Prof. Ali ATAHAN received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University. His research areas are: Traffic safety, design and analysis of roadside safety hardware, structural evaluation of impact-contact problems and vehicle crashworthiness. Dr.
Atahan has more than 50 research papers published in scholarly journals, conference proceedings and research reports. He works as a consultant to highway barrier manufacturers in Turkey and Europe. He is an associate member of the American Concrete Institute, ACI, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, and Turkish Road Safety Board, YTMK. He currently works as a Professor of Department of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He can be reached at atahana@itu.edu.tr.