Business case optimisation for the development of energy neutral residential neighbourhoods: Linear programming applied in a decision support tool for business case optimisation of multi-actor decision-making processes in the realization of energy neutral residential neighbourhoods consisting of all-electric, single-family and owner-occupied dwellings from the viewpoint of the real estate developer

Context – The stricter regulations on energy-efficient developments to prevent climate change and resource depletion, the expected rising energy prices and hence the rising monthly living costs for households, the changing process in urban area development, the demand for housing in the western part of the Netherlands and the increasing...

A sustainable procurement policy proposal for distribution system operators

The environmental and social impact of the energy generation and distribution industry on the biosphere is negative or unknown due to a lack of supply chain transparency. For electricity and gas distribution system operators (DSOs), the opportunity to contribute significantly to more environmental and social sustainable development in the energy...

Maintenance Optimization of Tidal Energy Arrays: Design of a Probabilistic Decision Support Tool for Optimizing the Maintenance Policy

The increasing demand for electricity offers many opportunities for renewable energy production, of which one alternative is tidal stream energy. Several feasibility studies have shown that the global tidal stream energy potential can contribute significantly to producing renewable energy. This tidal energy can mostly be produced at the 'tidal...

Planning for operational crowd management

People are becoming more mobile and enterprising. They go to events or go shopping, which means they walk and they are not alone. Especially in larger cities or at events it can get very crowded, which is accompanied by risks. To guarantee the safety of pedestrians, crowd management has to be applied. Knowledge about crowd management is...

Accelerating the urban energy transition by data analytics

The aim of this study is to express the impacts of building-related sustainability measures in a generic set of performance indicators, exploiting fine-grained city data. A data enrichment method is described for energy consumption data and municipal administration data, that gives accurate estimations of the current energy performance of...

Publishing Privacy Sensitive Open Data using an Automated Decision Support System

In recent years, the idea of Open Data has gained popularity, mainly due to the initiative of the president of the USA, Barack Obama. He started a promotion campaign for an Open Government and ordered government data to be made available as Open Data. In essence, Open Data is data published online which can be used and republished without...

A Decision Model For Strategic Alignment In Supply Networks: A Case From Apparel Industry

In today’s highly competitive market, it is very difficult for companies to stay successful in the market. While manufacturing methods have improved in last fifty years, competition is taking place at the level of whole supply chain rather than production only. Accordingly, the apparel industry which has long and complicated supply network needs...