MOBI, the Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre, is leader in defining the state-of-the-art in Electromobility and Socio-Economic Evaluations for sustainable mobility and logistics.
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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….
The CIVITAS projects CITYLAB, NOVELOG, SUCCESS, and U-TURN would like to invite you to the CIVITAS Urban Freight Conference. This interactive event will include presentations, posters and exhibitions, breakout and training sessions, workshops, and awards. Participants will explore new cooperation models for engaging and supporting public and private actors, and more broadly what the future might…
Dr. Imre Keserü will be visiting Be CIPTEC, the final conference for the H2020 CIPTEC project: “The CIPTEC H2020 project is coming to an end. Now, it’s time to share our findings with the community. CIPTEC has created innovative concepts and tools for Public Transport that lead to more passengers at reasonably low cost. Also, CIPTEC tested collective…
Prof. dr. ir. Noshin Omar, ASSURED project coordinator, and prof. dr. ir. Thierry Coosemans are joining the ELIPTIC: Final Conference. Prof. dr. ir. Thierry Coosemans will present the high power charging systems and interoperability for the ASSURED project (April 27th). “On behalf of the project consortium ELIPTIC, the City of Bremen would like to invite you to the…
Dr. Imre Keserü is invited as a speaker at Brussels Moves!, a free event on Thursday 26 April to debate public transport in the capital. The debate is organised by The Bulletin: a platform for Belgium’s international community. Get involved in a lively interactive discussion with speakers including: Brussels region mobility minister Pascal Smet #1bru1vote representative Nora Bednarski…
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. Already confirmed are MOBI’s own prof. dr….
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…