Cost-Benefit Analysis of pipeline transport in the Antwerp – Ruhr region: A societal and financial Cost-Benefit Analysis for new pipeline infrastructure in the Antwerp – Ruhr trajectory

The Flemish government is in pursuit of reaching their mobility and environment goals for 2040 and onwards. Therefore, the Flemish government sees building pipeline infrastructure as an option for transport of liquid bulk goods in the Antwerp – Ruhr trajectory. Pipeline transport is considered as an environmental friendly transport mode, which...

Improving the homogeneity of brachytherapy treatment plans generated by BRIGHT using a hotspot registration method based on connected component analysis

In this thesis BRIGHT, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for the creation of treatment plans for high-dose rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer, is extended with a new objective to mitigate the formation of high dose contiguous volumes, i.e. hotspots. Multiple new objectives are tested on their performance to reduce hotspots, while...

Improving Maintenance of Material Handling Systems: Matching a maintenance approach that explores the operational dynamics of the transportation industry at TNT Express

Due to automation and robotization of material handling systems (MHS) in the transportation industry, maintaining equipment and systems becomes more important, and needs to be integrated in the company’s business strategy (Tsang, 2002). Implementing and investing in the right maintenance approach to keep these systems in optimum state is...

Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs

Turbidity currents are major transport agents in reservoirs in which high concentrations of fine sediments flow in. Reservoir sedimentation due to turbidity currents is often severe in these cases. Turbidity currents are not well understood due to their complex turbulent flow structure, the interaction between the flow with the particles and the...

Footprint decomposition combined with point cloud segmentation for producing valid 3D models

For the creation of three-dimensional (3D) city models, extrusion of building footprints is widely applied. Extrusion results in block shaped buildings. The main problem with these 3D models is that they do not represent height differences within a building. This thesis presents a method to improve building footprints by subdivision into parts...

Today's Main City Squares: In North-Western Europe

The social-spatial and spatial-functional qualities of main squares in North-western Europe are being defined by a set of criteria. A design proposal shows how we can not only analyse, but also improve the situation with use of these criteria.