Pre-Conditions for collaborative Port Call Optimization: An Empirical Study and Conceptual Model

Collaborative Port Call Optimization (PCO) is a key strategy to improve port efficiency. This study aims to bridge existing research gaps by providing a holistic understanding of collaborative PCO adoption, emphasizing the complexities of multi-organization collaboration and the influence of emerging technologies within the nautical chain and...

Operational Resilience: Backup Strategies for Crisis Management in the Age of Ransomware

Increasing digitalization of systems bring about the grand challenge of keeping these systems secure from malicious prying eyes, and thus highlighting the need for increased Cybersecurity practices. Ransomware is among the most prevalent cybersecurity threats in our current digital era. The attacks are mainly done by advanced persistent threats ...

Encouraging young agricultural entrepreneurs to make sustainable decisions

The objective of this project is to design a product or product-service combination to encourage agricultural entrepreneurs to make sustainable decisions based on their decision-making process. This assignment was set up in collaboration with LTO Noord and the DAW to find what is withholding farmers from implementing sustainable agricultural...

Barriers of small-scale hydropower in the Netherlands

One of the biggest current challenges for Earth and humanity is climate change. To lower the impact of already existing effects and decrease potential future effects of rising temperatures, countries have decided on actions with the goal of keeping the temperature rise no higher than 1.5°C. One part of those actions is a transition in the energy...

Promoting the Application of Off-Site Construction in China’s Residential Building Industry from the Angle of Ecosystem

Off-site construction (OSC) is an innovative construction method. However, OSC is not widely applied in residential buildings due to many barriers. Therefore, this paper aims to unravel this puzzle and interpret the slow development of OSC. The paper develops a new analytical lens based on the ecosystem concept. By deconstructing some ecosystem...

DORA: Friend or Foe: A Qualitative Study into the Perceptions of the Financial Sector in the EU on the Expectation of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

The rapid development of technology gives many opportunities but brings threats as well. The digitization of the financial sector has made the threat for cyber attacks significant. Cyber attacks such as the Petya virus or the Wannacry attack have exposed the vulnerability of the critical infrastructure. The financial sector is especially prone...

Northern European Enclosure Dam: Success and failure factors for a very radical innovation

It is becoming increasingly clear that the current climate policy is not beneficial to our planet. Climate change is having several negative effects on the planetary environment and its health (Rig- not et al., 2011). Among these negative effects is the rise of the seawater level (Jevrejeva et al., 2014). Efforts are being made to counter this...

Preferences for Indoor Environmental and Social Comfort of Outpatient Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic, an Explanatory Study

While the pressure on hospital workers keeps growing, they are generally more dissatisfied with their comfort than other occupants in hospitals or offices. To better understand the comfort of outpatient workers in hospitals, clusters for preferences and perceptions of the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and social comfort were identified in a...

Driving examiners’ views on data-driven assessment of test candidates: An interview study

Vehicles are increasingly equipped with sensors that capture the state of the driver, the vehicle, and the environment. These developments are relevant to formal driver testing, but little is known about the extent to which driving examiners would support the use of sensor data in their job. This semi-structured interview study examined the...

Energy carriers that contribute to a zero-emission container terminal: A simulation-based research on ECT's automated guided vehicle fleet

The brownfield container terminal at the Maasvlakte aims at realizing a zero-emission vehicle fleet to strive for its aim to be zero-emission by 2040. Therefore, the research question is as follows: “What are the consequences for costs and operational performance of implementing mature renewable energy carriers for AGVs at the container...

How do drivers merge heavy goods vehicles onto freeways?: A semi-structured interview unveiling needs for communication and support

Freeway merging of heavy goods vehicles (HGV) is a safety–critical manoeuvre. However, at present, it is largely unknown how HGV drivers perceive and execute the merging manoeuvre, and how current advanced driver support and automation systems (ADAS) contribute. We performed semi-structured in-depth interviews with 15 HGV drivers to assess...

Smart Mobility in the Netherlands: Road authorities' perspectives on obstacles and opportunities in the 2018-2023 time frame

There is a need for a more efficient use of existing infrastructure to improve the accessibility, liveability and safety of Dutch cities, metropolitan areas and provinces. A projected solution to growing mobility issues is Smart Mobility.<br/><br/>From a scientific perspective, research has only been performed on the possible effects of Smart...

Identifying the barriers for diffusion of stationary car sharing in the Netherlands using an innovation system approach

Privately owned cars are causing negative externalities like pollution, CO2 emissions and extensive use of public space. Car sharing can be seen as a solution to reduce these negative externalities. Still, a rapid transition from privately owned cars to shared cars is not taking place, given the number of shared cars in the Netherlands. An...