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Rempt, Gijs (author)This project tackled two research questions for separate clients. The first question was posed by Livework, a service design agency, which wanted to learn how systemic design principles can be applied in projects aimed at organisational sustainability transformations. The second client, Juvenile Company, a company that designs and manufactures...master thesis 2023
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Avogadro di Cerrione Trotti Bentivogl, Edoardo (author)Baggage as a Service (BaaS) is a new concept that aims to separate baggage from passengers to make air travel more convenient. The study aims to analyze its CO2 footprint with four sub-questions guiding the research. The first sub-question is to identify all relevant elements for the BaaS carbon footprint, while the second aims to create a...master thesis 2023
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Cobussen, Simone (author)This graduation project is carried out for PostNL's XL parcel delivery. PostNL is one of the biggest delivery companies in the Netherlands and one of their departments takes care of XL parcel delivery. This department is called Extra@Home. XL parcels can be seen as non-regular parcels, meaning odd sizes or weights. For Extra@Home, the XL parcel...master thesis 2023
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van Dolderen, Dorien (author)This graduation project explored how the circular economy could be implemented for single-use surgical devices like the endocutter. Design for reprocessing appears to be the best strategy, but modular solutions should be considered when reprocessing the entire device is not feasible. The project followed a transition management approach; a...master thesis 2023
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Wentink, Marije (author)The challenge addressed within this master thesis is to decide on the next focus area for Equip as an early-stage startup regarding new proposition development. Equip is a Fintech startup currently developing a financial coaching platform to be offered to employees paid by their employer. For employers, it is a valuable strategy to improve...master thesis 2023
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Ticheler, Annouk (author)In the global energy transition where the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is needed, wind energy is a growing industry. In the offshore wind industry, Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) are needed to operate and maintain wind farms. To reduce the environmental footprint of SOVs at offshore wind farms, the possibility of battery...master thesis 2023
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Petter, Lilly (author)The constant manipulation of the Dutch delta system and the resulting creation of hard borders between the natural river landscape, the harbor and the city has led to a destabilized delta system(Hein, 2021; Meyer et al., 2015). The spatial and ecological challenges resulting from population growth and the resulting urban growth, as well as...master thesis 2023
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Winiarczyk, Kevin (author)Nowadays, air ducts components for ventilation used in offices, hospitals and schools are made from non-renewable materials mainly sheet metal and plastics. Continuing to feed the high demand of metals is a challenge and could result of depletion of natural resources. This raises the importance to look into renewable resources with a lower...master thesis 2023
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Zhou, H. (author), Dorsman, J.L. (author), Mandjes, M. (author), Snelder, M. (author)Nowadays, many cities are intending to reduce the use of private vehicles. Governments are incorporating new mobility services and are adapting their parking policies to promote a more sustainable mobility, as both strategies are believed to have the potential to reduce private vehicle use. To understand the effects of these strategies, one...journal article 2023
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van der Drift, R. (author), de Haan, J.G. (author), Boelhouwer, P.J. (author)Over the last decade, house prices have increased substantially in nearly all OECD countries. These house price increases frequently coincided with changes in mortgage credit conditions; i.e., decreases in the interest rate and increases in income. This is in line with existing literature, which finds an equilibrium relationship between...journal article 2023
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van t' Veer, R.J. (author), Annema, J.A. (author), Araghi, Yashar (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)A restructuring of the current mobility and transportation system seems to be inescapable, as a result of the increasing urbanization and challenges regarding global sustainability. The concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is regarded by policy-makers as an answer to the needed change. Generally speaking, MaaS is an online platform that...journal article 2023
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Nikghadam, S. (author), Vanga, R. (author), Rezaei, J. (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)Cooperation between vessel service providers can improve the performance of ports. However, the potential impact of such cooperation has not yet been quantitatively addressed in the literature. We present an assessment using a port simulation model where the exchange of information has been made explicit. Cooperation is modelled as information...journal article 2023
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Durand, A.L.M. (author), Zijlstra, Toon (author)Introduction: Special Transport Services (STS), a.k.a. paratransit, help keep people with an impairment mobile. Yet these services face financial and organisational challenges. Public transport (PT) is usually seen as a way to alleviate some of these burdens. In fact, the discussion around the potential for PT to substitute STS has been on...journal article 2023
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Cats, O. (author), Derrible, Sybil (author), Chow, Y.J. (author)This Editorial Note accompanies the special issue devoted to the development of new concepts, theories and methods that address reliability and resilience related to the planning, dynamic operation, and level of service of novel mobility systems. This special issue on ‘Reliability and Resilience of Emerging Mobility Systems’ consists of seven...journal article 2023
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Das, Subasish (author), Tawhidur Rahman, Md (author), Kabir, Nuzhat (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author), Dey, Kakan (author), Mahmud Hossain, Md (author)Children are one of the most vulnerable population groups in traffic crashes. Child safety seats (CSSs) can reduce the severity of crash outcomes for children. The use of CSSs has significantly increased in the U.S. over the last 40 years, but the use of CSSs in popular ridesharing services (RSSs), such as Uber and Lyft, is not widespread. This...journal article 2023
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Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Teigiserová, D.A. (author), Noppers, Frederike (author)This is the English report for the first academic study into the Infrastructure As a Service (IAAS) business model as part of the De Circulaire Weg partnerprogram. This research asks the question: Under what conditions does the applied As a Service model on infrastructure lead or not to a higher level of circularity and lower or equal life cycle...report 2023
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Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle AssessmentMigoni Alejandre, E. (author), Scherer, L.A. (author), Guinée, J.B. (author), Aizen, Marcelo A. (author), Albrecht, Matthias (author), Balzan, Mario V. (author), Bartomeus, Ignasi (author), Clough, Yann (author), van Bodegom, Peter M. (author)While wild pollinators play a key role in global food production, their assessment is currently missing from the most commonly used environmental impact assessment method, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This is mainly due to constraints in data availability and compatibility with LCA inventories. To target this gap, relative pollinator abundance...journal article 2023
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Where should hydrology go? An early-career perspective on the next IAHS Scientific Decade: 2023–2032van Hateren, Theresa C. (author), Jongen, Harro J. (author), Al-Zawaidah, Hadeel (author), Beemster, Joris G.W. (author), Boekee, J. (author), Aerts, J.P.M. (author), Agoungbome, David (author), Meshram, S.M. (author), Walraven, B. (author)This paper shares an early-career perspective on potential themes for the upcoming International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Scientific Decade (SD). This opinion paper synthesizes six discussion sessions in western Europe identifying three themes that all offer a different perspective on the hydrological threats the world...journal article 2023
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Ye, Chang (author)Since the first introduction of 4G in the early 2010s, mobile data traffic has increased significantly, mainly because 4G networks can support more devices, services and applications, as well as greater cellular network coverage. With the advent of the 5G era, the mobile communication system will be further developed. Today, most countries and...master thesis 2022
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Yang, xiaonan (author)In the past decade, food waste has accepted intensive attention from society. It is increasingly acknowledged that approximately one-quarter of the food for human consumption is wasted throughout the food supply chain (Papargyropoulou , 2014). At the Delft University of Technology, It organizes a vast meeting every day in different facilities....master thesis 2022