Current Students
Lia Kondova
Work Package 7 – Knowledge Utilisation
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / Municipality of Rotterdam
Meet Lia 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.
Nicola Manservisi
Work Package 7 – Knowledge Utilisation
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / Goudappel
Nicola 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.
Adri Hooijer
Work Package 4 – Integrated Transport Networks
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / Goudappel
Nicola 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.
Sander van Heyningen
Work Package 4 – Integrated Transport Networks
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / Municipality of Rotterdam
Sander is a master’s student in Civil Engineering, specializing in Traffic and Transport Engineering. Outside of his studies, he enjoys running, playing tennis, and skiing.
He is working on his thesis at the Municipality of Rotterdam, studying how reducing road capacity affects travel behaviour. As part of his research, he is developing a model that predicts how travel patterns change when road space is reduced. This measure is one of the ways to create a more low-car city by encouraging people to choose alternative modes of transport. The model estimates the decrease in car trips and the resulting new traffic load on the network, providing insights into the effects of road capacity reductions on urban mobility.
Charlotte van Rijsoort
Work Package 7 – Knowledge Utilisation
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / Municipality of Barendrecht
Charlotte is currently studying Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics at TU Delft. She is working on her master’s thesis at the municipality of Barendrecht. Outside of studies, she likes to travel.
Her research is about the effect of a car-free neighborhood on the mobility choices of residents. The research will be about a yet-to-develop area in the municipality of Barendrecht called De Stationstuinen. This area is contradictory to its environment, while Barendrecht is a car-oriented village. A stated choice experiment will be conducted to study the mobility choices of residents.
Martijn Gelissen
Work Package 2 – User Behaviour, Preferences & Acceptance
Associated Organisation: TU Eindhoven / Fietsersbond
His thesis at the Fietsersbond in Utrecht focuses on empirically explaining the differences in cycling performance between Dutch cities by examining both the built environment and variations in local policy strategies. The research looks at the impact of physical infrastructure as well as softer policy measures implemented by municipalities, highlighting the importance of local context – an aspect often overlooked in academic literature. Tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be used to collect and analyze data on elements like cycling infrastructure. The goal is to provide municipalities with evidence-based insights into the underlying factors driving their current cycling modal share, and to support the development of more effective, targeted policies to improve cycling performance
Alumni
Tygo Nijsten
Work Package 4 – Integrated Transport Networks
Associated Organisation: TNO / UVA
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.
Sean van der Lee
Work Package 4 – Integrated Transport Networks
Associated Organisation: TU Delft / TNO / AMS
Sean 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.