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Tomas Ambra, FWO PhD fellow Sustainable Logistics under guidance of prof. dr. Cathy Macharis, won the first prize for young researchers at TRA VISIONS 2018. The prizes were awarded at the end of the opening ceremony of the Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018) in Vienna. Tomas Ambra won first place in the category cross-modality with his research on SYMBIT (synchronization…
by Jesse Pappers After weeks of behind-the-scenes work, the LOOPER website has been launched! It serves as an information hub as well as a platform that allows participants to co-design solutions for urban challenges such as air pollution and street safety online. LOOPER is a three-year research project coordinated by MOBI that aims to develop a…
A MOBI paper is amongst the winners of the 10th Anniversary Best Paper Awards, an MDPI initiative set up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Energies and to acknowledge authors’ continued support. The winners were selected based on the total number of cites from web of science until 1 January 2018. Prof. dr. ir. Noshin Omar, Mohamed Daowd,…
Our PhD research associate for Sustainable Logistics, Tomas Ambra, is one of the laureates for the TRA Vision 2018 Young Researchers Competition supported by the European Commission. His paper, co-authored with Bram Kin, Potential of supply chain collaboration in Brussels: up-scaling performance of demonstration cases and impact measures with the synchromodal model SYMBIT, is selected in the category cross-modality….
Prof. dr. Cathy Macharis is invited at TRA 2018 “A digital Era for Transport” in Vienna (April 16-19 2018) as a panelist for two sessions: INV12: How to Speed-Up Transition towards Sustainable Urban Mobility Schemes? (Wednesday, April 18th, 8:30) INV15: Clean & Digitalised Logistics: Opportunities for Sustainable Growth and Jobs (Wednesday, April 18th, 15:15) The first session is organised and moderated…
Prof. dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo will give a keynote during the colloquium organised by AMPERes, L’essor de la mobilité électrique en Belgique et en Europe. The topic of his talk is smart charging and the impact the mass scale development of electric vehicles has on the grid. AMPERes is a Belgian association focused on clean, electric…
Prof. dr. Cathy Macharis is a curator of the Fast, Clean Mobility Challenge at Hack Belgium 2018. Topics that will be discussed are: Mobility-as-a-service, autonomous vehicles and the physical internet. Cathy invited several external experts to give a first inspirational pitch and then the participants will start working on how to tackle the challenges. A full overview of the…
Prof. dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo is confirmed as a speaker for the AVERE E-Mobility Conference (AEC 2018). His talk will focus on policy and opportunities for electric vehicles. He joins a team of experts, researchers, policy makers and innovative business managers set to speak at AEC 2018, the full list of speakers is available…