Profile

Studied Mechanical Engineering (bachelor and master) at the Delft University of Technology. He did his master in the field of robotic locomotion. After working for 6 years as a programmer at ORTEC, Tim returned to the Delft University of Technology as a researcher for the ALLEGRO project, in which he focusses on monitoring, visualization and predicting the travel behaviour of large groups of people during gatherings.

Research

Achieving a proper spatial distribution of the crowd is one of the major challenges of people that are responsible for providing a safe and enjoyable atmosphere at places where a lot of people come together. My goal is to develop decentralized individual supporting tools that collaboratively improve this crowd distribution. A strong focus will be on activity location choice, which is an important aspect when studying active mode behaviour . Part of the research will be conducted by developing simple agent-based strategies and evaluate system performance in simulations. The other part will focus on real applications.

Research themes:

• Active mode mobility