Dorinela Costescu is a professor, Faculty of Transports, Polytechnic University of Bucharest. She has over 25 years of academic and research experience in the Transport Engineering domain. Her teaching has covered Transport Systems, Geographic Information Systems for Transport (GIS-T), Transport Geography, Public Transport, and Management of Transport Projects. As a researcher, she has worked on studies concerning intermodal transport, city logistics, and transport terminals. In the period 2012 – 2016, she coordinated a multidisciplinary research team for studies regarding road safety in the urban environment and traffic risk estimates. Since 2017 her primary interests have focused on sustainable technologies for urban transport systems (mobility and public transport solutions for passengers and city logistics). In 2021 she achieved the habilitation in the Transport Engineering domain with the thesis "Urban Mobility: A Main Theme of the Sustainable Development."