Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wegener

 Until 2003, Michael Wegener was Director of the Institute of Spatial Planning and Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund and is now a partner in Spiekermann & Wegener, Urban and Regional Research, Dortmund. His main research fields are urban and re-gional development, European urban systems and trans-European transport networks. His specialisation is urban and regional modelling, in particular of the land-use transport interface in cities and regions and the regional impacts of European transport infrastructure projects. He is a co-chair of the Special Interest Group 'Transport and Spatial Development' of the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) and a Corresponding Member of the German Acad-emy of Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL).