Engineering

Board Member: Ole Thorson
Who am I?: Orle Thorson is Vice-president of the European Federation of Pedestrian Associations (FEPA)
Contact: info@walk21.com

Ole Thorson was born in Copenhagen in 1941.

Ole was a Civil engineer and received a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark in 1964 and from Barcelona in 1983. He specialised in traffic, transport, road safety and pedestrians.
Summary of Experience:
1967-70 - Danish Council of Road Safety Research.
1970-89 - Traffic Planning Division, Barcelona Municipality and 1980-89 Head of Division
1972 - Director of the consultant firm INTRA S.L.
1989 - Mobility consultant
1989 - Associated Professor at the Tech University of Catalunya (Transport)

• Vice-president of the Spanish Traffic Accident Prevention Association
  
• Vice-president of the European Federation of Pedestrian Associations (FEPA)
  
• Member of the board of the Spanish
• Association for Public Transport Promotion
  
• Member of the board of the European Federation of Transport & Environment (T&E)