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van Leiden, Jarno (author)Climate change is intensifying severe weather and flood hazards, putting riverfront residents at growing risk. Although existing public flood defences like dikes and nature-based solutions offer protection, recent events like those in Limburg in 2021 highlight the need to address flood risk at the homeowner level. With the expectation that...master thesis 2023
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de Vette, Willem (author)The growth of e-commerce has increased the demand for last-mile delivery. This increased demand<br/>poses the sector of last-mile delivery with challenges such as traffic congestion, route optimization and environmental concerns. Delivery to a Service Point or a Parcel Locker, self-collection alternatives, have to potential to address these...master thesis 2023
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van Vliet, Job (author)The growing demand for parcel deliveries is causing significant problems for freight logistics, particularly in cities. The increasing number of delivery vehicles leads to traffic congestion, high emissions, and rising costs. To address these problems, new and sustainable delivery methods must be implemented for<br/>the parcel last-mile. However...master thesis 2023
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Insinger, Emma (author)This thesis addresses the issue of teacher shortages in Dutch primary education. The first section of the study encompasses a multi-actor analysis of the Primary Education sector and provides a comprehensive overview of the recent efforts to reduce the teacher shortage. <br/>Next, utilising Q-methodology, profiles of three types of teachers are...master thesis 2023
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Gonzales Pecho, Hillary (author)Climate change is a topic being addressed by many countries worldwide. One of the most recent treaties is the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 by 196 parties, where they agree on a common goal: restrict global warming to be climate-neutral by 2050. Peru by being one of the signing parties that played a relevant role before and during the Paris...master thesis 2023
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Prevaes, Matthijs (author)Where water flows, prosperity follows.<br/><br/>Many prosperous areas around the world are situated near large bodies of water such as oceans, seas, and rivers. These bodies of water play a vital role in enhancing the prosperity of societies through various means. They provide convenient access to transportation, food, recreation, and many other...master thesis 2023
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Holster, Rolien (author)Cycling has gained popularity worldwide, but little is known about the choice behaviour of people searching for a bicycle parking spot in the city centre. Formal parking spaces provided in the city centre are currently often underutilised, whilst many people use fly parking, which causes nuisance. This thesis aims to identify the most effective...master thesis 2023
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Urban, Marcin (author)This paper fills in the research gap about understanding to what extent does commercial co-living match user preferences of young adults in The Netherlands. The existing literature primarily focuses on analysing user choices, while this study examines the revealed preferences of young adults specifically regarding co-living arrangements. By...master thesis 2023
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Xuan, Yuhao (author)Negotiation Support Systems (NSSs) can provide help based on the preference setting (domain, issue weights, issue ranking, strategies, etc.) of the users of the systems. However, sometimes the users of the systems might make mistakes in the preference setting. With wrong preferences, the NSSs might provide suggestions that conflict with the...master thesis 2023
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den Hollander, Babette (author)During the influx to mass events in the past, situations have regularly arisen that people experienced as unpleasant or even unsafe. Nowadays, many researchers focus on regulating this influx by influencing travel choices, where only little attention is paid to travellers’ preferences. This research identifies the preferences of different type...master thesis 2023
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AMBROSE, JONATHAN (author)Educational technologies play a critical role in the European action plan to strengthen digital literacy skills by 2027 and solve Grand Challenges related to work and education by 2030, as the global community shifts increasingly into the Digital Age. Four technology types are examined: face-to-face, online, hybrid or blended, and video learning...master thesis 2023
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Hamida, A.B. (author), Eijkelenboom, A.M. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Research has shown that students differ in their preferences of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and psychosocial aspects of their study places. Since previous studies have mainly focused on identifying these preferences rather than investigating the different profiles of students, this study aimed at profiling students based on their IEQ and...journal article 2023
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Hamida, A.B. (author), Zhang, D. (author), Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Sounds (e.g., human activity, nature, building systems) are one of the indoor environmental stimuli that may have positive and/or negative effects on students’ well-being and performance in educational buildings. Students in educational buildings have individual acoustical preferences and needs as portrayed by occupant-related indicators, for...journal article 2023
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Cebeci, M.S. (author), Tapia, Rodrigo Javier (author), Kroesen, M. (author), de Bok, M.A. (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)The fast growth of e-commerce in urban areas has led to a surge in last-mile transportation demand and an associated increase of external effects: congestion, noise and visual pollution. This paper analyses a new urban freight transport service that has a potential to reduce this footprint: crowdshipping. Crowdshipping is a service where a...journal article 2023
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Smeele, Nicholas V.R. (author), Chorus, C.G. (author), Schermer, Maartje H.N. (author), de Bekker-Grob, Esther W. (author)Background: Discrete choice models (DCMs) for moral choice analysis will likely lead to erroneous model outcomes and misguided policy recommendations, as only some characteristics of moral decision-making are considered. Machine learning (ML) is recently gaining interest in the field of discrete choice modelling. This paper explores the...review 2023
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Yap, M.D. (author), Wong, Howard (author), Cats, O. (author)It is important to understand how public transport passengers value on-board crowding since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main contribution of this study is to derive the crowding valuation of public transport passengers in a post-pandemic era entirely based on observed, actual passenger route choices. We derive passengers’...journal article 2023
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Bithas, Kostas (author), Latinopoulos, Dionysis (author), Mentis, Charalampos (author), Chatzivasileiadis, T. (author)The present study attempts to evaluate an allegedly promising instrument of environmental policy: public information campaigns for raising awareness, as reflected by enhanced environmental preferences. We evaluate an intensive campaign addressing plastic pollution in a coastal and marine environment, an issue of high environmental importance...journal article 2023
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Hoobroeckx, Tom (author), Cats, O. (author), Shelat, S. (author), Molin, E.J.E. (author)Free-floating (e-)moped sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular and provide new ways of travel in urban areas. The vehicles offer the flexibility of one-way transportation, though the downside for service providers of free-floating shared fleet systems is that their operations may result in a spatial-temporal imbalance of the...journal article 2023
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Yildirim, Ahmet Burak (author), Sunman, Nezih (author), Aydoğan, Reyhan (author)The International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition introduces a new challenge each year to facilitate the research on agent-based negotiation and provide a test benchmark. ANAC 2020 addressed the problem of designing effective agents that do not know their users’ complete preferences in addition to their opponent’s negotiation strategy...conference paper 2023
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Wong, Howard (author), Yap, M.D. (author)Understanding the passenger demand impacts of public transport service changes is a fundamental aspect of transport planning. The main objective of this study is to derive an updated Generalised Journey Time (GJT) elasticity for urban and metropolitan public transport networks, by applying a revealed preference approach using individual...journal article 2023