Planning the route to higher bus quality: Creating a roadmap for effective implementation of high-quality bus systems in the Netherlands

The transport sector needs to change to meet some of the global challenges we face: climate change, population growth and urbanisation. It needs to become more sustainable, which is why the Netherlands wants to introduce more high-quality bus systems. However, there are some barriers to implementing these systems.<br/><br/>In this thesis,...

Bus ridership prediction: Development of a framework

During tenders in public transport, the bus network is reconsidered and adjusted. An accurate prediction of the effect on ridership is required. Due to the tender environment, time and input data are limited. This research focuses on deriving a relation between level-of-service (LOS) and ridership, and implementing this in a model suitable for...

The operations of zero-emission bus transport: How different charging methods and mechanisms at bus stations affect the level of service of public bus transport

A general bus station operations model is developed in order to quantify effects concerning operations, level of service and costs, of different charging methods for electric buses.

Erasing Borders, European Rail Passenger Potential

This thesis is assessing the potential of the European rail passenger market with a 4 step model, with a gravity based trip distribution and assessment of level of service characteristics to determine total potential in demand and supply commissioned by Train2EU and Royal HaskoningDHV. The scope has been limited to long-distance (>100km) trips....

Level of Service estimation with in-vehicle sensor floating car data

In the Smart In-Car project, in-vehicle signals obtained from the CAN (Controller Area Network) bus are collected along with the GPS position from 200 equipped vehicles. The main CAN bus signals in the available data set from the Smart In-Car project are: speedometer, brake usage, steering position, rpm, indicator usage and fuel consumption, but...