Is there room for another hedonic model?: The advantages of the GAMLSS approach in real estate

Hedonic modelling is essential for institutional investors, researchers and urban policymakers in order to identify the factors affecting the value and future development of rents over time and space. While statistical models in this field have advanced substantially over the last decades, new statistical approaches have emerged expanding the...

A Very Long Term Forecast for the development of the Cargo Flows in the le-Havre – Hamburg range

The development of the Dutch ports and waterways has historically gone hand in hand since the waterways have always provided a primary access route to the Hinterland. Any vision on the development of the Dutch waterway system will therefore require a vision on the developments of the ports in the region and vice versa. The Dutch waterway system...

Metocean forecasting for ports and terminals

Industry standard numerical models are excellent and accurate tools for analysis of port plans and design. They link meteorological and oceanographic information to impacts on moored vessels and thereby provide the metocean conditions along the berths. By use of relevant motion and safety criteria for moored vessels, numerical modelling studies...