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- Deckers, Koen (author) master thesis 2022
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Smeets, Joost (author)Making decisions regarding delayed line haul transport is a very demanding and complex process in E-commerce distribution centres. Automating this process can decrease decision-maker discussion and assessment time and, as a result, allow decision-makers to spend more time on other demanding tasks like sorting and distributing. Automation in this...master thesis 2022
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Schoneveld, Martijn (author)Port performance is under pressure due to high congestion levels and a need to reduce GHG emissions. The industry is looking for ways to increase efficiency in ports. A promising concept is known as port call optimization where waiting times and turn-around times can be reduced. This research contributes to the body of port call optimization...master thesis 2022
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Baggers, Kevin (author)Maritime logistics is important for the international volume of trade. Ports are critical in cargo transhipment and provide services to vessels like traffic management, piloting, towage and mooring, which together are called the Nautical Chain since these services are dependent on each other. Due to the importance of maritime logistics, it is...master thesis 2022
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van Adrichem, Marijn (author)Despite the potential benefits regarding data-sharing in the container supply chain, stakeholders still can be skeptical towards data-collaboration. Due to conflicting goals and objectives of companies and the competitive nature of the<br/>industry, data-collaboration cannot be easily achieved. Previous research has little touched upon combining...master thesis 2022
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Beukema, Karel (author)Urban logistics is characterized by a high degree of freight flow fragmentation, the employment of various delivery methods, and the use of various vehicle capacities. Urban logistics is important for inhabitants' quality of life both in a negative and positive sense and plays a large economic role with significant...master thesis 2022
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Schot, Rick (author)Heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) are a significant contributor to global anthropogenic carbon emissions. In contrary to passenger cars, HDTs have to cope with decarbonization complications due to range and weight characteristics. Overhead catenary electric road systems (ERS-OC) can aid in decarbonizing this sector. Here, trucks are equipped with a...master thesis 2022
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- Snoeijenbos, Mateo (author) master thesis 2021
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Nassar, Raphael (author)Goods transportation is essential for economic development. In a highly globalised world, it is expected to become more important over the years. Inter-urban freight transport has a major role when it comes to resource consumption, pollution and climate change. Thus, its decarbonisation is one of the biggest challenges to be tackled nowadays....master thesis 2021
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van Zwieteren, Raymond (author)The past decade has seen a rise in ability to collect, store and manage large amounts of data. With data becoming increasingly available to businesses, organizations are looking to new ways to gain insight into their activities. Acquired information can help transportation companies to cope with industry trends of expanded competition, the...master thesis 2021
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Pronk, Erik (author)Urban areas are seeing influx of population and therefore are experiencing increasing stress on the systems currently in place. In traffic networks, a larger population means that their are inevitably a short term increase in mobility demands. To accommodate this, governments and and the private sector are proposing new solutions for mobility....master thesis 2020
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Meulblok, Vera (author)The efficiency of a logistic service provider's network can be improved by implementing a receiver-led consolidation policy. This policy means that shipments destined to the same location are consolidated in one truck. The literature states that by doing this the costs, CO2 emissions and number of vehicle movements can be reduced. However,...master thesis 2020
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van Alebeek, Sanne (author)Increased competitiveness with other transport systems and declining operation margins have motivated freight forwarders in the air cargo transport industry to look into horizontal collaboration. This thesis focuses on developing a fully integrated five phase auction based coopetition model, a form of horizontal collaboration where competition...master thesis 2020
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Genius Coca, Alba (author)With the current growth of e-commerce, couriers need to serve a bigger demand and it is often the case that receivers are not at the location when their parcel is delivered. The use of parcel lockers is seen as a good option for improving the problem of failed deliveries. However, implementing a parcel locker network has an impact on both...master thesis 2020
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Frima, Stijn (author)This thesis is about communication between the emergency services and the logistics sector by means of information technology (IT), during incidents with hazardous substances on the road. The Dutch emergency services need information to deal effectively with this kind of incidents. Some of this information is in the possession of logistics...master thesis 2020
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Helmer, Joyce (author)With the implementation of the “Zorgverzekeringswet” in 2006, the healthcare system has changed over the years from a supply-driven system to a more demand-driven system. Service for patients have become increasingly important for healthcare providers, for example hospitals. Due to this change, hospitals experience more pressure to find the...master thesis 2020
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van Eijkern, Adrien (author)Retailers must adapt their activity to comply with the evolving demands of their customers. Increasing demand on order-fulfilment services, along with determination to keep high service levels, have raised the problem of space scarcity at retailer stores to keep and process picked customer orders. Congestion is then experienced in store order...master thesis 2019
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van den Boogaard, Raquel (author)The ever increasing need of developing efficient solutions for the transport of cargo, able to reduce transport costs while complying to green policies has promoted the use of multimodal transport during the last decades. Multimodal<br/>transport consists of the use of at least two modes of transportation for the transport of cargo from origin...master thesis 2019
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Caminada, Sytze (author)Serious games have the potential to be used as an innovative data collection method. Combining this with Discrete Choice Modelling (DCM) could create a methodology that provides insight into the player's behaviour and allows for creating a realistic simulation. This innovative Game and Choice Based Simulation (GCBS) methodology has been...master thesis 2019
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Kang, Zhao (author)Ambient temperature has been identified as the most common reason for quality loss of most high value perishable goods. In actual operation, it is not cost-effective to cool perishable products in active and/or passive containers when their storage time in the warehouse is short. In order to o reduce the quality loss caused by the temperature,...master thesis 2019