Mobility
Demand-responsive and shared mobility.
Demand-responsive transport, ride-sharing and carpooling — choice models embedded inside routing and matching so the optimization respects how travellers actually decide.
Mobility projects →Operations Research and Behavioral Informatics in Transportation
2019
Established · Delft
40+
Publications
03
Application areas
Technology, Policy and Management
Application Areas
Active projects →
Infrastructure
Network operations and electrification.
Decision-support for operators and planners: ETA-informed slot management, charging and electrification design, and incentive mechanisms that hold up under real demand.
Infrastructure projects →
Supply chain
Urban logistics and last-mile delivery.
Urban logistics and last-mile delivery — crowd-shipping with transfers, depot location, and continuum-approximation methods for goods movement in dense cities.
Supply chain projects →Active projects
All projects →REACH
Active
REACH
Demand-responsive mobility for low-density regions
Choice-driven dial-a-ride extended to rural and peri-urban service design, where matching is sparse and behaviour drives viability.
NWOMobility · 2024–2027
PROSPER
Active
PROSPER
ETA-informed slot management for loading facilities
A predictive–proactive scheme that uses truck ETA information to schedule dock slots and absorb arrival uncertainty.
TKI DinalogInfrastructure · 2023–2027
VOLT
Scoping
VOLT
Battery-aware electrification of urban bus systems
Fleet and charging-station design that internalises battery degradation as a first-class design variable rather than an afterthought.
Horizon EuropeInfrastructure · proposed
RESOLVE
Active
RESOLVE
Crowd-shipping with transfers for dense cities
Routing and depot design for crowd-shipping systems where parcels change hands, using exact and continuum-approximation methods.
Horizon EuropeSupply chain · 2022–2026
Selected output
All research output →
2023
TR-E
People
All people →
Co-Director · Associate Professor
Yousef Maknoon
Operations research and behavioural choice modelling for urban logistics and transportation. Decision-support methods that take human behaviour seriously inside the optimization.
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Co-Director · Assistant Professor
Patrick Stokkink
Crowd-shipping, mobility platforms, carpooling, and continuum-approximation methods for transport systems and incentive design.
View profile →Research opportunities
Master theses, PhD and postdoc positions across all three application areas — and applied projects with operators and industry.
News & events
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Event
09 Apr 2026
A new era for planning and managing logistics systems
A lab symposium on the methodological shift in how logistics systems are planned and run.
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Talk
06 Feb 2026
Methodological advancements in urban mobility systems
New results on choice-driven matching and decomposition for large-scale mobility.
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Talk
27 Jun 2024
Yousef Maknoon on the safety of bike couriers, at TPM on Stage
A public talk on last-mile delivery safety and the behavioural trade-offs couriers face.
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