XCARCITY is a five year program full of broad research and exciting pilots to make urban regions sustainably accessible. With different work packages, many parties like research institutions, governments and companies, there is a big network to learn and achieve things together.
Are you a student at the university and do already have a topic that connects with the program? (see an example on the bottom of the page) Or you perhaps working with an organisation and researching a topic that aligns? Or are you a consortium partner of XCARCITY and know a student that can be connected to the program?
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Meet the students below!
Municipality of Rotterdam – Work Package 7
Meet Lia Kondova, from Bulgaria. She studies Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics at TU Delft. Outside of her studies, she participates actively in
study association Dispuut Verkeer, in the capacity of Chairwoman and member of committees. Recently, she started preparing her graduation project together with the Municipality of Rotterdam. She will be working
on one of their pilots, in collaboration with BMW, which aims to research
and later implement different shared mobility solutions in the innovation-driven port district MerweVierHavens in Rotterdam. She is looking
forward to contribute to this topic and eventually decrease car
dependency, while promoting alternative modes of transport.
TNO/UVA –
Work Package 4
Introducing Tygo Nijsten! Tygo wrote his thesis for the Mathematics and Econometrics Master’s programs at the University of Amsterdam from February until August 2023. In his free time, he likes to go for a run or go
to the gym.
He mainly worked on his thesis at TNO. During this thesis, he developed
a model to optimize parking capacities in urban areas with three different goals: (1) minimize travel times, (2) minimize the distance covered by
cars and (3) minimize the number of parking spaces. The model was
applied in a case study of the city of Delft. Tygo finished his research in august 2023 and his thesis can be found here.
Goudappel
Nicola Manservisi is a MSc student of Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics at TU Delft and comes from Bologna (Italy), where he studied Civil Engineering. He is all about boosting collective awareness about Mobility-as-a-Service systems with PT and Shared Autonomous Vehicles for the human right of mobility in liveable, accessible and human-tailor-made car-less cities, if he is not dancing the salsa, Lindy Hop or playing beach volleyball.
His research, conducted at Goudappel, aims to define the user profile of a future DRT service implemented with Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) as integration to high-demand PT lines (e.g. metro or trams) in the developing sub-urban district of Merwe4Havens in Rotterdam. Who will be inclined to use such an integrated system? PT and non-PT users will be surveyed and the clusters obtained from this stated preferences study will define potential users for such a SAVs+PT service.
Goudappel (RET) –
Work Package (4)
Adri Hooijer is a 24-year-old student currently working on his thesis for the Traffic and Transport Engineering (TTE) Track of the Civil Engineering Master’s program, which he began in September 2024. When he is not immersed in his research, you’ll likely find him sipping coffee at Dispuut Verkeer. Outside of office hours, I also spend time on the hockey field.
He want to create more livable cities and addresses the general lack of space in major urban areas, cities like Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris have started removing parking spaces. But what happens to the already busy public transportation network when there is a sudden influx of former drivers?
In September 2024, he began his thesis work at Goudappel. The goal of his thesis work at Goudappel is to investigate the effects of parking space removal on public transportation usage in Rotterdam. This study utilizes the V-MRDH, a traffic model developed by Goudappel for the Metropolitan Region of Rotterdam The Hague. The findings of this research will provide insights into potential bottlenecks within the transportation network when parking spaces in Rotterdam are removed
TNO/AMS –
Work Package 4
Sean van der Lee graduated in april from the TU Delft in Complex Systems Engineering and Management. The topic of his thesis was: Success factors and barriers in car reduction: Lessons from European cities. Now he works at the Province of South Holland as a project manager. He also enjoys going to the gym, baking and cooking!
His interests lie in mobility and designing sustainable cities. During his internship at AMS Institute he found measures to reduce the number of cars in city centres, and during his graduation at TNO he determined the success factors and barriers in implementing them, and the lessons that can be learned from experienced European cities. Sean finished his research in april 2024 and his thesis can be found here.
