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Üzümcü, Ezgi (author)This study specifically examines the Ataturk Cultural Centre, AKM in Istanbul from 1956 until the present by focusing on the issue of reconstruction of the same building by the Tabanlıoğlu father-and-son generation. This examination explores how the design of the Ataturk Cultural Centre evolved from Hayati Tabanlıoğlu's initial concept to Murat...student report 2024
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Yoo, Sihyun (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Molin, E.J.E. (author)Air transportation is a mode of transport developed specifically to provide access to long-distance destinations that may otherwise be infeasible or at least more difficult to reach. Accordingly, there are distinct aspects of air travel that require consideration when assessing accessibility by air transportation, which are not addressed in...journal article 2024
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Liezenga, A. M. (author), Verma, T. (author), Mayaud, J. R. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)As cities grow, the benefits of living in them are increasingly unequally distributed. USA cities, in particular, have experienced rapid suburbanization of poverty and decreased levels of access to jobs for transit-dependent and vulnerable communities. The public transit challenges in suburbs call for innovative forms of transit to turn the...journal article 2024
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Spierenburg, L.J. (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author), van Oort, N. (author)Enabling cycling at the home side or at the activity side of transit trips has been recognized as a promising solution to address transit network discrepancies and enhance connectivity between residents and employment opportunities. However, this multimodal solution is conditional to bicycle parking and cycle lanes, and urban planners need...journal article 2024
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Ghorbani Moghadam, Rojin (author)This thesis explores the challenges faced by students with vision impairment in accessing visual educational content, with the goal of designing an inclusive tool to enhance their learning experience. Adopting a human-centered design approach backed with value-sensitive design, the research methodology combined qualitative and quantitative...master thesis 2023
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Kunkeler, Jasper (author)Temporary tram and bus stops can be seen as an overlooked structure in the city. While permanent stops are getting are improving greatly, temporary tram and bus stops are being left behind. Gemeente Amsterdam has the goal to make every stop in the municipality accessible to all users, including people with disabilities. This report explores a...master thesis 2023
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de La Vega Bayma de Oliveira, Luisa (author)Accessibility is a fundamental concept concerning urban and transport planning as it is the elementary basis for socio-economic development in cities. It can be described as the potential to reach spatially distributed opportunities. Recent research has identified that excluding person-based features from this analysis might cause inaccurate...master thesis 2023
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Schreuder, Julia (author)The housing shortage in the Netherlands has been a pressing issue, particularly affecting starters and middle-income households who struggle with high prices and limited access to affordable housing. In response, there have been interventions and policies aimed at stimulating starters to access the housing market, but the supply of adequate and...master thesis 2023
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Chen, Wen-Yu (author)Transport decision-making determines people’s level of accessibility and deeply influences an individual’s access to social and economic opportunities and the quality of life. Socially vulnerable populations are highly dependent on yet often more likely to have less access to transport services and experience lower accessibility. This creates...master thesis 2023
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Psyllidis, A. (author)Can planning and design influence health and well-being in urban settings? Even though it was the public health issues faced by industrial cities that originally gave rise to the field of city planning, their paths have diverged over the years.However, how human settlements are planned, designed, and built can drastically improve or harm human...book chapter 2023
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Teeuwen, R.F.L. (author), Psyllidis, A. (author)Accessible outdoor spaces for unsupervised play are important for children’s health. However, parents impose constraints based on their perception of safety, which can have a significant impact on which play spaces are actually accessible to children. Such constraints are not taken into account by widely adopted accessibility indicators that use...conference paper 2023
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Obungoloch, Johnes (author), Muhumuza, Ivan (author), Teeuwisse, Wouter (author), Harper, Joshua (author), Etoku, Ivan (author), Asiimwe, Robert (author), Tusiime, Patricia (author), Gombya, George (author), van Gijzen, M.B. (author)Purpose: To describe the construction and testing of a portable point-of-care low-field MRI system on site in Africa. Methods: All of the components to assemble a 50 mT Halbach magnet-based system, together with the necessary tools, were air-freighted from the Netherlands to Uganda. The construction steps included individual magnet sorting,...journal article 2023
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Durand, A.L.M. (author), Zijlstra, Toon (author), Hamersma, Marije (author), 't Hoen, Arjen (author), van Oort, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author), Hoogendoorn-Lanser, S. (author)As digitalisation is making its way into public transport (PT) services, policy approaches to ensure that such services remain inclusive are at best fragmented, at worst inexistant. This study pieces together existing initiatives and lessons learnt in the transport sector itself, and takes inspiration from other fields with a more mature...journal article 2023
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Aydin, N.Y. (author), Yigitbasi, Emre (author), Casali, Y. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)Rapid urbanization has posed challenges to accessibility to critical services that require in-depth analysis. Complex networks theory has been used to evaluate the evolution of network topologies or the overall accessibility of transportation systems. However, topological metrics to explain the temporal changes in accessibility levels do not...journal article 2023
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van Wee, G.P. (author), de Jong, Tom (author)This paper explores to what extent inequalities in travel times, measured via the Gini index, depend on the spatial scale at which (average) travel times are measured. By using the new concept of Dedicated Accessibility Points, for the Netherlands we calculated average travel times at four spatial levels, ranging from virtually individual...journal article 2023
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Perera, Sara (author), Massobrio, R.M. (author)Public transport plays a key role in expanding the distances that people can travel using active modes of transport. Studying walking accessibility to public transportation systems is highly relevant, since the walk to stops/stations can be particularly challenging for children, the elderly, citizens with disabilities, and for the general...conference paper 2023
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Van Luven, Monica (author)The provision of good accessibility is the main function of a well-functioning public transport (PT) system, the quality of which affects the ability of people to access basic needs such as employment, education, and healthcare. It is therefore important that PT accessibility is distributed in an equitable, or fair, manner. This thesis evaluates...master thesis 2022
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Boyuklieva, Alina (author)In the recent years, many older buildings are being transformed into more sustainable zero-energy housing. However, next to its advantages, there are many challenges that still have to be tackled. One of the main ones is the mismatch between residents’ expectations and systems’ functioning. This report analyses the specific case of a demo...master thesis 2022
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De Lacerda Arpini, Ettore (author)As the urban population grows worldwide and cities are becoming increasingly unequal and segregated, Urban Commons emerge as a potential driver of inclusion and resilience for city dwellers. According to Feinberg et al. (2021), Urban Commons can promote social, environmental, and economic resilience, and Park et al. (2020) suggest they can act...master thesis 2022
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Yiğitbaşi, Emre (author)Urban areas are evolving in terms of their growing population and their developing systems and infrastructure. This evolution brings about concerns regarding social equity, which refers to the fairness of distribution of certain attributes to groups or individuals. Transport equity is one of the dimensions of this issue, and accessibility...master thesis 2022