Dynamic MFA Modelling on Individual Building Level: Exploring Secondary Material Supply in the City of Hamburg

This research delves into the challenging task of exploring secondary materials supply from existing building stocks, crucial for sustainable resource management in the face of climate change. Focused on Hamburg, Germany, the study employs a unique combination of GIS-based bottom-up building stock analysis and dynamic Material Flow Analysis ...

Cold Chain dynamics and insights into fresh fruit imports: A value stream map for analyzing operations, challenges, and opportunities for improving the global first-mile fresh fruit reefer cold chain - Case study Port of Hamburg

This master thesis explores how ports, such as Hamburg, are adapting their logistics to enhance supply chain efficiency, with a specific focus on the evolving global first-mile fresh fruit reefer (GFFR) cold chain. It discusses the use of value stream mapping (VSM) from an inside-out perspective to analyze operations, challenges, and...

From fundamentals to implementation of yield stress for nautical bottom: Case study of the Port of Hamburg

The nautical bottom (i.e., the level at which contact with a ship’s keel causes either damage or unacceptable effects on controllability and manoeuvrability of a ship) should be associated to a measurable physical characteristic. Bulk density is typically used as a criterion for nautical bottom by many ports worldwide. However, the rheological...

“The Hoist of the Yellow Flag”: Vulnerable Port Cities and Public Health

Port cities have long played a key role in the development, discovery, and fight against diseases. They have been laboratories for policies to address public health issues. Diseases reached port cities through maritime exchanges, and the bubonic plague is a key example. Port city residents’ close contact with water further increased the chance...

Straddling the Fence: Land Use Patterns in and around Ports as Hidden Designers

Ports are clearly demarcated structures on land and water. They are fenced in, easily recognizable on satellite and orthophoto images, and they have specific functions. This apparent clarity of ports, their function and outline, in relation to nearby urban and rural areas, becomes more complex when explored through the lens of land use, that is...

Resilience and Path Dependence: A Comparative Study of the Port Cities of London, Hamburg, and Philadelphia

Port spaces, functions, and interests have shaped the growth and development of many cities around the world. At times, different stakeholders—private and public, local, regional, national and global—have collaborated to assure the continuity of port functions in old and new locations and, if the port relocates or if that effort fails, to...

Entering a new country: How should the Belgium concept “de Burgerij” adapt to its new market in the Netherlands?

The Burgerij is a Belgian hamburger concept established in 2009. With already some shops in Belgium the company is ready for its next step; expanding to the Netherlands. This thesis describes the introduction of the restaurant concept to its new market. In 2015 already two outlets in Rotterdam and Amsterdam have opened, this project specifies...

Elbphilharmonie: Re-designing an Icon for Hamburg

Analysis of the Elbphilharmonie project in Hamburg, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is currently under construction. My re-design addresses the project's iconic status and cost escalations, and its significance to the people of Hamburg, in an attempt to turn a failed Global Icon into a Local Icon.

Learning within Urban Area Development: The case of HafenCity Hamburg

Learning is often perceived as a very complex and many-sided matter that is fuelled by social interaction and participation. It is therefore no wonder that in today’s knowledge and information-led society the concepts of ‘lifelong learning and knowledge’ have become more popular in relation to both the formation and implementation of policies...

Combining Models and Commodity Chain Research for Making Long-Term Projections of Port Throughput: An Application to the Hamburg-Le Havre Range

Long term projections of cargo throughput are indispensable for port development plans. Although commodity flow projections are useful for governments, port authorities, terminal operating companies and port users, scientific research on commodity flow projections for ports is limited. Existing studies generally use econometric models that...

A Very Long Term Forecast of the Port Throughput in the Le Havre - Hamburg Range up to 2100

This paper presents a new methodology for the development of a probabilistic very long term forecast of the total port throughput in the Le Havre – Hamburg range up to 2100. The forecast is based on a combination of System Dynamic Modelling, Judgement, and Causal Relations. It is intended to provide infrastructure planners with some guidance on...