Accessibility and ICT: A review of literature, a conceptual model and a research agenda

Over the past two decades many papers are published in the area of ICTs impact on travel behaviour. Literature focusing on the impacts of ICT on accessibility is relatively scarce. In this paper we give an overview of impacts of ICT on four components of accessibility as distinguished by Geurs and Van Wee (2004): (1) the land-use component, (2)...

Reengineering the learming process in a transport company

Swift changes in the regulations and the organization of the transport sector make innovation an absolute necessity. A company’s ability to cope with these changes depends largely on the learning capacity of the organization. Therefore in the transport case described in this paper the company decided that reengineering of the learning strategy...

The Extended Generalized Cost Concept and its Application in Freight Transport and General Equilibrium Modeling

The integration of Spatial Equilibrium models and Freight transport network models is important to produce consistent scenarios for future freight transport demand. At various spatial scales, we see the changes in production, trade, logistics networking and transportation, being driven by mass-individualization and changes in factor costs. In...

Mind the Gap: Bridging theories and practice for the organisation of metropolitan public transport

Public transport has to be succesfull to maintain mobility in todays dense urban areas. Many scientific disciplines make contributions on how to achieve that success, with diverse and sometime contradictory recommendations. The thesis shows how policy makers can use the existing recommendations to improve the overall performance of public...

Self-selection: A key to a better understanding of location choices, travel behavior, and transport externalities?

In the last decade the importance of attitude-related residential self-selection has frequently been recognized. In addition people can theoretically self select them with respect to other location choices, such as job locations, with respect to travel behavior, or with respect to the exposure to transport externalities such as noise and...

Explore policies to stimulate Bio LNG using a social cost benefit analysis

In the joint vision on the future energy mix LNG and bio LNG are being referred to as important opportunities for the Dutch economy to sustain heavy road transport fuels. New policies have to be developed to stimulate a transition to bio LNG in the Netherlands. The economic and societal effects of these new policies are unknown. This research...

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Designing Express Networks with Multi-Agent Modelling

The ORTEC Consulting Group (OCG) advises express service providers on efficient network design. A part of the challenge to this design is the hub location problem (HLP). The HLP consists of selecting optimal locations for large sorting centres (hubs) from a range of smaller sorting centres (depots) to which the rest of these depots can connect....

Incorporating long-term transport effects in Cost-Benefit Analysis: Reasons to, options for and consequences of incorporating the societal costs of fossil fuel depletion and CO2 emissions in transport CBAs

When making decisions on transport projects, decision makers ought to take into account most (if not all) of the possible consequences of the different possible alternatives. A common way of evaluating transport projects ex ante is by means of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). CBA allows for a clear comparison of different consequences, by describing...

Understanding Uncertainty in the European Biodiesel Market: An Exploratory Modelling and Analysis Approach

Investigation of the factors and uncertainties affecting the European biodiesel market performed through Exploratory Modelling and Analysis. This includes the employment of the EMA Workbench software in order to run numerous computational experiments with a bespoke system dynamics model.