Rob van Nes


Rob van Nes (1958) is associate professor in the field of analysis, modelling, and design of multimodal transport systems at the department Transport & Planning, faculty of Civil Engineering of Delft University of Technology. His research is published in more than 30 articles in reviewed journals, and he supervised six PhD students. He is coordinator of the MSc-track Transport & Planning and is responsible for the course Transport and Planning in the BSc Civil Engineering and for the MSC course Transportation and Spatial Modelling. He supervised about 80 MSc-thesis projects. Furthermore he has been involved in several advisory committees in the field of transportation modelling.

Rob van Nes obtained his MSc in Civil Engineering at Delft in 1982. Having worked as a researcher at Delft University of Technology, where he developed an optimisation model for public transport networks, he switched in 1988 to consultancy. There he was mostly involved with the development, building and application of transport models. His scientific interests led him in 1997 back to the university, where he obtained his PhD in 2002 with his research on the design of multimodal transport networks. Since 2004 he is working as an associate professor and has been involved in research on travel behaviour in multimodal networks and choice set generation for multimodal networks. Furthermore he has been working in the field of reliable and robust public transport network design considering both discrete incidents and on-going variation in service quality. The last few years he was involved in the development of a large scale dynamic multimodal transport assignment model and in the analysis of travel behaviour in case of evacuations. Currently he is involved in projects on modelling effects of automated driving on transport network performance, including WP3 of the STAD programme.