Onabanjo
Michael.
I'm focused on how transport actually works, especially the informal systems that move most people across African cities. A big part of my interest is figuring out how to capture real-time data from these systems and use it to make transport safer, more predictable, and easier to navigate for the people who rely on it. At the core, I'm concerned with practical interventions, identifying key routes, integrating cleaner vehicle technologies, and building the planning frameworks that let informal and multimodal systems operate more safely and efficiently.
I serve on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Podcast, where I conducted the interview in Episode 82 on ITS activities across Africa and contributed to Episode 84 on cybersecurity in intelligent transportation. I am also a research assistant and member at TRATSEDI, collecting and analysing driver behaviour data to support transport research in West Africa, and participated in the Transformative Transport Service Conference 2025 in Loughborough. Before that, I spent a year simulating traffic on actual Lagos infrastructure. My microsimulation of the Third Mainland Bridge was calibrated to approximately 117,000 vehicles per day and showed a 20.72% reduction in emissions under a 10% autonomous vehicle penetration scenario. I hold a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Olabisi Onabanjo University, where I majored in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, and completed my undergraduate internship as a Control Engineer at Tulip Cocoa Processing Limited, a facility where over 90% of machines and devices are automated.