Publications

Valuing Value in Innovation Ecosystems: How Cross-Sector Actors Overcome Tensions in Collaborative Sustainable Business Model Development

This article aims to uncover the processes of developing sustainable business models in innovation ecosystems. Innovation ecosystems with sustainability goals often consist of cross-sector partners and need to manage ...

Overview SEEV4-city playing field state-of-the-art assessment of smart charging and vehicle 2 Grid services

State-of-the-Art report for SEEV4city

How do EV drivers adapt their charging behavior to battery size and charging capabilities?

Charging station infrastructure is designed to meet the demand of electric vehicle (EV) drivers. Prediction of the necessary supply of charging stations is often a data driven process in which charging patterns from ...

Are urban water bodies really cooling?

Small urban water bodies, like ponds or canals, are often assumed to cool their surroundings during hot periods, when water bodies remain cooler than air during daytime. However, during the night they may be warmer. ...

Moving a Taxi Sector to Become Electric: Characterizing Taxi Drivers Interested in Purchasing a Full Electric Vehicle

Electrification of mobility exceeds personal transport to increasingly focus on particular segments such as city logistics and taxis. These commercial mobility segments have different motives to purchase a full ...

Evaluating Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Policies

The emissions of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, and harmful particles like NOx , SOx and PM are rising (Boden, Marland, & R.J., 2015; Hao, Geng, & Sarkis, 2016). These emissions are proven to be linked to ...

Correction to: Assessment of thermally comfortable urban spaces in Amsterdam during hot summer days

Since it is insufficiently clear to urban planners in the Netherlands to what extent design measures can reduce heat stress and which urban spaces are most comfortable, this study evaluates the impact of shading, ...

Importance of factors driving firms’ decisions on spatial distribution structures

The design of a spatial distribution structure is of strategic importance for companies, to meet required customer service levels and to keep logistics costs as low as possible. Spatial distribution structure ...

Planning nature-based solutions for urban flood reduction and thermal comfort enhancement

As a consequence of climate change and urbanization, many cities will have to deal with more flooding and extreme heat stress. This paper presents a framework to maximize the effectiveness of Nature-Based Solutions ...

SEEV4-city Flexpower 1

The city of Amsterdam set the ambitious target of having local zero emission transport in 2025. To achieve this challenging goal, the network of public charging stations needs to be developed. This expansion will ...

Enhancing Institutional Learning and Embracing Disruptive Interventions as a Bottom-Up Way to Innovate Planning Practice

Amsterdam strives to combat a shortage of homes by launching an ambitious housing development scheme for 32 designated most deprived neighborhoods. After decades of urban renewal projects, the local communities still ...

Street-Level Democracy?

In 2017 the municipality of Amsterdam launched a programme to combat a housing shortage and realise ambitious societal goals for 32 of its most deprived neighbourhoods. After decades of urban renewal projects, these ...

Stimulating entrepreneurs to make use of waste streams

E-mobility

You are about to enter the world of electric mobility, more specifically the world of public-charging infrastructure for electric mobility. Over the past five years, we – researchers, teachers and students, ...

Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Needs in Cities and along Corridors

Fast charging is seen as a means to facilitate long-distance driving for electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, roll-out planning generally takes a corridor approach. However, with higher penetration of electric ...

Exploring the Application of (Eye)tracking Technology: Assessing urban design principles for streetscapes in high-density built environments

The accelerated densification of Western European cities driven by economic growth has major spatial implications for the liveability of the city. Amsterdam, for example, is challenged to accommodate 50,000 to 90,000 ...

Climate-proof retrofitting of urban areas for the same cost

Due to climate change the frequency of extreme precipitation increases. To reduce the risk of damage by flooding, municipalities will need to retrofit urban areas in a climate-resilient way. To justify this ...

Assessment of thermally comfortable urban spaces in Amsterdam during hot summer days

Since it is insufficiently clear to urban planners in the Netherlands to what extent design measures can reduce heat stress and which urban spaces are most comfortable, this study evaluates the impact of shading, ...

Method for evaluating the heat-island mitigation effect of porous/water-retentive blocks using a climatic chamber

This paper presents a method and mock-up design for evaluating the heat-island mitigation effect of porous/water-retentive blocks in a climatic environmental chamber using ambient temperature measurements.

(Eye)tracking users’ patterns

Over the next 10 years, the City of Amsterdam plans to develop major housing schemes provide 90,000 new homes within the existing urban fabric. At the same time, an urban renewal program is being launched to ...

City logistics: light and electric

In this series of publications, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) Faculty of Technology presents the results of applied research. The series is aimed at professionals and unlocks the knowledge and ...

Securing pathways for inclusive and integrated spatial development in Amsterdam

Now, that the European cities are overcoming the recent economic challenges, they accelerate the development of major housingschemes to accommodate their growing urban population. Amsterdam for instance, sets out to ...

The Interaction between network ties and business modeling

A stream of literature is emerging where network development and business modeling intersect. Various authors emphasize that networks influence business models. This paper extends this stream of literature by ...

High Resolution Decision Maps for Urban Planning: A Combined Analysis of Urban Flooding and Thermal Stress Potential In Asia and Europe

Urban flooding and thermal stress have become key issues for many cities around the world. With the continuing effects of climate change, these two issues will become more acute and will add to the serious problems ...

Effectiveness of clean taxi priority incentive at Amsterdam Central Station

The municipality of Amsterdam wants to have an emission free taxi sector by 2025. In order to reach that goal, the city has taken a number of measures which favour clean taxis above conventional taxis. One of these ...

Storm water flooding Amsterdam, from a quick Scan analyses to an action plan

Dealing with the issue of urban storm water flooding is becoming increasingly urgent. In the Netherlands there are no clear guidelines on the level of acceptance of urban flooding. Based on an accurate DEM, a ...