Why the bicycle really is a high-tech masterpiece

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A happy coincidence of circumstances and perseverance. That typifies both the realization of 70-year-old Jan Ploeger’s doctoral research and the subject: the intellectual marriage of bicycle and train. It shows why this is a unique success, how it came about and what we can learn from it in the battle against increasing car traffic. Ploeger received his doctorate from the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences on April 18. “We invest millions in technological dreams of the future like the hyperloop, but we take the ingenious success of the bicycle for granted.”