Operations Research Engineering - Sustainable Mobility Analytics Ghent University

Overview

Operations Research Engineering - Sustainable Mobility Analytics from Ghent University aims to improve urban mobility in our cities and around the world.

Key facts

This requires not only the improvement of transport infrastructure but also a system approach towards a better planning, execution and operation. Today, new data coming from smartphones or intelligent transport systems are becoming available. As we continue to urbanize and gather more data on our mobility patterns and urban systems, the challenge is not simply the amount of data, but also how to manage it, critically understand its quality, and utilize it to support decision-making on our cities' most pressing challenges.

There is an expanding need to forge a new generation of engineers, capable of analyzing complex flows and relationships in an urban environment and extracting meaningful insights. Such work is critical to support cities' strategic decisions and push towards a more sustainable future, centered on efficient resource use, a clean environment, equitable citizen engagement, and a healthy, low-carbon society. The Sustainable Mobility Analytics program is designed in an interdisciplinary fashion to analyze, start and manage new and emerging transport and mobility technologies and services for citizens and logistics.