Exploring Gender Disparities in Accessibility Levels: A Comprehensive Analysis of Transportation Modes, Activity Types and Personal Characteristics

Accessibility is a fundamental concept concerning urban and transport planning as it is the elementary basis for socio-economic development in cities. It can be described as the potential to reach spatially distributed opportunities. Recent research has identified that excluding person-based features from this analysis might cause inaccurate...

To Redefine, Not Reinforce: A Spatial Decision Support System with Generative Design Model for Exploring Optimal Improvements to Existing Street Networks for Enhancing Equity of Accessibility

Transport decision-making determines people’s level of accessibility and deeply influences an individual’s access to social and economic opportunities and the quality of life. Socially vulnerable populations are highly dependent on yet often more likely to have less access to transport services and experience lower accessibility. This creates...

Equity Road

Equity Road is a foundation in Valencia that provides professional opportunities to vulnerable local groups such as immigrants and the unemployed. The preference for regional resources, such as wool, within the Red Thread, creates social sustainability by training people as manufacturing experts of fashion goods and therefore ensuring a circular...

Assessing equity in regional railway corridors: Case study of the Noord-Holland Noord region

Public transport is important for society, it provides accessibility to opportunities. Accessibility is not distributed evenly. Some inhabitants are disadvantaged, which has negative impacts on society. The distribution of accessibility between inhabitants can be measured with transport equity. The PT network should be improved in order to...

Evaluating and modifying a public transport network to achieve an equitable distribution of accessibility: A comparison of accessibility distribution principles in Amstelland-Meerlanden

The provision of good accessibility is the main function of a well-functioning public transport (PT) system, the quality of which affects the ability of people to access basic needs such as employment, education, and healthcare. It is therefore important that PT accessibility is distributed in an equitable, or fair, manner. This thesis evaluates...

Do appraisal tools affect equitability in infrastructure projects?: A case study on infrastructural projects in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands

In order to understand the impact of new infrastructure projects, appraisal tools are used to estimate the impact it will have on society. Infrastructure is a key part of society, enabling and disabling society to work and live, playing a vital part in everyone’s lives. Former studies by Annema, Frenken, et al. (2017), Niek Mouter (2017b) and...

Temporal Analysis of Accessibility Using Complex Network Theory

Urban areas are evolving in terms of their growing population and their developing systems and infrastructure. This evolution brings about concerns regarding social equity, which refers to the fairness of distribution of certain attributes to groups or individuals. Transport equity is one of the dimensions of this issue, and accessibility...

Resilient and Equitable Accessibility: Taking into account societal vulnerability in decision making on the placement of flood adaptation policies in an urban setting

Transportation systems are being put under increasing pressure in urban areas. These systems are concentrated, highly used and vulnerable to rainfall-induced disruptions. Improving the resilience of infrastructure systems to these disruptions has become a vital aspect of managing an urban area that is both economically viable as well as liveable...

Equity in traffic light control: Identifying- and measuring equity traffic light control. A case study to improve equity at the intersection A050 in Deventer for intelligent Traffic Light Controller: Flowtack

A new generation of intelligent Traffic Light Controllers uses Model Predictive Control to minimise delay at signalised intersections. The conventional cycle of set sequences of green phases is dropped for optimisation purposes. This research uses the ethical theories utilitarianism, egalitarianism, sufficientarianism & deontology to define...

Mobility as a Service from an equity perspective: Exploratory research into the potential deepening or diminishing effects of MaaS on transport related social exclusion

In 2014 Hietanen envisioned Mobility as a Service (MaaS), which is a global hype ever since. The relatively new mobility concept, MaaS, is suggested to meet the mobility needs of the end-users in a sustainable, affordable and user’s flexible manner (MaaS Alliance, 2019). Even though the MaaS sympathizers claim an improvement for the travelers...

Evaluation of public transport fare policy using smartcard data: Travel patterns change and distributional effects in Stockholm County

This study investigated the potential of ex-post fare policy evaluation utilising smartcard data. It looked into how to identify and measure the actual outcomes of a policy, define the degree of its success, and even find some unexpected side-effects of high importance. The study is based on a case of the public transport fare policy introduced...

University funding instruments: an assessment of the Delft Enterprises case study

Applying Fairness to Planning Practice: Operationalising Equitable Transport Planning for the City of Rotterdam

Ethical considerations in transportation planning literature have gotten more and more attention in the previous decades. One of those considerations is about how equitable (“fair”) the good of transportation is distributed. While there have been theoretical suggestions to incorporate equity into transportation planning methods, the proposed...

Support Policy Instruments for Offshore Wind Power in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the developing of offshore wind power (OWP) systems is one of options for electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES-E) for the transition to a sustainable energy system. In 2015, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) announced that around 6500 MW of total offshore wind capacity required in the...