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24 February 2020
Measuring, predicting and managing public transport disruptions
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Disruptions to public transport caused by breakdowns or accidents happen on a daily basis. Researcher Menno Yap is developing a method to reduce the impact they have on travellers.
10 February 2020
ERC grant for Serge Hoogendoorn
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Serge Hoogendoorn (Professor Traffic Operations & Management) received an ERC proof of concept grant for the further development of an intelligent multi-modal transfer flow management system. This innovative pedestrian management system aims to make transfers at multi-modal hubs as efficient, reliable and safe for the traveller as possible.
17 December 2019
Building offshore wind turbines quickly and gently without disturbing marine life
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How can you build foundations for offshore wind turbines creating as little disturbance as possible?
10 December 2019
Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected
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Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the IPCC’s high-end climate warming scenario, according to the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) Team.
03 December 2019
Understanding and predicting sandy beaches
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Sand is the second most widely used raw material in the world, after water. Sand dunes keep our country safe from flooding.
29 November 2019
Minimising fruit crop losses due to frost
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Bas van de Wiel (Professor Atmospheric Physics) wants to minimise the fruit crop losses due to frost. Yet surprisingly little is known about this phenomenon. Therefore Van de Wiel received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to together with colleague Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis provide clarity on fruit frost.
21 November 2019
Crowdsourced ‘supercomputer’ enables more localised and accurate rainfall forecasts
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Accurate forecasts of rainfall are crucial in Africa, where 95% of agriculture depends on highly localised rainfall. Currently, forecasts are based on satellite data and are not sufficiently accurate for small geographical areas.