Investigation of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Land Use Changes on the Hydrology of the Geul River Catchment

The Geul river, a tributary of the Meuse located in the south Netherlands, Belgium, and part of Germany, is vulnerable to extreme hydrological events, such as floods, droughts, and erosion. There is evidence that these conditions are exacerbated by land use and climate changes. This thesis focuses on investigating the temporal variability and...

Determinants of E-biker’s route choice behaviour: The case of E-bikers in Ghent

This research aims at analyzing route choice behavior of E-bikers, in terms of which factors play a role and to what extent. The research is performed based on E-bikers route data in Ghent. Two interesting developments are aimed to include as well, in terms of multi-attribute cost functions as input for route generation and including land use...

Access/egress facilities at railway stations: An exploratory study on the future development of railway station areas

This research aimed to create knowledge and set guidelines for the (re)development of railway station areas regarding the required land use for access/egress facilities as a result of access/egress transportation developments. First, a literature review was conducted to gather knowledge for the foundation of this research. With the information,...

Automated land use classification: Supervised segmentation of road structures on aerial images using shape regression

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision have been showed to be promising for automated land use classification of remotely sensed data. However, current state-of-the-art per-pixel segmentation networks fail to accurately capture geometrical and topological properties on land use segmentation, as these methods have...

Transportation and spatial impact of automated driving in urban areas: An application to the Greater Copenhagen Area

Vehicle automation has the potential to disrupt the status quo of urban transportation, because it adds a new mode of transportation by taking away the task of the driver. The projections of estimations of the impacts of this new technology are based on many uncertainties and are thus largely unknown. A literature review showed that a wide...

Roofstructure Rotterdam: Designing the fifth facade of the city centre in Rotterdam

In this project the potentials of designing the fifth façade are being investigated for the city centre of Rotterdam. <br/><br/>The city is popular: in 2050 will 66% of worlds’ population will live in the city. The current practice, supported by national policy is to accommodate people inside the municipality borders in order to guarantee the...