Prof.dr.ir. L.A. (Lóri) Tavasszy
Prof.dr.ir. L.A. (Lóri) Tavasszy
Profile
Biography
Lóránt Tavasszy (1967) is full professor in Freight Transport & Logistics at the Delft University of Technology. He studied Civil Engineering and completed his PhD research in 1996 on multimodal freight transport models for Europe. Between 1996 and 2016, he worked with the Dutch national research institute TNO as researcher, manager and principal scientist and held part time chairs at the University of Nijmegen and TU Delft. His research involves freight transportation modelling at urban, national and global level. Within the TU Delft, he leads the Freight & Logistics lab, which brings together researchers from 6 Faculties. Professor Tavasszy currently chairs the Scientific Committee of the World Conference for Transport Research Society (WCTRS) and is involved in several professional committees, including the Sustainability Task Group of the EU Technology Platform ALICE and scientific advisory groups on Freight Corridors (Ministry of Infrastructure and Waterways), Transport Safety (Instituut Fysieke Veiligheid) and Port Innovations (Smartport).
Expertise
Publications
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2024
Dynamics of freight transport decarbonization
A simulation study for Brazil
Verônica Ghisolfi / Lóránt Antal Tavasszy / Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Rodriguez Correia / Gisele de Lorena Diniz Chaves / Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro -
2024
Scaling up dynamic charging infrastructure
Significant battery cost savings
Ximeng Liao / Mahnam Saeednia / Maria Nogal / Lori Tavasszy -
2023
A conceptual digital twin framework for city logistics
Abdelhadi Belfadel / Sebastian Hörl / Rodrigo Javier Tapia / Dimitra Politaki / Ibad Kureshi / Lorant Tavasszy / Jakob Puchinger
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2023
A disaggregate model of passenger-freight matching in crowdshipping services
Rodrigo J. Tapia / Ioanna Kourounioti / Sebastian Thoen / Michiel de Bok / Lori Tavasszy
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2023
A system dynamics model for analyzing modal shift policies towards decarbonization in freight transportation
Raphael Ferrari Nassar / Verônica Ghisolfi / Jan Anne Annema / Arjan van Binsbergen / Lóránt Antal Tavasszy
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Prizes
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2021-11-25
Maritime Economics & Logistics-Palgrave-MacMillan-Springer Best Paper Award
Best paper award for the paper "Performance improvement of maritime container terminals through the bottleneck mitigation cycle"
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2021-1-1
Best Research Paper Award
In Recognition for the 2021 Transportation Research Board Paper that best advances the discussion of urban freight movement with emission-free city logistics
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2018-11-15
Best Paper Award - Vervoerslogistieke Werkdagen
Best Paper Award, 25e Vervoerslogistieke Werkdagen (VLW), 15 en 16 november 2018, Kasteel Vaalserbroek in Vaals
Ancillary activities
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2023-08-30 - 2024-05-31
Consultancy / research and other