TRIVIZOR - Key Persons
Bart Vannieuwenhuyse is MSc in civil engineering (K.U.Leuven, 1993) and master of engineering in industrial management (K.U.Leuven, 1994). He started his career as a teaching assistant at the University of Ghent (RUG). In 1997 he came back to K.U.Leuven, "Centrum voor Industrieel Beleid" (Centre for Industrial Management), where he started his PhD research in the domain of transport and logistics.
In March 2002 he obtained his doctoral degree in Applied Sciences with a script titled ‘Strategic Logistics Management through Rational Transport Mode Choice'. Afterwards Bart worked as senior consultant at Transport & Mobility Leuven (TML), a spin-off of the K.U.Leuven for two years. From July 2004 on Bart Vannieuwenhuyse works as expert (2004-2007) and as Research Manager (2007-2008) at the Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL). He has coordinated the research in the fields of Multimodal Transport and Extended Gateway.
Bart Vannieuwenhuyse is the author of several publications on logistics, multimodal transport and decision support systems. He is also a frequent speaker at various conferences and a lecturer at several Belgian universities, high schools and knowledge institutes.
In November 2008, he has co-founded TRI-VIZOR NV, as a spin-off company of the University of Antwerp. As the World's First Cross Supply Chain Orchestrator®. Its mission is to offer specialized knowledge and solutions to create, support and orchestrate flow bundling and horizontal partnerships in transport and logistics, along the supply chain from port to city.
With TRI-VIZOR, Bart has been involved in various projects over the past decade in both industry and the public sector. Given his role at various universities and colleges, he is very adept at a triple helix approach.