E-Hub - Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station: Electrical system design, Optimisation and Testing

The development in technology and increased public interest has attributed to an unprecedented growth of E-mobility in recent years. Electric vehicles (EVs) even though viewed as emission free and environmental friendly can still contribute towards indirect emissions if charged by using traditional fossil fuels. The integration of renewable...

Join the PRIDE: Offering intrapreneurs working in internal corporate ventures at ING a career perspective

In the ever changing world we live in, companies have to constantly adapt to stay relevant. More and more large organizations do this by starting up innovation hubs next to their established business. ING is one such company that has started up an hub which they call their innovation studio. ING sees this as a necessity due to developments of...

The Immobile City: Revival of Havana's public transportation system

The almost sixty year Castro regime has driven the island of Cuba into isolation. Infrastructure on the island fully relies on the nation own capacity and since the special period like everything else this is in an overall state of decline. The ongoing neglected state of Cuba's infrastructure, together with a continuous scarcity of resources and...

Towards New Urban Mobility: Preparing for the driverless future through multi-agent systems

Research. World’s population is increasingly urban with more than half living in urban areas. Cities will keep growing, they will become increasingly polluted and gridlocked, damaging inhabitants’ health and making it hard for them to get around. Mobility is one of the key-drivers for creating a livable future city because the urban lay-out is...

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

Highway as New Urban Center: The future transport hub

This project is the final part of my master in architecture at the Technical University Delft. Unused building space close to highway locations, future mobility trends and the existing ‘A12 zone’ location were the key elements for me to start a design process in which I tried to use existing engineering solutions and existing and future mobility...

Intelligently-Sustainable Cities? Assessing the contribution of Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability

The current challenges that the world is facing are urging us to re-think the structure and functioning of our social and economic systems. A critical paradigm shift is required if issues such as climate change, growing poverty, depletion of natural resources and uncertain energy futures are to be effectively solved. Global leaders and...

The Hubway: A new mobility system in a future urban environment

DIEMIGO A delegation of three TU Delft faculties, Industrial Design Engineering (IO), Architecture (BK) and Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI) join in a project called DIEMIGO (stands for De Integratie van Electische Mobiliteit In de Gebouwde Omgeving). They have the aim to research and design the integration of...

Mobility in Network Cities: The Peripheral Hub

An analysis of the perception of cities and urban regions according to the principles of network urbanism. This becomes relevant when cities become so big they can no longer be understood by knowing their geographic features. Instead a diagrammatical, network based, perception is necessary. This results in the design for a transport hub on an...

The Design of a People Transporter for the European Metropolis of 2025

In the future of 2025 several themes will define the city context. As more and more people move towards the city they feed the process of segregation. Separated groups of people are living together in one area, but without any feeling of a city community. The growing dominance of wireless communication and information has made it possible for...

A new transfer experience: Water transport hub concept for Stadhaven Rotterdam

This Integrated Product Design master thesis comprises a report of the process of designing a water transport hub concept for Stadshavens Rotterdam, based on the experience of travel and transfer. It was executed for Gemeentewerken Rotterdam. ASSIGNMENT The inital assignment was to create a ‘climate-neutral transport hub’ for the future...

A Performance Meaurement System for Schiphol's Traffic & Transportation: Measuring Perceived Landside Accessibility of Multimodal Airports

Introduction Daily approximately 150.000 individual travel movements are conducted by passengers and Schiphol-workers to and from Schiphol. For this they use cars, taxis, busses, shut-tles, trains, motorcycles, scooters and bicycles. As such Schiphol is Holland’s biggest mobility node. Understandably this makes accessibility of vital importance....