Introduction TU Delft Transport Institute

1Challenge the future

Challenges for maintaining a world class transport systemProf Dr Ir Bart van AremDirector TU Delft Transport Institute


Agenda

time programme

13.00 Welcome & Introduction of the TU Delft Transport Institute

13.30 Kick Off of TU Delft Transport Institute

13:45 Introducing four themes

Challenging the TU Delft Transport Institute

15.00 Break with meeting opportunities

15.30 MSc student & PhD candidate presentations

16.00

Introduction of the Transport Lab

16.45 Closing & Announcement of follow-up activities

17.00 Drinks


The NetherlandsWorld rank

Area 41543 km2 135

Population 16.730.623 63

GDP per inhabitant

€ 34.822 17


Infrastructure of the Netherlands

Waterway density

Liechtenstein 0,18

Netherlands 0,15

Belgium 0,07

Bangladesh 0,06

Vietnam 0,05

Roadway density

Belgium 5,03

Netherlands 3,29

Japan 3,20

Hungary 2,12

Jamaica 2,01

RailwayDensity

Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany

0,12

Belgium 0,11

Hungary 0,09

Cuba, Austria 0,08

Netherlands, Slovakia, Japan, United Kingdom

0,07


Mainports of the Netherlands

1st in Europe

10th world wide

Largest non Asian port

3% Dutch GDP

Quality:1st in Europe4th world wide

Europe4th passenger volume3rd freight volume

4,7% Dutch GDP (incl airlines)

Port of Rotterdam Schiphol airport


Transport in the NetherlandsMotorways with

daily volume over 180.000 vehicles

Netherlands 15

United Kingdom 2

Germany 2

Haulier international

transport performance (million tkm)

Poland 97.456

Germany 60.028

Spain 58.872

Netherlands 39.036

Czech Republic 30.983


Congestion

225 km congestion is regular… (VID)

Morning peak Frequency

< 80 km/h 37%

< 60 km/h 3%

< 55 km/h 1%

Evening peak Frequency

< 80 km/h 42%

< 60 km/h 6%

< 55 km/h 3%

(KiM,2012)

Travel delay

%

2,8-3,7 B€ per year (KiM)


Traffic safetyRoad fatalities per million inhabitants

Sweden 28

United Kingdom

31

Netherlands 32

Malta 36

Ireland 45


Vulnerability

Congestion top 108th February 1999 975 km Snow, tilted trucks

25th March 2008 888 km Snow

29th November 2010 871 km Snow

3rd February 2012 831 km Snow

25th November 2005 810 km Snow

26th February 2004 760 km Snow

17th December 2010 753 km Snow

6th March 2006 660 km Snow

26th May 2009 605 km Thunderstorm, rain


Development in transport demand

Freight and passenger transport flows

EU and world wide economic, demographic and political developments

Travel behaviour

Lifestyle, culture, demography, aging, on-line


Need for sustainability200,000 people premature deaths per year in

EU because of air-quality

Transport generates about 25-30% of Green House Gases

Smart use of available transport systems

Life cycle management of transport infrastructure

Lack of space and money for new transport infrastructure

Need for sustainable use of materials


Maintaining a world class transport system

• World class transport is essential for our society and economy

• Past performance is no guarantee for the future

• No single silver bullet: multi-disciplinarity is crucial

• Cooperation government, knowledge institutes and private sector

• A world class transport system needs world class transport research and education


Transport research and education at TU Delft

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Industrial Design

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Architecture

Aerospace engineering

Technology, Policy & Management

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and

Computer Science

Different groupsDifferent disciplinesDifferent coalitionsDifferent scientific cultures

Shared passion for researchShared passion for educationShared need for multi-disciplinarityShared stakeholdersShared commitment to transport

Transport research and education at TU Delft


The TU Delft Transport Institute

To improve societal visibility

To further improve scientific quality

Internal and external collaboration

Create focus and mass

13 December 2011, Executive Board TU Delft

TU Delft Process Technology InstituteTU Delft Climate InstituteTU Delft Transport InstituteTU Delft Robotics Institute

2012-2016

1,7M€

In cooperation with the Delft Research Based

Initiative for Infrastructure and

Mobility (DIMI)


Ambition• Scientific top 5 world-wide

• Yearly 200 Transport MSc

engineers

• Integral approach aimed at

solutions

• Visionary and objective


Focal area of transport

transport market

Infrastructure

Means of transport

Travellers, load units

People, products

travel market

traffic market

Behaviour

Policy

Space

Technology

Transport focuses on interactions!


Focus: the Transport Institute clusters

Coordinated and Cooperative Traffic Management

Transport PolicyFreight Transport & LogisticsSpatial Planning and Mobility

Active support:•Strategy development•Roadmaps•Internal and external alignment •Position papers, special sessions•Acquisition of funding•Dissemination

Strong scientific and societal position, active group


Emerging clusters

Modelling Pedestrian TrafficConveyor Systems

Rail trafficAutomotive Human Factors

Public TransportAirport development & Air traffic management

CyclingImplementing Electric Mobility

Support with tailored actions on demand within resources available.


7 faculties

60 staff

100+ MSc students

60+ PhD students


Scientific quality

•Science, engineering, design

•Develop criteria based on papers, citations, awards, grants, editorships, science popularization,

conferences, design/engineering portfolio

•Transport Institute staff members based on regular output and commitment

•Champions

• Special publications and courses

• Cross-faculty mentoring of peers

•Share scientific networks

•Joint books (You are the traffic jam), papers, seminars, conferences (ISTTT 2013, IEEE ITSC 2013), journals

(EJTIR), sabbaticals, proposals (NWO Synchromodal Logistics)

20091.MIT2.UC Berkeley3.Imperial College London4.Delft University of Technology5.University of Leeds


PhD programme

Research skills

Discipline related skills

TU Delft/ TRAIL

TRAIL

Generic skills TU Delft

TU Delft Graduate schools

PhD transport researchers (>60) community


Current MSc Transport programmes, tracks and specializations

TEL/PEL SEPAM-T&L T&P TIL

fundamentals

specializations

electives, projects, internships

MSc project


Exploring a coherent MSc Transport programme

fundamentals

specializations

electives, projects, internships

MSc project

MSc degree•Mechanical Engineering•Civil Engineering•Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management•Transport, Infrastructure and LogisticsDepending on courses taken

Points of attention:•Responsibilities•Organization•Finance•Quality management•Coherence

Tailored to needs labour market Broad and deepEfficient


Integral approach

• Integrating design, engineering and science

• Multidisciplinary: policy, behaviour, traffic, technology, control, communication,…

• Involve societal stakeholders

Integral BSc and MSc projectsTransport labGrand challenges…


Valorization and acquisition

• Stake holders: I&M, RWS, PoR, ProRail, NS, TNO, SWOV, consultancy firms

• EU: Horizon 2020• Top sectors Logistics, HTSM• LDE collaboration• 3TU collaboration• NWO, STW• Connekt, AUT NL, DITCM• China: cooperation with preferred partners


CommunicationTarget groups Aim

Potential MSc students Increase number MSc in transport

Societal stakeholders Easy and clear access to transport research results Dialogue with transport researchers

TU Delft transport researchers

Mutual awareness and Improved cooperation

www.transport.tudelft.nl

@transportTUD

[email protected]

newsletter

Seminars in preparation:

Alberto Broggi: Driving automatically from Parma to ShanghaiMark Evers: Transport at the Olympic Games

Transport Thursday (3rd Thursday each month)Interactive presentations, workshops, discussions


TI Cluster leaders

Alexander Verbraeck Logistics and Freight Transport

Bert van Wee Transport Policy

Kees Maat Spatial Planning and Mobility

Serge Hoogendoorn/ Bart van Arem

Coordinated and cooperative traffic management TI Sounding board

Karel Luyben Rector Magnificus TU Delft (commissioner)

Theo Toonen dean TPM

Bert Geerken dean CEG

Theun Baller dean 3ME


TI core team

Bart van Arem director

Hans van Lint education

Serge Hoogendoorn & Eric Molin

scientific quality

Hans Hellendoorn integrality

Vincent Marchau education & valorisation

Arjan van Binsbergen valorisation & secretary

Vacancy communication


Funding

• Budget 1,7 M€ (CvB/DIMI)

• Seed money for:• Supporting sabbaticals• Events• Books• Initiatives

• MSc scholarships

www.transport.tudelft.nl


A world class TU Delft Transport Institute

Top down bottom up interaction – no blueprint for

cooperation

TI provides framework, internal and external networks and

seed funding

Shared passion and curiosity for transport research and

education is the key to success

Education

Introduction TU Delft Transport Institute