A pilot project in Nijmegen that pays drivers to avoid rush hour is a success. There were indeed less traffic jams. According to transport specialists, this shows that a system of paying for driving during rush hour works.
His article on the melting of Greenland’s land ice made headlines. This week, Dr Bert Wouters, defended his thesis on advanced filtering of satellite data.
For days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, many people were still trapped under piles of rubble. A TU Delft PhD student worked on improving and developing a method that could locate victims using ultra-wideband radar.
Buildings covered with plants can look pretty, but this vegetation can also keep us warm in winter and cool in summer. For his PhD research, Marc Ottelé is trying to figure out to just what degree.
Soil pollution is a worldwide problem. Most of the pollution can often easily be removed, yet a small amount of polluted material remains in the subsurface.
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas years later? What for instance has happened to the ‘bees in space’ project that looked into the possibility of using bees for food production in space?
The new MSc programme, industrial ecology, was recently accredited, granting it official status from September 2010. But what is this new scientific discipline all about?
In addition to Schiphol Airport, the Dutch police also want to use full body scanners to digitally strip search people, reports NRC Handelsblad.
TU Delft researchers are using gift cards to measure rainfall. Their odd sensors must eventually provide insights into hydrology in Africa and on the TU Delft campus.
