active projects

• Flexible infrastructures
• Intelligent infrastructures
• Public values
• Reliable infrastructures
• Serious gaming
• Strategic asset management
• Understanding complex networks

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  • Understanding complex networks

  Robustness and Optimization of Complex Networks

  Various types of complex networks, including man-designed infrastructure networks (Internet, telecommunication networks, electrical power grids, transportation networks, gas network and water networks) and natural networks (social networks, ecological networks, and biological networks),<br /> shape our daily life . These complex infrastructure networks are of crucial importance to our society,<br /> for instance when the power grid is down, the financial system fails, and communication networks<br /> break down. Hence, we must make our complex infrastructure networks more robust and optimize<br /> the performance of them.more

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  • Flexible infrastructures
  • Strategic asset management

  Asset management frameworks, methods and tools for the Drinking Water division of Waternet

  The goal of asset management for the Drinking Water division is to deliver drinking water (continuously and of appropriate quality) in the most cost-effective way (on the long term) while minimizing the environmental impact.more

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  • Understanding complex networks

  Exploring the international dimensions of infrastructures

  As the euro crisis is making daily headlines, European integration has taken centre stage, though perhaps not in the way the European institutions would like the topic to reach European audiences.more

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  Coherence between institutions and technologies in infrastructures. Case study: water sector

  More information will follow soon.more

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  Socio-technical Design of Multi-national Power Markets

  The main objective of this project is to design the scientific foundation for a framework for efficient, market-based balancing of power systems that can be implemented in multinational ('regional' in the wording of the European Commission) power markets.more

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  • Public values

  Smart (legal) Regimes for Smart Infrastructures

  How to offer a more dynamic (multi level) legal protection of public values involved in infrastructural changes? Not so much in terms of deregulation, which often does damage certain public values, but primarily in the sense of smart regulation or smart legal regimes towards technologically and economically successful infrastructural innovation, whilst balancing relevant public values.more

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  Electricity Market Design in Developing Countries: A Tailored Design Approach

  The intention for this project is to improve upon the framework based upon the theory of New Institutional Economics, so that it can be operationalized to better reflect the specific nature of a network industry such as the electricity sector.more

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  • Understanding complex networks

  Economics and governance of underground infrastructures

  People are hardly aware of the myriad of infrastructures underneath their feet: sewers, electricity cables, gas pipes, water pipes, fuel pipes&hellip; What is more worrisome is that the people in charge of these systems are equally oblivious.more

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  Transitions and Transition Management in Infrastructure systems

  More information will follow soon.more

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  • Public values

  Where public meets private – connecting homes to public networks

  All private homes in The Netherlands are connected to public networks. This was not always the case. At some point, these connections became standard or even compulsory. Will this happen to broadband as well?more