Director and Principal Consultant

Ahmed Ahmed

Ahmed Ahmed is a transport planning and sustainable mobility professional with experience spanning transport strategy, active travel, stakeholder engagement and placemaking.

He has delivered transport planning, travel planning and active travel initiatives within complex urban environments, including one of the UK's largest regeneration areas. His expertise spans Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, sustainable mobility strategies, stakeholder engagement and behaviour change programmes.

Ahmed holds a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering, and an MBA. He is currently undertaking a part-time PhD at the UCL Transport Institute, focusing on the interaction between micromobility and pedestrians in high-footfall urban environments, using Wembley Park as a case study.

Alongside consultancy work, Ahmed has a strong interest in developing people and supporting career progression. He has delivered leadership and management programmes, mentored aspiring professionals and contributed to apprenticeship development within the transport sector.

As a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (FCIHT), Ahmed remains passionate about creating sustainable transport systems, supporting professional development and helping organisations deliver places that are accessible, sustainable and people-focused.

Principal Advisor

Proffessor Wafaa Saleh

Professor Wafaa Saleh acts as a Principal Advisor for Transport Project Specialists Ltd. She is a Professor of Transport Engineering at the Transport Research Institute/School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. She is the first female professor of Transport Engineering in the UK. Professor Wafaa graduated from Newcastle University with a doctorate degree in modelling travel behaviour and transportation engineering. She teaches and researches modelling travel behaviour, travel demand management, sustainability, traffic safety, accident management, transport and the environment. Wafaa is a Chartered Engineer (MICE) and a member of a number of national and international scientific committee’s editorial teams of transport and sustainability conferences and related academic Journals. Recently, her research interest has extended to transportation problems in Africa and the Middle East; road safety in particular. She has over 40 years of experience in the transport sector
Director of Engineering and Technical Services

Abubakar Salisu

Abubakar Salisu is the Head of Engineering and Technical services of Transport Project Specialists Ltd. He completed a Civil Engineering Diploma (OND) from Kaduna Polytechnic in 2005 and proceeded to Bayero University Kano to obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Civil Engineering in 2008. He is a registered Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). He has substantial experience in consultancy and supervision of roads and bridges projects. He has carried out the design of several roads and bridges and has gained significant expertise in this area.