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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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Kristof Carlier is civil engineer. After
completing a project at the university of Leuven (modelling
the centre of Antwerp using the microsimulation tool
PARAMICS), he has worked for TNO (NL) and MINT as
consultant. He is active in the field of traffic simulation
and transport modelling. He cooperated on numerous projects
using the microsimulation model PARAMICS and the macroscopic
model OmniTRANS. He also cooperated a number of new model
developments and calibrations: a national model for
assessing reliability, a tool for assisting the integrated
design of transport infrastructure and spatial developments,
he coordinated the development of a multimodal passenger
transport model and he migrated and improved the Flemish
multimodal transport modelling approach from the Cube
Voyager environment to OmniTRANS. +32 16 31.77.36 |
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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. Eef holds a PhD degree of Science in Economics,
obtained at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. During her
PhD she also worked on several European projects.
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Christophe Heyndrickx is bio engineer in
Environmental and Agricultural Economics and holds a master
degree in Advanced Economics. He specializes in modelling
regional and national economic policy, using applied general
equilibrium modelling. He was involved in several model
development projects on national and European level and is
responsible for the further development of applied general
equilibrium modelling at TML. He was involved in the
calculation of indices for the social, environmental and
economic sustainability of transport and sustainable
development of the economy in general. +32 16 74.51.21 |
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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, clustering of traffic data into
historical patterns, macroscopic and microscopic flow models
to assess traffic dynamics, constructing travel time loss
functions, applying multi-agent systems to pedestrian flows,
considering sustainability effects in cities, the
calculation of external costs due to congestion both on the
primary and secondary road networks, the related parking
problems and innovative technological solutions (including
intelligent navigation and statistical analysis of
SMS-transactions and cash payments at parking ticket
machines), the opportunities of intelligent transportation
systems (ITS) with road user charging as an application and
the creation of added-value services on such platforms, and
active member of several working group in the ITS Belgium
organisation. +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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Kris Vanherle is a biochemical engineer and
holds a master degree in environmental sciences. After
working for a year and a half as a stock and a logistic
manager in an assembling company, he is now working for
Transport & Mobility Leuven as a researcher. He has broad
expertise in the environmental aspects of transport and has
managed several studies for European national governments on
behalf of TML. A key research field in which Kris is active,
is the quantification of emissions emitted by the various
transport modes. To this end he developed and managed
various emission models (EMMOSS, TREMOVE, ...). In relation
to this, Kris is regularly involved in impact analysis of
various measures to reduce environmental impact of transport
(eco-taxation, CO2 standards, subsidies for new green
technologies, scrappage schemes, ...) based on quantitative
model studies. Kris is co-author of MIRA-MIRA-T 2007 and S
2009 published by 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. Recently he is mainly working on emission modelling of
road traffic, inland shipping, maritime transport and rail. +32 16 31.77.35 |
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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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