projects archive

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

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  Omgevingsinteracties van een netwerkbedrijf en de optimalisatie van maatschappelijke waarde (fase 1 & 2)

  More information can be found at the Dutch webpage.more

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  Making Europe: the Virtual Exhibition

  Explore the emergence and development of European transnational infrastructures for transport, communication, knowledge and energy on the website inventingeurope.eu. Inventing Europe, European Digital Museum for Science and Technology invites visitors to explore European history. more

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  Governance of internet security

  The emergence of the Internet as a critical infrastructure has put increasing pressure on governments to develop interventions to ensure information security. The problem is that there is very little empirical evidence on which to base those interventions.more

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  • Flexible infrastructures

  Gas infrastructure expansion: rethinking regulation

  The European gas market is in transition. In the upcoming period, there is a serious need for significant investment in gas infrastructure, such as pipelines, gas storage facilities and LNG terminals. In order to ensure that this can be achieved effectively, this kind of investment needs less regulation from Europe and greater room for competition. This is the claim made by Jeroen de Joode, who was awarded hit PhD for his thesis on the subject at TU Delft on Thursday 28 June. Part of his research was conducted at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN).more

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  Graaiers of Redders, Verhalen over vijftien jaar marktwerking in infrastructuren

  Fifteen years ago, liberalization was embraced as the solution for all problems in the public services. That promise contrasts sharply with today’s reality. Prices did not drop but still increase. Greedy managers.more

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  • Intelligent infrastructures

  Multi-agent monitoring and control in combined ICT-power infrastructures

  This research takes advantages of the multi-agent systems as the basic solution of modeling the structure and behaviors of various smart grid components, and proposes their corresponding agent models. Furthermore, an innovative mechanism based on the foreseen real-time spot market of electric energy is also devised, which promotes the substantiation of the economic and social potentials of smart grids. Simulations results indicate that our methodology and mechanism are capable and sufficient to solve specific smart grid problems.more

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  • Understanding complex networks

  Balancing Efficiency Gains and Transaction Costs

  Various studies have concluded that growing mobility causes accessibility issues at the regional level cannot be solved by merely building new infrastructures. A stronger coordination between the two policy fields of land-use planning and transport planning is needed.more

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  • Public values

  Cross-national benchmark of network-bound infrastructures: Performance Indicators and Innovative Contract Arrangementstwork-bound infrastructur

  Most road authorities in this survey are outsourcing a major portion of their routine maintenance activities except for a few states in the USA, with Florida DOT (FOOT) being the main exception. Maintenance via some form of contract varies between countries and varies with which activities are included in the contracts.more

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  • Public values
  • Reliable infrastructures

  Critical Public Values (Interface project with Critical Infrastructures)

  Since liberalization, governments have kept careful watch on infrastructure companies. Whenever the public interest has seemed endangered, when incidents have occurred, the inevitable public and political outcry compels governments to take action. Many interventions, however, fail to generate the desired effects.</p> <p>more

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  • Flexible infrastructures

  Standards and the flexibility of infrastructures

  It is difficult to adapt large infrastructure systems to changing circumstances. These systems are often increasingly complex and represent enormous costs that have been made for their installment. This makes radical changes in these systems unlikely, although such changes may be necessary to meet the demands of modern society. The challenge therefore lies in smart infrastructure design.more