Het meten en schatten van de prestaties van een stedelijk wegennetwerk: Toepassing op Den Haag

Met de ontwikkelde datafusiemethode, die snelheden met gewogen intensiteiten fuseert, is het mogelijk om in plaats van Fundamentele Diagrammen op snelwegen en Macroscopisch Fundamentele Diagrammen voor hele netwerken, ook op traject gebaseerde Macroscopisch Fundamentele Diagrammen door complex stedelijk gebied te verkrijgen. Met een traject...

Crowd management in train and metro stations: Proposing a framework to select and assess effective crowd management measures

Public transportation ridership has grown significantly over the past decades and this growth is expected to continue into the future. Crowding at train and metro stations is therefore experienced more frequently, resulting in safety issues, decreased comfort levels, increased total travel times and modality shifts. On the long term large...

Traffic management at large-scale events: Design and evaluation of a controller providing route and departure time advice to individual visitors

At large-scale events, the large inflow of visitors travelling by car often causes queues on the roads in the direct surroundings of the event. These queues can spill back to the main road network, where through traffic is driving as well: this through traffic will be hindered by the congestion, while those travellers don’t have the event venue...

Car-Following Model using Machine Learning Techniques: Approach at Urban Signalized Intersections with Traffic Radar Detection

This master thesis aims to gain new empirical insights into longitudinal driving behavior by means of the enumeration of a new hybrid car-following (CF) model which combines parametric and non parametric formulation. On one hand, the model, which predicts the drivers acceleration given a set of variables, benefits from innovative machine...

The contribution to 3kV traction power supply system on railway capacity in the Netherlands

The current 1.5kV railway traction power supply system is reaching its limits in the Netherlands and therefore, ProRail is investigating the replacement of this system by the 3kV railway traction power supply system. This study will investigate how effective the 3kV traction power supply system can increase the capacity of the rail...

Pedestrians and bicyclists' collision avoidance behaviour in shared spaces

Combination of speed adjustment and holding control strategy for a regularity-based transit operation: A case study of Almere, the Netherlands

As the population grows, the need for mobility has been growing in recent years. In the case of urban mobility, this trend is subsequently followed by the existence of high-frequency bus transit service since last decades. This service is more prone to the bus-bunching problem since the headway between the consecutive buses can be very short,...

Exploring alternative public transport in rural areas: What are the preferences of bus users in rural areas of the Netherlands for a demand responsive transport service and a multimodal alternative that combines express bus and bike-sharing?

The aim of this thesis was to find the preferences of bus users in rural areas of the Netherlands for alternative public transport. Two alternatives for bus were proposed: a demand responsive transport service and a multi-modal alternative that combined express bus with bike-sharing services for last mile transport. A stated choice survey was...

Impacts of 4th generation bike-sharing: Case study city of Delft

The 4th generation of bike-sharing, also known as dockless- and free-floating bike-sharing is a new type of bike-sharing system. It allows users to start and end their rentals anywhere in the service area. In the spring of 2018 Mobike started their services in the city of Delft. This research is set up around data collected in Delft about the...

Bus preference and usage amongst elderly in urban areas of The Netherlands

The population of The Netherlands is ageing. It is important to offer suitable transportation options for the elderly to keep them participating in social activities to prevent lonelines. This research investigated the preferences and usage of bus services of elderly in urban areas in The Netherlands and the corresponding heterogeneity. 256...

Short Term Delay Prediction in Passenger Railways: Using Machine Learning; Applied in the Dutch Rail Network

We test the effect of a variety of feature sets representing passenger volumes, weather conditions and train interactions, when defined as features and used in a gradient boosting model to predict passenger train delays 20 minutes to the future from the last registration point. Effects of the features and their combinations on the prediction...

Sensing share space using Stereo Vision

With the increasing popularity of active modes (mainly pedestrians and bicycles), the spaces shared amongst these modes are also rising. Such spaces are often referred to as shared spaces and can often be seen in public areas near train stations, shopping streets and educational institutions. Such spaces are said to enhance safety and resolve...

A Systematic Methodology to Study Driving Adaptation Effects under Flooding Conditions

Flooding events not only cause physical damage to the road infrastructure and roadside systems, yet they potentially lead to significant traffic disruptions over the network which have a large impact on the sustainability of urban cities. According to several climate change scenarios, flooding events as a result of intense precipitation are...

Framework for Determining Impacts of Malfunctioning of DTM Systems on Traffic Flow: Development and A Case Study for the Amsterdam Region

Dynamic traffic management (DTM) plays an important role from Dutch policy perspective to prevent road congestion and has been developed from control strategies to services. Five traffic control centers, 22 different DTM systems with 35 functions and over 50,000 DTM components make up the national traffic management network in the Netherlands....

Ramp metering: a microscopic control approach: A case study in the Netherlands

In order to reduce congestion numbers on the highways, ramp metering can be used. The currently existing ramp metering control strategies are of a macroscopic nature. This means that the average occupancy on the main lane or average flow values on the main lane determine the temporarily fixed cycle times for the traffic light located near the on...