Living along the highway

Recent researches indicate that in the Netherlands a trend is to be noticed in people moving to cities, which are denser areas, due to the fact that these provide easy access to facilities and mobility. Areas along highways provide the necessary space for expansion, but as these areas are highly polluted by noise and air pollution, a careful...

Noise minimization on houses around airports

This thesis was a combined project of the CWI (the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands) and the NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands). In this thesis we examine noise pollution around airports. Given an airport we will consider the problem maximizing the number of flights, while...