Elenna is the Faculty of Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has 20 years of experience in transportation demand modelling, land use transportation planning, infrastructure planning and logistics. In the past decade, she has provided professional consultancy for a number of large development projects in the Netherlands, including regional development strategies for North Brabant province, Ymere Housing Corporation, South Holland province, and Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe provinces, as well as corridor development strategies for the A1 and A2 highways. She has also coordinated the comprehensive ICT and education innovation projects "Promoting international, interdisciplinary and inter¬ institutional education via ICT" and "Sealing-up Network Education" and has consulted for the World Bank Global Development Learning Network. Her academic research addresses diffusion of innovation in dynamic networks, focusing on applications at the junction of passenger and freight transportation and ICT. She is co-founder of the international scientific workshop series "Frontiers in Transportation" and is guest editor of numerous special issues in international transportation research journals. At the Vrije Universiteit, she is involved in a multi-disciplinary study of the impact of the North/South metro line on mobility and accessibility in the greater Amsterdam metropolitan area. She also currently leads collaborative projects in research and education with logistics partners such as Port of Amsterdam, Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Air Cargo Netherlands, Tata Steel and Panalpina World Transport.