Commuters and traffic information: A revealed preference study on route choice behavior

The past decades have seen an increased interest in the role of information to alleviate congestion. The relationship between travelers’ behavior and information, however, is not clear yet and the need of more experiments has been claimed in the literature. From May 9th, 2011 to July 12th, 2011 a revealed preference (RP) route choice experiment...

Identifying effective guaranteed connections in a multimodal network

Minimizing transfer waiting time is important in making public transport networks more attractive. A guaranteed transfer, with the departing vehicle waiting on moderately delayed arriving vehicles at a transfer node, is an effective way to reduce waiting times at transfers between low frequency public transport lines. This secondary train delay...

Network Wide Service Level-Oriented Route Guidance in Road Traffic Networks: Traffic management in line with the policy objectives of the road authorities

Service level control is a promising strategy to realize policy objectives within road networks like improving network production while taking road user interests, livability and safety into account. In this contribution a service level-oriented route guidance control approach is presented that is able to control service levels of routes on a...

Data collection by serious gaming

Impacts of car-following behaviour on traffic flow capacity at sags

Multi-scale traffic flow theory and modelling

Crowd movements during exceptional events

Intermodal Freight Transport on the Right Track?: Environmental and economic performances and their trade-off

This dissertation aims to evaluate environmental and economic performances of an intermodal freight transport system and to estimate the trade-off between CO2 emissions, wich is epresented as an indicator of environmental performance, and freight costs, which ndicate the economic performance of the intermodal freight system. The truck-only...

Reliability-based Dynamic Network Design with Stochastic Networks

Transportation systems are stochastic and dynamic systems. The road capacities and the travel demand are fluctuating from time to time within a day and at the same time from day to day. For road users, the travel time and travel costs experienced over time and space are stochastic, thus desire reliable travel times and low travel costs by...

Extended prospect theory: Findings on choice behaviour from economics and the behavioural sciences and their relevance for travel behaviour

In Transport Sciences different implementations of Utility Theory are commonly used for the description and prediction of human choice behaviour. Almost 30 years ago Kahneman and Tversky proposed an alternative behavioural-economic model of choice behaviour called Prospect Theory. In contrast to Utility Theory they assumed that preference orders...

Design aspects of multiple driven belt conveyors

Worldwide belt conveyors are used to transport a great variety of bulk solid materials. The desire to carry higher tonnages over longer distances and more diverse routes, while keeping exploitation costs as low as possible, has fuelled many technological advances. An interesting development in the recent past is the distribution of drive power...