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...

Unlocking the Potential of Public EV Charging: A machine learning approach for the prediction of individual public EV charging session flexibility

From explainability to trust: A conjoint analysis to explore governmental algorithm registers' positive and negative effects on citizens' trust in government decisions

Energy Efficiency and Energy Poverty in Dutch Households: How Housing-related Factors Determine the Residential Energy Consumption and Energy Affordability in the Netherlands

The residential energy consumption and energy affordability are crucial in policy design, with regard to energy efficiency and energy poverty. This has become even more relevant now, as the energy transition is taking off and the energy prices are soaring. Given the inequality in the energy consumption and energy affordability, it is therefore...

Impact of Variations in Patient and Beam Parameters on Proton Therapy using Pencil Beam Scanning technique

Pencil beam scanning is a technique used in the proton therapy. This technique makes use of a thin beam which can irradiate each spot at millimetre precision. It is a very promising technique, especially for more radiation sensitive areas, e.g. lung carcinogenesis, as it can spare more healthy surrounding tissue compared to conventional...

The moderating role of urbanity on travel distance: An exploratory study to the moderating effects of a density based urbanity variable on determinants of daily travel distance

Urban densification is one of the most relevant strategies to reduce the housing shortage in the Netherlands, as it also aims to prevent additional pressure on transportation networks and contributes to more sustainable travel. The effects of the built environment on travel behaviour have been studied extensively. To date, most studies focused...

Social movements' impact on policy making process for cycling

Nowadays cycling rates in most European cities are increasing, while many governments are looking for ways to integrate cycling into the daily lives of citizens not only as a leisure activity but also as an official means of transport. At the same time, a large part of the population itself aims to influence decision-makers and urban planners to...

Crowdshipping: The level of trust towards crowdshipping from the user’s perspective: A stated preference experiment

Thanks to growing online shopping, last mile logistics is becoming a more relevant problem for cities due to its negative impacts, such as congestion and environmental problems. In this research, one of the urban freight transport services aiming to tackle these externalities is analysed: crowdshipping. Crowdshipping is a service where the...

The Role of Disparity in Travel Behavior in the Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands

Covid-19 has disrupted social norms and economic stability across the world. As the virus disseminated across nations, researchers rushed to delineate the causes and the consequences of the spread of the virus. Early findings highlighted a concerning disproportionate impact of Covid-19 among ethnic minorities, which have been disproportionally...

Modelling adaptive behaviour to predict the effectiveness of contact-tracing apps integrated in risk mitigation strategies: How the Dutch government can achieve positive compliance with the CoronaMelder during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has outlined the creativeness of each country in the definition of the most appropriate public health management strategies to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ranging from total lockdowns to trusting in people’s common sense to act properly. Several non-pharmaceutical health interventions have nationally been...

Chinese shadow banking – Scale, Risk and Regulation

After the U.S. financial crisis in 2008, shadow banking business in China has shown rapid development. Shadow banking refer to credit intermediary involving financial entities and financial activities outside the traditional banking regulatory system. The shadow banking system in western countries represented by the United States is mainly based...

The willingness to pay of various types of bike parking-users at train stations for different types of facilities and stations

Bike-train usage contributes to more sustainable and also more reliable transport. Nowadays, approximately 45% of the train passengers in the Netherlands access the station by bike. Therewith, the focus of policy makers shifts to the total “door-to-door” travel experience. Bicycle usage is stimulated, and the facilities are adapted accordingly....

Representativity and inclusivity of Participatory Value Evaluation: A case study on relaxation of COVID-19 measures in the Netherlands

To be able to solve the increasingly complex problems, governments need to collaborate with various parties. This way of policy development is called interactive policy making. Citizen participation is a specific form of interactive policy making and focusses on involving citizens in the policy making process. A relatively new online...

Travel time perception of active mode users

Travel time is an integral part of all human activities. In transport planning, travel time is one of the most widely used and significant parameters in the design of transport systems. However, people's ability to estimate travel time and time, in general, is limited. The aim of this thesis is to broaden the knowledge on the perception of...

Identifying the Transit Needs of Socioeconomic Groups by Evaluating the Relationship between a Network's Supply and Demand: A Case Study of the City of Amsterdam

An inclusive and sustainable transport network allows people the opportunity to access their daily needs. When there is a discrepancy between someone’s transport needs and their supplied network, they are at the risk of experiencing transport poverty. This study looks to define the transport needs for clusters of neighbourhoods of different...

What motivates researchers to participate in citizen science projects?: A Q-methodological study to identify researchers latent perspectives

There have been huge investments being made in direction of citizen science projects to enhance the engagement between science and society. To achieve goals and for the success of citizen science projects, a crucial element is getting more researchers to participate in citizens science projects. Besides harmoniously sustaining the participation...

European Electricity Prices and the EU Emissions Trading System: Lessons from the UK Carbon Price Floor

Efficient regulation is required in order to reduce carbon emissions and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. The EU ETS is currently the most important regulatory instrument implemented for this purpose. Although the effects in terms of abatement are certain, the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) introduces uncertainty with regard to the...

Exploring how security and privacy affect IoT device purchase behaviour

Given the significant privacy and security risks of IoT devices, it seems desirable to nudge consumers towards buying more secure devices and taking privacy into account when purchasing these devices. In order to support this goal, this study has examined the effect of security and privacy on IoT device purchase behaviour and assessed whether...