Dominique Gillis

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Telecommunications and Information

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an aerial component of urban mobility system which integrates an emerging transport mode, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, into multimodal urban mobility context. UAM has potential to bring new services related to both passengers and logistic/freight mobility (like passenger carrying air taxis or sma...

The article describes an application of global positioning system (GPS) tracking data (floating bike data) for measuring delays for cyclists at signalized intersections. For selected intersections, we used trip data collected by smartphone tracking to calculate the average delay for cyclists by interpolation between GPS locations before and after t...

The ‘Traffic Management as a Service’ (TMaaS) concept offers traffic management capabilities through a cloud-based platform. Without having to invest heavily in hardware, a city can simply subscribe to the platform in order to gain access to all available – multimodal and real-time – mobility-related data for their territory. TMaaS offers the tools...

This chapter gives an overview of technological solutions that allow us to observe human activity during travel or in interaction with each other or with the environment. Different categories of solutions are presented, namely observation by scanning, location-enabled devices and tagging. For each category we look into current innovative solutions,...

Om de twee schooldagen heeft er in België een aanrijding tussen een scholier en een vracht-wagen plaats. En om de drie dagen valt er in Vlaanderen een verkeersdode als gevolg van overdreven snelheid. Nochtans is het perfect mogelijk om voertuigen uit te rusten met software die de routeplan-ning voor goederenvervoer duurzamer en veiliger maakt en di...

At present sharply there is a problem of traffic management especially in big cities. The increase in the number of vehicles, both personal and public, led to congestion of city roads, many hours of traffic jams, difficulty of movement of pedestrians, increase the number of accidents, etc. Aim: The aim of the study is to evaluate the possibility of...

Traditional travel survey methods have been widely used for collecting information about urban mobility although Global Position System (GPS) has become an automatic option for collecting more precise data of the households since mid-1990s. Many studies on mobility patterns have focused on the GPS advantages leaving aside its issues such as the qua...

Het Elmo@work-project liep in de periode 2013-2015. Het onderzocht of elektrische tweewielers een volwaardig transportmiddel kunnen zijn voor werkgerelateerde verplaat-singen. De bedrijven die in het project stapten, boden de werknemers een duurzaam verplaatsingsmiddel aan en droegen bij tot een meer leefbare omgeving. Dit artikel geeft de eindresu...

Onaangepaste snelheid is naast dronkenschap de hoofdoorzaak van zware ongevallen. Assistentie van de bestuurder bij het snelheidsgedrag is daarom een cruciaal hulpmiddel om ongevallen te voorkomen. De huidige navigatiesystemen geven al wel advi-serende snelheidsinformatie, maar die is niet dwingend en verre van accuraat. In het VEBIMOBE-project van...

The role of sustainable mobility and its impact on society and the environment is evident and recognized worldwide. Nevertheless, although there is a growing number of measures and projects that deal with sustainable mobility issues, it is not so easy to compare their results and, so far, there is no globally applicable set of tools and indicators...

The MOVE smart city platform integrates different data sources, and has been integrated in several projects in order to support mobility research about individual mobility behavior. The platform is applied in specific ‘living labs’ (e.g. concerning mobility budget, electric company bikes, …), as well as in public mobility campaigns (such as Biking...

This paper investigates the potential of electric vehicles (EVs) in a context of a pilot test in Belgium, consisting of car sharing services managed and exploited in small communities. Part of a broader testing activity in the framework of the e-Mobility NSR project, the test had the objective of metering EVs’ charging and consumption in real daily...

"De toegang tot de stad met één vervoermiddel zal" "de komende jaren steeds meer worden terugge- drongen. Tegelijk zullen mensen steeds vaker ver- voermiddelen combineren en zal de rol van deel- mobiliteit groter worden. Om de impact van deelauto’s op het leefmilieu te beperken, kan die rol vervuld worden door elektrische voertuigen. Binnen het Eur...

Speed is an important factor of road accidents. This paper focusses on changes and differences in speed of the traffic flow and on speed differences between different vehicles. Based on an international literature survey the relevance of the speed related factors for road safety are described. Road categorization and delineation of speed limit zone...

Questions about how people decide travel mode or route can only be answered if enough high-quality data are available. In the past, individual travel data were collected in a-posteriori surveys (trip diaries), which imposed several restrictions on their quality: travel time (start, stop) and route geography (origin, destinations) were only roughly...

The MOVE project deals with the collection and analysis of crowd behaviour data. The main goals of the project are to collect data through the use of mobile phones and to develop new technologies to process and mine the collected data for crowd behaviour analysis. This paper describes the different steps in the development of tracking applications...

Being the physical carrier of traffic, transport networks are an essential factor determining the interrelation between land use and transport. Further sprawl of urbanisation, new demands for quality of life aspects and new ways of using these networks– largely determined by innovative communication technology – lead to new challenges for the re-st...

This paper presents a methodology to analyse electric vehicle (EV) monitoring data to identify use patterns. The methodology is applied to the monitored data of a fleet of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV). The methodology introduces a link of the travel behaviour and characterisation with the range of the electric vehicle. To id...

In het Ontwerp Mobiliteitsplan Vlaanderen (2001) vormt het verhogen van de verkeersleefbaarheid één van de 5 strategische doelstellingen. De term ‘verkeersleefbaarheid’ wordt daarbij gebruikt om aan te geven dat de druk van het verkeer op de omgeving het kwaliteitsvol functioneren van de mens in zijn directe omgeving niet in de weg mag staan. Het m...

In this paper, an innovating model is presented for objectively measuring the traffic livability. Whereas classic methods focus on the traffic impacts at the dwelling location, the proposed method incorporates the whole activity pattern, and the corresponding trip behaviour in the evaluation. This is reached by a Monte Carlo simulation of household...

Traffic influences the quality of life in a neighborhood in many different ways. Today, in many patsy of the world the benefits of accessibility are taken for granted and traffic is perceived as having a negative impact on satisfaction with the neighborhood. Negative health effects are observed in a number of studies and these stimulate the negativ...

The impact of environmental noise on man has often been studied as an independent effect. Most environmental disturbances are however strongly correlated through their sources. Transport and industry not only produce noise but also emit air pollutants. Combined effects have often been mentioned as an important underexplored area of research. In add...

The quality of the local living environment can be significantly degraded by traffic noise (and air pollution). Local traffic is often not well resolved by the available traffic model. Moreover it has been recognized that the appraisal of the living environment is determined by the whole neighborhood and not only by the exposure at home. The model...

Environmental noise mapping often involves the use of traffic simulation software. In most cases, traffic flows are simulated in a macroscopic way, considering only traffic flow parameters averaged over road segments. This approach does not allow to correctly account for the typical deceleration and acceleration patterns of traffic at intersections...

The main priority is capacity building in the field of mobility and transport planning and monitoring. Therefore the project also aims at working on four different themes: monitoring of both parking and road traffic organization, developing a proposal for improving traffic organization for Smolyan in relation to the territorial development plans of...

1 ABSTRACT The environmental quality of the living environment is mainly linked to the direct and indirect impact of traffic in the neighborhood of the dwellings. In the Flemish mobility and urban planning, the term 'livability' is used focusing on the living conditions of people's home location: what is the satisfaction about their living environm...