Day-to-day leadership and external communication of the project is delegated to the Senior Management Group, which is made up of the Chair, Vice Chair and the Working Group Leaders.
Tasks and responsibilities of the Senior Management Group are:
The COST 358 Pedestrians' Quality Needs Management Committee is the deciding authority of the project. The Management Committee is the formal partner of the COST Office and rules within the framework of the project, as laid down in the Technical Annex of the Memory of Understanding and this general Work Plan.
The research work is broken down in 4 work packages, to be dealt with by 4 Working Groups. The Working Groups are lead by Working Group Leaders. The Working Group Leaders are appointed by the MC.
As the Working Group Leader, the Vice Working Group Leader is appointed by the MC. The Vice Working Group leader assists the Working Group Leader and is his substitute when needed.
The PQN research work is done primarily by the experts that subscribed to the Working Groups. The experts are expected to contribute as individually agreed, to fraternally review other experts' work and to critically help advancing the quality and quantity of knowledge regarding the pedestrian issue.