Modelling urban freight transport in the context of decarbonising transport in Europe

Modelling urban freight transport in the context of decarbonising transport in Europe: A case study of the Groot-Rijnmond urban area with possibilities for model transferability

ter Laag, Maya (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Tavasszy, Lorant (mentor)
de Bok, Michiel (graduation committee)
Homem de Almeida Correia, Goncalo (graduation committee)
van Duin, Ron (graduation committee)
Martinez, L.M. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

2019-09-23

Urban freight transport is a significant cause of CO2 emissions. This creates the need to implement CO2 mitigation measures for freight transport in cities. The International Transport Forum (ITF) is currently working on an EU-funded programme, the Decarbonising Transport initiative, to assess CO2 mitigation measures. However, there is no model yet that is suitable to analyse urban freight transport on a European level. Therefore, the research question of this thesis is: How can a model for urban freight transport in the urban region of Rotterdam (Groot-Rijnmond) be created, that allows for estimation of CO2 impacts of policy measures for decarbonisation and that can be transferred to other European urban areas? To answer this question, a literature study has been done to set the context of the project. This was followed by an identification of available data sources for European freight transport and the creation of a transferable modelling methodology. Based on the data and the established methodology, a model has been estimated. With this model, seven policy scenarios have been tested.

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Student theses

master thesis

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