Joint modeling of land-use, transport and economy

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Molecular Simulations of Zeolites: Heterogeneous Systems at Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium

A Freight Transport Model for Integrated Network, Service, and Policy Design

“The goal of the European Transport Policy is to establish a sustainable transport system that meets society’s economic, social and environmental needs…” (ECE, 2009). This statement indicates the challenges that the European transport policy makers are faced with when facilitating an increasing freight transport demand with limited transport...

Mind the Gap: Bridging theories and practice for the organisation of metropolitan public transport

Public transport has to be succesfull to maintain mobility in todays dense urban areas. Many scientific disciplines make contributions on how to achieve that success, with diverse and sometime contradictory recommendations. The thesis shows how policy makers can use the existing recommendations to improve the overall performance of public...

A finite volume solver for the simulation of transport processes

The simulation of the tracer transport process is an increasingly important tool to predict the distribution of pollution released in coastal waters. The equation that governs the tracer transport is the advection-diffusion equation. Thanks to the tremendous developments in computer resources and in computing techniques, it has become possible...

Design of Low Drag Bluff Road Vehicles

Low drag bluff road vehicle design can be obtained effectively and efficiently with a three phase approach that uses numerical simulations, scaled wind tunnel experiments and full-scale road testing. By applying this generalised method, SideWings were developed for an improved trailer underbody flow and tails for the trailer's rear-end. A...

Transport Infrastructure Slot Allocation

In this thesis, transport infrastructure slot allocation has been studied, focusing on selection slot allocation, i.e. on longer-term slot allocation decisions determining the traffic patterns served by infrastructure bottlenecks, rather than timetable-related slot allocation problems. The allocation of infrastructure capacity among carriers is...

Mesoscopic transport in 2D materials and heterostructures

This thesis presents an experimental work on electronic transport in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals systems. The variety of the physics of the chapters reflects the exploratory character of the Ph.D. study and demonstrates the versatility and the unique properties of some of the members of the vast group of van der Waals materials. In the...

Transport Processes in Hydrating Cementitious Coating Systems

Concrete is currently the most widely used material in construction field. A good performance of concrete structures is required for reaching the designed service life. However, the initial scatter in the quality of concrete is unavoidable in practice, possibly resulting from improper design, poor execution, or deterioration due to stresses...

Electronic Properties of (Pseudo-) Two-Dimensional Materials

This thesis describes research into the interaction between electrons and various (pseudo) two-dimensional materials. This research is using two approaches: in Chapters 3 and 4 a low-energy electron microscope is used, and in Chapters 5 and 6 transport properties are studied. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of a two-dimensional material. First,...