Introducing sustainability in apparel parcel delivery: An analysis into consumer preferences for delivery choice factors and the impact on sustainable parcel delivery performance

The effects of improved road infrastructure on social factors in developing countries: A case study of Namibia

This research examined the effect of an improved road network on the factors economic growth, road safety, emissions, education, health, employment and tourism in developing countries. A case study is conducted on the country Namibia in Southern Africa. A System Dynamics (SD) model is developed to assess the effects of future scenarios in terms...

Travel Choices in Integrated Mobility Platforms

This research investigates the travel behavior of users of an integrated mobility platform. Passive revealed preference data is collected from a smartphone application for integrated mobility. This data, consisting of the choices in a multimodal journey planner, allows evaluating travel behavior in integrated environments with high ecological...

Weather Codes and Travel Behavior: Analysis of the Impacts ofWeather Codes on Travel Behavior of Road Users in the Netherlands

In this report an analysis is presented on the impacts of weather codes on travel behavior. Loop detector data of seven segments in different provinces in the Netherlands are analyzed with regression models with autoregressive errors. Weather codes were found to be significantly influencing travel demand. Particularly codes orange for...

Car: Book or buy: An explorative study towards the modelling of carsharing participation in the Dutch travel demand model (LMS)

Behavioural response to automated vehicles

Although fully-automated vehicles (FAVs) are not yet allowed on public roads and are barely present in people’s daily lives, according to experts their wide implementation will happen within the next few decades. The technology is expected to bring major benefits in terms of safety, traffic flow efficiency and environmental impact. Furthermore,...

Trade-off Analysis between Security and Efficiency of Airport Operations: A methodological underpinned modelling approach to identify, analyse and evaluate trade-offs based on empirical choice observations

This Master Thesis document presents a research on trade-off analysis between security and efficiency factors during airport operations. Over the past few decades there has been an increase in security in the air transportation industry, with even more measures taken since 9/11. Besides affecting the operational costs of airports, the stricter...

Understanding, evaluating, and improving maritime transit services of small islands of Indonesia: A Choice behaviour study

Citizen and consumer preferences for non-market environmental impacts of wind and solar energy farms

This thesis assesses the empirical differences between citizen and consumer preferences for (non-market) environmental impacts of government financed renewable energy farms, by designing citizen-based and consumer-based discrete choice experiments. The results indicate that to some extent citizens and consumers make different trade-offs between...