Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

Every day we take the bus, train or our cars and drive over interconnected systems of road infrastructure, rail- or tram networks. We go to shops and buy products that were produced, manufactured and distributed across all continents over all conceivable transport networks, over water, land or via the air. And even within large or small industrial complexes, again transport plays a fundamental role. Think of the automated baggage handling at international airports, fully automated production chains or automated container terminals at large harbors.

The master Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics is a master program that copes with all the aspects named above and more. And it does that on an inter-faculty level, which means that we take the best en most interesting parts of three master tracks, namely:The MSc program TIL offers you courses and projects to acquire knowledge, insights, and skills in the broad area of traffic (the movement of vehicles), transport (the movement of passengers and freight), infrastructure (roads, railways and harbors) and logistics (the organisation behind freight movements and transshipment both within and between industrial complexes). The curriculum of the MSc Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics track has the following program:
  • 27 ECTS: Compulsory courses on Fundamentals
  • 26 ECTS: Compulsory courses from your chosen specialization: Policy, Design, Operations or Engineering
  • 27 ECTS: Wide range of electives from different master tracks
  •   3 ECTS: Seminars, interactive presentations and company visits.
  •   7 ECTS: Interdisciplinary project, most of the time conducted at a company
  • 30 ECTS: Master thesis 
More detailed information about the curriculum can be found here.
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As Dispuut Verkeer, we focus on the quality of the master program and the courses. Each quarter the courses are evaluated through an evaluation lunch. During these lunches the content of the content, the lectures and the assignment and/or examination will be discussed. The evaluation lunches are mostly held in the first or second weak of the next quarter. All TIL students are invited to come!
Questions? Please feel free to contact our Commissioner of Education, Alisa Silven.

Transport and Planning

How can we solve congestion? Why can’t we just build more roads and railways? The Transport & Planning department conducts scientific research and provides education about the planning and operation of transport systems. The current main areas of research are the following. Click on any to get more information: The specific study aiming at solving these questions is the Civil Engineering MSc track on Transport & Planning. This MSc track focuses on quantitative approaches to infrastructural planning along with the analysis of systems for personal transportation and for road and rail traffic. The curriculum of the MSc Transport & Planning track consists of three parts:
  • 60 ECTS of compulsory courses offering a broad perspective on the research field and providing necessary background knowledge and capabilities;
  • 20 ECTS op electives which can be filled in with related MSc courses or an internship, interdisciplinary project or an individual research or design assignment;
  • 40 ECTS on the master thesis where students demonstrate prior knowledge and skills on a Transport & Planning related topic.
More detailed information about the curriculum can be found here. 

As the study association for the MSc Transport & Planning track, Dispuut Verkeer focuses on the programme and the quality of the related courses. Continuously, each quarter courses are evaluated through an evaluation lunch. All our members are invited to join these lunches where the content of the courses, the lecturers and the assignments and/or examination will be discussed. In the past years, students’ feed-back has proven to be very useful resulting in concrete improvements.
Questions? Please feel free to contact our Commissioner of Education, Sander Willer. 
Online evaluation form - If you have any comments on a course, a part of a course or even multiple courses, please fill in the form. State clear comments, and maybe even suggestions. Your input is essential.

Msc Thesis 

Thesis Information

Thinking of doing your thesis this or next semester?
We had the luck of receiving a Master Class from Dr. ir. Rob van Nes regarding how to structure your thesis proposal, how to actually carry it out and what support you will receive from university. If you would like to access this content just click the button above. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any help or have any doubts
More information about available graduation projects at the Department of Transport & Planning can be found here.

Templates and Softwares

​Started your thesis but you are in need of some software and templates?
  • You can always choose to write in Word but if you are a looking for a different tool ShareLaTex is a nice platform for LaTex. 
  • Literature management and all the associated reading: Mendeley,  Qiqqa or EndNote. 
  • However, if your problem is about handling information, websites, screenshots and such... Evernote no question about it!
  • Finally, all TU Delft's templates and styles can be found here!
If you have any other great software that would make our live easier, don't hesitate to share them with us!

MSc Available

Check the list bellow to see graduation projects from TUDelft and our sponsors:
22/05/2017

Master Thesis

Transport & Planning - TU Delft


​The department of Transport & Planning is looking for a TIL or a T&P master student to perform a master thesis project on reconstructing a robust transport system in Tohoku, located in the North-East of Japan, after the area was hit by an earthquake in 2011..Next to that, they are also starting a multidisciplinary project that deals with certain transport related aspects, in which you can participate as well.
There is funding available to visit the area and some local contacts are already established. Are you interested and want to know more about this opportunity? Please send an email to education@dispuutverkeer.nl and we will send you a more detailed description of the projects
17/05/2017
More info about NACO ​here
Description of Internship/thesis
NACO
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Master Thesis - Internship

NACO in collaboration with TU Delft

NACO is looking for a graduate intern from TIL to do an analytical study on Baggage Handling. The project is partly provided by the TU (via Beelaerts) and partly by NACO.
​​If interested, please send an email to education@dispuutverkeer.nl.
01/04/2017
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Master Thesis

Ludanta

We are looking for a student who might be interested in taking on a subject for their master thesis on the subject of collecting data for traffic in neighbourhoods. What we would like to know is:
  1. How does the government or other organisations collect local traffic information?
  2. Which models are used to predict traffic streams?
  3. What are the benefits and disadvantages of these methods of gathering traffic data and traffic models?
  4. Are their new ways of gathering traffic data and is Internet of Things a solution that can solve these problems of collecting local data?
  5. Are their new technologies that can provide traffic data, that can be used for improving traffic safety in neighbourhoods in cooperation with citizens and local shopkeepers?

Honours Programme & Annotations

Honours Programme

TU Delft offers talented and motivated students the opportunity both to invest more time in their own area of study and to broaden their horizon at the same time. If you feel ready to take on an extra challenge and wish to broaden your horizon beyond your regular course of studies, the Honours Programme Master (HPM) may provide just that for you. You are very welcome to do this program! 

Next to the normal HPM there is also the interdisciplinary Infrastructure and Environment Honours Programme (IE Honours) offered by the Delft Research Initiative Infrastructure and Mobility (DIMI). The program is focusing on integrating technology into spatial development in tackling issues like climate change, energy transition of more intelligent spatial development in general. Both the Honours Programme Master and IE Honours consists of 20 ECTS.

Apply now! If you are interested, please contact your faculty contact person Maurits Ertsen:M.W.Ertsen@tudelft.nl
For I&E Honours, please contact Fransje Hooimeijer: f.l.hooimeijer@tudelft.nl

Annotations

Do you enjoy to be continuously challenged?  Do you want an "extra star" on your MSc diploma without taking any extra courses? You can add annotations to your master. The available annotations are: Rail, Technology in Sustainable Development, Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure and Environment and Integral Design Management (IDM). For more information click here.