Dr.ir. A.J. (Arjan) van Binsbergen

Dr.ir. A.J. (Arjan) van Binsbergen

Profile

Profile

Arjan van Binsbergen is associate professor at the department of Transport & Planning of Delft University of Technology.

He studied Civil Engineering at TU Delft (MSc, 1992), with a specialization in traffic engineering and spatial planning, and received his PhD (2001) on the topic of freight distribution in urban areas.

He is active in the rearch areas of sustainable mobility amd freight transport and logistics. He contributes to MSc courses at TU Delft on freight transport and logistics, sustainable mobility, cost-benefit analysis, and design skills.


Research

  • My main research interests are in the fields of sustainable urban mobility, and more specifically in urban freight distribution. The research focuses on identifying and developing potential solutions, evaluating the effectiveness and supporting acceptance and implementation, often asking for fundamental transitions in technology, organisation and behaviours. Example projects include Interreg Europe 2050CliMobCity and the Urban Mobility Observatory (UMO).  

Related areas of interest and involvement include the  specific topics of automated shuttles and freight distribution vehicles, and the application and further development of living labs for (urban) mobility. Example projects include MRDH-AVLM knowledge management projects, Automated Shuttle Drimmelen pilot study, SUMMALAB project on urban living labs, advisory work for private companies, and the Researchlab Automated Driving Delft. 

I co-supervise PhD research on the application of automated shuttles for passenger transport and the analysis of the use and effects of new mobility systems.

My research efforts and contributions are always part of group work, and is mostly done with consortia of public and private partners and other research performing institutions. This ensures a valuable, mutually beneficial relation between scientific research and practical applications.

Other activities

TU Delft Transport Institute (TUD-TI) Executive secretary of the TUD-TI (2021-present).  The TU Delft Transport Institute brings together research and education on the field of transport throughout the Delft University of Technology. Under the heading Transport Institute, researchers and students from different backgrounds at TU Delft are working together to identify the solutions in the fields of traffic, transport, mobility, and logistics.

Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe (JPI-UE) Chairman of the Funding Agencies Working Group and member of the Management Team of JPI Urban Europe (2013-2021).   The Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe bundles national research efforts on the challenges of urban development. The initiative issues joint calls for research, brings together stakeholders and research institutes, and supports the alignment of national programs. In the FAWG participating national funding agencies develop calls (topics, content, budget-allocation) and supervise the call processes. The Management Team manages the overall activities of the network, steers the development of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, the multi-annual call agenda and for example communication activities. 

Delft Road Safety Courses (DRSC)  Member of the board of DRSC (2016-2023).  Delft Road Safety Courses organises postgraduate courses on road traffic safety for professionals in low and middle income countries (LMIC). A main objective is capacity building to support the development of road safety strategies and academic educational programmes in LMIC's.  DRSC (co-) organises local courses in LMIC as well as hybrid online and on-site Road Safety Courses in Delft.
 
Earlier activities include management team functions for the Netherlands Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics (TRAIL; 2000-2010), the TRANSUMO R&D program on sustainable mobility (2004-2010) and the collaborative initatives Academic Centre TransPORT (Erasmus University, TU Delft, Port of Rotterdam. Deltalinqs; 2004-2007) and of the Transport Research Centre Delft (2003-2009).

Education

Course manager and lecturer:

  • Urban Planning and Transport Networks (BSc course, Minor Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics)
  • Assessment of transport infrastructure and systems (MSc course) until 2022;
  • Freight Transportation Systems (MSc course) until 2022;
  • TIL Research and Design methods (TIL4030) ongoing.

Module manager Module ' Transport Networks & Systems' within the track of Traffic and Transport Engineering of the MSc Civil Engineering. 
Lecturer in:
  • TTE Track Base: 'Travel, transport and traffic markets', 'Transport network design' and 'Transport impacts and evaluations'
  • TTE Module B1 unit 2: 'Direct and indirect spatial impacts of transport and transport infrastructure' 
  • TTE Module B1 unit 3: 'trade and Logistics', 'Intermodal freight transport', 'Urban freight transport' and 'Freight transport and sustainability'
  • TTE Module B1 unit 4: 'interventions for sustainability' and 'modelling sustainability (effects)'
Supervisor of MSc Thesis projects on topics including:
Freight transport
  • urban freight distribution (use of vans in home deliveries, e-trucks in urban distribution, parcel lockers, delivery robots, online grocery retail, home delivery of medical supplies, construction logistics hubs), 
  • sustainability in freight transport (carbon footprint, emission reduction strategies, intermodal, rail and pipeline transport solutions, electrification, logistic hubs), 
  • optimising freight transport (synchromodal and physical internet concepts, innovations in supply chains, nighttime container transport, intermodal road-rail transport for 'fresh' supply chains)
Other topics:
  • climate effects on railwaystations and -operations, participative value evaluation, societal value of historical vehicles.

Read more

Expertise

Publications

Courses 2024

Courses 2023

Ancillary activities