High-speed Railway as Landscape Bonanza: TU-Delft Alternative Lelyline: A case study from Zwolle to Groningen

Long-term, large-scale empirical studies on the simultaneous development of transport infrastructure and the built environment are scarce. This thesis provides a future high-speed railway infrastructure implementation alternative based on the Dutch cultural landscape from Zwolle to Groningen. Our design goal is to better connect Amsterdam and...

Branding Makes You Stand Out: The impact of science/engineering graduates’ personal branding and perceived external marketability on perceived employability

With the trend of work-from-home and flexible working arising from the Covid-19 virus pandemic becoming increasingly popular, personal branding will play a growing role in the workplace. Practitioners in a few industries, such as public relations, have been at the forefront of personal branding and will continue to attract people from other...

3D Road Boundary Mapping of MLS Point Clouds

Roads in modern cities facilitate different types of users, including car drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. These different users often have a designated section of the road to operate on. Road management, e.g., by municipalities, needs to take this sectioning into account, preferably in an efficient way. Mobile laser scanning (MLS) point...

Semantic Segmentation of AHN3 Point Clouds with DGCNN

Semantic segmentation of aerial point clouds with high accuracy is significant for many geographical applications, but is not trivial since the data is massive and unstructured. In the past few years, deep learning approaches designed for 3D point cloud data have made great progress. Pointwise neural networks, such as PointNet and its extensions...

Power flow control in a substation of a wind- and solar farm: Design of an Optimisation Unit Considering a System's Physical Boundaries and Technical Constraints

The goal of this graduation project was to design a state-of-the-art central farm controller. The designed central farm controller distinguishes itself from prevailing controllers by including a subsystem (the optimisation unit) that contributes to an improvement in power transmission effciency, decrease in maintenance costs and an increase in...

Professional neck massage device in everyday surroundings: A solution applying principles of Cyber-Physical Systems

Office workers who hold a static posture during prolonged computer work have the highest incidence of neck disorders. Clinical massage, as one of the main treatment methods, has been proved to be effective by many studies. The proposed idea is to record what the therapist did in the massage treatment and recreate that with the device. This...

Online Interactive Public Participation for the Built Environment

Construction projects, especially infrastructure projects, create such a far and wide local impact that it is essential to carry out public participation processes. With the advancement of information technology, it is now possible to digitalize the public participation process and carry out the process via the internet. Through the development...

The Architecture of the Interior: Healthy environment

The program is a cancer centre, involving therapy spaces, living rooms, and most importantly public spaces for patients and families to share information and spend everyday life. The chosen location is Floreweg in Amsterdam, a place where industry, old/new living area and nature meet. The challenge is this location is adjacent to industry...