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Blame culture an obstacle to safety in the chemical sector

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Motorway speed limits of 100 km/h largely advantageous

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Breaking habits for a green world

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Resilient water management in India through adaptive policy analysis

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TU Delft helps the EU to improve its strategic crisis management

TU Delft Resilience professor Tina Comes played a central role in advising the EU on how to improve its role in transboundary crises. Today she handed over the synthesis of the scientific evidence on crisis management to two European Commissioners and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

TPM alumna Sophie Buteyn wins Cuperus Prize 2022

During the pre-conference of the National Transportation Science Congress, on 2 November at Het Paleis in Groningen, Sophie Buteyn, TPM alumna, was named winner of the biennial Cuperus Prize for best thesis.

Jonas Lechner is Best Graduate of TPM 2022

Jonas Lechner is Best Graduate of TPM 2022! He now competes for the TU Delft Best Graduate award with his thesis 'Role of household climate change adaptation in reducing coastal flood risk: the case of Shanghai’. On 22 November the eight brand new engineers from the faculties presented their excellent graduation theses during the TU Delft Best Graduate Award Ceremony 2022.

CityAccessMap: Addressing urban inequalities with open-source data

People in deprived city areas tend to have less services available than inhabitants in wealthier parts. They have less access to urban infrastructure such as pharmacies, libraries, sports clubs and even public transport in their neighbourhood. Reversing this tendency is a priority for today’s policy-makers. Researchers of TU Delft have created a new online tool ‘CityAccessMap’ that can help them in doing so.

Developing and maintaining values in a digital society

How can we ensure that the fundamental values which we consider important in the Netherlands and Europe, such as privacy, transparency and democracy, are safeguarded in a digital society? How can we make a truly positive contribution to society using AI? A conversation between Geert-Jan Houben, pro-vice rector AI, Data and Digitalisation and leader of the AI Initiative, and Professor Jeroen van den Hoven (TPM), leader of the Digital Ethics Centre. "For twenty years already we in Delft have been taking the lead in the field of combining ethics and engineering. "You want that your innovation contributes to the type of society we want to live in."

New video series InDetail launched [Dutch]

How can a computer drive a car or write a news story? What will the impact of all these new techniques be on our lives? And how can we steer those techniques in the right direction? At InDetail, researcher Stefan Buijsman looks at all these questions, from the functioning of algorithms to their use in society.

Improving road safety with a novel driver intervention and feedback system

Several factors related to driver state negatively impact road safety, such as mobile phone distraction, fatigue and drowsiness. In the EU project i-DREAMS, different universities and businesses work together to develop a ‘safety tolerance zone’ for assessing driver state and to create a platform for personalised interventions and feedback for drivers for improving road safety. Amir Pooyan Afghari and Eleonora Papadimitriou, both researchers at TU Delft, are involved in this project.

Farewell Caspar Chorus

After 25 years Caspar Chorus said goodbye to the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. He did so while giving a goodbye lecture in room A on the 25th of August.

Are we ready for the upcoming technological storm?

Are we, as a society, ready for developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and The Internet of Things, creating a ‘perfect technological storm’? Researchers of the Delft University of Technology study this matter.

Kateřina Staňková receives Vidi grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant worth up to 800,000 euros to Kateřina Staňková, a scientist of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. The grant provides her with the opportunity to further elaborate her own research idea and expand her research team. Kateřina explains what her Vidi research entails.

TU Delft researchers develop model for green, energy independent Europe

Researchers from ETH Zurich and TU Delft have developed a model to generate hundreds of ways in which Europe’s energy system can become green and self-sufficient by 2050.

Best teachers of the year 2021-2022

Donderdag 19 mei heeft Neelke Doorn, director of education, in samenwerking met studievereniging Curius de “Teacher of the Year Award" van faculteit Techniek, Bestuur en Management overhandigd aan de winnaar Tom Vroegrijk. Ook Roel Dobbe (I&C), Jan Anne Annema (T&L), Rob Stikkelman (E&I), Haiko van der Voort (MSc EPA), Roland Ortt (MSc MOT), Caspar Chorus (MSc CoSEM) vielen in de prijzen.

Echo, the sustainable education building, is almost ready

Vanaf 30 mei wordt het duurzame, interfacultair onderwijsgebouw Echo in gebruik genomen door docenten en studenten. Vanaf het nieuwe collegejaar zullen alle zalen ingeroosterd worden en is de horeca volledig in bedrijf.

TU Delft has launched the Digital Ethics Centre for fair and safe AI

Our society is digitising itself more and more. That offers opportunities, such as more efficient working, but it also raises many ethical questions – the sort of questions now being addressed by TU Delft’s new Digital Ethics Centre. Together with government agencies and companies, the centre’s researchers are looking at the ethical side of AI and digitalisation, such as fairness, safety and transparency, and seeking to develop the best solutions and applications.

Rico Herzog receives thesis award from the Society for Public Administration

On Tuesday 10 May 2022 the H.A. Brasz thesis prize of the Society for Public Administration (Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde) was awarded to Rico Herzog for his thesis "Cities for Citizens: Identification of Public Values and their Conflics in Urban Space".

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The Future Ground: Planning cities for an uncertain future

It is estimated that some 5.5 billion people will live in highly vulnerable climate regions by 2050. However, cities are grappling with ways to think and plan for a resilient future. To become resilient to extreme climate disruptions such as flooding and droughts, cities must transform long-term urban planning. With her advisors, Dr Nazli Aydin and Prof. Tina Comes, PhD candidate Supriya Krishnan is developing "The Future Ground": a methodology for long-term urban planning under climate change.

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Staying dry thanks to government and the public

Climate change greatly increases the risk of flooding. For his master’s thesis, Jonas Lechner used a smart model to study the role households can play in reducing flood risks in coastal cities. It turns out they can play a big role. His research earned him the title of best graduate of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.

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Breaking down barriers to open science step by step

The call for transparency is growing both from within and outside the scientific community. Yet public sharing of research data is not yet taken for granted. Open science advocate Anneke Zuiderwijk is researching and developing tools to help improve sharing, availability and use of data and to make it easier. Thereby, she hopes that the social value of open science will grow and be utilised in more ways.

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InDetail: how algorithms work up to their use in society

How can a computer drive a car or write a news story? What will the impact of all these new techniques be on our lives? And how can we steer those techniques in the right direction? At InDetail, researcher Stefan Buijsman looks at all these questions, from the functioning of algorithms to their use in society.

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Safety first: evacuating with common sense

In case of a fire, an attack or other emergency, you want to leave a location as fast as possible. However, it’s often still a good idea to first take a moment to listen to or look at the instructions. But of course the instructions then need to be available. Evacuation expert Natalie van der Wal investigates, with the help of human behaviour and computer simulations, how an evacuation can be organised as efficiently as possible. And how well organised are the evacuation protocols of TU Delft itself for that matter?

Kun je algoritmes wel of niet vertrouwen?

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Algorithms: can you trust them or not? - TU Delft Story - Technology, Policy & Management

“Algorithms do not discriminate inherently; the human factor is key – what data we put in, at what point we find an algorithm good enough, when we intervene, and how easy we make it to lodge objections to it.” Assistant professor Stefan Buijsman is exploring how we can use artificial intelligence responsibly. His attitude is positive: “I think that good interaction between AI and people can make our word fairer, cleaner, healthier, and safer.”

Dialoog met bewoners zorgt voor een fijne leefomgeving

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Dialogue with residents creates a pleasant living environment

When residents feel connected with their neighbourhood, they feel more responsible for creating a pleasant atmosphere. But how do people connect with their living environment and how can you support that process? This is what Geertje Slingerland researching: "I find it fascinating how people live together in the city and would like to establish a dialogue between policy makers and residents in order to create a pleasant living environment."

De waterstofauto als cruciale schakel in een duurzaam energiesysteem

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The hydrogen car as a crucial link in a sustainable energy system

Conventional cars that run on fossil fuels no longer meet today’s needs, certainly not in view of the Dutch government’s target of being CO₂ neutral by 2050. A combination of hydrogen cars and battery electric vehicles, are the way forward as stated by the TPM researcher Samira Farahani. She and other researchers at TU Delft are working on Professor Ad van Wijk’s concept of the 'Car as a power plant' (CaPP). In this concept, hydrogen cars will act as power sources in a sustainable energy system in which electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power is converted into hydrogen.

Revolutie in modelleren van reisgedrag

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A revolution in modelling travel behaviour

How do you get drivers out of their cars? How can you make alternatives, such as public transport and cycling, attractive? ‘People who travel a lot by car develop biased views related to alternatives making them less attractive,’ says Maarten Kroesen, researcher into travel behaviour at TU Delft. His groundbreaking research into attitude and travel behaviour could help to make a difference, but it calls for some serious measures that will make car use unattractive.

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24 November 2022

Kornelis Blok in Het Financieele Dagblad over batterij als energiesysteem voor bedrijven

Kornelis Blok in Het Financieele Dagblad over batterij als energiesysteem voor bedrijven

Als chipsfabriek zomaar stoppen met het gebruik van aardgas, kan dat wel? Een samenwerking tussen energiebedrijf Eneco en de Duitse start-up Kraftblock moet ervoor zorgen dat het inderdaad gaat lukken. 'Zo'n batterij is vooral handig om de kosten in toom te houden', zegt Kornelis Blok, hoogleraar energiesysteemanalyse aan de TU Delft.

24 November 2022

Bert van Wee op Cobouw over onderhoud van infrastructuur

Bert van Wee op Cobouw over onderhoud van infrastructuur

De verbindingen tussen steden en dorpen via weg, rail en water kennen nauwelijks nog ontbrekende schakels. “Infrastructuur moet je goed onderhouden”, zegt Bert van Wee, hoogleraar Transportbeleid aan de TU Delft, “want een onverwachte sluiting van een tunnelbuis of brug veroorzaakt veel overlast in het verkeer en daardoor economische schade.

22 November 2022

Emile Chappin bij Focus op Zoetermeer over energietransitie en muziek

Emile Chappin bij Focus op Zoetermeer over energietransitie en muziek

Emile Chappin vertelt over zijn werk aan computermodellen en de energietransitie, over de huidige tijd met hoge energieprijzen en mogelijke effecten op het verloop van de energietransitie. Ook praat hij over zijn rol als docent en over de connecties tussen wetenschap en muziek.

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Agenda

October

Join the Intersectional Philosophy of Technology Speaker Series

November

Lunch seminar series: The Faces of Health@TPM

Thesis defence A.G. Owusu

December

TPM-GS seminar 'Stories from Supervisors'

e-Refinery Lecture December 6: Advancing electrochemical reactor science with neutron radiography

Intersectional Feminist Philosophy of Technology Series: Abeba Birhane on relational and decolonial ethics for AI

TPM AI Lab Intersectional Approaches to AI Speaker Series w/ Abeba Birhane

e-Refinery Lecture December 13: Ruud van Ommen

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