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den Bakker, Yvonne (author)E-mobility, in particular electric vehicles (EVs), play a crucial role in the energy transition. While businesses are increasingly adopting EVs, there is still a lot of opportunity to grow. One aspect of this growth is the way these vehicles are used by companies, especially when it comes to the logistics of EV charging. To encourage companies...master thesis 2024
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Koopal, Wisse (author)Purpose - With the short term need to reduce direct CO2 emissions of trucks in distribution processes, this paper aims to provide an easy to implement solution approach for distribution processes of new cars from holistic perspective. Scarce emphasizes is provided on short-term alternatives in truck-based distribution processes and approaches...master thesis 2024
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Bestebreur, Timon (author)The versatility of the internet enables many applications that play an increasingly bigger role in our society. However, users have little control over the route that their internet traffic takes, which prevents them from controlling who sees their packets and how their traffic is handled. Researchers have proposed an extension to the internet,...master thesis 2024
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Janus, Steyn (author)This study presents an innovative algorithm designed to optimise the layout of floating offshore wind farms (FOWFs), addressing inter-array cable length and the number of anchor structures required. This research is particularly noteworthy as no prior work has been conducted on wind farm layout optimisation for FOWFs. The Local-Search-Inspired...master thesis 2024
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Verlinde, Lander (author)The role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, in society continues to become more significant every day, both in everyday life and in military operations. The extent to which unmanned vehicles are used for both offensive as well as reconnaissance missions is at an all-time high. To expand the number of operational...student report 2024
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de Vries, Bo (author)In our thesis, we conducted an in-depth exploration of the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public sector decision-making, focusing particularly on AI case routing for welfare benefits allocation. Initially, our research was guided by a techno-optimistic viewpoint, presuming that municipalities would inherently benefit from AI...master thesis 2024
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Kockelkoren, Michiel (author)In recent years, the deployment of ground-based mobile robots has gained more and more interest in various domains. In contrast to other types of mobile robots, legged robots can traverse irregular terrains, climb stairs, and step over obstacles. However, these unique properties intensify the energy demand and require highly advanced perception...master thesis 2024
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de Britto Heemskerk, Roderick (author)Intention aware routing system is a route-planning algorithm for electric vehicles that minimizes overall travel time by taking into consideration congestion at charging stations. This thesis extends this algorithm to allow choices to be made based on prices at charging stations. The goal of this thesis is to find a way to minimize maximum...bachelor thesis 2024
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Bijvoet, Bas (author)This study focuses on two-echelon synchronized logistics in a multimodal distribution network for integrated road-based and waterborne transportation motivated by practical city logistics challenges. To evaluate the feasibility and requirements of a multimodal transport system as a potential future logistics solution for supplying hotels,...master thesis 2023
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van Gisbergen, Daan (author)This thesis explores waiting and rebalancing strategies in urban waterborne transport, intending to improve the efficiency and operational performance of water transportation systems. The study is based on a review of the literature on waterborne transport and waiting and rebalancing strategies. This is followed by a case study where the found...master thesis 2023
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Guo, Jiayi (author)With the steadily increasing road traffic demand, congestion on freeways has become a major problem. With the development of communication technology and automated vehicles, there are more opportunities for DTMs to be studied extensively at the coordination level and cooperation level. In the existing literature, the coordination of RM (ramp...master thesis 2023
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van den Broek, Sanne (author)With advancements in the photovoltaics (PV) market, involving increased PV module efficiency and reduced costs, the logical progression is the integration of PV into various surfaces, including vehicles (VIPV). For a driving VIPV, the constant change in irradiance presents a significant challenge. The location, weather, and time are key factors...master thesis 2023
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Rietveld, Mike (author)Efficient distribution is crucial in many industries today, especially in retail, where customer demand grows rapidly. The rise of online shopping and automation has led to a shift towards using Central Distribution Centers (CDCs). Retailers are part of this trend, which requires them to rethink how they handle their distribution. This study...master thesis 2023
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Tijsma, Feike (author)In the competitive offshore wind installation market, contractors like DEME strive to optimize operations. This thesis centers on the optimization of the support vessel fleet composition, which consist of a num- ber of walk to work vessels, and are a crucial part of inter-array cable installation. By fine-tuning this composition, operational...master thesis 2023
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Oosterbaan, Robin (author)Lely is developing a tethered manure applicator robot, designed to work on the fields of farms. This vehicle called the Jojo, is constrained in its movement due to the attached tether. It can not make tight turns and can only reverse by backtracking the driven path. This thesis explores the path planning issue and provides a novel solution. The...master thesis 2023
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Tutuarima, Willemijn (author)When a crime is committed, the task of the regional control rooms is to use the available situational information to identify the possible movements of a fugitive suspect to use in positioning police units. Currently, the methods to do this rely heavily on the intuition and experience of the control room employees and the speed of technology and...master thesis 2023
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Hemler, Frederique (author)Velotech Solutions (VTS) is a company specialised in detecting damages in public spaces, such as road damages, non-working light posts or crooked traffic signs. This detection happens by bike or by car, and covers every street in the city or neighbourhood. The routes for navigation are currently created by hand. In this thesis, a proposal is...bachelor thesis 2023
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Routing and Wavelength Assignment Methods in WDM Optical Networks Based on Multi-Layer Graph MetricsJin, Yuhui (author)Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) has been a widely-used multiplexing technique in large-scale optical telecommunication networks during the past few decades. Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is a fundamental process that involves determining the optimal path (routing) and assigning specific wavelengths to incoming data streams to...master thesis 2023
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Venkataraman, Gautham (author)Solving routing problems efficiently is instrumental in minimizing operational costs in logistics. These routing problems are hard to solve and often take a lot of time to find a good solution. In this thesis, we present a methodology that tackles the challenge of efficiently solving recurring instances of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time...master thesis 2023
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Powałka, Leon (author)Creating GPS art on the map is an interesting way to make one’s outdoor activity more engaging. Cyclists, runners and hikers can create impressive drawings on the map by traversing the road/pedestrian network in a carefully planned way. Such planning, however, is often tedious and time consuming, which makes the GPS artists have to meticulously...master thesis 2023