An Approximate Conflict Detection and Resolution Model for Moving-Block Signalling by Enhancing RECIFE-MILP

Conflict detection and resolution models are being developed to support railway traffic management in taking optimised rescheduling decisions in case of disturbances. Existing models mostly concern fixed-block signalling systems, in which minimum train separation distances are determined based on a preset number of blocks representing worst-case...

Goal-oriented Self-Organization in Railways

This paper reviews the concept of self-organisation as defi ned in diff erent fi elds and attempts to provide a defi nition of goal-oriented self-organization that can be applied in the context of railway traffi c. Based on the provided defi nition a modelling approach for self-organising rail traffi c is then proposed to set the basis for...

Drivers and performance outcomes of generational product innovativeness

Robustness of climate-optimized trajectories and mitigation Potential: flying atm4e

Aviation can reduce its climate impact by controlling its CO2-emission and non-CO2 effects, e.g. aviation-induced contrail-cirrus and ozone caused by nitrogen oxide emissions. One option is the implementation of operational measures which aim to avoid those atmospheric regions that are in particular sensitive to non-CO2 aviation effects, e.g....

How to prepare your River Studies Data for the future with 4TU.Centre for Research Data

Due to the latest funder requirements on data management and Open Data, documenting and managing research data during the research and preparing it for publication gained in importance. Making research data findable and accessible for decades via a trusted and certified data archive – such as 4TU.Centre for Research Data – and therefore enabling...

Opportunities and barriers for asset managers integrating energy flexibility

It is expected that future buildings will be able to manage their demand and generation not only according to local climate conditions and user needs, but also related to changing grid requirements. This development will introduce new challenges regarding asset management, which so far have not been explored. <br/>This innovation adoption...

Improving CRE decision making at Oracle: Implementing the PAS procedure with a brute force approach

Purpose–Alignment of corporate real estate to a corporation’s business strategy is a long-standing issue. In the past multiple models have been developed to support this process, but research shows that they fall short on certain parts of the CRE alignment activity, often lack transparency and fail to choose the real estate strategy that...

What is served for breakfast?: An empirical analysis of CRE strategies and organizational culture

The quote Culture eats strategy for breakfast was made famous by Mark Field, president at Ford, in 2006 and has ever since been a guiding principle in management practice of corporations operating across the globe. General management profession has widely embraced culture as a key factor in strategy design. However, in corporate real estate (CRE...

Meta-Corporate Real Estate Management: Some preliminary thoughts

Purpose: This paper advances the concept of meta-Corporate Real Estate Management (metaCREM) as an adjunct to existing knowledge work in the field. It argues for its existence and relevance, and suggests a number of areas where research with such a focus could occur to advance knowledge in the field.<br/>Method: The method is what might be...

The contribution of disaster management to integrated flood risk management strategies: lessons learned from the Netherlands

An integrated flood risk management (IFRM) strategy consist of a comprehensive set of measures to reduce the risk: protective measures (to reduce the probability of a flood), and land use planning and disaster management (to reduce the consequences of a flood. In the Netherlands this is called a ‘multiple layer safety approach’, other countries...

Real time floodrisk management

The central issue for authorities (as well as the public) is how and when to respond to forecasted extreme water levels on rivers, lakes and along the coast and large-scale flooding is an actual risk. The decision-making process is influenced by contradicting information, overloads and gaps in information, rumours, uncertainties in forecasts,...

Integrated Real Estate Registration and Chinese NSDI to Strengthen the Government Spatial Data Management: Spatial Enablement in the Smart Homeland

The China Government enacted the Provisional Regulations on Real Estate Registration (RER) in July 2015. These regulations were in full operation from the beginning of 2016. In this context, real estate refers to land, sea, houses, trees and other fixed objects which have spatial distribution and are subject to social and economic activities in...

Measuring the added value in Corporate Real Estate alignment by using the Preference-based Accommodation Strategy design procedure

One of the long-standing issues in the field of corporate real estate corporate strategy. Extensive research into existing approaches brought valuable insights into steps, components and variables that are needed in the alignment process. Despite that, it is not clear if existing approaches had much uptake in practice and they fall short in a...

Smart tools on campus: a literature study connecting real estate management objectives and positioning technologies

One of the long-standing issues in the field of corporate real estate management is the alignment of an organisation’s real estate to its corporate strategy. Despite extensive research, existing approaches have not had much uptake in practice and fall short in a number of aspects (H 2011). The hypothesis in this paper is that indoor positioning...

Balancing Waste Water Treatment Plant Load Using Branch and Bound

The problem of smoothing dry weather inflow variations for<br/>a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) that receives sewage from<br/>multiple mixed sewer systems is presented, together with a first rough<br/>solution algorithm. A simplification followed by a naive translation into<br/>a zero-one linear programming problem results in 1152...

Weshareit: A Nexus Approach To Nile Basin Water Resources Management