Research visit from ITS Leeds

In the period September 20-23 2011 PhD student Abdulrahman Alkhorayef visited the Decision Modelling Group at DTU Transport as part of the UNITE project. Abdul is currently doing his PhD study at ITS Leeds under the supervision of Professor Alan Pearman where the main effort is placed on the uncertainties and bias within large-scale investment proposals. Thus, the provisional concerns is to apply principal-agent theory and other point of views such as psychology and economics, to understand what are the causes of mega project errors and what usefull tools might be implemented to acvoid the latter. Abdul will among other things give a lecture with regard to his research topic in the course 13233/13822: Risk analysis and decision support at DTU Transport on Thursday the 22nd of September.