Vrije Universiteit Brussel
 

 

Brussels, 27 May, 2009

Timing Sessions Room
9.00 - 9.30 h Registration Nelson Mandela
9.30 - 11.00 h - Session Automotive1
- Session Maritime 1
- Session Spatial Planning
- Session Logistics
Q.A
Q.B
Q.C
Q.D
11.00 - 11.30 h Coffee Break Nelson Mandela
11.30 - 13.00 h - Session Automotive 2
- Session Inland Waterways
- Session Transport Investments
- Session Mobility
Q.A
Q.B
Q.C
Q.D
13.00 - 14.00 h Lunch Nelson Mandela
14u.00 - 15.30 h - Session Automotive 3
- Session Maritime 2
- Session Travel Behaviour 1
- Session Passenger Transport
Q.A
Q.B
Q.C
Q.D
15.30 - 16.00 h Coffee Break Nelson Mandela
16.00 - 17.30 h - Session Multimodal Transport
- Session Traffic Safety
- Session Infrastructure
- Session Travel Behaviour 2
Q.A
Q.B
Q.C
Q.D
17.30 - 18.10 h - Key note of Prof. Andrew Goetz
- Closing words by Prof. Cathy Macharis		 Q.A
18.10 - 19.00 h Reception Nelson Mandela
18.30 - 19.30 h General Assembly and announcements of the Best Junior Paper Award and the Best Paper Award.
(for BIVEC members only)		 Q.B

 

 

Session Automotive 1

Chair: Georges Allaert

Auditorium Q.A

Title
Is the Belgian fiscal system promoting environmental friendly cars?
L.Turcksin (VUB), C. Macharis (VUB) .
What drives gasoline taxes?
F.Dunkerley (KUL), A.Glazer (UCI), S.Proost (KUL)
What would happen to household car ownership if the Netherlands would introduce road user charging and abolish its car purchase tax?
G.de Jong (Significance, ITS, NEA), M.Kouwenhoven (Significance), K.Geurs (NEAA)
Welfare effects of distortionary fringe benefits taxation: the case of employer-provided cars
E.Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau (VU), J.van Ommeren (VU)

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Session Maritime 1

Chair: Tom van Lier
Auditorium Q.B

Title
Small river barges: An innovative concept for the use of the small inland waterways
E.van Hassel (UA)
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Calculating the impact of the external costs of an inland port
T.van Lier (VUB), C.Macharis (VUB)
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Enriching the Berth Allocation Problem
R.Van Schaeren (HZS), W.Dullaert (UA), B.Raa (UGent)
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A model of spatial port competition
J.Reynaerts (KUL)
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Session Spatial Planning

Chair: Frank Witlox
Auditorium Q.C

Title
Excess commuting in Flanders and Brussels
K.Boussauw (UGent), T.Neutens (UGent), F.Witlox (UGent)
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GIS-based location analyses for intermodal terminal landscape in Belgium
E.Pekin (VUB), C.Macharis (VUB)
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Is accessibility still a crucial succes factor in location decisions of economic activities?
B. De Smedt (UA), A. Vanhetsel (UA)
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A comparative analysis of different accessibility measures in the context of public service delivery
T.Neutens (UGent), T.Schwanen (UGent), F.Witlox (UGent), P.De Maeyer (UGent)
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Session Logistics

Chair: An Verhetsel
Auditorium Q.D

Title
Technical and process innovations in green logistics: opportunities, barriers and best practices by using case studies
R.Gevaers (UA), E.Van de Voorde (UA), T.Vanelslander (UA)
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Proper tools helping sustainability in logistics practice
S.Weijers (HAN), R. Pieters (HAN), N. Lamers (HAN), E.Koekebakker (Buck Consultants International), A. Stelling (Stelling Consulting), G. Vos (Buck Consultants International)

Supporting integrated waste management in Flanders
D. Inghels (ITTMA), W. Dullaert (ITTMA; AMA-HSZ)

Ordered today, delivered tonight: a stakeholder approach to assessing night-time delivery as an option in solving Belgian urban freight traffic problems
S.Verlinde (UGent), E. Novikova (VUB), C. Macharis (VUB), F. Witlox (UGent)

Mapping bottlenecks in the Flemish logistics sector
J.Maes (UA), E.Van de Voorde (UA), T.Vanelslander (UA)
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Session Automotive 2

Chair: Gerard De Jong
Auditorium Q.A

Title
Exploring the issue of company cars
A.de Witte (VUB), C. Macharis (VUB), E. Cornelis (FUNDP), M. Castaigne (FUNDP), X.Pauly (FUNDP), K. Ramaekers (UHasselt), G.Wets (UHasselt)
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Carpooling and employers: a multilevel modelling approach
T.Vanoutrive (UA,UGent), L.Van Malderen (FUCaM, UCL), B.Jourquin (FUCaM), I.Thomas (UCL), A.Verhetsel (UA), F.Witlox (UGent)


Sustainable transport policy initiatives in the Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom
L. Vermote (VUB), L. Hens (VUB)

Second-best congestion tolling in the bottleneck model with continuous heterogeneity in value of time
V.van den Berg (VU), E.Verhoef (Tinbergen Institute)

 

Policy measures for a greener private fleet: a Rasch analysis
O.Mairesse (VUB), C.Macharis (VUB), L. Turcksin (VUB), N. Sergeant (VUB), J. Van Mierlo (VUB), T. Denys (VITO), M. Vanderschaeghe (VITO), L. Govaerts (VITO)

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Session Inland Waterways

Chair: Cathy Macharis
Auditorium Q.B

Title
Low water levels and trade imbalances in inland waterway transport revisited: interaction effects on transport prices
O.Jonkeren (VU), J.van Ommeren (VU), P.Rietveld (VU)
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The impact of double-hull requirements on the inland navigation market of dangerous goods
E.Verberght (UA)
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The effect of specialization on the supply in the inland navigation sector
M.Beelen (UA)
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Session Transport Investments

Chair: Bruno De Borger
Auditorium Q.C

Title
Assessing transport investments - towards a multi-purpose tool
A.de Palma (KUL), S.Proost (KUL), S.van der Loo (KUL)
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On sound decision making in revival periodes
H.Webers (Policy Research Corporation), C. Peeters (Policy Research Corporation)
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Capital-intensive projects induce more effort than labor-intensive projects
A.Glazer (UCI), S.Proost (KUL)
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Cost-Benefit analysis of transport investments in distorted economies
E.Calthrop (KUL), B.De Borger (KUL), S.Proost (KUL)
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The political economy of fixed regional investment shares with an illustration for Belgian railway investments
S.Proost (KUL), V.Zaporozhets (KUL), E.Meire (KUL)
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Session Mobility

Chair: Bert van Wee
Auditorium Q.D

Title
LIMOBEL- Long-run impacts of policy packages on MObility in BELgium: Development of a modelling tool
I.De Vlieger (VITO), Bart Jourquin (FUCaM), I.Mayeres (FPB), F. Pietquin (FUCaM), L. Schrooten (VITO)
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Which equality for Mobility?
A.J.Purwanto (TMLeuven)
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CIVITAS created a new urban mobility culture in our cities. How to determine its nature and manage a change
P.van Egmond (Van Egmond Conseil)
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Mobility policies of the companies located in Belgium: are there succes stories?
L.Van Malderen (FUCam, UCL), B.Jourquin (FUCam), I.Thomas (UCL), T.Vanoutrive (UGent, UA), A.Verhetsel (UA), F.Witlox (UGent)
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Session Automotive 3

Chair: Joeri Van Mierlo
Auditorium Q.A

Title
Welfare effects of adverse weather through speed changes in car commuting trips
M.Sabir (VU), J.van Ommeren (VU), M.Koetse (VU), P.Rietveld (VU)
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The evolution of car power, weight and top speed during the last twenty years in Belgium: A consideration for future policies
J.De Mol (IDM), S.Vlassenroot (IDM, TUDelft), E. Zwerts (Ugent), G.Allaert (IDM), F.Witlox (UGent)
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Automobile fuel efficiency: Policies with international cost spillovers
P.Barla (Université Laval), S.Proost (KUL)
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Labour supply and commuting: Implications for optimal road taxes
Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau (VU), Jos van Ommeren (VU)
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Session Maritime 2

Chair: Frank Witlox
Auditorium Q.B

Title
Policy making for waterbound industrial estates: An empirical study for Flanders
T.Pauwels (UA), E.Van de Voorde (UA), T.Vanelslander (UA), A.Verhetsel (UA)
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Feasibility study for the extension of container terminal opening hours at the port of Antwerp
P.M. Nguyen (GroepT), P.Willems (GroepT), P. Belet (GroepT)
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Effects of transport policy on goods flows by road in port hinterland connections
R.Aronietis (UA), P.Markianidou (UA), H.Meersman (UA), T.Pauwels (UA), E.Van de Voorde (UA), T.Vanelslander (UA), A.Verhetsel (UA)
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Session Travel Behaviour 1

Chair: Astrid De Witte
Auditorium Q.C

Title
Travelling to school in the Netherlands and in Flanders
C.D.van Goeverden (TUDelft), E.de Boer (TUDelft)
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Introducing the lifestyle concept in travel behaviour research
V.Van Acker (UGent), F.Witlox (UGent)
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Surveying activity-travel behavior in Flanders: Assessing the impact of the survey design
M.Cools (UHasselt), E.Moons (UHasselt), T.Bellemans (UHasselt), D.Janssens (UHasselt), G.Wets (UHasselt)
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Self-selection: a key to a better understanding of location choices, travel behavior, and transport externalities?
B.van Wee (TUDelft)
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Before, leaving home was so much easier… Changes in parents' travel behavior after childbirth
E.Zwerts (UGent), F.Witlox (UGent)
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Session Passenger Transport

Chair: Piet Rietveld
Auditorium Q.D

Title
Airports in Belgium - An economic impact analysis
F.Kupfer (UA), F.Lagneaux (NBB)
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The DIDAM framework: Disaggregated demand and assignment models for combined passengers and freight transport
J.Barthélemy (FUNDP), E.Cornelis (FUNDP), B.Jourquin (FUCaM), S.Limbourg (FUCaM), J.Piotte (FUCaM)
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Supercapacitors-based energy storage solutions for urban rail vehicles. Case study of the Brussels public transport operator (STIB/MIVB)
X.Tackoen (ULB), R.Barrero (VUB), J. Van Mierlo (VUB), A.B. Ndiaye(ULB)
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Evaluation of the potential environmental impact reduction from passenger travel through adapted policy measures and the use of integrated sustainable multimodal transport modes
V.Wynen (VUB), J.-M. Timmermans (VUB), N.Sergeant (VUB), F.-S. Boureima (VUB), J.Van Mierlo (VUB)
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Session Multimodal Transport

Chair: Isabelle Thomas
Auditorium Q.A

Title
Lines and services in a regional multi-modal transport model:
The case of the regional express network around Brussels
B.Jourquin (FUCaM), G.Iassinovskaia (FUCaM), J.Lechien (FUCaM), J.Pinna (FUCaM), F.Usai (FUCaM)
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An analysis of intermodal transport demand between London and Paris
C.Behrens (VU), E.Pels (VU)
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Review on the comparison of external costs of intermodal and unimodal road transport
K.Braekers (UHasselt), G.K.Janssens (UHasselt), A.Caris (UHasselt)
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Session Traffic Safety

Chair: Ben Immers
Auditorium Q.B

Title
Multi-actor Mulit-criteria analysis (MAMCA) as a technique for the evaluation of traffic safety measures
T.Geudens (VUB), C.Macharis (VUB), K.De Brucker (HUBrussel), F. Van Malderen (VUB)
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Determinants of bicycle use and accident risks for cyclists. A geo-statistical approach for Belgium
G.Vandenbulcke (UCL), C.Dujardin (UCL), I.Thomas (UCL), L.Int Panis (VITO), R.Torfs (VITO), B.Degraeuwe (VITO), R.Meeusen (VUB), B.de Geus (VUB)
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What implies acceptance of intelligent speed assistance?
S.Vlassenroot (IDM, TUDelft), K.Brookhuis (TUDelft, RUG), J.De Mol (IDM), V.Marchau (TUDelft), F.Witlox (UGent)
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Accident registration in Flanders: methods, problems and weaknesses
F.Van Malderen (VUB), C.Macharis (VUB), E. Novikova (VUB), T.Geudens (VUB)
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Session Infrastructure

Chair: Pieter Hilferink
Auditorium Q.C

Title
Network development under a strict self-financing constraint
A.de Palma (KUL), S.Proost (KUL), S.van der Loo (KUL)
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Building blocks for a robust road network
L.H.Immers (TNO, KUL), B.Egeter (B.Egeter Advies), T. Hendriks (ANWB), J.M.Schrijver (TNO), M. Snelder (TNO)
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Transport infrastructure: concept, typology within transport modes and economic impact
B.Vergauwen (UA)
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Economics of transEuropean Networks: where to go?
S.Proost (KUL), F.Dunkerley (KUL), A.Gühneman (ITS), P.Koskenoja (Metropolia), P.Mackie (ITS), S.van der Loo (KUL)
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Session Travel Behaviour 2

Chair: Eric Cornelis
Auditorium Q.D

Title
Valuing the costs of travel time variability
P.Koster (VU)
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The value of time paradox
C.D.van Goeverden (TUDelft)
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Benefits of an increase in public transport travel time reliability
M.G.Lijesen (VU)
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Accessibility and ICT: a review of literature, a conceptual model and a research agenda
B.van Wee (TUDelft), C.Chorus (TUDelft)
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