Demis stands for Decision support and
Management Information Systems.
Demis was founded in 1996 and has been working on many policy
analysis / decision support projects in the fields of water, traffic, air
and energy. Demis specializes in creating map-based user interfaces. The
maps are important because they visualize where a problem occurs.
Decision-making is not easy, especially where the environment
is involved. More and more scientific knowledge is needed in the decision
making process. The practical meaning of scientific facts is often only
understood by insiders: concentrations and numbers don't appeal to the
general public.
The user interfaces created by Demis help to translate results
of scientific simulation models into understandable terminology for both the
general public and decision makers. For the scientific input Demis works
together with specialists from established institutes, such as WL | Delft
Hydraulics, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, TNO, NEA and so forth. As a
result of the projects Demis has developed software for fast animation in
time of geographic data. One of our latest products, the Demis Web Map
Server, provides a high-performance / low-cost solution for interactive web
mapping using protocols defined by the OpenGIS Consortium. Example: Up to
date map view of earth quakes at
www2.demis.nl/quakes/
Most relevant projects bringing additional value and expertise to
ROADIDEA are:
- REORIENT (EU, DGTREN) Co-ordination action devoted to assessment of
”Implementation of changes in the European Railway System” 2005 - 2007.
Demis
tasks consist of the development of the underlying database and network editing
tools based on the TRANSTOOLS network
- Strategic Transport Evaluation Feasibility study for the development of a
policy Model STEM (SENTER, NL)
Analysis oriented strategic transport
evaluation model for multimodal freight and passenger transport.
- Tiresias (Ministry of Transport and Public Works, The Netherlands)
Development of the ‘iMove’ Transportation Model
With iMove transport of both
people and freight can be modelled over roads, railways and waterways. A
separate module is available to estimate the effects in terms of road safety,
noise and air pollution.
- Sustainability indicators (Ministry of Transport and Public Works, The
Netherlands)
Development of an operational method to evaluate sustainability
indicators for road and water infrastructure projects. Includes a transportation
model for a sustainable spatial planning and transportation project for the
Dutch Ministry of Public Works.
- TNO-Visualiser (TNO: Institute for Traffic and Transport, Logistics and
Spatial Development)
Development of a program that enables the visualisation
of individual trucks and boats and their freight on a transportation network
using the Demis Map Engine.
- TNO-SMART (TNO: Institute for Traffic and Transport, Logistics and Spatial
Development)
Development of a user-interface for the TNO Smart Model using
the capabilities of Netter (The GIS-database Network generator of Demis)
- SPIRIT (Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands)
Development of an
integrated spatial planning and transportation decision support system (SPIRIT).
The project comprises a research and development cooperation between Delft
University of Technology and Demis bv. Aim of the project is to develop a
decision support system for integrated spatial and transportation policy
planning.
- DINAS-COAST (EU, DG Research)
Development of the geographic oriented user
interface for Dinas Coast, the Dynamic and INteractive ASsessment of National,
Regional and Global Vulnerability of COASTal Zones to Climate Change and
Sea-Level Rise.
- Numerous clients, including NASA, the World Bank, the EU and so forth
Development, of an OpenGIS compliant Internet based Map server interface, based
on the Map-Engine software components, which were developed by DEMIS in
cooperation with Delft Hydraulics. The Demis Web Map Server has been used in
many web-based mapping applications.
Poul Grashoff is Senior advisor on natural resources and
environmental planning studies in Europe, South East Asia and South America
covering the aspects: decision support and information system development and
environmental impact assessment. Since he founded Demis in 1996 he has been
expanding the fields in which he develops decision support and management
information systems to areas like noise pollution by air traffic, road traffic
infrastructure planning, energy and emission reduction strategies for new
housing projects and risk studies for airports and dike safety.
Mr. Grashoff
has wide experience in system design, information management, informatics,
policy analysis and knowledge management. He will use this experience in the
WORLDNET project to develop a system that can be used on the internet for
editing network input data for the modelling, as well as for effective
presentation of the results via the internet. This facilitates communication
with the partners and the client.
Marcus Wigan is Professor of Transport Systems at Tri, and
holds a physics doctorate from Oxford and a range of other degrees and
fellowships ranging from organisational psychology to business administration,
logistics transport and computing. He specialises in areas requiring specialist
skills in several areas. He is Emeritus member of there US Transportation
Research Board Committees and recent ex Chair of the metadata interests of TRB.
He has published on metadata issues, data management and knowledge management
and information strategies in transport He is also Visiting Professor at
Imperial College and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Previously a Visiting Professor of Management at the University of Sydney and
Head of the Computing Department at Deakin University in Australia, he has
worked at senior levels at the Greater London Council, the Australian Road
Research Board, and the UK TRL. He has a long record in ITS(especially road
pricing) transport modelling, freight systems, vulnerable road users, GIS
applications and Most recently he has worked on OPUS (Fp5:Eurostat) on data
fusion using Bayesian techniques, and as knowledge base and dissemination leader
of the REORIENT project (Fp6:DGTREN), on data gaps in transportation for the UK
Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, for ITS design to market for
the Australian CSIRO, the middle ware (UML and XML) for a national Transport
Data Framework for Imperial College and Cambridge University for the UK
Department of Transport, and on a range of information strategies for
transportation for various Australian governments.
Michiel Benjamins is Senior Transportation Model Developer &
Simulation system developer in the field of decision support, information
systems, simulation modelling, multimodal passenger and freight transport
modelling, energy and emission reduction modelling and risk models for airports
and dike safety.
Mr. Benjamins has wide experience in system design,
information management, informatics and simulation modelling. He will use this
experience in the WORLDNET project to develop a system that can be used on the
internet for editing network input data for the modelling, as well as for
effective presentation of the results via the internet. This facilitates
communication with the partners and the client.
Contribution in ROADIDEA:
Demis is the Exploitation
Coordinator of ROADIDEA, leads WP9 Dissemination, communication and exploitation
and takes part in several technical Work Packages.