Urban Livability Research and a Pollution Emission Case Study in Delft

At present, many studies have begun to focus on evaluating urban accessibility and livability, which can be a series of great guidance for future urban planning considering residents’ personal perceptions of various living aspects. It can be observed from the existing literature that urban accessibility has a mature evaluation system,...

Land Use Impacts of Shared Micromobility Services

Nowadays, limited bike parking spaces have been a severe problem to be solved in the Netherlands. Shared bikes are considered ideal solutions, as well as other emerging shared micromobility modes, e.g., shared e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds, since they can help utilise vehicles better and alleviate more occupying land space. Moreover, shared...

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...

Truck Arrival Shift Policy for Port-Hinterland Alignment at the port of Rotterdam: Design, Modelling, and Simulation Approach

This thesis proposes a truck arrival shift (TAS) policy to control truck arrivals at seaport terminals. The aim is to reduce congestion at terminal gates which is caused by a lack of port-hinterland alignment. We proposed, developed, and applied a modeling framework to assesses the impact of the TAS policy for the use case of the Port of...

Infrastructure Requirements for Automated Driving

In the past few years, the research and development of automated driving have made significant leaps in bringing theory into reality. Forecasts suggest that highly automated vehicles (SAE Level 4) may be on the streets and highways within the next decade. However, current road infrastructure is designed for human drivers, and may not be able to...

Value of Travel Time Changes as a Result of Vehicle Automation: A case-study in the Netherlands

MSc thesis of the faculties: Civil Engineering & Geosciences (CiTG) and Technology, Policy and Management (TBM)

Online Anticipatory Network Management: The dynamic steering of route choice behaviour with traffic control and traffic information

In order to improve the usage efficiency of the road network, this research investigates and proposes an approach for a traffic management solution called Online Anticipatory Network Management. The proposed traffic management solution aims to redistribute traffic flows and to increase network performance by determining and applying traffic...

Social desirability and mobility impacts of early forms of automated vehicles

Double degree thesis: Part A: Civil Engineering Part B: Science Communication The first forms of automated vehicles (level 1 and 2) are already available at dealers, and next levels are being developed at this moment (level 3 and up). Literature indicates two development paths for automated vehicles: an autonomous and a cooperative path....

Social desirability and mobility impacts of early forms of automated vehicles

Double degree thesis: Part A: Civil Engineering Part B: Science Communication The first forms of automated vehicles (level 1 and 2) are already available at dealers, and next levels are being developed at this moment (level 3 and up). Literature indicates two development paths for automated vehicles: an autonomous and a cooperative path....

Travel Time Reliability and Quality Assessment of a Route Set through Route Aggregation

Conventional travel time reliability assessment focuses either on reliability on route level or the determination of the valuation of reliability in route choice. However, a connection between origin and destination usually consists of multiple routes, thereby providing the option to choose. This study assesses the reliability and quality of the...

Forecasting door-to-door travel time variability caused by incidents

Reliability of travel times is an important indicator of the performance of a traffic system. The congestion caused by incidents is an important cause of the unreliability of travel times. Travel time reliability should be incorporated in social cost benefit analyses for infrastructure investments. With an accurate forecast of travel time...

Modelling car driver informing and route choice under uncertainty about DRIP travel times

Travel and traffic information play an important role in traveller behaviour and traffic flows. Travellers have the possibility to use information on current and future traffic situations to make their travel decisions. Travel decisions by individual travellers subsequently influence the performance of a total traffic system. This makes...