LRFP : Extending local routing protocols in layer 2 networks with a secure fee model

Blockchains like Bitcoin are known to be victim of scalability issues. The lack in high throughput and low latency form a great bottleneck to its network. A promis- ing solution are layer 2 protocols, more precisely payment channel networks (PCN). Payment success rates are a common metric in these networks. These rates can be in- creased by...

Strategies towards effective emission reduction of the inland shipping industry in the port of Rotterdam: Using a mixed-integer linear programming model

Currently, the inland shipping industry is not sufficiently incentivised to invest in sustainable technologies in order to reduce their emissions. The industry itself wants to be more sustainable, but there is insufficient financial room to invest in alternative technologies. Besides, public authorities try to achieve a reduction using command...

Examination of insurer fees by means of life expectancy

In the Netherlands, the pension regulation consists of three pillars. The first pillar consists of the basic state pension called AOW (algemene ouderdomswet), which is meant to provide a financial foundation for every person. At the moment, the yearly AOW contribution for a retired person is somewhere between 10.000 and 15.000, depending on...

Efficiency Comparison of Various Parking Charge Schemes Considering Daily Travel Cost in a Linear City

In this paper, we introduce a new duration dependent parking fee regime based on the travel cost for an entire day, rather than a single commute trip. Commuters are assumed to reside at one end of a linear city and work in a business center at the other end. A two-stage differential method is used to derive user equilibrium travel patterns for...