Reducing travel time within urban areas with watertaxi networks

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

T.J. van Berkel Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

M.B. Duinkerken Transport Engineering and Logistics - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (mentor)
R.R. Negenborn Transport Engineering and Logistics - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (graduation committee member)
J.F.J. Pruyn Ship Design, Production and Operations - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Published Date

15-10-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

A watertaxi can reduce the travel time through the city of Rotterdam in comparison with public transport. To make estimations on the average reduced travel time within Rotterdam, a generic method is developed. This method is capable of finding locations for watertaxi jetties. To achieve this, the watertaxi, public transport, and the walking to and from the jetties is modelled as a complete undirected graph. The formulation of the Median p- Hub Location Problem is changed by adding a second type of node and allowing direct links. With a case study to Rotterdam, the method shows to be useful to find the average reduced travel time in urban areas.