J.P. (Jan) van Dijke B.Sc., is a senior project manager with the
Department of Integrated Safety of the Business Unit Automotive of TNO Science and Industry. Presently he is the project manager of CityMobil, an Integrated Project in the 6th Framework Program of the European Union. CityMobil focuses on the integration of advanced transport systems in the urban environment, combining the efforts of 28 partners from all over Europe. Furthermore, Jan van Dijke is responsible for the
co-ordination of the activities in the field of safety analysis and
certification of automatic guided vehicles. He has been involved in various European and other projects concerning safety and certification.
Before entering his present activities in 1998, he has been working in many different positions at TNO-Automotive, mostly related to safety and certification and the management of large projects.

CityMobil is a European Commission FP6 Integrated Project. The objective is to achieve a more effective organisation of urban transport, resulting in a more rational use of motorised traffic with less congestion and pollution, safer driving, a higher quality of living and an enhanced integration with spatial development. This objective is brought closer by developing integrated traffic solutions: advanced concepts for innovative autonomous and automated road vehicles for passengers and goods, embedded in an advanced spatial setting. The city
of tomorrow is in need of integrated traffic solutions that provide the required mobility in an efficient, safe and economic manner. It is inevitable that automation, in all possible forms between providing information at one end of the spectrum and fully autonomous driving at the other, will play a major role. CityMobil wish to make significant steps forward that will, on the short to medium term, support a sustainable development of European cities.

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