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Bronkhorst, Samuel (author)In the era of increasing global connectivity, Schiphol Airport aims to transform into a Multimodal Transport Hub (MTH) to meet the growing demand for seamless travel experiences. This shift from the traditional hub-and-spoke model to an MTH not only enhances passenger satisfaction but also positions Schiphol as a leader in the aviation industry...master thesis 2023
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Qin, Mark (author)This research proposes a new concept of electric bus with adjustable interior modules. By installing different modules, it can adjust both its internal layout and battery capacity spontaneously to make itself resemble an electric city bus or an electric regional bus when it is needed. It makes use of difference between peak times of regional...master thesis 2023
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te Lintelo, Thomas (author)More and more wind turbines are erecting in the landscape, stemming from the need for sustainable energy. However, less attention is paid to the secondary effects of these wind turbines, more specifically, the wind turbine blades. Wind turbine blades are made of composite material, a material that provides many advantageous properties for the...master thesis 2023
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Kim, Minseong (author)Spartacusplan, the transportation plan for the Belgian province of Limburg from 2004, is now turned into the most extensive and ambitious bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Europe. However, the proposed vehicles and network do not correspond well to the region’s highly dispersed, poly-centric structure. Moreover, the dispersed urbanisation...master thesis 2023
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Webbers, Jesse (author)Since the commercialisation of air travel, demand for air transport is increasing. Optimal system capacity utilisation at airports has therefore become crucial. As available resources such as land, buildings and human are scarce and airline tickets need to be financially affordable, airports optimise their system while maximising capacity within...master thesis 2023
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Xia, D. (author), Ma, Jihui (author), Sharif Azadeh, S. (author), Zhang, Wenyi (author)The collaborative design of the timetable and dynamic-capacity allocation plan of emerging modular vehicles (MVs) is a promising solution to the mismatch between supply and demand in public transportation studies; however, such efforts are subject to high-level dynamics and uncertainty inherent in operating environments. In this study, we...journal article 2023
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Tricarico, Gioacchino (author), Wagle, Raju (author), Dicorato, Maria (author), Forte, Giuseppe (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author), Rueda, José L. (author)Reaching net-zero emissions within the proposed time requires an enormous effort from the energy sector, and it is even more challenging for the electricity infrastructure. This article offers a modified version of the IEEE 39-bus system specifically created to allow zonal day-ahead market (ZDAM) simulations. The system representation is based...conference paper 2023
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Borsje, R.B. (author), Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S. (author), Veeneman, Wijnand (author)To gain ridership, bus services need to offer more than just high frequencies. An attractive system design for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a result of various configurational choices concerning infrastructure, rolling stock and operations. To find out which configurations are preferred by potential and current passengers, a Discrete Choice...journal article 2023
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Hafsteinsdóttir, Gudrun Birta (author)The popularity of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been growing rapidly over the past years, where more and more cities add BRT to their public transport systems. Roundabouts are also growing and are popular intersection designs because they are one of the safest types of intersections and improve traffic flow. It is, therefore, likely that in some...master thesis 2022
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Pierotti, J. (author)One of the world’s biggest challenges is that living beings have to share a limited amount of resources. As people of science, we strive to find innovative ways to better use these resources, to reach and positively affect more and more people. In the field of optimization, we aim at finding an optimal allocation of limited sets of resources to...doctoral thesis 2022
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Sharif Azadeh, S. (author), Vester, J. (author), Maknoon, M.Y. (author)In this paper, we evaluate the cost of the electrification of an existing bus network. We propose a family of bi-objective mathematical models to demonstrate the trade-off between strategic (i.e., battery sizing and the locations of charging stations) and operational decisions (i.e., battery degradation). The proposed mathematical models...journal article 2022
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Gadepalli, Ravi (author), Gumireddy, Sushmitha (author), Bhamidipati, Srirama (author), Cats, O. (author)Many cities have introduced metro rail systems over the past two decades, particularly in developing countries. However, there is lack of knowledge on the impacts of new lines on the service and ridership for the related urban bus lines, and in particular those directly affected by the opening of the new service(s). We undertake a...journal article 2022
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Drabicki, Arkadiusz (author), Kucharski, Rafał (author), Cats, O. (author)A common problem in public transport systems is bus bunching, characterized by a negative feedback loop between service headways, number of boarding passengers and dwell times. In this study, we examine whether providing real-time crowding information (RTCI) at the stop regarding the two next vehicle departures can stimulate passengers to...journal article 2022
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Tricarico, Gioacchino (author), Wagle, Raju (author), Azuara-Grande, Luis Santiago (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author), Dicorato, Maria (author), Forte, Giuseppe (author), Rueda, José L. (author)The dispatch schedule of the electrical power plant units is the result of the solution to the unit commitment optimisation problem, and it minimises the cost of production considering pre-defined technical limits. The security-constrained unit commitment problem has been defined as including the network constraints in the previously mentioned...conference paper 2022
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Tricarico, Gioacchino (author), Wagle, Raju (author), Dicorato, Maria (author), Forte, Giuseppe (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author), Rueda, José L. (author)The increasing penetration of renewable energy resources (RES) in transmission system operating conditions require a suitable test system and a dataset to cope with current issues. RES penetration remarkably affects day-ahead market outcomes regarding zonal prices and dispatched generation levels. For this purpose, zonal day-ahead energy market...conference paper 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Pel, A.J. (author), Verma, T. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author), van Brakel, Peter (author), van Oort, N. (author)Predictions on Public Transport (PT) ridership are beneficial as they allow for sufficient and cost-efficient deployment of vehicles. On an operational level, this relates to short-term predictions with lead times of less than an hour. Where conventional data sources on ridership, such as Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data, may have longer...journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Pel, A.J. (author), Verma, T. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author), van Brakel, Peter (author), van Oort, N. (author)Predictions on public transport ridership are beneficial as they allow for sufficient and cost-efficient deployment of vehicles. At an operational level, this relates to short-term predictions with lead times of less than an hour. Where conventional data sources on ridership, such as Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data, may have longer lag...conference paper 2022
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de Boer, Sam (author)The Netherlands suffers from a traffic congestion problem, which is a cause of both economic damages and high NOx and CO2 emissions. Today, the bus accounts for only a small percentage of all trips made in the Netherlands (less than 4%) but the bus plays an important role as an access and egress mode for train travelers. Short access and egress...master thesis 2021
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Weijs, George (author)Bus bunching is a problem that occurs in many high frequent bus systems. This can be averted by several countermeasures of which holding control is the most popular one in practice. Holding control strategies are often implemented using predefined rules. In this study, multi-agent reinforcement learning is selected to develop an effective...master thesis 2021
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Hagenzieker, M.P. (author), Boersma, A.M. (author), Nuñez Velasco, J.P. (author), Ozturker, M. (author), Zubin, I. (author), Heikoop, D.D. (author)Automated bus systems are a promising means of future first- and last mile public transport solutions, and can even possibly become a regular part of the public transport network. Therefore, many projects appear throughout Europe to pilot the feasibility of automated bus system implementation on various locations. Keeping up with the rapidly...report 2021