Preferences of potential residents for car-reduced neighbourhoods

Many cities are planning car-reduced neighbourhoods, to provide more housing and stimulate sustainable mobility. Nonetheless, it is important to know what potential residents value, to be able to attract them. This study investigated the preferences of potential residents regarding the accessibility of car-reduced neighbourhoods, available...

Mobile tracking application that supports people making sustainable mobility decisions

This project is in collaboration with a start-up company: Thrivey. The product produced by Thrivey is an automatic tracking application (mobility tracker), also named Thrivey, that can track the movement of the user when they carry their smartphone with them. Furthermore, the future vision of Thrivey is to expand its user group and promote more...

Techno-economic Analysis of Sustainable Aviation Fuels by Using Traffic Forecasts and Fuel Price Projections: A Case Study at TUI Aviation

This research focused on the techno-economic implementation of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). Carbon reduction in commercial aviation could be done via four key levers; technological efficiency improvement (aircraft or engine replacement), operational efficiency improvement (air traffic management or airline operations), the implementation of...

A strategic roadmap for DHL towards a sustainable last mile delivery solution for cities in 2030: A customer centred design approach for a last-mile delivery solution in 2030

The e-commerce market is growing rapidly in the last decade. The growth of this industry is causing several challenges. These include a larger number of parcels delivered at service points and the CO2 emitted in the parcel delivery. Especially the last mile delivery is a CO2 intensive process. The sector is innovating to reduce their emissions,...

Data driven sustainable mobility analysis in the city of Amsterdam

This research focuses on the analysis of Floating Car Data (FCD) data to understand sustainable transportation behavior in the area of Amsterdam. Using data collected by mobile devices, trips are analyzed by their distance and transportation method. Sustainability is a relevant factor to the social and scientific community. With increasing...

An Innovation Approach Towards Sustainable Mobility in 2035

The world is facing its limits in terms of climate change, scarcity of resources, and pollution. While there is a rising population with a rising demand for mobility, the limits of nature affecting society need to be considered. Avoiding mobility completely seems to be challenging considering a more globalized world, where everything is...

Towards New Urban Mobility: Preparing for the driverless future through multi-agent systems

Research. World’s population is increasingly urban with more than half living in urban areas. Cities will keep growing, they will become increasingly polluted and gridlocked, damaging inhabitants’ health and making it hard for them to get around. Mobility is one of the key-drivers for creating a livable future city because the urban lay-out is...

Accommodating the Green Gas Infrastructure for Road Traffic: A feasibility and conceptual design study of a new distribution system for (Bio-)CNG

The emergence of green gas is a promising development within the Dutch gas market. Green gas is biogas with natural gas quality and can lead to a significant (up to 70%) greenhouse gas reduction. It therefore contributes to several sustainable energy targets and might partly solve some economical and geopolitical issues within the gas market....