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Griet De Ceuster is general manager of
Transport & Mobility Leuven. She is involved in long term
forecasts, policy evaluations and indicators for sustainable
mobility. In 2005, Griet De Ceuster was the project leader
of the mid-term assessment of the White Paper of transport
for the European Commission. She is also leading transport-
and emission modelling studies for the Flemish and Belgian
government, and for the European Commission (TREMOVE model).
She was involved in several research programmes on road
congestion indicators, long term transport prognoses,
pricing issues, external costs and transport technologies.
Griet De Ceuster studied traffic engineering and economics
at the K.U.Leuven and the TU Delft. +32 16 31.77.30 |
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project administrator |
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Veerle Vranckx obtained her degree in
office management in Heverlee, and completed her studies with a degree
in European management in Kortrijk. She also has a
certificate of 6 years Spanish obtained at the CLT, Leuven.
She started working here after a career of 10 years at IMEC, where she
executed several administrative tasks. At Transport &
Mobility Leuven, she works as administrative project
coordinator and assures the follow-up of the different
projects. She is also responsible for the website
maintenance and the newsletter. +32 16 74.51.20 |
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accountancy / economist |
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Veerle Vanpeteghem holds a master in economics, completed
with a degree in accountancy and audit, both obtained at the
K.U.Leuven. She started her career at Integrated Network
Solutions, a Walloon ICT company where she did the financial
follow-up of all projects. With this experience she started
to do the analytical accountancy of the group AVEVE and was
responsible for the general accountancy of a couple
companies. At Transport & Mobility Leuven she combines her
accounting experience with her economic background. +32 16 74.51.26 |
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researchers |
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Lars Akkermans holds a master in
Psychology. Currently, he is working as researcher at
Transport & Mobility Leuven specialised in modelling human
behaviour. His main area of expertise concerns the analysis
of the implications of road safety measures and (transport)
policy on human behaviour, society and the environment.
Before joining Transport & Mobility Leuven, he worked for the Belgian Road Safety
Institute and TNO Human Factors as a researcher for
different European projects related to road safety as well
as an analyst of different national and international
measures in the field of enforcement, human interaction and
technical advances in road safety. Merging and measuring
theoretical models and practical implications has been a
major part of his past work in the field of traffic law
enforcement.
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Tim Breemersch holds a master in Applied
Economics and a master degree in Environmental Science and
Technology. He worked as a Business analyst for DHL
international and is now working for Transport & Mobility
Leuven specializing in the modelling and economic evaluation
of environmental policies. His research is oriented towards
energy efficiency and emissions of passenger and freight
transport, both on a regional and international (European)
level. The TREMOVE model, of which Tim is one of the
managers and developers for Transport & Mobility Leuven, is
a frequently used tool in these projects. Combining his
economic and technical background, at macro level Tim has
worked on assessing the impact of policy changes on the
competitive position of different transport modes. On
microlevel, he has been involved in several social
cost-benefit analyses of (transport)infrastructure. +32 16 74.51.23 |
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Eef Delhaye is Senior Researcher at
Transport & Mobility Leuven and specialized at transport
economics. Her main areas of work and responsibilities deal
with Social Cost Benefit Analyses, external costs, traffic
safety and the effects of (transport) policy on environment
and society. Recently she worked on the Social Cost Benefit
Analyses of the reactivation of the Iron Rhine and of
improving the connections between the city of Sint-Truiden
and the motorway E40, on GRACE, COBALT and MIRA-S. Eef holds
a PhD degree of Science in Economics. Her PhD ‘Economic
Analysis of Traffic Safety: Theory and Applications’
analyses liability rules, optimal fine structures for
speeding offences and repeated offenders, the political
economy of fine structures and the joint use of speed limit,
liability rules and a km tax to improve traffic safety.
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Christophe Heyndrickx is bio engineer in
Environmental and Agricultural Economics and holds a master
degree in Advanced Economics. He is now working for
Transport & Mobility Leuven and specializes in modelling
regional and national economic policy, using applied general
equilibrium modelling. He was involved in the development of
EDIP, a general equilibrium model on the level of several
European countries and the regional economic models for
Belgium (ISEEM) and the Netherlands (RAEM). Within the REFIT
project he was responsible for working out a set of social
indicators and the calculation of the level of
internalization indicator for different transport modes. His
current projects involve the further developments of the
main economic models of Transport & Mobility Leuven and the
application of regional general equilibrium theory on Russia
within the SUSTRUS project. He is also the project
coordinator of the ECCONET project, which quantifies the
economic effect of climate change on the European inland
waterway network. +32 16 74.51.21 |
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Ignacio Hidalgo González holds a PhD in engineering, obtained at the University
of Seville. For six years he worked for the European
Commission at the DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for
Prospective Technological Studies. He contributed to the
maintenance, development, and exploitation of the world
energy system model POLES, and its new modules representing
energy-intensive industries (steel, cement, and aluminium)
and transport sectors (air, road, rail and shipping). He has
also worked in the private sector on electricity and gas
market modelling applications for Australia and Spain. At
Transport & Mobility Leuven, he will focus on energy
modelling. +32 16 31.77.31 |
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Sven Maerivoet holds a PhD degree in
traffic engineering. As a master in Computer Science, he
developed a complete microscopic traffic simulator, after
which a research career followed. This resulted in June 2006
in a doctoral thesis, called "Modelling traffic on
motorways". He coordinated projects, organised courses and
gave an abundance of lectures on the modelling, simulation,
and control of traffic flows. His expertise mainly lies in
transportation planning models, traffic flow theory,
numerical and statistical analysis of static and mobile
traffic flow data, constructing travel time loss functions,
applying multi-agent systems to pedestrian flows,
considering sustainability effects in cities, the related
parking problems and innovative technological solutions, and
the opportunities of intelligent transportation systems
(ITS). +32 16 31.77.33 |
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Alloysius Joko Purwanto is a civil engineer
from Indonesia with experience in evaluation and feasibility
studies of several transport infrastructure projects of the
country. He also holds master and doctoral degrees from
France in transport economics with social sustainability in
transport and mobility as his speciality. He has worked as
well as research fellow in transport and energy sectors at
the DG Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies of the European Commission in Seville,
Spain. At Transport & Mobility Leuven, he works as researcher in transport and
emission modelling. +32 16 31.77.37 |
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Karel Spitaels is master in Engineering -
physics and holds a master degree in statistical
data-analysis, both acquired at the University of Ghent. In
2007 he started his career at Transport & Mobility Leuven as
a statistical and econometric modeller. For the TREMOVE
model he contributed to the car purchase logit model. For
the EDIP model he worked on the social accounting matrices.
Since then he has studied the effectiveness of parking
policies and their effects on the sustainability of cities.
He worked also on traffic modelling and developed a model
for the evacuation of disabled persons from the buildings. +32 16 31.77.32 |
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Kris Vanherle is a biochemical engineer.
Following his
general interest in environmental issues, he also studied
for a post-master in environmental sciences and technique.
After working for a year and a half as a stock and a
logistic manager in an electrical engineering company, he is
now working for Transport & Mobility Leuven as a researcher. He chiefly inquires
into the emission determination of the various modes of
transport. For the Flemish government he developed an
emission modelling tool for rail, inland waterway and
maritime transport to determine emission inventory and run
quantitative simulations. He implemented the COPERT IV
methodology for determining emissions from road traffic into
the TREMOVE model. More recently he further developed the
TREMOVE model with a passenger car scrappage model and
performed simulations with TREMOVE dealing with eco-taxation
and the environmental and economic impact of a scrappage
premium. Kris is also co-author of MIRA-T 2007 and
cooperates in MIRA-S 2009 of the VMM. +32 16 31.77.38 |
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Filip Vanhove is master in Civil
Engineering. In his master’s thesis, an analysis was made of
the Parkpoort crossroads using the micro simulation model
Aimsun2. Later on, he completed a number of projects using
Paramics, including the analysis of dynamic traffic
management. He also has experience with macroscopic traffic
models, amongst others for the computation of emissions of
air pollutants and for noise calculations. Through the
development and compilation of statistics, he gained a
thorough knowledge of the traffic situation on the Belgian
motorway network and learned how to handle large amounts of
data. One of his main activities is the development and
improvement of procedures to filter and correct raw traffic
data. Since national transport statistics can also have
large margins of error, he studied the relation between
transport volumes and socio-economic factors to obtain
plausible and consistent results. +32 16 31.77.35 |
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Tom Voge is a Senior Consultant in Transport
& Mobility Leuven. He
graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Applied
Science in Hamburg, Germany. He then worked as a project
engineer for a transport consultancy in Hamburg before
studying for an MSc degree in Transportation Planning and
Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK. Following
this, he joined the Transportation Research Group at the
University of Southampton as a research fellow and completed
a PhD in Transportation Engineering. He also holds a diploma
degree in Environmental Policy from the Open University, UK.
His main fields of expertise are user needs analyses/
stakeholder involvement, technology evaluation/ impact
assessment, and modeling/ simulation of various Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS) applications, ranging from road
user charging, and traffic/ demand management, to advanced
and innovative transport solutions. In Transport & Mobility Leuvne he is working on
developing and applying economic and emission models for the
transport sector. +32 16 74.51.25 |
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Isaak Yperman has a PhD degree in Civil
Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He
developed the “Link Transmission Model for Dynamic Network
Loading”, a traffic simulation model for both motorways and
urban roads that realistically describes traffic- and queue
propagation in large traffic networks. During his PhD, Isaak
Yperman specialized in the algorithms behind micro-, meso-
and macroscopic traffic simulation models. At Transport
& Mobility Leuven he
is analysing traffic data and developing/implementing
transport models. +32 16 74.51.24 |
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