Adoption of Dutch Cycling Practices in The National Capital Region of India by Using Technological Innovation Systems Framework

Cycling is a type of recreational activity that is rarely utilized for everyday travel needs except in some countries such as the Netherlands. Health can be improved as a result of increased mobility, and by encouraging people to use public transit or cycles instead of their automobiles, traffic jams, and pollution may be reduced. The adoption...

Estimation of an Activity-Based Model to evaluate Sustainable Mobility Policies in the Netherlands

The transition towards greener mobility will play a significant role in decarbonizing the economy. Hence, policy makers need tools that allow them to test alternatives towards that goal. This drive has led to the development of increasingly accurate transport models, with the latest generation being activity-based transport demand models. These...

A Concept and Vision for Mercedes EQ: Reimagining our Time Spent in Sustainable Luxury Cars in 2035

As new technologies will allow for a new kind of driving there is room for implementing innovative interior architecture in future luxury cars. The main goal for this master thesis was to find out what a user truly needs in a Mercedes EQ interior for a level 4 autonomous driving vehicle in a context around the year 2035. Furthermore, the design...

Governance, COVID responses, and lessons on decision-making in uncertainty

This chapter introduces governance as the ruleset that stakeholders work with when making decisions, in this on how to deal with COVID crisis in public transport. This chapter looks at several countries and the way in which their decisions, shared between authorities (health and transport) and operators, have shaped the effects on ridership. In...

A design vision and strategy for a user-centred high quality public transport network in 2040

The high quality public transport network implemented by R-net, short for Randstadnet, follows a product formula on multiple public transport modalities (bus, tram, metro, and train) and acts as a quality mark. R-net is a collaboration between six public transport authorities and nine operators. However, currently R-net is confusing the...

Exploring preferences in the Netherlands for MaaS mobility packages, as a transportation alternative for short-distance trips: A Stated Preference Experiment: Mobility as a Service

Cities of the Netherlands are the driving forces to develop and encompass a cluster of markets that boost productivity. In recent times, cities have tended to demonstrate the rapid transformation, more spatially dispersed and growing in demand for transportation. Reasonably, all the trips done intra-city are short-distance trips (i.e. trips less...

The Path to the Playground

Linear, non-linear, bi-directional? Testing the nature of the relationship between mobility and satisfaction with life

Travel is one of the most important facilitators of life and has been widely acknowledged as a prerequisite for economic and social activity. Research developing in recent decades has found that limitations to mobility and accessibility can reduce satisfaction with life. To date, research in this field assumes a linear and one-way...

Sustainable Design of Transport Systems: A Transport Design Strategy in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake considering the trends of Shrinking Cities and the Aging Society

This research focused on the sustainable design of a regional transport system, by considering the trends of the aging society and shrinking city into its design process. Most developed counties shrink and age, especially Japan, which has major impact towards transportation and land use. Applied is a backcasting approach, which includes these...

The Opportunity in the Vacancy: The Effects of Automobile Dependence in U.S. Cities

Automobile dependence and suburban sprawl have a cyclical compounding relationship. Automobiles require a large amount of space and infrastructure in order to be an effective means of transit. This prompts constructing the urban environment at a lower density, which generates suburban sprawl. The low-density development then requires an...

The Immobile City: Revival of Havana's public transportation system

The almost sixty year Castro regime has driven the island of Cuba into isolation. Infrastructure on the island fully relies on the nation own capacity and since the special period like everything else this is in an overall state of decline. The ongoing neglected state of Cuba's infrastructure, together with a continuous scarcity of resources and...

Kanaän, or the suburb of the polycentric metropolis: using the energy transition in mobility to serve policy initiatives addressing the decline of population

If we do not anticipate for a transport revolution within 10 years, we are forced back to autarkic ways of life. Transport and our built environment are greatly interrelated. What if we could look at transport from the point of urban development? Is it possible to assess why a mode of transport is right for a city based on an urban impact we...

Seoul Bus 2030 - The host: Turning commuting into personal development

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...