Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser
Photo: Mikal Schlosser

New transport research centre at DTU

Transport og logistik
DTU has opened the new Transport DTU centre, which was marked by a festive and academic event.

With a red silk ribbon and a pair of large gold-plated scissors, DTU President Anders Bjarklev officially declared Transport DTU open on Wednesday, 1 June.

Transport DTU is a new interdisciplinary centre for transport research at the University affiliated with DTU Management Engineering, which had put out all the stops to arrange a festive and academic event. It was a day with scope for experiencing and exploring transport by flying a drone, riding a Segway, and studying electric cars and the DTU Roadrunner, and for taking a look at the plans for the light rail which will also run through Lyngby Campus.

More than 300 guests from both DTU and the transport industry has signed up for the event, which began with the President’s speech.

“Today, we show that transport research at DTU is still very important to the University—it is relevant and of a high standard. I have great expectations for Transport DTU, and I am looking forward to see how the good research already conducted at DTU will continue to flourish in interaction with our other departments and with our collaboration partners, both in Denmark and abroad,” said Anders Bjarklev.

"Today, we show that transport research at DTU is still very important to the University—it is relevant and of a high standard."
Anders O. Bjarklev, President of DTU

The academic programme was initiated by the head of DTU Transport, Professor Otto Anker Nielsen, who outlined the three biggest challenges faced by the transport industry.

1. congestion
2. CO2 emissions and energy consumption
3. safety.

After the presentation, the guests could visit a large tent where transport researchers and students were ready and waiting to introduce their research projects dealing with all three challenges.

Transport DTU was established as part of an organizational change at DTU earlier this year, when the former DTU Transport department was discontinued. The organizational change has, however, not worried Project Director Jan Schneider-Tilli from Banedanmark:

“What the railway industry needs is engineers who are skilled in planning and safety management, and as long as DTU continues to educate such engineers, I will remain confident. The reorganization has not made me nervous about whether we can recruit the right candidates,” says Jan Schneider-Tilli.

Watch a one-minute video from the opening on 1 June: