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Ransford Antwi Acheampong is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, focusing on Transport and Urban Futures. He holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, as well as a BSc from KNUST, Ghana and a GIS Certificate from the University of Twente, Netherlands. His research interests include the integration of transport and land use planning, particularly in relation to emerging technologies such as Connected Autonomous Mobility and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). He has conducted interdisciplinary research addressing urban impacts of autonomous vehicles through projects in cities such as Manchester, Melbourne, Seattle, and Singapore. Ransford has also published extensively in leading scientific journals and is a lead editor of the book 'Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Africa'. His teaching contributions include courses on Land Use Transport Planning and Sustainable Transport, and he actively supervises PhD students in related research areas. Ransford has served as Associate Editor for various academic journals and is involved in departmental leadership roles, including directing the MSc Transport Urban Planning program.
University of Manchester • Manchester, UK
Teaching and research in Transport and Urban Planning, leading various academic courses and supervising doctoral students.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.