Rae Julien Furlonge has over twenty-seven years’ experience as a traffic and transportation engineer, with ten years in central government, four years in state-owned enterprises and the rest in consulting practice with public- and private- sector entities.

He has undertaken consulting work in Trinidad and Tobago, India, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, and Barbados, in addition to determining the adequacy of legislation, regulations, enforcement, and organisational arrangements pertaining to specific traffic and transportation issues for a major financial institution of its eighteen borrowing Caribbean member countries, including project-related visits to several of them.

Rae has a PhD in Civil Engineering in 1993 from the Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee in India, from where he has been an external examiner for PhD candidates since 2008. He continues develop professionally through regular annual attendances and occasional paper presentations at international technical conferences.  He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Fellow the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), a Fellow of the Association of Professional engineers of Trinidad and Tobago (APETT), and a Member of the Association for European Transport (AET).

Rae has good expertise in the following key professional software: TranCAD 6.0, GIS transportation planning tools, since June 2012; AIMSUN 8, dynamic traffic micro-simulation, and four-stage travel demand modelling tools, since 2006; SIDRA Intersection 6, intersection and network modelling tools, since 1998; and AutoCAD draughting software, since 2004. He has special interest in traffic micro-simulation modelling.