Setting the Price for Carsharing: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Equitable Carsharing in the Car-free Neighbourhood of Merwede

Private cars are inefficient in terms of land allocation. Car-free neighbourhoods offer a solution to this inefficiency by enforcing less car-centric urban design, expensive parking fees, and prioritising more sustainable and space-efficient modes of transportation. Carsharing services emerge as an alternative to private car ownership by...

Reimagining Home: a Qualitative Research on Innovative Flex Housing Partnerships and Subsidies for Empowering Status Holder Integration

The Netherlands is dealing with a severe housing crisis due to factors like population growth and a shortage of affordable homes. This has led to soaring housing prices impacting all citizens. Particularly impacted by the consequences of ineffective policies for housing provision are status holders. Due to lack of homes made available for this...

Subsidy allocation for residential building energy retrofit: A perspective of families' incomes

High household end-user services demand of high-income families results in higher energy consumption compared with low-income families, indicating high-income families may save more energy from similar building energy retrofitting (BER) strategies. Therefore, current BER subsidy policies, which consider technique indicators and ignore...

Lock congestion relief in a multimodal network with public subsidies and competitive carriers: a two-stage game model

Transshipment can be a detour for carriers to bypass congested locks. Therefore, the local government provides subsidies to carriers reluctant to adopt transshipment due to high costs. Using the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) as the subject, we address the interaction between the government and carriers and the rational routine choice for carriers...

Implementation of a new homeownership program in Jakarta: The case of zero down-payment housing program

Governments worldwide deal with the question of how to elevate their low-income household (LIH) into a higher standard of living. The main view of scholars on housing is that homeownership usually is the first step into improving the lives of people with a low income. The Province of Jakarta struggled with the same question. To address the...

Planktonic subsidies to surf-zone and intertidal communities

Plankton are transported onshore, providing subsidies of food and new recruits to surf-zone and intertidal communities. The transport of plankton to the surf zone is influenced by wind, wave, and tidal forcing, and whether they enter the surf zone depends on alongshore variation in surf-zone hydrodynamics caused by the interaction of breaking...

Phasing out subsidies: Rendering the RES-e investments more self-sustained

The increasing shares of RES-e generation have resulted in unexpected but well-documented effects, such as the Merit Order Effect (MOE) on the power market. According to the MOE, the electricity prices decrease along with high penetrations of low variable cost technologies such as RES-e. Due to high investment costs the deployment of RES-e...

Performance Measurement in the polder: Developing hybrid arrangements for stakeholder support in municipal subsidy awarding procedures

Trends of public accountability guide the introduction of performance measurement in municipal subsidy awarding of non-profit organizations in The Netherlands. Specific characteristics of this relation make that there are limitations on the application of existing performance measurement practices, which may cause a lack of essential stakeholder...

Project screening as a basis for succes: Towards an efficient screening policy of potential projects for PSI-tendering application

The effectiveness of selected housing subsidies in the Czech Republic

The goal of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of the new housing policy in the Czech Republic as an example of a transitional society after the collapse of communism. The first part provides a brief history of the housing policy dating back to 1918. The second part presents the results of empirical tests of effectiveness (or equity)...

Orchestration of (chain-) processes in subsidy agencies: Developing a generic subsidy orchestration system

The Netherlands houses a great variety of subsidy agencies, each very different in their organizational and operational approach to achieve their goal (the distribution of subsidies). These subsidy agencies share the common problem of being unable to adapt their subsidy system quickly due to a high grade of customization in their information...

The use of fiscal instruments in sustainable building policies

Although progressive government guidelines and knowledge about sustainable building exist, sustainability measures are not adopted in large scale. Several barriers have been identified, especially the perceived costs of implementing environmental management and the lack of market demand. The choice of fiscal instruments is an important issue in...

Evaluatie kopkostensubsidiering sociale huurwoningen 1986-1990

Besluit woninggebonden subsidies: Contra-expertise van de simulatie-modellen

Open bouwen en de sociale huursector: Consequenties van gescheiden financiering en subsidiëring van drager en inbouw

Zelfwerkzaamheid en renovatie: Vergoedingen voor zelf aangebrachte voorzieningen en zelfwerkzaamheid bij renovatie in de gemeente Den Haag