Passenger valuation of interchanges in urban public transport

Understanding how passengers perceive public transport interchanges is important to better explain current public transport mode and route choice behaviour and to better predict future demand levels. In this study we derive how passengers value a public transport interchange in a metropolitan context entirely based on recent, large-scale,...

Seamless bi-modal passenger transfers: Combining air travel with already available, more sustainable modalities

Short-haul planes leaving Amsterdam Airport Schiphol are criticized and/or disliked by many groups, including society, the government, and Actieagenda trein en luchtvaart 2020 (Rijksoverheid, 2020). Due to public opinion and political pressure, the airport is challenged to improve its sustainability. Since the airport relies heavily on hub...

The Potential of Unconventional Intersections & Interchanges to Improve Traffic Flow and Traffic Safety in the Netherlands

The Netherlands faces the challenge, especially in the coming years, of coping with the continuous increase in traffic volumes and reducing the number of road casualties. A way to tackle this challenge is by constructing unconventional (American) designs, which aim to reduce travel time and improve traffic safety by rerouting left-turns. This...

A critical assessment of the Flory-Huggins (FH) theory to predict aqueous two-phase behaviour

This article provides an analysis on published models used to calculate phase separation in aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) based on Flory-Huggins (FH) theory, in terms of problem formulation and mathematical solving algorithm. An integrated algorithm is presented, showing different mathematical approaches of using the FH theory. The algorithm...

HyperHub Public Transport Interchange Station, Complex Projects Graduation Studio Design: HyperHub Interchange Station of the Future

The project is about designing of a Hyperloop transfer Hub for the future, or as I call it, a Hyperhub. Therefore, a lot of (high)speed train stations have been analyzed as well as international oriented transfer hubs, such as airports and terminals. Due to the position taken in the first stage of the design process, also significant research...

How do drivers negotiate horizontal ramp curves in system interchanges in the Netherlands?

On interchanges there are higher probabilities of risky situations compared to uninterrupted motorway sections due to increased speed variability and higher frequency of lane-changes. In this study, we focus on understanding and modelling drivers’ longitudinal speed behavior when negotiating horizontal ramp curves in interchanges in the...

The Landscape in the Gradient: ReEnvisioning the In-between: The Case of Lisbon Metropolis

The thesis explores design methods to integrate social-ecological and morphological relationships of the<br/>peri-urban areas into one network by using existing altered systems on site. The course of the research is mainly focused on the questionable relation of these in-between landscapes with the urban and rural realm and their future...

Travel Survey Design and Description of Multimodal Trips

A majority of the trips are made by just one transport mode that is mostly the car, walking, or –in some countries– the bicycle. For a small proportion of the trips, generally a few percent, two or more modes are used. The latter include particularly trips where a collective mode (e.g. bus, train, airplane) is the main mode and the trip distance...

Modernizing Public Transport Interchanges: Rotterdam Centraal Case Study

This article provides an overview of the aims, topics, findings and main deliverables of the EU-funded NODES project. The NODES project investigates and evaluates tools that support the innovative design and operation of new or upgraded efficient urban transport interchanges. The key topics that are addressed in the project are illustrated by...

Urban vertical agriculture

The project is located in Kleipolder, Rotterdam. Kleinpolder is the largest 3D interchange of the Netherlands, and it was built in the 60’s. The project aims at, firstly, inserting a harmonious design that fits into the site, which can transform the interchange in a vertical green farm without losing the interchange’s characters; secondly,...

Developing A Priority-Based Decision Making Mod To Evaluate Geometric Configuration Of Urban Interchanges

The present article involves in evaluation and engineering judgment of various geometric configurations for highway interchanges by considering substantial parameters over the discretion process. The geometric, economical and architectural criteria as the fundamental indicators are divided into related sub-indicators and the total combinations...

Integrating Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Engineering: Formal and Platform Independent Representation of Engineering Rules

Because the amount of knowledge in the engineering domain nowadays is huge, while being opaque, heterogeneous, distributed and informal at the same time, it is incredibly time-consuming for an engineer to find the knowledge (s)he is looking for and to reuse that knowledge. Furthermore, the amount of knowledge is growing exponentially, while the...

Silver Road Design: Elderly Friendly Highway Design

Elderly Friendly Highway Design (EFHD) is done for Rijkswaterstaat. The EFHD project explores elderly drivers’ problems in the driving on highways and makes suggestions to RWS designers so as that they could take into account elderly drivers when designing and rebuilding Dutch highway in the future. Through the literature research, observational...

Alternatieve aansluitingsvormen: Ontwikkeling van een keuzemodel voor de afweging van conventionele en onconventionele aansluitingsvormen op basis van literatuurstudie en microsimulatie

Interchanges are an important element in the road network of the Netherlands. This is where an exchange of traffic between highways and secondary roads is possible. However, not all interchanges are functioning optimally. The main problems that occur around interchanges concern the traffic flow and safety. This research wants to explore the...