Exploring effective communication strategies to encourage the use of bicycle parkings

Cycling has gained popularity worldwide, but little is known about the choice behaviour of people searching for a bicycle parking spot in the city centre. Formal parking spaces provided in the city centre are currently often underutilised, whilst many people use fly parking, which causes nuisance. This thesis aims to identify the most effective...

Modelling mode choice in Dutch urban areas with a focus on the (e-)bike

Multilateralism, government policy and the public opinion: Dutch views on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Discrete Choice Modelling Research

A multilateral organ, a national public and a national government are three entities that are inseparably intertwined. Together they form the dynamic policy triangle: a vibrant political system, constantly changing due to insights in the scholarly and public debate. This vibrancy leads to the fact that, despite an abundance of performed academic...

Potential for sustainable mode usage amongst car users in mid-sized cities: A case study in The Hague, the Netherlands

Cities are growing worldwide, which leads to an increase in trips in urban areas. In Europe, more than half of the trips are made by car, while car takes most space of all modalities. Of all modalities car has the highest CO2 emissions. Thehigh number of trips by car within cities lead to challenges related to the accessibility, livability, and...

Sustainable fashion: A statistical analysis of consumers’ behaviors by stated choice experiment

The manufacturing process, supply chain and consumption pattern of fashion impose high risks on the environment. Besides, the utilization of cheap labor in developing countries by Western fashion brands entails great concern about labor rights of sweatshop workers. To tackle the daunting sustainable issues in fashion industry, various nascent...

Estimating the willingness to pay of airline passengers for flight ancillaries: Utilizing revealed passenger data of a full-service carrier to support future pricing strategies

Deregulation within the aviation market led to constant decreasing revenue of airfares while airlines across the market spectrum sharpen their focus on ancillaries. The objective of this thesis project is to utilize revealed preference data in a case-study of KLM Royal Dutch Airways to better understand the customer relation towards ancillaries....

Shared mobility for the first and last mile: Exploring the willingness to share

Over the past decade, the development of ICT and online platforms has provided the infrastructure for new ways of sharing on a scale never seen before which are causing a shift from ownership to access-based- consumption. This trend offers promising prospects for the case of mobility but the true magnitude of impact that the...

The Monetary Value of a Pleasant and Productive Train Trip: Developing an experimental method for estimating the monetary value of activities performed during travel

The value of travel time saving(VOTTS) is very important in cost benefit analysis(CBA) as it is used to calculate the monetary gain in case of an improvement in transport that leads to reduction in travel time. Although it is easy to directly calculate monetary gains due to a speed improvement, monetary gains due to transport service improvement...

Riding a self-driving bus to work: Investigating how travellers perceive ADS-DVs on the last mile

Research in the field of automated vehicles focuses primarily on technological developments and interactions of the system with other roads users, leaving a knowledge gap of actual user demand for automated vehicles. This study investigates the development of Automated Driving Systems - Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs) from the perspective of the...

Inventory theory, mode choice and network structure in freight transport

In passenger transport, hub-and-spoke networks allow the transportation of small passenger flows with competitive frequencies, in a way that direct line networks cannot. Equivalently, in freight transport, it can be expected that small shipper-receiver flows of high added value commodities transit through hub and spoke networks, while larger...

Determining shippers' attribute preference for container transport on the Rotterdam - Venlo corridor

Random regret minimization: Exploration of a new choice model for environmental and resource economics

This paper introduces the discrete choice model-paradigm of Random Regret Minimization (RRM) to the field of environmental and resource economics. The RRM-approach has been very recently developed in the context of travel demand modelling and presents a tractable, regret-based alternative to the dominant choice-modelling paradigm based on Random...

Communicating the retail brand through design: Case study sports shops

The retail brand communicated through design. To what extent contributes design to the distinctiveness, recognisability and attracktiveness of the retail brand. A research conducted using Discrete Choice Modelling, focusing on the interior of sports shops.

Designing Stated Choice Experiments: An Analysis of the Effect of Airport Location on Air Passenger's Travel Choice

Since major airports are reaching capacity, some solutions have to be found to solve the actual transportation problem. The government sees the development of secondary airports as a solution to this problem. First, this would result in air traffic diversion and secondly this would permit new economical opportunities to the concerned region....

What, Where, and Which? A Nested Logit Model for Dutch Housing Choice

In the Netherlands, changes on the housing market and overloading of the transport system require a policy that pays attention to both sides of the coin. To make projections of possible scenarios, under different policies, models are developed to study the transport system, the housing market and their interaction. To investigate residential...