prof.dr.ir. E.C. van Berkum (Eric)

Eric was born and raised in Hengelo (O). After high school, where he received the diploma Gymnasium b, he went to the University of Twente to study Applied Mathematics. He received a BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from this university and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology. After a career as a software engineer at Cap Gemini he moved in 1988 to Goudappel Coffeng, a traffic and transport consultancy in Deventer. He worked there for 21 years in which he held several positions, mainly in research and in product and model development. His main research interest is on transport modelling, networks, travel behaviour and traffic management. In 1998 he became a part-time professor in traffic management at the Centre for Transport Studies at the University of Twente. In 2009 he left Goudappel Coffeng and became a full professor in Transport Engineering and Management and also head of the Centre for Transport Studies. From 2016-2021 he also was head of the Department of Civil Engineering as part of the Faculty of Engineering Technology.

Education

1993 PhD, Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology.
Thesis title: Impact of Information, Dynamics in Route and Departure Time Choice, supervisor: prof dr ir R. Hamerslag
1984 MSc, Applied Mathematics, University of Twente.
Thesis title: Cross Decomposition and the Capacitated Facility Location Problem, supervisor: prof dr Y. Dirickx
1982 BSc, Applied Mathematics, University of Twente.
Thesis title: Properties of Hamiltonian Random Graphs, supervisor: prof dr C. Hoede.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Travel Time

Business & Economics

# Externalities
# Network Design
# Route Choice
# Traffic Management
# Travel Time
# Travellers

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Travel Time

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Transport Engineering and Management (TEM)

KIVI
voorzitter afdeling Verkeer en Vervoer
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lid academic board

de Weert, Y. R. , Gkiotsalitis, K. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2024). Improving the scheduling of railway maintenance projects by minimizing passenger delays subject to event requests of railway operators. Computers & operations research, 165, Article 106580. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106580

Eikenbroek, O. A. L., Luan, X. , van Berkum, E. C., & Corman, F. (2023). De potentie van sociaal reisadvies als sturingsmaatregel in het openbaar vervoer. Tijdschrift vervoerswetenschap, 59(3), 66-82.

Eikenbroek, O. A. L. (2023). Variations in Urban Traffic. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789055843213

Buurman, B. , Gkiotsalitis, K. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2023). Railway maintenance reservation scheduling considering detouring delays and maintenance demand. Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management, 25, Article 100359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrtpm.2022.100359

Eikenbroek, O. A. L., Luan, X., Corman, F. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2022). Social rerouting in public transport networks. Abstract from 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, EURO 2022
, Espoo, Finland.

Trommelen, W. , Gkiotsalitis, K. , & Van Berkum, E. C. (2022). Optimization Model for Rail Line Crossover Design Considering the Cost of Delay. Transportation research record, 2676(4), 554-569 . https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211062488

Eikenbroek, O. A. L. , Still, G. J. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2022). Improving the performance of a traffic system by fair rerouting of travelers. European journal of operational research, 299(1), 195-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.036

Bezembinder, E. M. (2021). Junction design rules: Improving junction design choices in urban traffic networks. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT, University of Twente]. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552448

Thomas, T. , Huang, B., Groenewolt, B. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2021). Smartphone challenges to stimulate cycling: clues from a living lab in Enschede. In M. N. Mladenovic, T. Toivonen, E. Willberg, & K. T. Geurs (Eds.), Transport in Human Scale Cities (pp. 121 – 131). (NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research). NECTAR. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370517.00020

Huang, B. , Thomas, T., Groenewolt, B., Claasen, Y. , & Berkum, E. (2021). Effectiveness of incentives offered by mobile phone app to encourage cycling: A long‐term study. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 15(3), 406-422. https://doi.org/10.1049/itr2.12034

Eikenbroek, O. A. L. , Still, G. J. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2021). How Route Guidance with Small Detours for Only a Fraction of All Travelers Can Significantly Improve Network Performance. Abstract from 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment, DTA2021, Seattle, Washington, United States.

Nijland, F. , Gkiotsalitis, K. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2021). Improving railway maintenance schedules by considering hindrance and capacity constraints. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 126, Article 103108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103108

Zhang, B. (2021). Taking back the wheel: transition of control from automated cars and trucks to manual driving. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. TRAIL Research School. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789055842841

Nijland, F. , Gkiotsalitis, K. , & van Berkum, E. C. (2021). Improving railway maintenance schedules by considering hindrance and capacity constraints. 1-23. Paper presented at 100th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual Event.

Huang, B. (2020). The influence of interventions on cycling. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789055842810

Supervisor of PhD theses


Oskar	Eikenbroek	Variations in Urban Traffic	2023
Erwin	Bezembinder	Junction design: Rules and network effects	2021
Bo	Zhang	Taking Back the Wheel: Transition of Control from Automated Cars and Trucks to Manual Driving	2021
Amelia	Huang	The influence of positive interventions on cycling	2020
Mariska	van Essen	The potential of social routing advice	2018
Ties	Brands	Multi objective optimization of multi modal transport networks	2015
Jaap	Vreeswijk	The dynamics of user perception, decision making and route choice	2015
Anthony	Ohazulike	Road pricing mechanisms. A game theoretic and multi-level approach.	2013
Luc	Wismans	Towards sustainable traffic management	2012
Wendy	Weijermars	Analysis of Urban Traffic Patterns using Clustering	2007
Collins	Makoriwa	Performance of traffic networks. A mosaic of measures	2006
Bart	Elbers	Development of an indicator for traffic flow stability with application to ramp metering	2005

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Coordinator of the Master Track Transport Engineering and Management and responsible for the Profile Transport and Logistics in cooperation with IEBIS (Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems)

Bachelor:

coordinator of Module 8: Modelling & Analysis of Stochastic Processes

Master:

coordinator of M-course Traffic Management (5EC)
lecturer in M-course Transport Research Project (5EC)
lecturer in M-course Intelligent Transport Systems (5EC)
lecturer in M-course Network Modelling and Forecasting (5EC)
lecturer in M-course Mathematical Optimization in Transport (5EC)

Bachelor

Civil Engineering

Master

Civil Engineering and Management

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