Assessment of readiness of a traffic environment for autonomous delivery robots

Introduction: Autonomous delivery robots are a promising alternative for last-mile delivery. To realise successful implementation of delivery robots in public spaces, it is important to study the interaction between robots and the traffic environment. The traffic environment includes the physical infrastructure and the objects using it like cars...

Are we roboready?: Developing a method to determine the roboreadiness of a traffic environment

Autonomous delivery robots are a promising alternative for last-mile delivery. To realise successful implementation of delivery robots in the public space, it is important to study the interaction between robot and environment. The traffic environment includes the physical infrastructure, traffic conditions and the people using the environment....

Decarbonization and Destabilization: a Multi-Level Perspective on the Dutch steel-making industry

Nowadays a growing concern among the scientific community, and the wider public are pushing politicians and countries to design policies for reversing the course of warming the plant. These efforts are backed up by, for example, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. As resources are limited, studies have<br/>tried to identify sectors and...

Use before You Choose: What Do EV Drivers Think about V2G after Experiencing It?

This study aims to investigate the consumer acceptance of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) charging of electric vehicle (EV) drivers. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first V2G acceptance study that is based on actual users’ experience of V2G charging. A test set up with a V2G charge point at a solar carport was constructed at the Delft...

Ex-ante assessment of social acceptance of sustainable heating systems in Amsterdam South East using Cross-Impact Balance analysis

The municipality of Amsterdam plans to transition away from its reliance on fossil fuel-based energy sources for residential heating by 2040. The municipality has laid out a roadmap that details possibilities for sustainable heating on a per-neighborhood basis. One neighborhood of particular interest is Geerdinkhof in Amsterdam South East. There...

Anticipating social acceptance of heating alternatives in Amsterdam: Using value conflicts in an agent-based model

The municipality of Amsterdam is currently in the middle of a heat transition. The municipalit aims to cut down the use of natural gas for space heating in order to reduce its impact on the natural environment. For the Geerdinkhof neighborhood in Amsterdam South-East, the municipality is planning to implement a district heating system. These...

Value conflicts in energy systems

This thesis introduces an approach to support the long-term social acceptance of energy systems by addressing value conflicts embedded in regulatory and technical designs. When designing energy systems, the realisation of some values can conflict with the realisation of other values. The decision to deploy energy systems therefore inevitably...

The Social Acceptance of Automated Driving Systems: Safety Aspects: A contribution to responsible innovation by using a referendum format, discrete choice model experiment to measure the social acceptance of ADS by Dutch citizens with corresponding heterogeneity

Automated driving systems (ADS) can improve traffic safety, improve accessibility and reduce environmental impact (Shladover, 2016). On the contrary, on May 7th 2016, a fatal accident with a Tesla on autopilot in U.S. Florida was a harsh reminder that the technology is still in its testing phase (Greenemeier, 2016). In complex technical systems...

Social acceptance of smart meters

The introduction of intelligent meters - smart meters - to the electricity infrastructure should provide the grid intelligence the ability to cope with challenges and changes; thus, it is named smart grid (Verbong et al., 2013). We have learned that the smart grid system is a complex product system because its technologies, components and...

Extending bioenergy towards smart biomass use Issues of social acceptance at Park Cuijk, The Netherlands

Background While the share of bioenergy in the overall energy supply has increased over the last decade, its social acceptance is fragile, mainly due to concerns about negative sustainability impacts. In this paper, we will investigate to what extent the extension of bioenergy towards ‘smart’ or ‘cascaded’ biomass use enhances a project’s social...

Applying Value Sensitive Design (VSD) to Wind Turbines and Wind Parks: An Exploration

Community acceptance still remains a challenge for wind energy projects. The most popular explanation for local opposition, the Not in My Backyard effect, has received fierce criticism in the past decade. Critics argue that opposition is not merely a matter of selfishness or ignorance, but that moral, ecological and aesthetic values play an...

Acceptance-by-Design Elicitation of Social Requirements for Intelligent Infrastructures

Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Systems: Exploring the effects of human subjectivity on social acceptance and enhancing cognitive learning using Q methodology

According to the European Commission (2012), RPAS constitute a very promising new sector in the aerospace field in Europe. The emerging technology of RPAS and the variety of their civil applications (corporate, governmental, commercial, non-military) that make them useful for the military as well as the civil sector are related to monitoring...

Social acceptance of negotiation support systems: Scenario-based exploration with focus groups and online survey

We investigate people’s attitudes toward the possible use of negotiation support systems (NSS) in different social contexts and the consequences for their design. To explore functional requirements and social acceptance in different use contexts, we followed a threestep approach. In the first step, we conducted a number of focus groups with...

Glück Auf: A communication strategy for ‘striking’ social acceptance of geothermal energy in the Netherlands

Geothermal energy is increasingly being explored as an attractive renewable energy source. In recent years several geothermal energy projects have been developed in the Netherlands reflecting growing governmental, industrial and scientific interests. Increasing the use of renewable energy is high on the policy agenda world wide. The degree...