Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can potentially bring about major changes in cities. Anticipatory planning approaches may provide valuable opportunities for fostering desirable transitions and pre-empting undesirable impacts. This research employs a combination of two methods to define the key policies to support a transition to the desirable...

The presence of Responsible Research and Innovation in the perspectives of Dutch policy officers regarding innovation with quantum technology

The European Union strives to align research and innovation to the values, needs and expectations of society to address societal challenges. To support this alignment the European Union endeavours to make Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) part of the governmental policies on science and technology of its member states. If the European...

Implications of automated vehicles for accessibility and location choices: Evidence from an expert-based experiment

In this paper, possible accessibility impacts of fully automated vehicles (AVs) are explored. A conceptual framework for those impacts is developed based on the model of four accessibility components (i.e. land use, transport, temporal and individual) of Geurs and van Wee (2004). Q-method is applied among a sample of seventeen international...

Improving trust in cloud computing: A framework that incorporates the factors that influence trust in cloud services

One of the key challenges of adopting cloud computing is related to trust. Trust is necessary for effective collaboration between customers and providers and reducing transaction costs, however, in practice this trust is often lacking. From the scientific literature, it becomes clear that there is still a lot of ambiguity about trust in cloud...

Consumers Preferences on Airline Environmental Policies

The airline industry is facing a dilemma. On one hand due to a higher demand from the market, the industry wants to grow; on the other hand the industry is dependent on fossil fuel which is polluting the environment. In this research I have studied the effects of consumer preferences on airline environmental policies concerning the adverse...