Post-Spartacusplan: Exploring the future possibilities of innovative public transportation for spatial and mobility transition in Belgian Limburg

Spartacusplan, the transportation plan for the Belgian province of Limburg from 2004, is now turned into the most extensive and ambitious bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Europe. However, the proposed vehicles and network do not correspond well to the region’s highly dispersed, poly-centric structure. Moreover, the dispersed urbanisation...

Data-Driven Transportation Planning for a Large Manufacturing Plant: Analysis and development of a planning support tool for the internal transportation at Tata Steel IJmuiden

Planning the on-site transportation of large manufacturing sites is a complex process. Currently these plans are made based on the on-site logistics constraints rather than on KPIs. Research has been focused on either analysis of system parameters or generally on KPIs, but lacks the combination of both on real-life cases. This gap is closed by...

Optimal Control for Mixed Traffic Inter-Terminal Transport

The control of a dedicated ITT system operating human driven MTSs and AGVs can be centralized, decentralized or distributed. The objective of this research is to find which controller structure is best suited for controlling a mixed traffic ITT system. In doing so, performance differences will be reviewed to gain insight into the effect of...

Dynamic Urban Land Use: An explorative study on the implications for transport and spatial planning

The urban agenda is demanding new approaches for urban development. Urban flexibility has been recognized as crucial for coping with uncertainty and smart growth has been advocated as a sustainable urban practice. Urban flexibility and smart growth combined lead to a more dynamic land use, in which building adaptation leads to intensification of...

The potential role of Dutch urban and transportation planners in the Automated Vehicles transition

The transition towards fully Automated Vehicles (AV) can lead to inefficient use of the available infrastructure in the Netherlands, while space is already scarce. - Knowledge from AV impact studies can help the government in the management of available infrastructure. Therefore, in this research a systematic literature review was carried out in...

Selection of Severe Transport Situations in the High-Pressure Gas Network of GTS: Introduction of a Similarity Measure based on Optimal Flow Patterns

Gasunie Transport Services (GTS) is the operator of the natural gas transmission network in the Netherlands. This network is an entry-exit system where entry and exit capacities can be booked by parties called shippers. Variations in usage lead to an enormous number of possible entry-exit combinations. GTS must be able to accommodate all...

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...

'Evaluating the implementation of transit signal priority on a bus route, with a focus on equity

This study evaluates the implementation of a Transit Signal Priority (TSP) system on a bus network and proposes a new transport appraisal method that focuses on equity to determine its feasibility. The main research question to be answered is ‘What are the equity and efficiency impacts of introducing transit signal priority on a city bus network...

Improving the Use of Traffic Models in Transport and Infrastructure Planning: Identification of Problem Issues and Explorative Research on Possible Improvements

Face 2 Face: Urban equity initiated through mobility

City-on-Demand is a technology, it gathers the demand of commuter (public transport or walking) and urban residents (public spaces) and interprets the spatial requirement and changes the city’s infrastructure accordingly. Thus creating a real-time dynamic system of demand and supply. Making a city smarter by having a demand based supply chain...

Aggregated GSM data in Origin Destination studies

Transportation engineering is founded on the availability and abundance of data in order to model, forecast and analyse traffic and mobility movements in general. Especially on the macroscopic level, e.g., for the whole of the Netherlands, the data requirements are very big. An innovative source of data is GSM data. Analysing these data is an...