Way of Work
Wow Shaping Society is all about knowledge sharing. Working together with partners in the fields of built environment and logistics along 8 areas of expertise.
Innovate to keep cities and places accessible for everybody. Designing attractive, safe and liveable places. Tackling logistic challenges caused by modern trends and developments.
Together we work on the exchange of knowledge and skills between industry, government, society and education. By doing so, we aim for state of the art education in order to deliver top students to our industry.
Browse through the areas of expertise and projects or visit BUas.nl or the Shaping Society website, linked below:
Guest lecture by Leo Van Broeck - Vlaams Bouwmeester
Juni 03, 2019
BUas-research on Formula 1 Zandvoort 2020
Mei 22, 2019
VR bike at EU Greenweek Conference in Brussels
Mei 16, 2019
Generating ideas a team effort
Mei 16, 2019
Ruud Hornman about increase of road deaths on Radio 1
April 18, 2019
Aftermovie mini congres JLN and Justin recruitement
April 10, 2019
Cooperation between Rijkswaterstaat en Breda University confirmed
Oktober 01, 2018
Maarten van Rijn nominated as Logsitcs Guru 2018
September 27, 2018
BUas launches Cycle Highway Life Cycle video
September 05, 2018
Manual Bike Guerilla available
Juni 19, 2018
NHTV cycling signboard new national standard?
April 10, 2018
NHTV signs cooperation agreement with Vereniniging Deltametropool
Maart 15, 2018
Logistics Management in Oman
Maart 06, 2018
NHTV signs cooperation agreement with Vialis
Februari 09, 2018
15-03-2018 - Masterclass Electric Transportation
Januari 08, 2018
Smart and Healthy Cities: Tunnel vision (VR)
Multiple studies, including a VR-study were conducted during 2017. Different objective and subjective perspectives on the experience of underpasses for cyclists within an urban context are analyzed and visualized. This resulted in the title for the whole study “tunnel vision”.
Game provides insight into energy transition
Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) has developed the Watts2win energy game: an online game that provides insight into the energy transition of existing neighbourhoods.
BUas and Collegium da Vinci join forces
Breda University of Applied Sciences and Collegium da Vinci (Poznan, Poland) join forces to setup an Urban Management course.
BUas introduces autonomous delivery robot
28 September marks the start of the practical trial of an electrical and autonomous driving delivery robot at Breda University of Applied Sciences' (BUas) new campus. The robot will distribute various, non food, goods between the three on-campus buildings.
Article: Causes and effects between attitudes
Causes and effects between attitudes, the built environment and car kilometres: A longitudinal analysis - published article by BUas lecturer Paul van de Coevering, co-written with Kees Maat and Bert van Wee.
Annual parent school day
Last Fridday we had our annual school day for our first year ABEL students.
What about Control Towers?!
The Control Tower project at NHTV (Breda University of Applied Sciences) is finished. A whole new course has been designed, including the creation of a learning management system, the development and use of serious games and improved interaction via webblogs on Wordpress. Do you want to know more, read further ...
BUas is partner in DIGNITY project
"By looking at the digital transport ecosystem through the eyes of the end users, particularly those who are vulnerable to exclusion, we can better understand what works for them and what doesn’t. That kind of knowledge is invaluable to policy makers, transport operators, and providers of mobility services & products."
ABEL students at regional finals ASCM
In Collaboration with Deloitte Consulting, the Association of Supply Chain Management is organising the 2020 ASCM Case Competition for students around the globe. In a bid to hone the logistics and supply chain management knowledge that they have gained to date from their academic programme.
Medicine worth 180 million thrown away yearly
What do you do with your unused medicine? Reusable medicine worth €180 million are thrown away on a yearly basis.
BUas & DTV partners in knowledge development
Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) and DTV Consultants have entered into a partnership, which involves both organisations working together on knowledge development in the discipline of traffic and mobility. The first projects have meanwhile been initiated.
BLOKKO Mania – Serious Logistics Gaming Oman
Customers, suppliers, factories… LEGO all over the place! A couple of weeks ago Maarten van Rijn and Bram Havekes supported the first round of the Serious Logistics Game ‘BLOKKO’ for Middle East College in Muscat, Oman, as part of our Partner Program.
Alumni wins 'Verkeerskundeprijs' 2019
During the kick-off of the National Verkeerskundecongres, Mobility alumni Frank de Winter won the 1st prize (out of 16) for his thesis ‘the experience of a model cyclist’.
Participate in the Y4PT Hackathon in January!
The Y4PT Hackathon is back in town on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of January.
Dutch:Zelfrijdende minibus FABULOS in Helmond
Het is zover: de voorbereidingen voor de proef met de zelfrijdende minibus van het Europese project FABULOS in Helmond starten. De komende weken worden de shuttle en de route rijklaar gemaakt en worden testritten gereden.
Metamorphosis: child-friendly neighbourhoods
Transformation of neighbourhoods in a child-friendly way to increase the quality of life for all citizens.
Event Logistics: analysis for festivals
Students were able to use data from the industry and reported on event layouts, crowd management and risk analysis.
Cycleprint
Cycle Policy Renewal and INnovation by means of tracking Technology enables more customer friendly cycle policy
Paul van de Coevering to defend PhD thesis
On 17 June Paul van de Coevering will publicly defend his PhD thesis titled: ‘The Interplay between Land Use, Travel Behaviour and Attitudes: a Quest for Causality.’ The public defence takes place from 12.00 to 14.15 and can be viewed live via this link.
BUas & LCB in RTL Transportwereld
The past few weeks Logistics Community Brabant got featured in RTL Transportwereld. Curious what they were talking about? Rewatch the videos below
Aurora Project at NMIT Malaysia
In May 2018, Piet Berkers has been a guest lecturer at the Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology (NMIT), based in Johor Bahru (Malaysia). It is part of an exchange program between NHTV and NMIT to interest students, after completing their Diploma at NMIT, to spend one year in Breda to get a Bachelor Degree.
Mobility Management Portal online
This portal answers today's 100 most important questions on mobility management and functions as a source of knowledge for everything you want to want to know about mobility management.
ABEL alumnus wins KuiperCompagnons award
ABEL alumnus Tim Bachmayer won the KuiperCompagnons Graduation Award, and carries the discipline into the next century.
Breda Koepel Urban Farm
An indoor greenhouse concept design.
Kick-off professorships within ABEL academy
On Friday 20 November, Paul van de Coevering, 'Urban Intelligence' professor, and 'Smart Cities & Logistics' professor Hans Quak presented their ambitions and specific plans for applied research. In a small group, but mostly digital, this marked the follow up of the former, and the official start of the latter.
Summary: 2 student projects Urban Farming Lab
Last Friday, Urban Living Lab organized their latest event talking about Urban Farming. Two BUas student groups presented their ideas and got positive feedback from everybody attending.
Training Business Intelligence
Breda University of Applied Sciences ontwikkelt samen met FreightPlaza een business intelligence training voor professionals in de logistiek en supply chain. In het 1e kwartaal 2019 is de pilot met 9 bedrijven uit de logistiek en supply chain en 4 studenten positief verlopen. 8 mei 2019 start de 2e reeks.
VIA NOVA: data and smart mobility
How accurate, reliable and applicable are current in-car data sources for the transition to an autonomous fleet? The partners of the VIA NOVA project explore which data sources are available to be used in current user-cases and determine its quality for the use in future user-cases.
September 2019: Talent Development Program
In september 2019 start voor de tweede keer het Talent Development Program van Breda Business School. Werk jij al een aantal jaren in de logistiek en ben je toe aan 'the next step', dan is dit programma interessant voor jou.
2nd Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon Dubai
BUas is member of the Y4PT (Youth for Public Transport) network. Y4PT's aim is to promote the active participation of young professionals on transport and mobility issues at all levels. Y4PT connects cities, public transport organizations, professionals and a broad network of young professionals with different expertise from all over world.
Minor Retrofitting the sprawled city - Calgar
On a yearly basis the four best students of the minor 'Retrofitting the sprawled city' leave to our partner city Calgary to rethink the car oriented grid structure of the city under supervision of lecturer Paul van de Coevering or Ineke Spape. Each year the group of students take on a different challenge related to rethinking Calgary!
FreshBrains in action in Germany
How to promote a cycling culture into a starting cycling city in Germany? That was the question the German Ministry of Transport asked to BUas's professorship Mobility Management. Fresh First Years Brains went to Germany, together with professor Ineke Spapé, to advice the German City of Kassel on how to improve their city for cyclists!
Minor Entrepreneurship: challenging business
In September, over 60 students have started in the Minor Resilient Entrepreneurship at the Breda University of applied sciences. In this minor it's about real life business cases, what it means to be an entrepreneur and turning a concept into business.
Overview of where our students go for their internship!
Gaining experience in a professional context is important during education as well as fun! This GIS-map provides an overview of all intern and graduation positions in the domains of Built Environment and Logistics for the last 5 years.
Partners
Our academy operates in a broad network of partners to create an inspiring learning environment for our students. Want to meet them? Head over to our "partners section"
Breda Koepel Urban Farm
An indoor greenhouse concept design.
Summary: 2 student projects Urban Farming Lab
Last Friday, Urban Living Lab organized their latest event talking about Urban Farming. Two BUas student groups presented their ideas and got positive feedback from everybody attending.
Paul van de Coevering to defend PhD thesis
On 17 June Paul van de Coevering will publicly defend his PhD thesis titled: ‘The Interplay between Land Use, Travel Behaviour and Attitudes: a Quest for Causality.’ The public defence takes place from 12.00 to 14.15 and can be viewed live via this link.
BUas & LCB in RTL Transportwereld
The past few weeks Logistics Community Brabant got featured in RTL Transportwereld. Curious what they were talking about? Rewatch the videos below
Article: Causes and effects between attitudes
Causes and effects between attitudes, the built environment and car kilometres: A longitudinal analysis - published article by BUas lecturer Paul van de Coevering, co-written with Kees Maat and Bert van Wee.
Dutch:Zelfrijdende minibus FABULOS in Helmond
Het is zover: de voorbereidingen voor de proef met de zelfrijdende minibus van het Europese project FABULOS in Helmond starten. De komende weken worden de shuttle en de route rijklaar gemaakt en worden testritten gereden.
Kick-off professorships within ABEL academy
On Friday 20 November, Paul van de Coevering, 'Urban Intelligence' professor, and 'Smart Cities & Logistics' professor Hans Quak presented their ambitions and specific plans for applied research. In a small group, but mostly digital, this marked the follow up of the former, and the official start of the latter.
BUas introduces autonomous delivery robot
28 September marks the start of the practical trial of an electrical and autonomous driving delivery robot at Breda University of Applied Sciences' (BUas) new campus. The robot will distribute various, non food, goods between the three on-campus buildings.
BUas & DTV partners in knowledge development
Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) and DTV Consultants have entered into a partnership, which involves both organisations working together on knowledge development in the discipline of traffic and mobility. The first projects have meanwhile been initiated.
Game provides insight into energy transition
Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) has developed the Watts2win energy game: an online game that provides insight into the energy transition of existing neighbourhoods.
BUas is partner in DIGNITY project
"By looking at the digital transport ecosystem through the eyes of the end users, particularly those who are vulnerable to exclusion, we can better understand what works for them and what doesn’t. That kind of knowledge is invaluable to policy makers, transport operators, and providers of mobility services & products."
ABEL alumnus wins KuiperCompagnons award
ABEL alumnus Tim Bachmayer won the KuiperCompagnons Graduation Award, and carries the discipline into the next century.
ABEL students at regional finals ASCM
In Collaboration with Deloitte Consulting, the Association of Supply Chain Management is organising the 2020 ASCM Case Competition for students around the globe. In a bid to hone the logistics and supply chain management knowledge that they have gained to date from their academic programme.
Participate in the Y4PT Hackathon in January!
The Y4PT Hackathon is back in town on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of January.
Medicine worth 180 million thrown away yearly
What do you do with your unused medicine? Reusable medicine worth €180 million are thrown away on a yearly basis.
Annual parent school day
Last Fridday we had our annual school day for our first year ABEL students.
BUas and Collegium da Vinci join forces
Breda University of Applied Sciences and Collegium da Vinci (Poznan, Poland) join forces to setup an Urban Management course.
Alumni wins 'Verkeerskundeprijs' 2019
During the kick-off of the National Verkeerskundecongres, Mobility alumni Frank de Winter won the 1st prize (out of 16) for his thesis ‘the experience of a model cyclist’.
NWO-project InFuS@2.0 finished
The NWO-subsidized project InFuS@2.0 recently finished. The project was launched in 2017 with 5 consortium-partners: Fontys Venlo, Eindhoven University of Technology, NCOI, Breda University of Applied Sciences and InThere.
No expectations, a trip to Oman
Justin van de Pas and Luuk Koopman went to the Middle East College in Muscat, Oman. Read here about their experiences.
Minor 'Smart City, Color your Future'
To make cities future proof, an integral approach is necessary. In the minor 'Smart City, Color your Future', 22 Logistics and Mobility students have developed an integrated vision for their liveable and future-proof city or region.
Training Business Intelligence
Breda University of Applied Sciences ontwikkelt samen met FreightPlaza een business intelligence training voor professionals in de logistiek en supply chain. In het 1e kwartaal 2019 is de pilot met 9 bedrijven uit de logistiek en supply chain en 4 studenten positief verlopen. 8 mei 2019 start de 2e reeks.
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