managing director

 
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.


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project administrator

 
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.


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accountancy / economist

 
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.


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researchers

 
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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Lars
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.


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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.


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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.


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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).  


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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