Moving in sync: Designing and implementing transport policy packages

Congestion in and pollution by traffic are amongst the most severe and urgent problems faced by both developed and developing countries these days. It is regarded as a "wicked" problem, which implies it is both hard to define the inherent problem and to find adequate measures to deal with. The complexity of transport systems makes it impossible...

A Freight Transport Model for Integrated Network, Service, and Policy Design

“The goal of the European Transport Policy is to establish a sustainable transport system that meets society’s economic, social and environmental needs…” (ECE, 2009). This statement indicates the challenges that the European transport policy makers are faced with when facilitating an increasing freight transport demand with limited transport...

The practice of forward-looking transport Ppolicy assessment studies

New railways? Extra roads? Pricing policies to reduce environmental harmful transport emissions? Politicians face tough choices. What are the costs of these proposals? Will the plan result in the expected impacts? What are the risks of a plan? Who wins, who loses? This thesis is about the Dutch practice of helping public decision-making by...

Time-based logistics: An analysis of the relevance, causes and impacts

Changing consumer behaviour through Eco-efficient Services - An empirical study on Car Sharing in the Netherlands