Dr Harry Akyen Quainoo

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Qualifications: PhD Civil Engineering (WITS), MSc Civil Engineering (WITS), BSc Hons Agric Engineering (UST, Ghana) Professional Membership: MSAICE; ICIOB Areas of Specialisation: Transportation Engineering Research Interests: Sustainable Pavement Design and Materials; Modelling the remaining service lives of pavements and bridges; Labour-intensive road engineering; Transportation Demand Modelling; Transportation Engineering Studies (traffic engineering related issues: traffic volume / highway capacity studies & level of service, speed-density studies and Level of Service, Parking studies, Accident studies and management, etc.) Public Profile: Google Scholar Biography: Dr Harry Quainoo is a senior lecturer, Transportation Engineering, in the Department of Civil Engineering Science at UJ. Since joining UJ in 2013, he has been lecturing on pavement design and technology, urban transportation planning and modelling, traffic engineering, materials science, and transportation studies at both APK and DFC campuses. He received a BSc (Hons) Agricultural Engineering from UST-Kumasi, Ghana, in 1988. Thereafter, he received an MSc and PhD (Civil Engineering) both from WITS University in 2001 and 2010, respectively. Prior to joining UJ, he worked first as a Research Officer /Research Fellow and lecturer at WITS University (Department /School of Civil Engineering, and School of Construction Economics and Management) from 1997 to 2013 where he lectured and supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on Labour-intensive Road Engineering, Infrastructure Management, Construction Site Management, and Project Management-related issues. His research interests include Sustainable Pavement design and Materials, Modelling remaining lives of roads and bridges, and urban transportation modelling.