Sustainable Value Drivers: A research on the added value of environmental certification in the Dutch office market

A considerable share of the global greenhouse gases is caused by the construction and real estate sector, but the increasing awareness on global climate change within the industry caused the emergence of multiple voluntary environmental certifications. The effects of environmental certification on office rents have received considerable...

An Empirical Analysis of InCoder on the Statement Prediction Task

Automatic code completions are a widely used feature when programming code efficiently. These completions can be made by various code language models, and these can be differentiated in three categories: single token completion, statement (line) completion and block completions. These completions, and in particular statement predictions are...

An Empirical Estimation on the Impact of Freight Traffic on the Capacity Drop

In recent years, the amount of traffic on the highways has increased continuously and in particular freight traffic. Despite solutions to maximize roadway capacity, the drop of capacity after congestions sets in, remains an active field of study. The influence of freight traffic on traffic flow has received little attention, especially regarding...

Performance evaluation of surrogate measures of safety with naturalistic driving data

Surrogate measures of safety (SMoS) play an important role in detecting traffic conflicts and in traffic safety assessment. However, the underlying assumptions of SMoS are different and a certain SMoS may be adequate/inadequate for different applications. A comprehensive approach to evaluate the validity and applicability of SMoS is lacking...

Behavioural analysis and modelling of family gathering during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami evacuation

The conventional evacuation modelling assumes that that family members are to be together in the face of tsunamis and evacuate as a household or each person evacuate individually. This assumption, however, can cause an inaccurate prediction when taking family gathering behaviour into account, which was reported to have occurred during the 2011...

Empirical analysis of Service Locations at NedTrain: A closer look at the stabling and handling capacity

NedTrain, the train maintenance subsidiary of NS, has 33 Service Locations across the Netherlands. At those locations, trains are checked, repaired, washed, cleaned and stabled around the clock. Due to a higher demand for service in the upcoming years, as a result of the purchase of many new trains, the capacity of those locations is not...

Possible Governance Structures for Dealing with Transitions in Mobility: A case study on Intelligent Mobility for the Greater Copenhagen area

The transport market is changing and new technologies and services are fundamentally changing the way we use trans- portation. The concept of Intelligent Mobility promises to put users and their experience at the heart of service with mobility services being built around them. The Greater Copenhagen area in Denmark is experiencing these changes...

Information Propagation in Peer-to-Peer Networking: Modeling and Empirical Studies

Although being a young technology, peer-to-peer (P2P) networking has spurred dramatic evolution on the Internet over the recent twenty years. Unlike traditional server-client mode, P2P networking applications are user-centric. Users (peers) generate their own content and share it with others across the Internet. Be it a P2P file-sharing network,...

Bifurcations in finite element models with a non-associated flow law