The Effect of Network Structure and Signal Settings on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram

Recently it has been proposed that the performance of a complete network can be represented graphically using only aggregated data for flow and density. The resulting graph is the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), which relates the average flow (performance) to the number of vehicles in the network (accumulation). The resulting shape is...

Congestion pricing schemes controlled by the gMFD: A comprehensive design and appraisal to bridge the engineering and economic perspective

Charging drivers for the congestion they cause is a well-known concept among economists, traffic engineers and transport professionals. Many studies have been performed to explore and better address this issue during the history of transport economics and in recent years the first congestion pricing schemes have been finally implemented in some...

Design of a subnetwork controller based on MFD's and perimeter flows.

The traffic state of a road network can be described by a so called macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD). The average production is related to the accumulation of a specific road network in this diagram. Studies have shown that the MFD could be used in an evaluation based method of a certain road network. A promising application field of the...

Het meten en schatten van de prestaties van een stedelijk wegennetwerk: Toepassing op Den Haag

Met de ontwikkelde datafusiemethode, die snelheden met gewogen intensiteiten fuseert, is het mogelijk om in plaats van Fundamentele Diagrammen op snelwegen en Macroscopisch Fundamentele Diagrammen voor hele netwerken, ook op traject gebaseerde Macroscopisch Fundamentele Diagrammen door complex stedelijk gebied te verkrijgen. Met een traject...

Modular Platform: Towards a Product Family for a Series of Navy Support Vessels

This thesis is about the identification of an optimal modular platform-based product development design process for a series of support vessels of the Royal Netherlands Navy, viewed from a Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding perspective. Because of increasing competition in the global shipbuilding market, the demand for ships with higher quality,...