Modeling aircraft performance parameters with open ADS-B data

Open access to flight data from ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) has provided researchers more insights for air traffic management than aircraft tracking alone. With large quantities of trajectory data collected from a wide range of different aircraft types, it is possible to extract accurate aircraft performance parameters....

Technical Note on Simulated Megaconstellation Ephemerides Dataset

This technical note accompanies a dataset providing the time-varying positions of 1584 satellites in a simulated megaconstellation modelled on Phase 1 of SpaceX’s Starlink. This note explains the context, creation, format, and potential uses of the dataset. The code used to create these data is publicly available.

Smart mobility in smart cities: seamless integration of networks and sevices (PPT)

The Dutch Urban Ground Lease: In a nutshell & the Amsterdam case

Once heralded by both liberals and socialists as a tool for Dutch municipal governments to prevent land speculation and to implement spatial policies, a century later the Dutch ground lease (erfpacht) is now despised by many. The ground lease, especially the urban ground lease used by Dutch municipalities, was the subject of strong debate in the...

Een groenere en meer circulaire industrie?: Revisie van de richtlijn industriële emissies: De finish is in zicht

Op 12 maart 2024 heeft het Europees Parlement een tekst aangenomen tot revisie van de Richtlijn industriële emissies (RIE).[1] In dit korte blog signaleren wij belangrijke veranderingen ten opzichte van de huidige RIE ten aanzien van 1) het toepassingsgebied, 2) scherpere en effectievere vergunningverlening, 3) transitie naar een groenere...

From the Editor’s Desk

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a wonderful place to work. I had the good fortune to be a Research Fellow there from 2010 to 2016 where I used my time to finalise and write up the research for a monograph (based on my PhD thesis, which I defended in TU Delft in 2009). The book, The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing...

Qualitative Analysis of Online News Media Articles to Explore the Mobilization of Megaproject Narratives

Megaprojects combine multiple external stakeholders, and a common narrative is essential to drive the project among often conflicting objectives. The research project considers the single in-depth qualitative case study of the High Speed Two (HS2) megaproject in the UK to explore how narratives are mobilized through narrative instruments and...

Using Innovation Stories From Digital Platforms to Explore What Motivates Innovation

The objective of this research study was to investigate the role of narratives in shaping multiple innovations in the UK construction industry. A total of 133 innovation stories published in a year are compiled from a digital portal Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P). The stories are qualitatively analyzed using open coding,...