Dr Karien Venter
Venter’s research interests include road safety and traffic management as a multidisciplinary and complex problem, and human factors within the South African road transport domain.
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Venter is a social researcher with experience in social programme development and evaluation. Since 2008, she has been contributing to multidisciplinary projects within road safety, traffic management and road/traffic engineering. Her work involves planning and execution of research programmes that aim to make the South African transport system safer, providing an overall understanding of the road and traffic management system, its underlying principles and theories, and the application of these, along with knowledge related to indicators and methods for monitoring and evaluating programmes and interventions.
Expertise: Road safety, human factors, transport safety engineering and traffic management
- BA (General), University of Pretoria, 1998
- BA (Hon) (Criminology), University of Pretoria, 2000
- BA (Hon) (Psychology), University of Pretoria, 2001
- MA (Civil Engineering) (cum laude), University of Stellenbosch, 2014
- PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Stellenbosch, 2019
