Decentralized Method in Ride-sourcing Reposition Decision-making Process

Efficient repositioning strategies for idle vehicles in ride-sourcing systems help reduce passengers' waiting time and drivers' operational costs, which help platforms attract more passengers and drivers. In this paper, we propose a decentralized repositioning strategy for drivers, in which drivers make individual decisions on where they...

Exploring effective communication strategies to encourage the use of bicycle parkings

Cycling has gained popularity worldwide, but little is known about the choice behaviour of people searching for a bicycle parking spot in the city centre. Formal parking spaces provided in the city centre are currently often underutilised, whilst many people use fly parking, which causes nuisance. This thesis aims to identify the most effective...

Investigating different models that can be used to define the characteristics that influence customer behaviour in the online grocery sector

In the Netherlands, online groceries are becoming increasingly popular, as are the challenges grocery companies face in meeting customers' rising demand for smaller and cheaper time slots while maintaining thin profit margins due to a highly competitive market. Customer choice modelling will be used to identify customers' behaviour and control...

Electric Vehicle Pickup-and-Delivery Problem with Soft Time Windows, Partial Charging, and Uncertain Travel Time

Electric vehicles (EVs) take advantage of reducing fossil-based environmental pollution and developing a more sustainable logistics network. Compared with internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), EVs have new technical characteristics like limited battery capacity and long charging time at charging stations. With the diffusion of EVs,...

Fleet Design for Last-Mile OnDemand Logistics

The simultaneous rapidly increasing demand for home delivery of goods and on-demand expectancy of customers over the past years leaves a tough challenge for the logistical branch. They have to keep up with this increasing demand and simultaneously they are obliged to satisfy consumer service level demands to preserve their customers. On the...

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...