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BIVEC is a network of transport researchers in the Benelux and unites various professionals and academic staff. Amongst its activities are conferences and lectures, which have a highly interactive nature and are a good place to gain some experience in presenting and discussing papers for (young) academics.

Navigation systems which will guide cars and trucks along motorways and through busy city centres with the utmost precision are no longer the stuff of science fiction. GPS researchers Christiaan Tiberius and Peter de Bakker are testing innovative ways of improving the accuracy and availability of navigation systems. Their research may also bring the introduction of self-driving vehicles one step closer.

Dinsdag 7 maart vindt in het provinciehuis Zuid-Holland in Den Haag het eerste openbare evenement van het project Spatial and Transport impacts of Automated Driving (STAD) plaats. Kennisinstellingen, waaronder trekkers TU Delft en TNO, overheden, vervoersbedrijven en adviesbureaus onderzoeken in het project STAD de lange termijn effecten van automatisch rijden op ruimte en mobiliteit. De resultaten van het project kunnen onder andere gebruikt worden door overheden als input voor hun lange termijn investeringsagenda’s. De Provincie Zuid-Holland is één van de praktijkpartners van SURF-STAD.

Last week professor Lóri Tavasszy reached an agreement with the International Transport Forum (ITF) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to become a partner in the Decarbonising Transport project on the topic of freight transport and logistics.