24 February 2025
Aviation has the best safety record among other transport modes. Due to concentration of air traffic at airports people living and working in the surrounding are exposed to safety risk in the event of an aircraft accident during take-off or landing. This “third party risk” can be limited by a well-thought choice of airport planning and land use around the airport and runways.
14 December 2021
In recent years, Augmented Reality has become one of the major focus points of user interface development. With a rapid increase in computing power and developments in software and hardware applications, it has moved from theoretical approaches towards industry-wide application and mass production.
22 June 2021
Royal NLR has carried out a joint study with RIVM into the risk of a passenger falling ill by breathing in the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 while on board an aircraft. Measures have been implemented to reduce the risk of an infectious passenger boarding an aircraft. If despite measures an infectious passenger is on board the cabin, then on average fellow passengers - within a section of seven rows around the infectious passenger - run a relatively low risk of falling ill from COVID-19. For example, a lower than in unventilated rooms of the same dimensions.
29 October 2020
Do you have any idea how stressful it is driving an old timer VW campervan during rush hour in Brussels? Last year, it demanded my total concentration due to the old van’s slow dynamics, relatively poor field of view and the crowded rush hour traffic. Meanwhile, my girlfriend helped navigate us through the complexity of roads. Having arrived at our destination with our heart rates back to ‘normal’, we toasted our excellent team work.
29 May 2020
The world is in the grip of the coronavirus. The human, social and economic consequences are huge. The crisis is also having an impact in the aviation sector and for Royal NLR. Michel Peters is speaking about the period after the coronavirus: survival first, followed by innovation with a new focus on ‘green recovery’.
