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Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands

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Journal article
Published: 15 October 2020 in Sustainability
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Logistics and transport systems are complex systems for which sustainable innovations are urgently needed. Serious games are an acknowledged tool for training, learning, and decision making, as well as for helping to introduce innovative concepts for complex systems. Technological innovations for the transport domain that can improve sustainability are usually heavily dependent on the collaboration among actors. A simulation gaming approach can help these actors in understanding the challenges involved, and in finding solutions in a playful, interactive way. Our research approach includes a thorough literature review on games for innovation and collaboration in transport networks, and the development of two dedicated simulation games addressing sustainability innovations for the Port of Rotterdam, the largest seaport in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The two innovation cases are truck platooning and multi-sided digital platforms for barge transportation, both improving the sustainability of hinterland transportation. The games serve as instruments to reveal interactions and tensions among actors, contribute to the interpretation of their behavior, and eventually help all parties to reach a better understanding on how innovation adoption can be fostered, using an innovation ecosystem perspective. We are convinced that serious gaming, by providing a better understanding of the innovation process, will help the implementation of sustainability innovations in complex systems.

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Anastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck; Rob Zuidwijk. Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8494 .

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Anastasia Roukouni, Heide Lukosch, Alexander Verbraeck, Rob Zuidwijk. Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8494.

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Anastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck; Rob Zuidwijk. 2020. "Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8494.

Original articles
Published: 16 February 2020 in Journal of Simulation
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Gaming simulations (games) for policy and decision making have been the neglected “sibling” of educational and training games. The latter have experienced a widespread usage by practitioners and researchers, while the former have had limited, yet slowly increasing, adoption by organisations. As a result, various issues developing and using these games remain unaddressed. This includes the design of games, their validation, the actual game sessions, and applying the resulting knowledge from games in organisations. In this paper, solutions for issues identified in these four areas of gaming simulations are proposed. Solutions vary from purely analytical to purely social, stressing the interdisciplinary approach required to tackle the issues associated with them. The result consists of several theoretical and practical contributions as well as philosophical considerations regarding games for policy and decision making.

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Bill Roungas; Femke Bekius; Alexander Verbraeck; Sebastiaan Meijer. Improving the decision-making qualities of gaming simulations. Journal of Simulation 2020, 1 -14.

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Bill Roungas, Femke Bekius, Alexander Verbraeck, Sebastiaan Meijer. Improving the decision-making qualities of gaming simulations. Journal of Simulation. 2020; ():1-14.

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Bill Roungas; Femke Bekius; Alexander Verbraeck; Sebastiaan Meijer. 2020. "Improving the decision-making qualities of gaming simulations." Journal of Simulation , no. : 1-14.

Articles
Published: 18 December 2019 in Transport Reviews
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Transport network criticality analysis aims at ranking transport infrastructure elements based on their contribution to the performance of the overall infrastructure network. Despite the wide variety of transport network criticality metrics, little guidance is available on selecting metrics that are fit for the specific purpose of a study. To address this gap, this study reviews, evaluates and compares seventeen criticality metrics. First, we conceptually evaluate these metrics in terms of the functionality of the transport system that the metrics try to represent (either maintaining connectivity, reducing travel cost, or improving accessibility), the underlying ethical principles (either utilitarianism or egalitarianism), and the spatial aggregation considered by the metrics (either network-wide or localised). Next, we empirically compare the metrics by calculating them for eight transport networks. We define the empirical similarity between two metrics as the degree to which they yield similar rankings of infrastructure elements. Pairs of metrics that have high empirical similarity highlight the same set of transport infrastructure elements as critical. We find that empirical similarity is partly dependent on the network’s topology. We also observe that metrics that are conceptually similar do not necessarily have high empirical similarity. Based on the insights from the conceptual and empirical comparison, we propose a five-step guideline for transport authorities and analysts to identify the set of criticality metrics to use which best aligns with the nature of their policy questions.

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Bramka Arga Jafino; Jan Kwakkel; Alexander Verbraeck. Transport network criticality metrics: a comparative analysis and a guideline for selection. Transport Reviews 2019, 40, 241 -264.

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Bramka Arga Jafino, Jan Kwakkel, Alexander Verbraeck. Transport network criticality metrics: a comparative analysis and a guideline for selection. Transport Reviews. 2019; 40 (2):241-264.

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Bramka Arga Jafino; Jan Kwakkel; Alexander Verbraeck. 2019. "Transport network criticality metrics: a comparative analysis and a guideline for selection." Transport Reviews 40, no. 2: 241-264.

Conference paper
Published: 01 December 2018 in 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
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Gaming simulations (games) are increasingly becoming the tool of choice for modeling and understanding the complexity of today's systems. This increased popularity has consequently revealed the weaknesses of games in several areas. These limitations range from inconsistencies on the game design to the unexploited explicit and tacit knowledge that games invoke. This paper focuses on games that do not aim at generalizing the produced knowledge but, instead, at understanding how a system works within a specific context. The first step of the analysis is identifying these limitations based on an extensive literature review. Based on this, different directions that could mitigate or even fully address these limitations are proposed. The paper concludes with a focused research agenda.

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Bill Roungas; Alexander Verbraeck; Sebastiaan Meijer. THE FUTURE OF CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN GAMING SIMULATIONS: A RESEARCH AGENDA. 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2018, 2435 -2446.

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Bill Roungas, Alexander Verbraeck, Sebastiaan Meijer. THE FUTURE OF CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN GAMING SIMULATIONS: A RESEARCH AGENDA. 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 2018; ():2435-2446.

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Bill Roungas; Alexander Verbraeck; Sebastiaan Meijer. 2018. "THE FUTURE OF CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN GAMING SIMULATIONS: A RESEARCH AGENDA." 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , no. : 2435-2446.

Journal article
Published: 23 November 2018 in Computers & Industrial Engineering
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This paper presents a new method for measuring and improving production time and cost performance by applying project management concepts and methods. In the context of production and manufacturing industries, we demonstrate how to improve production performance by considering production as a project with limited time and budget in order to track the production progress at any given point of time. The proposed approach is capable of monitoring cost and time of production implementation in an adaptive and real-time fashion. According to the fact that in the production and manufacturing environment, cost and time of fulfilling customer demand can be considered as a measure of production performance, this research applied Earned Value Analysis from project management and integrated it with Gain Scheduling Fuzzy Control to design an adaptive monitoring system to support real-time control of production cost and time. Gain Scheduling Fuzzy Control was used to adapt the monitoring system with different conditions of the production environment. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this research is a new application of Fuzzy Adaptive Control in the literature of production and project cost-time performance monitoring. The proposed model in this paper is capable of online monitoring of cost and time performance for different products, at different production periods, and machine centers. The proposed method was implemented successfully in a case study. The results indicated a substantial improvement in production time and cost performance.

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Bahareh Zohoori; Alexander Verbraeck; Morteza Bagherpour; Masoud Khakdaman. Monitoring production time and cost performance by combining earned value analysis and adaptive fuzzy control. Computers & Industrial Engineering 2018, 127, 805 -821.

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Bahareh Zohoori, Alexander Verbraeck, Morteza Bagherpour, Masoud Khakdaman. Monitoring production time and cost performance by combining earned value analysis and adaptive fuzzy control. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 2018; 127 ():805-821.

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Bahareh Zohoori; Alexander Verbraeck; Morteza Bagherpour; Masoud Khakdaman. 2018. "Monitoring production time and cost performance by combining earned value analysis and adaptive fuzzy control." Computers & Industrial Engineering 127, no. : 805-821.

Conference paper
Published: 01 November 2018 in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD)
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There is an increasing practice of combining various sorts of data from the city to obtain a comprehensive operating picture for urban managers. The sorts of data being combined includes administrative data, sensor and transactional data, and social media data. In order for these practices to fulfil their full promises it is important that practitioners build systems which measure the correct things. It is also important that theorists develop systematic explanations for complex urban phenomena. This paper confronts the challenges of building better concepts and constructs for urban data analysis and sensing.

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Scott Cunningham; Alexander Verbraeck. Concepts and Constructs of Urban Sensing. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD) 2018, 184 -189.

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Scott Cunningham, Alexander Verbraeck. Concepts and Constructs of Urban Sensing. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD). 2018; ():184-189.

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Scott Cunningham; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Concepts and Constructs of Urban Sensing." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD) , no. : 184-189.

Journal article
Published: 04 October 2018 in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
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In this paper we discuss the application of simulation gaming to study the behavior and decision making of stakeholders when confronted with complex transportation problems. The problem we tackle is synchromodal transportation. Synchromodality requires the vertical and horizontal collaboration of stakeholders in all the levels of decision making. To facilitate this, we develop four games designed in a way that meets the needs of decision makers in each level. We present both board and digital games and the results from the first gaming sessions with Dutch supply chain and logistics professionals.

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Ioanna Kourounioti; Shalini Kurapati; Heide Lukosch; Lóránt Tavasszy; Alexander Verbraeck. Simulation Games to Study Transportation Issues and Solutions: Studies on Synchromodality. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2018, 2672, 72 -81.

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Ioanna Kourounioti, Shalini Kurapati, Heide Lukosch, Lóránt Tavasszy, Alexander Verbraeck. Simulation Games to Study Transportation Issues and Solutions: Studies on Synchromodality. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2018; 2672 (44):72-81.

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Ioanna Kourounioti; Shalini Kurapati; Heide Lukosch; Lóránt Tavasszy; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Simulation Games to Study Transportation Issues and Solutions: Studies on Synchromodality." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 44: 72-81.

Journal article
Published: 03 October 2018 in SIMULATION
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With the advent of new sensor technologies and communication solutions, the availability of data for discrete event systems has greatly increased. This motivates research on data assimilation for discrete event simulations that has not yet fully matured. This paper presents a particle filter-based data assimilation framework for discrete event simulations. The framework is formally defined based on the Discrete Event System Specification formalism. To effectively apply particle filtering in discrete event simulations, we introduce an interpolation operation that considers the elapsed time (i.e., the time elapsed since the last state transition) when retrieving the model state (which was ignored in related work) in order to obtain updated state values. The data assimilation problem finally boils down to estimating the posterior distribution of a state trajectory with variable dimension. This seems to be problematic; however, it is proven that in practice we can safely apply the sequential importance sampling algorithm to update the random measure (i.e., a set of particles and their importance weights) that approximates this posterior distribution of the state trajectory with variable dimension. To illustrate the working of the proposed data assimilation framework, a case is studied in a gold mine system to estimate truck arrival times at the bottom of the vertical shaft. The results show that the framework is able to provide accurate estimation results in discrete event simulations; it is also shown that the framework is robust to errors both in the simulation model and in the data.

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Xu Xie; Alexander Verbraeck. A particle filter-based data assimilation framework for discrete event simulations. SIMULATION 2018, 95, 1027 -1053.

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Xu Xie, Alexander Verbraeck. A particle filter-based data assimilation framework for discrete event simulations. SIMULATION. 2018; 95 (11):1027-1053.

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Xu Xie; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "A particle filter-based data assimilation framework for discrete event simulations." SIMULATION 95, no. 11: 1027-1053.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Ron van Duin; H. (Harry) Geerlings; Alexander Verbraeck; T. (Tushar) Nafde. Cooling down: A simulation approach to reduce energy peaks of reefers at terminals. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 193, 72 -86.

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Ron van Duin, H. (Harry) Geerlings, Alexander Verbraeck, T. (Tushar) Nafde. Cooling down: A simulation approach to reduce energy peaks of reefers at terminals. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 193 ():72-86.

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Ron van Duin; H. (Harry) Geerlings; Alexander Verbraeck; T. (Tushar) Nafde. 2018. "Cooling down: A simulation approach to reduce energy peaks of reefers at terminals." Journal of Cleaner Production 193, no. : 72-86.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2018 in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
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With trajectory data, a complete microscopic and macroscopic picture of traffic flow operations can be obtained. However, trajectory data are difficult to observe over large spatiotemporal regions—particularly in urban contexts—due to practical, technical and financial constraints. The next best thing is to estimate plausible trajectories from whatever data are available. This paper presents a generic data assimilation framework to reconstruct such plausible trajectories on signalized urban arterials using microscopic traffic flow models and data from loops (individual vehicle passages and thus vehicle counts); traffic control data; and (sparse) travel time measurements from whatever source available. The key problem we address is that loops suffer from miss- and over-counts, which result in unbounded errors in vehicle accumulations, rendering trajectory reconstruction highly problematic. Our framework solves this problem in two ways. First, we correct the systematic error in vehicle accumulation by fusing the counts with sparsely available travel times. Second, the proposed framework uses particle filtering and an innovative hierarchical resampling scheme, which effectively integrates over the remaining error distribution, resulting in plausible trajectories. The proposed data assimilation framework is tested and validated using simulated data. Experiments and an extensive sensitivity analysis show that the proposed method is robust to errors both in the model and in the measurements, and provides good estimations for vehicle accumulation and vehicle trajectories with moderate sensor quality. The framework does not impose restrictions on the type of microscopic models used and can be naturally extended to include and estimate additional trajectory attributes such as destination and path, given data are available for assimilation.

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Xu Xie; Hans van Lint; Alexander Verbraeck. A generic data assimilation framework for vehicle trajectory reconstruction on signalized urban arterials using particle filters. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2018, 92, 364 -391.

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Xu Xie, Hans van Lint, Alexander Verbraeck. A generic data assimilation framework for vehicle trajectory reconstruction on signalized urban arterials using particle filters. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2018; 92 ():364-391.

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Xu Xie; Hans van Lint; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "A generic data assimilation framework for vehicle trajectory reconstruction on signalized urban arterials using particle filters." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 92, no. : 364-391.

Conference paper
Published: 26 May 2018 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Games for decision making have developed into a powerful tool for corporations. Irrespective of their size, corporations have been increasingly using these games in order to evaluate and ascertain impactful business decisions and strategies. Despite their proven added value to the decision making process, there is still lack of research on whether, and if so how, these games can be used by researchers and practitioners to build evidents on systems’ behavior, as part of a larger scheme. To this effect, this paper proposes a framework to determine the different artifacts of games that should be logged and stored for future use.

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Bill Roungas; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. Knowledge Management of Games for Decision Making. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 24 -33.

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Bill Roungas, Sebastiaan Meijer, Alexander Verbraeck. Knowledge Management of Games for Decision Making. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():24-33.

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Bill Roungas; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Knowledge Management of Games for Decision Making." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 24-33.

Conference paper
Published: 01 April 2018 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Global transportation knows many different modalities – goods arrive from faraway places by ship, plane, railway, or truck. Airports and seaports both represent important nodes within the global transportation network. Both show distinct characteristics, but also similarities when it comes to challenges like required flexibility, robustness, reliability and situational awareness of the stakeholders involved. In this article, we introduce two different simulation games addressing some of these challenges in two complex transportation nodes and discuss the qualitative results of user tests with the games. Within a comparative section, we show how simulation games can be used to address the challenges of multimodal transportation.

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Maria Freese; Shalini Kurapati; Heide Karen Lukosch; Daan Groen; Rens Kortmann; Alexander Verbraeck. Addressing Challenges of Planning in Multimodal Transportation Nodes with Simulation Games. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 254 -275.

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Maria Freese, Shalini Kurapati, Heide Karen Lukosch, Daan Groen, Rens Kortmann, Alexander Verbraeck. Addressing Challenges of Planning in Multimodal Transportation Nodes with Simulation Games. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():254-275.

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Maria Freese; Shalini Kurapati; Heide Karen Lukosch; Daan Groen; Rens Kortmann; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Addressing Challenges of Planning in Multimodal Transportation Nodes with Simulation Games." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 254-275.

Book chapter
Published: 01 April 2018 in Multiple Classifier Systems
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Bill Roungas; Marieke de Wijse; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. Pitfalls for Debriefing Games and Simulations: Theory and Practice. Multiple Classifier Systems 2018, 101 -115.

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Bill Roungas, Marieke de Wijse, Sebastiaan Meijer, Alexander Verbraeck. Pitfalls for Debriefing Games and Simulations: Theory and Practice. Multiple Classifier Systems. 2018; ():101-115.

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Bill Roungas; Marieke de Wijse; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Pitfalls for Debriefing Games and Simulations: Theory and Practice." Multiple Classifier Systems , no. : 101-115.

Journal article
Published: 09 February 2018 in Sustainability
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Synchromodality is described as a network of well-synchronised and interconnected transportation modes. One of the most important advantages of synchromodality is the development of a sustainable transportation system. Given the numerous stakeholders and network interdependencies within freight transport corridors, achieving efficient coordination and management is complex. In this paper, we regard information exchange as one of the main enablers of collaboration between the infrastructure managers. We developed a digital single-player simulation game called “Modal Manager” comprising logistic service providers and infrastructure managers. Each player takes over the role of an infrastructure manager who must use information provision as a tool to control flows in a network where various planned and unplanned disruptions occur. We include the game in a session where participants are able to interact with the game and with each other. The first gameplay session with Dutch experts revealed that infrastructure managers perceive synchromodality as a way to cope with disruptions more efficiently. On the other hand, the concept of synchromodal corridor management is ambiguous and various legal and governance barriers exist that hinder its implementation.

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Shalini Kurapati; Ioanna Kourounioti; Heide Lukosch; Lóránt Tavasszy; Alexander Verbraeck. Fostering Sustainable Transportation Operations through Corridor Management: A Simulation Gaming Approach. Sustainability 2018, 10, 455 .

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Shalini Kurapati, Ioanna Kourounioti, Heide Lukosch, Lóránt Tavasszy, Alexander Verbraeck. Fostering Sustainable Transportation Operations through Corridor Management: A Simulation Gaming Approach. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (2):455.

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Shalini Kurapati; Ioanna Kourounioti; Heide Lukosch; Lóránt Tavasszy; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Fostering Sustainable Transportation Operations through Corridor Management: A Simulation Gaming Approach." Sustainability 10, no. 2: 455.

Journal article
Published: 08 January 2018 in European Journal of Innovation Management
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Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, the financial industry is in need of innovation to increase stability and improve quality of services. The purpose of this paper is to explore internal barriers that influence the effectiveness of projects within large financial services firms focussing on potentially disruptive and radical innovations. While literature has generally focused on barriers within traditional technology and manufacturing firms, few researchers have identified barriers for these type of firms. Design/methodology/approach A framework of internal barriers was developed and validated by means of an explorative case study. Data were collected at a European bank by exploring how innovation is organized and what barriers influence effectiveness of eight innovation projects. Findings Six items were identified as key barrier for potentially disruptive and radical innovations (e.g. traditional risk-avoidance focus, and inertia caused by systems architecture). As such, in the sample these were more important than traditionally defined barriers such as sources of finance, and lacking exploration competences. Research limitations/implications Based on a small number of projects within one firm, the results highlight the need for more in-depth research on the effects of barriers and how barriers can be overcome within this industry. Originality/value The results show that there is a discrepancy between the societal demand for radical change within the financial industry and the ability of large financial services firms to innovate. The study identifies which unique internal barriers hamper potentially disruptive and radical innovation in large financial services firms.

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Patrick Das; Robert Verburg; Alexander Verbraeck; Lodewijk Bonebakker. Barriers to innovation within large financial services firms. European Journal of Innovation Management 2018, 21, 96 -112.

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Patrick Das, Robert Verburg, Alexander Verbraeck, Lodewijk Bonebakker. Barriers to innovation within large financial services firms. European Journal of Innovation Management. 2018; 21 (1):96-112.

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Patrick Das; Robert Verburg; Alexander Verbraeck; Lodewijk Bonebakker. 2018. "Barriers to innovation within large financial services firms." European Journal of Innovation Management 21, no. 1: 96-112.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in International Journal of System of Systems Engineering
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Simulations are the core of every railway system. Changes in the timetable and the infrastructure, or even in the internal processes of a railway company should be, and usually are, first tested through simulations. Given their significance and potential impact, simulations should be primarily validated; validation ensures - at least to some extent - that the returned results are credible and can be used for the intended purpose. This study is a detailed report on two case studies from the railway sector. The aim of this paper is to identify critical factors that can advance or hinder the validity and the effective usage of simulation models.

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Bill Roungas; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. Validity of railway microscopic simulations under the microscope: two case studies. International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 2018, 8, 346 .

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Bill Roungas, Sebastiaan Meijer, Alexander Verbraeck. Validity of railway microscopic simulations under the microscope: two case studies. International Journal of System of Systems Engineering. 2018; 8 (4):346.

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Bill Roungas; Sebastiaan Meijer; Alexander Verbraeck. 2018. "Validity of railway microscopic simulations under the microscope: two case studies." International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 8, no. 4: 346.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2017 in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
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Shalini Kurapati; Heide Karen Lukosch; Stephanie Eckerd; Alexander Verbraeck; Thomas Corsi. Relating planner task performance for container terminal operations to multi-tasking skills and personality type. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2017, 51, 47 -64.

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Shalini Kurapati, Heide Karen Lukosch, Stephanie Eckerd, Alexander Verbraeck, Thomas Corsi. Relating planner task performance for container terminal operations to multi-tasking skills and personality type. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 2017; 51 ():47-64.

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Shalini Kurapati; Heide Karen Lukosch; Stephanie Eckerd; Alexander Verbraeck; Thomas Corsi. 2017. "Relating planner task performance for container terminal operations to multi-tasking skills and personality type." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 51, no. : 47-64.

Conference paper
Published: 01 October 2017 in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)
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Current state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging is found to have a profoundly disruptive effect on decentralised grids, increasing prevailing peak demand and causing network congestion. However, when charging behaviour is aligned with the needs of the grid, the batteries of electric vehicles can be used as a distributed resource to provide ancillary services. This paper proposes an decentralised algorithm that is capable of exposing the benefits of an electric vehicle fleet to grid system operators, taking the user preferences of the individual owners into account and keeping the application lightweight through a decentralised architecture. The algorithm is implemented in an agent-based model based on real Dutch smart metering data. The architecture is shown to decrease local imbalances, offer financial incentives to electric vehicle owners and maintain a minimum state-of-charge at departure for individual system users.

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Sjors Hijgenaar; Zekeriya Erkin; Tamás Keviczky; Jos Siemons; Ralph Bisschops; Alexander Verbraeck. A decentralised energy trading architecture for future smart grid load balancing. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 2017, 77 -82.

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Sjors Hijgenaar, Zekeriya Erkin, Tamás Keviczky, Jos Siemons, Ralph Bisschops, Alexander Verbraeck. A decentralised energy trading architecture for future smart grid load balancing. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm). 2017; ():77-82.

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Sjors Hijgenaar; Zekeriya Erkin; Tamás Keviczky; Jos Siemons; Ralph Bisschops; Alexander Verbraeck. 2017. "A decentralised energy trading architecture for future smart grid load balancing." 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) , no. : 77-82.

Conference paper
Published: 15 June 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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It is remarkable that drivers (on average) can safely navigate through dense traffic at high speeds—conditions in which the time headways between vehicles are in the same order of magnitude as human reaction times. One explanation for this is the ability of drivers to anticipate on the traffic conditions in their surroundings. In this paper, we study, through simulation, the effects of reaction times, errors in perception and anticipation on the probability of accidents on freeways. To this end we extend an existing model for car following and lane changing with a perception and anticipation model inspired by Ensley’s three levels of situational awareness (perception, understanding and projection). By systematically varying driving behavior with different reaction times over a range of perception errors, and anticipation strategies, we compute efficiency effects (capacity and total time spent) and safety effects (the probability density of accidents happening as a function of these different contributing factors and errors). The results provide some evidence that safe driving is robust with respect to perception errors under simple anticipation strategies and small reaction times. When reaction times grow larger, more advanced anticipation strategies are needed to guarantee safe driving.

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Hans Van Lint; Simeon Calvert; Wouter Schakel; Meng Wang; Alexander Verbraeck. Exploring the Effects of Perception Errors and Anticipation Strategies on Traffic Accidents - A Simulation Study. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2017, 591, 249 -261.

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Hans Van Lint, Simeon Calvert, Wouter Schakel, Meng Wang, Alexander Verbraeck. Exploring the Effects of Perception Errors and Anticipation Strategies on Traffic Accidents - A Simulation Study. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2017; 591 ():249-261.

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Hans Van Lint; Simeon Calvert; Wouter Schakel; Meng Wang; Alexander Verbraeck. 2017. "Exploring the Effects of Perception Errors and Anticipation Strategies on Traffic Accidents - A Simulation Study." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 591, no. : 249-261.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2017 in 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS)
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Rail is a cost-effective and environment friendly freight transport modality when used efficiently. Stakeholders around Dutch ports are discouraged to choose rail due to uncertain train schedules and the dispersed nature of freight flows across terminals in the port. To understand the challenges and opportunities of freight transport using rail, we used a combined approach of modelling and simulation gaming as participative research method. In addition to a simulation game, we developed a metamodel to simulate all possible choices of the players in the game. We designed and executed simulation gaming sessions with professionals and students. Within these sessions, we collected data in the form of surveys and in-game observations on the behaviour of the players. We compared and contrasted the results of the metamodel with those of the gaming sessions. The main contribution of the research is the provision of a deep insight into the challenges and opportunities offered by efficient transportation of containers using rail. The combined approach allows us to assess the effectiveness of various incentives to consolidate freight, promote intermodal transportation and to encourage the development of efficient services for rail freight transport.

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Shalini Kurapati; Ioanna Kourounioti; Heide Lukosch; Lorant Tavaszzy; Alexander Verbraeck; Linda Van Veen; Bas Van Nuland. Exploring challenges and solutions for container transportation using rail: A modelling and simulation gaming study. 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) 2017, 158 -163.

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Shalini Kurapati, Ioanna Kourounioti, Heide Lukosch, Lorant Tavaszzy, Alexander Verbraeck, Linda Van Veen, Bas Van Nuland. Exploring challenges and solutions for container transportation using rail: A modelling and simulation gaming study. 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS). 2017; ():158-163.

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Shalini Kurapati; Ioanna Kourounioti; Heide Lukosch; Lorant Tavaszzy; Alexander Verbraeck; Linda Van Veen; Bas Van Nuland. 2017. "Exploring challenges and solutions for container transportation using rail: A modelling and simulation gaming study." 2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) , no. : 158-163.