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Cobussen, Simone (author)This graduation project is carried out for PostNL's XL parcel delivery. PostNL is one of the biggest delivery companies in the Netherlands and one of their departments takes care of XL parcel delivery. This department is called Extra@Home. XL parcels can be seen as non-regular parcels, meaning odd sizes or weights. For Extra@Home, the XL parcel...master thesis 2023
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Guan, Kuo (author)Electric vehicles (EVs) take advantage of reducing fossil-based environmental pollution and developing a more sustainable logistics network. Compared with internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), EVs have new technical characteristics like limited battery capacity and long charging time at charging stations. With the diffusion of EVs,...student report 2023
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Fielbaum, Andres (author), Ruiz, Felipe (author), Boccardo, Giorgio (author), Rubio, Daniela (author), Tirachini, Alejandro (author), Rosales-Salas, Jorge (author)Transport workers were among the most affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In several countries, public transport and delivery drivers were considered essential workers during the pandemic, while the demand changed dramatically. In this context, little is known about the actual effects of the pandemic on the lives of drivers, and whether those...journal article 2023
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Arntz, E.M. (author), van Duin, Ron (author), van Binsbergen, A.J. (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author), Klein, T. (author)Introduction: Autonomous delivery robots are a promising alternative for last-mile delivery. To realise successful implementation of delivery robots in public spaces, it is important to study the interaction between robots and the traffic environment. The traffic environment includes the physical infrastructure and the objects using it like cars...journal article 2023
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van Mil, Jelle (author)With routing algorithms approaching optimization limits, other approaches are required to further improve the last-mile delivery of goods. In this paper, an analysis is made of the effectiveness of nudging customer delivery windows at order creation dependent on a dynamic spatial grouping to improve last-mile routing performance. During this...master thesis 2022
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Brouwer, Lucas (author)The aging of society, population growth and chronic under-investments in education of healthcare workers have all led to a major imbalance between the demand for healthcare and the supply of healthcare. Autonomous robots can be used to relieve overqualified healthcare workers of their repetitive transportation tasks, allowing them to spend more...master thesis 2022
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Claij, Cilia (author)The simultaneous rapidly increasing demand for home delivery of goods and on-demand expectancy of customers over the past years leaves a tough challenge for the logistical branch. They have to keep up with this increasing demand and simultaneously they are obliged to satisfy consumer service level demands to preserve their customers. On the...master thesis 2022
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Muralidharan, A. (author)Delivery of biomolecules using pulsed electric fields or electrotransfer has applications such as biomedical engineering, bioprocess engineering and genomic engineering. When a cell is placed in an electric field, the induced transmembrane voltage catalyzes the formation of pores on the cell membrane. This enables the delivery of otherwise cell...doctoral thesis 2022
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Dann Ruiz, Nicolas (author)Healthcare systems worldwide rely heavily on the efficient allocation of caregivers in home- based care. Despite this, to this day, the majority of home healthcare (HHC) organisations plan their operations manually, an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive task yielding sub-optimal solutions. Research efforts in the operations research ...master thesis 2022
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Shirvani, fatemeh (author)This thesis project investigates the applicability of different sustainable transport methods for delivering chemical products to the European customers and a decision-making business process is derived from that. So, a set of representative lanes are selected to be involved in this project and the hauliers responsible for those lanes are asked...master thesis 2022
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van der Wal, Joost (author)This study aims to investigate and develop the efficiency of a decentralised dynamic system for last-mile parcel distribution. A better understanding of the efficiency, and thus the feasibility of this decentralised logistics method, contributes to a better understanding of the potential of these systems as alternatives to the current centrally...master thesis 2022
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Beekes, Sebastiaan (author)Testing Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robot (SADR) performance in real world conditions is important to prove whether the innovation is ready for large-scale adoption. Currently, testing SADRs in public is not allowed in the Netherlands, because little is known about the actual risks associated with delivery robots, and the risks are currently...master thesis 2022
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Arntz, Emma (author)Autonomous delivery robots are a promising alternative for last-mile delivery. To realise successful implementation of delivery robots in the public space, it is important to study the interaction between robot and environment. The traffic environment includes the physical infrastructure, traffic conditions and the people using the environment....master thesis 2022
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Ameln, Coen (author)In this report the development and design of Claus is presented. Claus is an auxiliary drive train module for last-mile delivery hand trucks. The objective of the concept is to enable delivery workers to deliver parcels to the growing amount of addresses in urban environments with limited mobility access.<br/><br/>Due to the combination of...master thesis 2022
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Chen, Szu-Tung (author)Inspired by the vision of fully autonomous airside operations at Schiphol airport, this study aims to contribute to the short-term goal of automated aircraft ground handling. In this research, we design and evaluate a multi-agent system for planning of automated ground handling. There are two main components in the system, task allocation...master thesis 2022
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Seda, Edwin (author)Dutch Housing associations (HA’s) are responsible for producing, maintaining, and managing about 30% of all Dutch housing stock. HA’s draw up their investment forecasts yearly for the next 5 years to construct, improve or maintain homes and other real estate investments. Since 2013, the realization rate of new construction plans by HA’s, which...master thesis 2022
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Doole, M.M. (author)The paradigm of large-scale adoption of autonomous drone delivery promises to provide commercial and societal benefits. Over the past years, several companies have investigated the use-case of drones to transport small express packages of fast-food meals and time-sensitive medical supplies. The latter has shown to be highly beneficial in many...doctoral thesis 2022
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Wills, Nadine (author), Díaz, Joaquín (author)Background and aim - Facility management (FM) refers to multidisciplinary activities pertaining to performance-based or results-based delivery. Although results-based delivery provides economic benefits, missing definitions of the demands on executing facility services (FS) present a challenge to contractors. Existing sensor-based systems for...conference paper 2022
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Correa Galdeano, Francisco (author)The construction industry has been, throughout time, heavily hindered by cost overruns and delays in the delivery of projects. This picture has only been magnified by the increased size, complexity, and urgent demand for their delivery. Responding to this circumstance has taken different paths. One of these has been updating and improving how...master thesis 2022
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Miedema, Jillert-Jan (author)Currently, the infrastructure industry is in transformation and moving towards new project delivery approaches. Aiming to improve the predictability of projects and due to a growing desire for collaboration between clients and contractors, the two-phase model has made its entrance in the industry and has been gaining popularity.<br/>During the...master thesis 2022