Emmanuel Amponsah is an Urban and Transport Researcher based at the Department of Planning at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. Emmanuel was a recipient of a SMUS-APRI Urban Africa Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship, which invited African scholars to address wicked urban problems. His research interests lie in sustainable transportation and urban studies. Emmanuel worked very closely with Dr. Nadine Appelhans, from the Habitat Unit, a globally networked research and teaching centre based at Technische Universität (TU Berlin).