Dr. Andreas Rau will be the keynote speaker for the event. Some of his Glorious feathers are as follows :

• Dr. Rau is an integral part of TUMCREATE, the research platform for the improvement of Singapore's public transportation. Dr. Rau joined TUMCREATE Limited in Singapore since 2011 as a Principal Investigator.
• Dr. Rau was the Founding Director of MSc programmes at TU München and the German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia, Singapore.
• He is teaching public transport planning courses at Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), and at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• He is a frequent speaker in seminars, conference, and training from all around the world.

Academic Achievement

• 1991 – 1997

Studies in Transportation Engineering at Dresden University of Technology, subject area: Transportation planning and traffic engineering

• 1997 – 2001

Researcher at Dresden University of Technology, Chair for Transportation Ecology, Dresden, Germany

• 2001 – 2005

Doctoral dissertation; scholarship from the Free State of Saxony, (thesis: assessment of transport infrastructure with regard to sustainable development; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Udo. J. Becker)

• 2005 – 2006

Researcher at Dresden University of Technology, Chair for Transportation Ecology, Dresden, Germany

• 2006 – 2012

Akademischer Rat at Technische Universität München, Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control, Munich, Germany

• 2009 – Present

Head of Education & Research (Civil Engineering), German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore;

• 2011 – Present

Principal Investigator; TUMCREATE, TUMCREATE Limited, Singapore.