Prof. Itzhak Benenson is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Tel Aviv University. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematical Biophysics at Moscow State University in 1984 and earned his M.S. in Mathematics from the Urals State University in 1975. He is an associate editor of the Computers, Environment and Urban Systems journal and serves on several editorial boards. He is also a member of the IGU Commission on Geographical Information Science. His research interests include big urban data, public transport and parking usage in cities, modeling urban land use and residential dynamics, the impact of local and regional planning, vehicle–pedestrian interactions, and road accidents.