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Wu, F. (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)Bioenergy is currently a major renewable energy source in Europe but faces an unclear future because of conflicting modelling results and the lack of long-term policy. This paper identifies three challenges and potential opportunities by analysing bioenergy's historical national deployment, current policy support, and possible future roles in...review 2023
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Hein, C.M. (author), van Mil, Yvonne (author), Momirski, Lucija Ažman (author)The Atlas was created within the LDE PortCityFutures research group and the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. It is part of the series on the Urbanization of the Sea, and the kick-off of a sub-series on Mapping Port Cities<br/>> An analytical study on the complexity of port cities in Europe<br/><br/>A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s...book 2023
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Jamaer, S. (author), Allaerts, D.J.N. (author), Meyers, J. (author), Van Lipzig, N. P.M. (author)Vertical temperature profiles influence the wind power generation of large offshore wind farms through stability-dependent effects such as blockage and gravity waves. However, numerical tools that are used to model these effects are often computationally too expensive to cover the large variety of atmospheric states occurring over time....journal article 2023
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Angelini, Franco (author), Angelini, Pierangela (author), Angiolini, Claudia (author), Bagella, Simonetta (author), Caccianiga, Marco (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Gigante, Daniela (author), Hutter, Marco (author), Nanayakkara, Thrishantha (author)In this paper, we first discuss the challenges related to habitat monitoring and review possible robotic solutions. Then, we propose a framework to perform terrestrial habitat monitoring exploiting the mobility of legged robotic systems. The idea is to provide the robot with the Natural Intelligence introduced as the combination of the...journal article 2023
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Spoormans, L.G.K. (author)Housing developments in the Netherlands have been influenced by national and local policies regarding spatial planning, building regulations, tax regulations and subsidy programs. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ‘Woningwet’ [Housing Act, 1901] kick-started Dutch policies on housing. This act aimed to put an end to unhealthy housing...book chapter 2023
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Spoormans, L.G.K. (author)The suburban low-rise neighbourhood is the ‘ideal’ of the Dutch middle class. After WWII, a series of planning concepts were implemented on a national level: post-war expansion districts (1945-1965), Groeikernen (1965-1985), and Vinex districts (1995-2005). Middle-class families of successive generations moved into these (once) new...book chapter 2023
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Akkar Ercan, Müge (author), Pottgiesser, U. (author)MCMH has been generally underestimated in urban and architectural studies, and there is still a lack of comparative analysis and global perspectives. From 2019 to today, the COST Action Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe (MCMH-EU) has created a transnational network among researchers conducting studies on MCMH sites in Europe since the 1950s....book chapter 2023
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Stojilovska, Ana (author), Dokupilová, Dušana (author), Gouveia, João Pedro (author), Bajomi, Anna Zsófia (author), Tirado-Herrero, Sergio (author), Feldmár, Nóra (author), Kyprianou, Ioanna (author), Feenstra, M.H. (author)Fuelwood has been overlooked by European energy transition policies, despite its importance as a domestic energy source for many European households. We study fuelwood use for coping with energy poverty based on the lived experience of energy-vulnerable households in five diverse European countries (Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Chunbo (author), Hu, Mingming (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Sprecher, B. (author), Yang, Xining (author), Tukker, Arnold (author)The construction sector is the biggest driver of resource consumption and waste generation in Europe. The European Union (EU) is making efforts to move from its traditional linear resource and waste management system in the construction sector to a level of high circularity. Based on the theory of circular economy, a new paradigm called waste...review 2022
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Witlox, Frank (author), Zwanikken, Tim (author), Jehee, Linde (author), Donners, Barth (author), Veeneman, Wijnand (author)For Europe's urban agglomerations to be economically competitive, it is vital that international destinations be easily accessible. Although much has been invested in the construction of European rail infrastructure over the past century, passenger transport by rail has not grown as fast as transport by road and air. So why do people not use...journal article 2022
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Verhoeven, Vincent B. (author), Dedoussi, I.C. (author)Land cover plays an important role in the Earth's climate as it affects multiple biochemical cycles and is critical for food security and biodiversity. As land cover is continuously evolving, influenced by anthropogenic and other factors, the availability of temporally varying land cover data sets of large spatial domains is integral to...journal article 2022
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Dutta, Shamak (author), Wilde, N. (author), Smith, Stephen L. (author)In this paper, we consider a subset selection problem in a spatial field where we seek to find a set of k locations whose observations provide the best estimate of the field value at a finite set of prediction locations. The measurements can be taken at any location in the continuous field, and the covariance between the field values at...conference paper 2022
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Mühlemann, Dirk (author), Folini, Doris (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author), Wild, Martin (author), Wohland, Jan (author)Renewable generation variability over multiple days is a key challenge in decarbonizing the European power system. Weather regimes are one way to quantify this variability, but so far, their applications to energy research have focused on wind power generation in winter. However, the projected growth of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity implies...journal article 2022
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Hagenzieker, Marjan (author), Boersma, A.M. (author), Nuñez Velasco, J.P. (author), Ozturker, M. (author), Zubin, I. (author), Heikoop, D.D. (author)Automated bus systems are a promising means of future first- and last mile public transport solutions, and can even possibly become a regular part of the public transport network. Therefore, many projects appear throughout Europe to pilot the feasibility of automated bus system implementation on various locations. Keeping up with the rapidly...report 2021
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Simon, K.M. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Vermeersen, L.L.A. (author)In this study, we focus on improved constraint of the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) signal at present-day, and its role as a contributor to present-day sea level budgets. The main study area extends from the coastal regions of northwestern Europe to northern Europe. Both Holocene relative sea level (RSL) data as well as vertical land...journal article 2021
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Hagenzieker, Marjan (author), Boersma, A.M. (author), Nuñez Velasco, J.P. (author), Ozturker, M. (author), Zubin, I. (author), Heikoop, D.D. (author)Automated bus systems are a promising means of future first- and last mile public transport solutions, and can even possibly become a regular part of the public transport network. Therefore, many projects appear throughout Europe to pilot the feasibility of automated bus system implementation on various locations. Keeping up with the rapidly...report 2021
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Pratelli, A. (author), van Duin, Ron (author), Souleyrette, R. (author), Bianchini, B. (author), Marigo, D. (author), Brocchini, L. (author), Teng, W. (author)The modern distribution of goods is highly complex, as it supports a closely linked globalized world. In the development of port terminals, competition is no longer only at the level of services. The increase in maritime transport and demand/supply in the hinterlands, with ensuing problems of capacity, distribution and movement, have called for...journal article 2021
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Schepers, Paul (author), Helbich, Marco (author), Hagenzieker, Marjan (author), de Geus, Bas (author), Dozza, Marco (author), Agerholm, Niels (author), Niska, Anna (author), Airaksinen, Noora (author), Papon, Francis (author)High pre-World-War-2 modal shares of cycling in European countries sharply decreased during the post-war decades. In the 1990s, European governments introduced policies to increase bicycle use. However, a database or longitudinal study on the development of bicycle use in European countries is lacking. The goal of this paper is to examine to...journal article 2021
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Bal, Frans (author), Vleugel, J (author)Many countries have enhanced their air quality agenda (NOx, PMx etc.) by a climate change agenda (CO2 etc.). A direct way to lower these emissions is by using less energy (fuel) per activity. One of these activities is freight transport. Transport from supplier to factory relies on efficient and cost-effective means of transport. Road...journal article 2021
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Tammaru, T. (author), Sinitsyna, Anastasia (author), Akhavizadegan, Alireza (author), van Ham, M. (author), Marcińczak, Szymon (author), Musterd, Sako (author)Based on extensive research with distinguished scholars within the book project ‘Socioeconomic Segregation in European Capital Cities’, this chapter summarizes the key trends in income inequality and socioeconomic segregation in Europe. We draw our data from the two last census rounds, and we focus on the most common indicators of income...book chapter 2021