Maaike Snelder


Since 2011 Maaike Snelder is part time assistant professor at the Department of Transport and Planning, Civil Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Besides that she has been employed at TNO since 2004. Maaike has a background in Econometrics. In addition to her work at TNO she completed her PhD research on designing robust road networks in 2005-2010 (cum laude). Maaike has a broad experience in acquiring, managing and executing projects. Her work focuses on the long and short term robustness of road networks and the reliability of travel times. She also has a broad experience in network design studies and in the development, application and testing of static and dynamic online and real-time traffic and transport models. For example, in 2015 she was the project leader of a project for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment about the impact of the automated driving on the network performance, she leads the development of realtime short-term travel time prediction models based on which a smart routing advice is given in the context of the ‘Praktijkproef’ (field trial) Amsterdam and in 2013 she oversaw the development of the first real-time waterway traffic model for the canals of Amsterdam.