1. Luca GUALA
Senior Project manager, owner partner of MLab srl
Luca achieved a 5-years degree (MScEng) in transport engineering and a PhD in transport
technique and economics.
He worked as a researcher at the University of Cagliari and as freelance engineer in the fields
of transport of waste and dangerous goods and of the assessment of environmental noise.
He has been specialist consultant, then project director, for the traffic planning consultancy
Systematica, focusing on innovative and sustainable transport solutions, urban transport plans,
transport consultancy for urban planning and master-planning.
In 2012, with other partners he founded the Company MLab srl, which specializes in transport
solutions and planning consultancy with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation.
In 2013 he worked as Chief Engineer with responsibility in Transport for the Perm City Project
Bureau (Perm, Russia). Currently, he is technical director of MLab srl.
Among Luca’s most relevant professional experiences of the last 10 years in the fields of
transport planning and innovative transport systems are:
- 2016-2017: project director for the sustainable mobility strategy of the Masterplan for a
business park and innovation campus at Munich airport - with KCAP Architects &
Planners . Client: MUC Airport
- 2016: specialist consultant for the drafting of the transport strategy for the Spatial
Strategy of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation - with MLA+ Architecture and
urban planning. Client: Municipality of Ekaterinburg
- 2016: specialist consultant for the “mobility internet” pillar of the “roadmap for the Third
Industrial Revolution” in Luxemburg and the Rotterdam-The Hague Region. - Client
Jeremy Rifkin - “Third Industrial Revolution” LLC
- 2015: specialist consultant for the strategic transport plan of the city of Ufa, Republic of
Bashkortostan, Russian Federation. - Client: Fond razvitiya gorodskih proyectov
- 2013-2014: project director of the Transport strategy planning for the masterplan of a
large mixed-use development in the territory of Moscow City, Russia with KCAP Architects
and Planners. - Client: Khimki agricultural Company, Khimki, Moscow Region, Russia
- 2012-2016: project director of the design and implementation of the first demonstrator
of the “City Mobil 2” European Commission FP7 project for the implementation and
testing of automated transit systems in a real urban environment. - CLIENT: European
Commission, EU
- 2013: specialist consultant for the planning of the Automated public transport network
for the women’s campus of the King Abdullaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. -
Client: 2getthere BV, Utrecht, NL
- 2012-13: specialist consultant for the implementation of the Gen Plan transport
strategies in the city centre of Perm , Russia. - CLIENT: Perm City Projects Bureau, Perm
(RUS)
- 2010: specialist consultant for the transport strategy for the Strategic Master Plan of
Brussels Capital Region, Brussels, Belgium. - with: KCAP Architects and Planners,
Rotterdam (NL); Client: Brussels Region Authority (BE)
- 2010 project director of the transport strategy for the General-Plan of the city of Perm’,
Russia – CLIENT: Perm City Projects Bureau, Perm (RUS)

2. - 2009-2010 project director of the transport strategy for the Master-Plan of the city of
Perm’, Russia – with: KCAP Architects and planners; Pöyry Infra OY (SF), Client: Perm City
Administration (RUS)
- 2008-2009 project director of the planning of the driverless transport system for
“Delivery Phase 1” and the design of the driverless transport system for “MIST Campus”
of Masdar City, UAE – CLIENT: ADFEC Abu Dhabi (UAE)
- 2007 specialist consultant for the transport strategy for the Masdar City Masterplan, UAE
- CLIENT Foster & Partners UK
- 2006 specialist consultant for the public transport, cycling and walking strategies of the
Urban Mobility Plan of Cagliari, Italy - CLIENT: Cagliari City Administration, Cagliari (I)