Can REDD+ contribute to private sector development in sustainable fuelwood and charcoal production in Rwanda?

The expected increase in future demand of biomass feedstock in Rwanda cannot be met because of constraints at the supply side. This has a negative effect on the energy security for Rwandese in the future and the income generated for the Rwandan population involved in biomass feedstock production. There are, however, opportunities to stimulate...

Electric Mobility: On the Road to Energy Transition: A technical and actor assessment of social costs of electric mobility

Several Dutch municipalities stimulate electric mobility by deploying a charging infrastructure. Electric mobility is however expected to impact the electricity grid, thereby requiring the grid to be reinforced. Costs for network reinforcements are social costs and it is in society’s benefit to limit those costs. Municipalities have no real...

Mobile Cloud Ecosystems: Evaluating the feasibility and viability of smartphones as a shared resource pool

The increasing ubiquity and capabilities of smartphones provide opportunities to combine their processing power, storage, connectivity and sensors into a shared resource pool for end-users and service providers. This is analogous to the concept of cloud computing, in which cloud computing datacenters provide a shared resource pool. Several...

A Sensitivity Analysis Method for System Dynamics Table Functions

Improving LM Windpower´s Quality Control System: Analyzing the performance of the Quality Control System and developing an improvement proposal to enable control over the production process

Market opportunities for local renewable heating systems in the built environment

This research provides insight in the potential of local renewable heating systems. Local renewable heating systems are energy installations that make use of a renewable energy source and can supply heat, for space- and water heating, to the built environment in the direct vicinity of the installation. The main question of research that is...

The redesign of the logistical system of Schiphol Airport Retail

The logistics department of Schiphol Airport Retail supplies 14 shops behind custom gates on Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This research describes improvements to the shop supply system with the use of demand forecast and decoupling moments.

Upscaling the process for the collection, analysis, and delivery of information about emerging or existing technologies for enhanced decision making

Standardized technology intelligence products nowadays have come within reach of almost any interested organization. The question remains how this can be applied on a large scale while maintaining on-time delivery and the quality of results. This paper develops and evaluates such a standardized TI process. The key elements for upscaling the...

Inventory Management - Introducing a Framework to assess Operational Performance.

The Enterprises Systems market has become a significant, billion dollar industry, over the past years. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is an example of an Enterprise System. ERP typically supports logistics, which form a strategic factor in today’s business world. Business intelligence tools, such as the ones incorporated in ERP, are...