatives in African nations, and XCARCITY (A sustainable accessible city, without private cars?) where she focuses on safe and improved cycling.

Education

In education she is responsible for the Geometric Design of Roads and Railways (CTB3370-18) undergraduate course and the Traffic Safety (CIEQ6222) graduate course. She teaches as well in the online course Road Safety, and the  Delft Road Safety Course for low and middle income countries and between the years 2017-2024 she gave lectures in the collaborative teaching program with the School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University. She supervises several PhD and Master students working on in her areas of research interests.