Bart van Arem is full professor Transport Modelling at the Department Transport & Planning at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Gesociences at TU Delft. His research and teaching responsibilities include impacts of intelligent vehicles on drivers and traffic. He has worked on impact assessment methods of intelligent vehicles in EU projects eImpact and SAFESPOT. He worked on NWO funded projects on transport pricing strategies (iPRISM), multimodal transport network modeling (SRMT) and transport planning models for urban emergency management. He has worked on projects on control algorithms and behavioural adaptation of intelligent vehicles, funded by STW, Toyota and FHWA. His recent work includes exploratory studies on spatial and transport system level implications of automated driving, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment.
He has extensive managerial experience involving academic, public and private partners. He was cluster coordinator in the TRANSUMO program and managed the HTAS project Connected Cruise Control. He founded the Dutch Automated vehicle Initiative (DAVI), creating a breakthrough for the interest in automated driving in the Netherlands. He is a very frequent spokesman about the implications of automated driving at international conferences and societal stakeholders.