Maritime and Transport Technology

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Building on our disciplinary strengths we develop solutions addressing UNESCO global challenges relating to rapid urbanisation, growing energy demand, increasing air pollution, climate change, and raw material shortage.

It is our mission to address these global challenges by:

  • expanding the frontiers of the maritime and transport engineering sciences
  • educating new generations of socially responsible engineers

We work along seven themes that are founded in the more fundamental areas of research on the one hand, and have clear links to relevant application domains on the other.

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Rethinking transport in cities

Modelling crowd behaviour for ultra-large ship design

From cohesion project to the world’s first sea water cavitation tunnel

The importance of Open Science for the maritime industry

Multi-scale modelling of hydrogen embrittlement inspires state-of-the-art simulations for hydrogen storage

Underwater localisation using magnetic fields

Metamaterials to reduce noise disruption during installation of wind turbines

Fuel cells for zero-emission shipping

News

Inaugural address: machine optimisation key to more efficient logistics system

The processing and transport of materials can be made much more efficient, says TU Delft professor Dingena Schott in her inaugural address, ‘Advancing Transport and Processing: from Model to Impact’. She will deliver her address on 15 November. Her research focuses on the interaction between machines and materials, with a special emphasis on granular materials.

Rudy Negenborn at RTL Nieuws

Shipping without a skipper will be allowed

Cornel Thill Educator of the Year 2023-2024

Cornel Thill from the Department of Marine and Transport Technology (MTT) is this year's best lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Thill is part of the Ship Design, Production & Operations section and teaches courses such as “Hydrostatics,” “Future Marine Propulsion Systems” and “Advanced Course in Resistance and Propulsion.”

Theory results in fanatic race during the Maritime Engineering Design Day

Around 55 first-year students in the Maritime Engineering bachelor programme introduced their parents and other interested parties to the department and its programme during Design Day. After an opening session where the parents accompanied by students were briefed on the theory, they were soon able to roll up their sleeves and get to work. They even had the opportunity to build their own floating structure!

Lindert van Biert at NPO Radio 1

What is more polluting: travelling by boat or plane?

Rudy Negenborn in BBC News about autonomous shipping

Autonomy, robotics and remote operation, along with artificial intelligence, will transform all transport sectors. In this article, Rudy Negenborn talks about the development and use of robot ships.
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Themes

Submerged Seabed Systems

Future Ships & Complex Flows

Safe Autonomous & Complex Ships

Reliable Large Floating Systems

Impactless Material Handling Systems

Coordinated Multi-Machine Transport & Logistics

Sustainable Drive & Energy Systems

With 100+ researchers our multi-disciplinary department provides the flexibility for researchers to work together in different and varying constellations, supported by funding from national and international scientific and industrial research funds.

As part of TU Delft and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering we have state-of-the-art research facilities at our disposal, such as the megahexapod, towing tanks, the Researchlab Autonomous Shipping, the Autonomous Guided Vehicles Lab, the Belt Conveyor Lab, DEMlab and the Bulk Characterisation and Dredging Lab.

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