Determining the preferences of different functionality levels regarding dynamic pricing in combination with electronic shelf labels in the Dutch food retail industry - a Bayesian BWM approach

For decades supermarkets have been seen as very conservative. However, it seems that food retailers are increasingly taking a proactive role in implementing new technologies in the food retail, shaping decision-making process from their own sales perspective. This research aims to identify the preferences of different technology implementation...

Vehicle Choice and System Performance: The Influence of a Dynamic Pricing User-Based Relocation Strategy: Stated Choice and Field Experiments in a Free-floating E-moped Sharing System

Free-floating moped sharing systems are becoming more and more popular and provide new ways to travel inside urban areas. The vehicles offer the flexibility of one-way transportation, though the downside is that it creates a spatiotemporal imbalance of the vehicle distribution within the system. The operators of such systems are challenged to...

Smart parking management system with dynamic pricing

Smart parking is becoming more and more an integral part of smart city initiatives. Utilizing and managing parking areas is a challenging task as space is often limited, finding empty spaces are hard and citizens want to park their vehicles close to their preferred places. This becomes worse in important/posh areas of major metropolitan cities...

Dynamic pricing and inventory control policies in a food supply chain of growing and deteriorating items

Revenue and inventory management play a crucial role in the operational efficiency of food supply chains. The current study investigates dynamic pricing and inventory control policies in a two-level Food Supply Chain (FSC) of growing and deteriorating inventory that involves a rearing farm as the supplier and a retailer where these...

Dynamically pricing tickets for cultural venues

Entrance tickets for cultural venues are often sold through online retailers. Internally, these retailers have access to demand insights of a large amount of globally distributed venues. Using Tiqets as our industry partner, we were able to access data from one of the largest retailers with global reach. This thesis explores the possibility of...

User-Based Rebalancing by Dynamic Pricing in Free-Floating Vehicle Sharing: A Case Study with Multiple Living Labs

Dynamic pricing can be used for better fleet distribution in free-floating vehicle sharing (FFVS), and thus increase utilization and revenue for the provider by reducing the supply-demand asymmetry. Supply-demand asymmetry refers to the existence of an undersupply of vehicles at some locations at the same time as underutilization of vehicles at...

Dynamic Pricing for User-Based Rebalancing in Free-Floating Vehicle Sharing: A Real-World Case

Dynamic pricing can be used for better fleet distribution in free-floating vehicle sharing (FFVS), and thus increase utilization and revenue for the provider by reducing supply-demand asymmetry. Supply-demand asymmetry refers to the existence of an undersupply of vehicles at some locations at the same time as underutilization of vehicles at...

Aligning prosumers with the electricity wholesale market: The impact of time-varying price signals and fixed network charges on solar self consumption

PV-battery systems are currently not operated in an energy system optimal way as their operation heuristic (maximization of self-consumption) is generally unaffected by competitive market signals. To evaluate potential regulatory intervention, we propose a market alignment indicator which measures the relative economic efficiency of a prosumer...

Demand response policies for the implementation of smart grids

With the grasp of a smart grid in sight, discussions have shifted the focus of system security measures away from generation capacity; apart from modifying the supply side, demand may also be exploited to keep the system in balance. Specifically, Demand Response (DR) is the concept of consumer load modification as a result of price signaling,...

Towards an Agent-Based Modelling Approach for the Evaluation of Dynamic Usage of Urban Distribution Centres

Previous modelling attempts show that theoretically the urban distribution centre appears to be successful in many cases, which is in sharp contrast with the real world showing the fact that only 15 out of 200 urban distribution centres are running after 5 years. It can be concluded that modeling approaches do not seem to predict well with...