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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
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de Vries, Maaike (author)In 2015, the UN climate agreement was signed by the Netherlands, which has the central aim to “strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius” (UNFCCC, 2018)....master thesis 2019
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Gan, Zhirun (author)With the development of market globalization, the demand for an efficient and safe nautical chain in the deep-sea port increases. The complexity of nautical service network boosts the request from port authority to ask for a state-of-the-art simulation model that can improve the performance of nautical chain in the port level. The research aims...master thesis 2019
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ter Laag, Maya (author)Urban freight transport is a significant cause of CO2 emissions. This creates the need to implement CO2 mitigation measures for freight transport in cities. The International Transport Forum (ITF) is currently working on an EU-funded programme, the Decarbonising Transport initiative, to assess CO2 mitigation measures. However, there is no model...master thesis 2019
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Hilverda, Ingmar (author)Local emission of especially particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) are haz- ardous for people living in close proximity. The municipality of Rotterdam can not yet comply with national regulation regarding N Ox and the current levels of N Ox pose a health risk for society (Gemeente Rotterdam). The Port of Rotterdam and local government...master thesis 2019
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Grace Priskila Kastanya, Grace (author)Last-mile delivery for shipments in the B2B (business-to-business) market make use of two types of last-mile delivery mode, van and truck, as the number of shipments per consignee is various in size, weight, and volume. A parcel classification task exists to make an optimum classification of the parcel, toward which last-mile delivery mode. The...master thesis 2019
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Martinez De Ubago Alvarez De Sotomayor, Manuel (author)The Physical Internet (PI) is a novel vision that aims to reshape and improve efficiency of transport and logistics. A game-changing vision is expected to have a profound effect on all actors involved in freight transport systems. However, the concept is still in early stages, and the study of the PI in the context of maritime ports has remained...master thesis 2019
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Zamorano de Blas, Ruben (author)Global population is expected to keep growing in the coming decades. The United Nations claims that food production will need to increase by 70% due to the growth of population. It will be challenging to increase food production to those levels if the amount of food losses in the supply chain of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies is not...master thesis 2019
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Indriana, Ingrid Rosalyn (author)Due to its archipelagic nature, Indonesia enforces to make substantial investments in its maritime sector, especially port infrastructure, in order to promote trade, economic growth, and ease disparity among Indonesia’s island regions. The challenge, of course, is that Indonesia has many ports to invest in and a limited budget; it must...master thesis 2019
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Satrio Wicaksono, Satrio (author)Crowdshipping has emerged as an avenue to provide sustainable option for the<br/>future of urban package delivery. The main challenge in crowdshipping realm is to maintain sustainable network of customers (demand) and couriers (supply). To help resolving the challenge, this research offers a comprehensive approach to examine market potential of...master thesis 2018
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Uswatun Hasanah, Uswatun (author)Intermodal Inland Waterways Transportation (IIWT) has been the first alternative to reduce the dependency on road transportation in the Netherlands. However, with the growth of freight shipping demand, several problems have been faced by IIWT: small size barge’s congestion and insufficiency of inland terminal handling’s capacity. The idea to...master thesis 2018
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