Maaike Snelder is associate professor at the Department of Transport and Planning, Civil Engineering at the Delft University of Technology and principal scientist at TNO. She is co-lead of the Sustainable Urban Multimodal Mobility Lab (SUM Lab) and Editor-in-Chief of the platinum open access European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR).

As co-director of the Sum Lab, Maaike is responsible for initiating collaborations with partners, acquiring and leading large research programs and supervising PhD students. Maaike was/is principal investigator in the NWO research programs XCARCITY (co-lead), SUMMALab, ToGRIP and STAD (co-lead) and lead scientist in several other large projects focusing on the development of a next generation of traffic and transport models and the development of interactive network design methods. She has supervised 10 PhD students and over 35 master students. She is the responsible teacher of the course Sustainable and Resilient Transport Systems and Networks, and she gives lectures in several other courses.

Her research focuses on impact assessment and design of multimodal transport systems with a special interest in the resilience of networks and the impact of new mobility concepts like automated vehicles and shared mobility. Maaike has a broad experience in the development and application of static and dynamic, strategic and real-time traffic transport models and optimization models for network design. For example, she developed the new mobility modeler to assess impacts of new mobility concepts, she developed an optimization and impact assessment model for robust road network design, she led a joint research project on activity based models, she oversaw the development of the first real-time waterway traffic model for the canals of Amsterdam and lead the development of prediction and smart routing models in the context of the ‘Praktijkproef’ (field trial) in Amsterdam. Maaike completed her PhD research about robust road network design in 2010 (Cum Laude) and completed her study Econometrics in 2003.

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