Print Email Facebook Twitter Viability of the Dutch Inland Waterway Transport Sector Title Viability of the Dutch Inland Waterway Transport Sector: In The Context Of The Future Navigability Of The Rhine Author Lassooij, Ronny (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Timmermans, Jos (graduation committee) Klijn, F. (mentor) van Daalen, C. (mentor) Fazi, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2021-12-02 Abstract At the UN conference of 2015, the promotion of inland waterway transport (IWT) was named as a Sustainable Development Goal by the United Nations. While IWT has been identified to make goods transport more CO2- efficient, the long-term viability of the Dutch IWT sector is at risk.Currently, Dutch IWT businesses benefit from increased demand for transport capacity during climate change induced periods of low river depth by being able to charge higher prices to shippers, thereby increasing short term profits. This thesis research project concludes that this behaviour is unsustainable due to the disregard for providing price competitive and reliable services to shippers, which will ultimately damage the reputation of the Dutch IWT sector. This can lead to shippers choosing other modes of transport, which will damage the long-term viability of IWT demand.A lack of evident optimal climate adaptation measures that would better guarantee the long-term viability of an IWT business under any climate scenario is one of the reasons why IWT businesses have thus far been hesitant towards implementing climate adaptation measures. This thesis research project studies the potential of using a robust decision analysis in supporting IWT businesses’ decision-making on climate adaptation measures that could safeguard the long- term viability of the Dutch IWT sector. It conducts a robust decision analysis and then evaluates its potential using feedback from stakeholders of the Dutch IWT sector.This thesis research project present the results from the robust decision analysis to IWT stakeholders to evaluate how these could impact their decision-making. Stakeholders noted that they believe that the produced influence diagram could be used as a standard communication object to produce a better consensus of how measures influence the long-term viability of IWT demand. Furthermore, stakeholders expressed that the robust decision analysis provided them a better understanding of which measures were able to better guarantee the long-term viability of IWT demand. Results from evaluation interviews with stakeholders therefore provide grounds to believe that robust decision analyses have potential to support IWT businesses’ decision- making on climate adaptation measures that could safeguard the long-term viability of the Dutch IWT sector. Subject NavigationLow River DepthRobust Decision MakingInland To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a4092860-9208-47c1-bfa7-45025dde369a Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Ronny Lassooij Files PDF Thesis_Report_RHA_Lassooi ... 583167.pdf 2.07 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a4092860-9208-47c1-bfa7-45025dde369a/datastream/OBJ/view