Dr Charles RAUX, Civil Engineer, PhD in Transport Economics, has been awarded an "Habilitation" to lead research from the Université Lyon2. He is director of LET (Transport Economics Laboratory), an academic research unit based in Lyon, France. He has a significant experience in urban travel behavior analysis and modeling and in transportation policy analysis.

His main research interests today include

- road user charging and financing of transportation in urban areas,
- he use of transferable permits as a means to manage transport demand and especially greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector, and
- new approaches in modeling travel behaviour and activity location by the means of multiagent models.
Charles RAUX has been involved as workpackage leader in several European research projects funded by EC DG TREN. He has worked as an expert or rapporteur for the ITF (International Transport Forum, ex-ECMT), the OECD (Environment Directorate), the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, the French government Planning Office, the French national transport research program (PREDIT), and also for Lyon's public authority about urban road pricing and transport financing.

His scientific publications include more than twenty papers in international refereed journals, about twenty-five books or book chapters and thirty international and national research reports.