International Steering Committee

 

 

 

Purpose:  The purpose of the Committee is to encourage and promote international activities in the area of underground freight transportation (UFT) by capsule pipelines and other tube/tunnel technologies, and to plan, oversee and select the host of the biennial International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport (ISUFT).

 

Dr. Henry Liu, President, Freight Pipeline Company, U.S.A. (fpc_liuh@yahoo.com) (Chairman)

 

Dr. Stephen S. Roop, Director, Rail Research Center, Texas A & M University, U.S.A. (s-roop@tamu.edu)

 

Dr. Dietrich Stein, Professor, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany (dietrich.stein@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)

 

Dr. E. Taniguchi, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan (taniguchi@tranfac.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

 

Dr. Yuji Tomita, Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (tomita@mech.kyutech.ac.jp)

 

Dr. Johan Visser, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Research School for Transport, Infrastructure, and Logistics (TRAIL), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (visser@otb.tudelft.nl)