Setting the Price for Carsharing: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Equitable Carsharing in the Car-free Neighbourhood of Merwede

Private cars are inefficient in terms of land allocation. Car-free neighbourhoods offer a solution to this inefficiency by enforcing less car-centric urban design, expensive parking fees, and prioritising more sustainable and space-efficient modes of transportation. Carsharing services emerge as an alternative to private car ownership by...

An integrated approach to implementing opportunity charging for electric buses: A case study of Rotterdam

The introduction of electric buses (EBs) is required in order to achieve global greenhouse emission goals. However, operating an electric bus fleet (EBF) requires careful consideration of both the mobility and energy systems in charging strategies. In literature and in real life many cases show careful consideration of only one of the systems...

Crowdshipping as a delivery solution for outlier parcels: A case study in The Hague

The increasing parcel demand is resulting in increasing traffic congestion and emission problems in urban freight system. Crowdshipping service is an innovative logistics solution which envisions using the excess capacity in existing passenger transport to perform the delivery tasks. However, it may bring extra vehicle kilometres travelled due...

Adding flexibility to the timetable in real-time railway traffic management

With the strong backing and advocacy from the EU for railway transport, it is crucial to focus on innovative and efficient technologies to maintain service quality. In daily train operations, traffic uncertainties lead to perturbations, which may result in two types of track conflicts: disturbances and disruptions.<br/><br/>In the current...

Parking Space Allocation Strategy Optimization during Planned Special Events

This project aims to relieve traffic pressure and enhance the parking experience for attendees during planned special events (PSEs). The objective is to develop an optimal strategy for efficiently allocating parking spaces during PSEs in parking lots.<br/><br/>PSEs, such as football games or large concerts, typically result in concentrated...

The effectiveness of alternative graph-based rail traffic rescheduling models versus infrastructure layouts and traffic patterns

The impact of delays and disturbances in railway traffic can be mitigated by advanced rail traffic rescheduling models (RTRMs) which make use of mathematical optimization models. In the past several researches have been carried out on the effectiveness of an RTRM in reducing delay and improving punctuality. However, in most of these researches...

Optimization of the Location and Capacity of Shared Multimodal Mobility Hubs to Maximize Social Welfare

Nowadays, urban areas are exposed to various challenges such as climate change, social inequalities, and congestion. Mobility hubs present the opportunity to reshape our cities and mitigate the previously mentioned problems by contributing to a more sustainable and equitable transport system. This thesis defines mobility hubs as places where...

Modelling Impacts of Mobility Hubs in Residential Areas

With the number of passenger cars increasing worldwide, shared modes are being introduced in addition to public transport and active modes to reduce private car usage. The concept of mobility hubs was introduced to improve the accessibility of the different available transport modes. At a mobility...

Departure time change to avoid crowd in trains: A stated choice experiment study in the Netherlands in a pandemic context

Crowding in trains during rush hour is known to cause discomfort. After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, crowding has also been highlighted as a risk factor for catching Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) such as COVID-19 which has affected the demand of public transport. Several countries, including the Netherlands, have differential fare...

Developing a methodology to determine the potential of areas for regional mobility hubs

As a solution to the high greenhouse gas emissions and declining quality of life caused by the private vehicle, the mobility hub is introduced. The mobility hub is a place where multiple modalities come together, including public transport and shared mobility. As the mobility hub is a relatively new innovation, limited research is available on...

Using stochastic and dynamic routing models to improve the performance of an e-grocer’s delivery service

E-grocers are grocery markets which offer their assortment online and deliver a customer's groceries at home. For an e-grocer the quality of their delivery service is a crucial asset to create and maintain a loyal customer-base. Because the online share of the grocery market has grown rapidly over the last decade, there is an urgent need for e...

Optimisation methods for the multi-period petrol station replenishment problem: A case study at AMCS

The petrol distribution problem is well-known in the literature as the Petrol Station Replenishment Problem (PSRP). This research concerns a "rich" version of the multi-period PSRP with real-life characteristics, to represent the complexity of the practical problem. The planning is optimised over multiple days, since stations do not need to be...

Modelling urban freight transport in the context of decarbonising transport in Europe: A case study of the Groot-Rijnmond urban area with possibilities for model transferability

Urban freight transport is a significant cause of CO2 emissions. This creates the need to implement CO2 mitigation measures for freight transport in cities. The International Transport Forum (ITF) is currently working on an EU-funded programme, the Decarbonising Transport initiative, to assess CO2 mitigation measures. However, there is no model...

Simulating smart charging optimization for electric vehicles: A quantification and statistical analysis of the cost reduction and emission reduction potential of an aggregated Dutch EV fleet

The objective of this research is to understand what smart charging can bring business and society at large. In close collaboration with the largest fleet operator in the world and a commercial aggregator, the impact of smart charging on both cost reduction and carbon reduction was simulated for an electric vehicle (EV) fleet in 2018. The...

Assignment of walking trips to pedestrian network in the context of the 4-steps travel demand model: A macro-scale approach of walking

In the transportation planning process, the Four Step Model (FSM) is used to define the needs and requirements of the transportation system within a city or a region. Despite its wide use, the model is focused on vehicular trips and fails to represent the demand of walking activity. The limited work that has been performed to address the...

The effect of a low minimum parking requirement in combination with carsharing on the use of carsharing and car ownership

In this paper, we study the effect of a low parking requirement in combination with dedicated carsharing at a residential building on car ownership and use of carsharing. This paper aims to develop a conceptual model to describe these effects. Comparable to customary theories in transport geography, this conceptual model includes socio...

A behavioral shipment-based model of freight tour formation

Tour formation is a distinguishing feature of freight transportation. An increasing amount of research is dedicated to the consideration of tour formation in freight simulation models, but these tour formation models lack statistical calibration on empirical data, do not represent shipments explicitly, or focus on a narrow segment of freight...

Transportation and spatial impact of automated driving in urban areas: An application to the Greater Copenhagen Area

Vehicle automation has the potential to disrupt the status quo of urban transportation, because it adds a new mode of transportation by taking away the task of the driver. The projections of estimations of the impacts of this new technology are based on many uncertainties and are thus largely unknown. A literature review showed that a wide...