active projects

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

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  • Public values

  Cases and experiences – mapping different perceptions on public values

  Discussion on public values has flourished over the past years in light of the liberalisation and privatisation of several infrastructure sectors. The public tends to criticise this development. Apparently, the consumer perspective differs from the policymakers' perspective. Why?more

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  • Public values

  Networked practices among controllers in the rail sector after unbundling

  This research proposal sets out to study how controllers in the UK cope at the interface of rail management and train operations, complementing similar research in rail control centers in the Netherlands.more

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  Rights, information, and expression: Natural and State Monopolies, and Public Values in Information Infrastructures

  The main question this research aims to answer is: what is the proper role of public values about access to information and freedom of expression, and in what way ought those public values be reflected in state based (regulatory) vs. market based approaches to information infrastructures?more

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  Regulation and performance in five Dutch network sectors

  What was the influence of changing market regulation on the performance of the five network sectors (electricity, water, public transport, telecom and gas)?more

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  • Flexible infrastructures
  • Public values

  Inverse Infrastructures

  Unprecedented and previously unimaginable infrastructures have emerged recently. They are not owned by governments or large businesses nor are they governed centrally and controlled top-down. Instead, individuals own and develop them.more

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  Public Values and State Aid in the Transport Sector

  Infrastructure sectors are increasingly liberalized. Nevertheless, state aid is still necessary to develop and operate these sectors. This sometimes causes friction with the European rules on state aid, which generally prohibit member states to give aid to companies. But what if a European restriction on state aid threatens public values?more

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  • Public values

  Tendering in Dutch public transport – the relation between contract and efficiency

  More information will follow soon.more

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  • Public values

  Strategy Bias and Public Value Creation in the North-West European Infrastructure Industry

  How can governments best approach a regulatory oversight and legislation to ensure that public values are properly served?more

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  Cultural Change in the Infrastructural Sector

  Serving as milestones in mankind’s development, national triumphs and technical advances, mega projects are a ubiquitous part of our everyday life. However, the construction processes of these projects often fail to meet expectations as they experience difficulties with regard to realizing on time, in budget and on scope. In the Netherlands, the Betuwe rail line fiasco, the problems on the high-speed rail line and the numerous issues during construction of Amsterdam’s new metro line are just a few examples. These problems are not restricted to the Netherlands; there are countless similar cases aboard. more

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  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