Dr. Laurent Franckx

He is currently working as an expert in Energy and Transport at the Belgian Federal
Planning Bureau. He has contributed to the MIND SETS project while affiliated to the Flemish Institute of
Technological Research (VITO). His current research focuses on transport demand modelling in long
term national forecasts (with a focus on shared and self-driving vehicles).

Shared mobility and big data

Platforms involved in shared mobility (ranging from bicycle sharing to ridesourcing) have access to massive datasets on both the transport network (such as the current levels of speed and congestion), and on…

Nudges in Transport

The central message of the behavioural economics approach to policy making is that there are many situations where people run the risk of acting against their own interest. As a result, transport…