Controlling Spillback Effects In Multimodal Real-time Controlled Traffic Systems

When traffic demand is high and the intersection lacks throughput, oversaturated traffic phenomena occur, such as the oversaturation of a turning bay or intersection link. When such unsafe situations emerge, control strategies can be applied to handle or avoid these spillback effects. In this paper, a spillback component is designed that detects...

Studying mode choice in multimodal networks including shared modes: A case study for the city of Rotterdam

Following the emergence of new mobility trends, in which shared mobility plays an essential role, Public transport operators face the challenge of reacting in a convenient way to the changes brought to the transportation scene. Even though different collaborations are being put in place between public operators and shared mobility providers, the...

Organisation of an Integrated Demand Responsive System: A Global Cross-Case Analysis

Integration of the demand responsive transport system (DRT) with the public transport system can provide an opportunity for the public transport authorities to guarantee accessibility in rural areas and address the first/last mile problem in rural areas. The literature on the institutional arrangement and organising DRT as a part of the public...

Evaluating Macroscopic DTA Models – For Who, When and How?

Over the past few decades, transport authorities globally have resorted to transport models for testing policy interventions and simulating the results as part of the ex-ante analysis. Within the domains of traffic assignment, there is a greater focus on the dynamic representation of traffic, which has proved to be more accurate when compared to...

Modelling access and egress mode choice for multi-modal trips: Case study : City of Amsterdam

Preferences of visitors of mass events towards travel information messages: Identifying visitor profiles using Latent Class Cluster Analysis

During the influx to mass events in the past, situations have regularly arisen that people experienced as unpleasant or even unsafe. Nowadays, many researchers focus on regulating this influx by influencing travel choices, where only little attention is paid to travellers’ preferences. This research identifies the preferences of different type...

Access/egress facilities at railway stations: An exploratory study on the future development of railway station areas

This research aimed to create knowledge and set guidelines for the (re)development of railway station areas regarding the required land use for access/egress facilities as a result of access/egress transportation developments. First, a literature review was conducted to gather knowledge for the foundation of this research. With the information,...

Adjusting train routing in case of planned infrastructure maintenance

In a busy railway network such as the Netherlands, more and more maintenance activities are needed to be performed. These planned activities often lead to an infeasible timetable since infrastructure is temporary unavailable for operations. A macroscopic network model can roughly adjust the timetable for a complete network, while a microscopic...

Estimating the Flow Capacity of Pedestrian Intersections at Railway Stations: A field study at Utrecht Centraal station

Understanding pedestrian traffic is essential to design for safe and reliable pedestrian infrastructures, facilities and operations. For the assessment and design of pedestrian transfer areas at stations capacity standards for uni- and bidirectional flows are applied. It has been observed that, at railway stations, also other configurations of...

Exploring the factors influencing the shared e-moped train combination

This studydives into factors influencing the shared e-moped usage in first- and last mile. Other studies show that the service area size, vehicle availability the shape of city and the temperature affect the shared e-moped usage. This study confirms the service catchment, temperature and vehicle availability factors. It adds to this that also...

Effect of behavioral and service attributes and distribution of demand on ride-sharing efficiency and level of service

Previous studies on ride-sharing potential have neglected that ride-sharing choice considers a trade-off of disbenefits with a financial reward. This study considers delays and psychological discomfort related to sharing a vehicle as the main ride-sharing costs. Next to finding how these (possibly heterogeneous) behavioral preferences and the...

Safety Margin Development for a Space-Time Reservation Traffic Control System: A Research considering the Hybrid Traffic Period

With the arrival of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) concepts for traffic control systems emerge that let CAVs weave over the crossing area of an intersection. However, in the current literature, the safety of these vehicles is generally an assumption rather than a certainty. Moreover, the time period where CAVs and Human-Driven Vehicles ...

Unleashing Suburban Shared Micromobility: A Comprehensive Framework with Guidelines for Implementing Suburban Shared (E-)Bike and Moped Services, the Netherlands

This research provides insight into the most effective approach for implementing shared micromobility services in towns and suburban communities, considering the preferences and requirements of key stakeholders, such as users, non-users, shared micromobility providers, public transport operators and municipalities or other government agencies....

Lateral steering behaviour of cyclists on narrow bidirectional bicycle paths

In the Netherlands, the bicycle is a popular means of transport. One of the benefits of cycling is improved health due to more physical activity. However, cycling also causes a health burden due to the many cycling accidents in the Netherlands. The share of single bicycle accidents, where no collision with another road user is involved, has...