Transport & Planning

How can we solve congestion? Why can't we just build more roads and railways? The Department Transport & Planning at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences conducts scientific research and provides education about the planning and operation of transport systems.

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We provide transport and planning courses in the Bachelor programme Civil Engineering, we offer a Transport & Planning track in the MSc programmes Civil Engineering and participate in the interfaculty MSc programme Transport Infrastructure and Logistics.

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13 September 2018

2018 INFORMS Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award

15 August 2018

Marjan Hagenzieker nieuw lid van de Raad van Toezicht van het CBR

De minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, heeft per 1 augustus prof. dr. Marjan Hagenzieker benoemd tot lid van de Raad van Toezicht van het CBR.

01 August 2018

ERC Starting Grant for new models of Mobility as a Service

Oded Cats is one of the seven TU Delft researchers awarded with an ERC Starting Grant. The European Research Council has awarded the grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) which are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.

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Inaugural address of Professor Rob Goverde

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Like sardines in a festival can

How does the crowd at an event move, when do people stop and how do you ensure that safety is not compromised? A large-scale experiment is being conducted at Delft University of Technology to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of pedestrians during busy events.

The North South line shakes up the entire public transport network

Amsterdam’s North South metro line is nearing completion. It is not often that a city’s public transport system is given a structural shake up of this magnitude. Transport & Planning postdoc Ties Brands saw his chance and decided to study the impact of the new line on the surrounding public transport network.

Driving your own car is set to become the new smoking

The self-driving car is on its way. Or is it in fact already here? In June 2017, Transport Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen opened the Researchlab Automated Driving Delft (RADD) on the TU Delft campus. In the lab, automated driving experiments are being conducted under the supervision of Professors Bart van Arem and Dariu Gavrila.

Real-time data collection at Mysteryland

An enormous 16-metre high bear looks out across the huge Mysteryland site. The sun is shining, the festivalgoers are excited and the loud beat of the bass can be felt as much as heard. Among the stages and the colourful flags hangs a white TU Delft flag from researcher Tim van Oijen. Not an everyday venue for a scientist, you may think. What is he researching at this large-scale dance event?

How do people get to know a city?

What if you are a student or a tourist and you find yourself in a city you have not been to before? How do you go about finding your way? Do landmarks such bridges, churches and other characteristic buildings help? To find out, Transport & Planning PhD Lara Zomer kitted out 250 bikes with gps trackers.

A self-driving car to transport wheelchair-bound children?

How feasible would it be to use driverless vehicles to transport children with multiple disabilities from day care centre Omega in IJburg (Amsterdam) to their new home some 400 metres away? That is what a group of parents asked TU Delft. They would like flexible and small-scale transport to cover the short stretch of road so their children can get from one place to the other more quickly and whenever they want. Researcher Niels van Oort and his colleagues were intrigued and set about investigating.