Alternative Fuels for Short Sea Shipping in Europe: An agent-based study to explore future scenarios

Increasing ship emissions are of big concern because they contribute to the effects of climate change and have an impact on the local and regional environment. Due to these concerns, stricter regulations are enforced upon the shipping sector by the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union. However, since new regulations are...

Evaluating Multi-Disease Interventions

Policymakers who work in the public health sector may rely on the help of quantitative models to support their choice of control strategy against a particular infectious disease. While policymakers have a large number of decision support models to choose from, hardly any of these tools are used to design an intervention strategy that can work...

Uncertainty Analysis on Multi-model Ecologies: A Study on Methods to Analyse the Impact of Uncertainties in Multi-model Ecologies and their Application to the Windmaster Model

Our contemporary society consists of increasingly complex systems-of-systems in which technical and social subsystems influence each other. Multi-models reflect this complexity and are useful to analyse these complex socio-technical systems. They consist of connected simulation models which may each have their focus on a subsystem or modelling...

Quantifying the environmental impacts due to resource consumption in cities: Case study of the Hague

In the past few decades, we have witnessed unprecedented impacts of climate change. The increase in Green house gas emissions due to human activities has disastrous implications for earth including an increase in global mean temperatures, rise in sea level and melting of polar ice caps. Climate change has<br/>impacted all forms of human life on...

The Energy Transition in the Built Environment: Modelling and Visualising Sustainable Urban Development

EPA: Multi-Modelling for Complex Challenges With the acknowledgement of international grand challenges, the demand for better and ever more complex models is likely to increase a manifold. Where single models may no longer be able to grasp the complexities of a system, multi-modelling (Nikolic, Warnier, et al., 2019;...

Accessible Data Mining for Agent-Based Simulation Models

Agent-based simulation models are rising in popularity recently due to their ability to model real-world problems in a wide range of domains. Inherent to these types of simulations is the fact that an enormous amount of data can be generated, which needs to be analysed in order to make the simulation useful. At the moment, the available tools to...

Governance Relevant Insights on Harvesting in the Mesopelagic Zone

With the population growing and countries becoming more affluent, diets shift. These global dietary shifts contribute greatly to increasing greenhouse gas emissions because of their higher carbon and water intensities. This development is problematic considering both the growth in our global economy as well as our population. It is therefore...

Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality: Polynomial Chaos for Exploratory Modelling

In light of worsening climate change and an increased interest in adapting infrastructure to cope with its effects, model-based decision support has become an essential tool for policy makers. In conditions of deep uncertainty, models may be used to explore a large space of possible system behaviours and so encourage a wider consideration of the...

Simulating Bidding Behaviour on Offshore Wind Farm Tenders

Over the past decade, renewable power generation through wind power has increased significantly. Especially the installation of offshore wind energy is expected to skyrocket to a total of 2000 GW by 2050. The majority of rights to develop and operate offshore wind farms are allocated through tendering procedures.<br/>In tender procedures,...

Multi-modelling for the energy transition: Exploring coupling-based issues in multi-resolution energy multi-models

The Dutch government described its vision to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse emissions in the climate goals of 2030 and 2050. The energy infrastructure in the Netherlands will be a critical factor in achieving these goals. As an extension to the stated importance, understanding the current energy infrastructure is equally...

Ripple Effects of Law Execution Automation in Governmental Systems: The Wajong Case

The use of Automated Decision Making (ADM) systems in the public sector will become increasingly prevalent in the future, making citizens increasingly likely to be confronted with decisions that have been made fully automatically, without human intervention. Ever more digitization increases the opaqueness of the social benefits system in the...

'Underwater' Real Estate: Exploring housing market dynamics under severe flooding in Rotterdam

Climate change will lead to more extreme climate and weather phenomena, and this includes the increased risk and severity of flooding. Flooding is one of the most destructive and common natural hazards globally, and rising sea levels and extreme precipitation mean that many human settlements will be situated in climate-sensitive areas. <br/><br/...

The Internet of Vehicles From a Socio-Technical Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Next-Generation Vehicular Communication Network

Yearly, 20.000 fatalities are recorded in road accidents on European roads alone. This situation is far more severe (1.3 million humans) when the global scope of road accidents is considered. Thus, Policymakers are initiating policy programs to overcome this challenge by enhancing safety and maximizing the associated positive economic impact....

CCS: A Framework for Development: A Policy and Project-oriented Framework for the Evaluation of Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Projects; a Case Study Approach

As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) emerges as a crucial solution, especially for decarbonizing dominant industries such as steel, cement, and petrochemicals. The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have highlighted the...

Water sector in the face of a societal collapse: How a societal collapse can cause cascading failures and challenge the provision of drinking water

This research examines the resilience of the water sector after a societal collapse, defined by a significant loss of societal complexity. Through Exploratory Modeling and Analysis, this research evaluates how interconnected infrastructures respond to cascading failures caused by disruptions resulting from a societal collapse. The investigation...