Urban Scenes of a Port City: Exploring Beautiful İzmir through Narratives of Cosmopolitan Practices

This dissertation is an invitation to the reader to explore Güzel İzmir / Beautiful İzmir in Turkey. Through three different semi-fictional narratives, it aims to draw attention to specific and singular spaces as they were recorded and remembered through old postcards, black and white photographs, stories, and written travelogues in the past...

Container transport inside the port area and to the hinterland

This thesis discusses the connection between container terminals and the hinterland railway system. Mathematical models are proposed to formulate the various relevant operations and methods are developed to provide solutions to improve the system performance. This thesis could provide suggestions to decision maker(s) regarding to the improvement...

Strategic Modeling of Global Container Transport Networks: Exploring the future of port-hinterland and maritime container transport networks

Uncertainties in future global trade flows due to changes in trade agreements, transport technologies or sustainability policies, will affect the patterns of global freight transport and, as a consequence, also affect the demand for major freight transport infrastructures such as ports and hinterland networks. Policy makers face the challenge of...

The Flexible Port

Ports are beset with many uncertainties about their futures. They are confronted with new demands in terms of functions and scales, new external constraints, and changed expectations. The inability to adequately meet these demands can mean costly adaptations for a port, or loss of cargo and competitive position. A plausible reason is that the...

On sedimentation processes in a stratified estuarine system

Dynamic Positioning of Ships: A nonlinear control design study

Dynamic positioning (DP) is relatively a new technique used to maintain the position and heading of ships in various offshore operations. Due to the features like better safety and operating efficiency, DP systems are becoming more and more popular. This thesis mainly focusses on the control system design part of the DP system. The theoretical...

A History of Quay Walls: Techniques, types, costs and future

Zeehavenontwikkeling in Nederland: Naar een beter beleidsvormingsproces

Sea Ports are of vital importance to the Dutch economy. If port expansion is perceived necessary by the port authorities, they contact local public authorities (i.e. Mayor & Aldermen). Besides the authorities, most other stakeholders recognize port expansion as a basic need as well. Port planning is carried out according to the procedures of...

Strategy as Force: Towards Effective Strategies for Urban Development Projects: The Case of Rotterdam CityPorts

In European urban development practices, there is a recurring need for new perspectives that provide insight into the complexity involved in the realization of projects. This need exists particularly around prestigious projects, where the tension between planning ambitions on the one hand, and the reality of conflicting interests and tight...

Behaviour of moored ships in harbours

Ports are more and more planned directly facing the ocean. Breakwaters are built to protect the berths against ocean waves. However, protection against long waves, mainly associated with wave groups at the ocean, is much more difficult. Calculations should be performed in the design stage of the port to verify whether the motions of the moored...

Port investment: Towards an integrated planning of port capacity

This study supports strategic planning of a node in a transportation network. It contributes to this by the development of a methodology for planning of port capacity in which port-commercial and public interests are integrated. The focus is the reaction of a single port on a change in the transportation network. A scenario for such change,...

Origin and prediction of seiches in Rotterdam harbour basins

This thesis focuses on the harbour oscillations that occasionally occur in certain basins of the Port of Rotterdam. Such standing waves, called seiches, need to be taken into account in this harbour area for the design of water protection works (such as dykes) and for the closure management of a movable storm surge barrier, located along the...

Testing multi-port memories: Theory and practice