Urban Smart Measures and Incentives for quality of Life Enhancement
Accessibility and sustainability are important conditions for vital and resilient cities, but are under pressure especially in urban areas. Congestion, local air quality, parking; these are different challenges that, however, have in common that effective solutions require behavioural change in addition to technological innovation. This project aims to develop, test and evaluate “smart” measures to affect behaviour. The measures are smart in the first place because they offer an innovative mix of negative and positive financial incentives, thus bypassing some of the main disadvantages of pricing (notably a very limited acceptability) and of rewarding (in particular limited budgets and induced demand). The measures are also smart because they have a highly innovative technological character, not only from the conceptual viewpoint (e.g. tradable driving permits) but also from the technological perspective (e.g. linking real time automated vehicle identification to virtual market environments). These smart measures will be studied from a multidisciplinary perspective, where forces are joined among economists, psychologists, traffic engineers and policy analysts, and will be evaluated from the perspectives of effectiveness, acceptability, and efficiency - paying attention to key urban challenges such as accessibility and environmental quality. The project has a very strong rooting in the urban reality as the case studies are undertaken jointly with Amsterdam Zuidas, Rotterdam, Groningen, and the Amsterdam ArenA area.
ACADEMIC PARTNERS
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. of Spatial Economics:
Prof. dr. Erik Verhoef (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Paul Koster
Dr. Jasper Knockaert
Postdoc: Yue Bao
University of Groningen, Dept. of Social Psychology:
Prof. dr. Linda Steg
Dr. Ellen van der Werff
PhD Student: Nadja Zeiske
TU Delft, Section Transport and Planning:
Prof. dr. Hans van Lint
Dr. Victor Knoop
Postdoc: Kai Yuan
TU Delft, Section Transport and Logistics, TU Delft:
Prof. dr. Bert van Wee
Dr. Eric Molin
PhD Student: Lizet Krabbenborg
University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Urban Technology Research Programme:
Dr. Robert van den Hoed
Jan Dam
Milan Tamis
Marco van Hees
Ruben Stam
EXTERNAL PARTNERS
Amsterdam Zuidas / Zuidasdok:
Finn van Leeuwen
Marian Robben
Niels van den Brink
Leendert van der Linden
Groningen:
Debra van Kleinwee
Rotterdam:
Ewout Spit
Hans Stevens
Steven Butter
Amsterdam-Arena:
Maurits van Höwell
Gemeente Amsterdam:
Art van der Giessen
Bertold Plugboer
PROJECT MANAGER & CONTACT PERSON:
Hadewijch van Delft
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
+31-20-5982191
RESEARCH OUTPUT
- Verhoef, E.T., D. Brands, J. Knockaert and P. Koster (2018). Verhandelbare mobiliteitsrechten: kansrijke piekmaatregel?NM Magazine 13(1): 17-19
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Verhandelbare spitsrechten als oplossing voor de files, blog on www.spatialeconomics.nl
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Trading Trips. Presentation given at the ITEA (International Transportation Economics Association) Annual Conference on Transportation Economics, held in Hong Kong, 25-29 June.
- Zeiske, N. (2018). Tasting is believing? Studying the evaluations of meat-replacement products. Presentation held at the 2018 International Congress of Applied Psychology in Montreal, 26-30 June
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Verhandelbare spitsrechten. Presentation held at the Vervoerregio Amsterdam Regiodag 2018, Amsterdam, 15 May
- Zwaal, B.A., V.L. Knoop and H. van Lint (in press). The Effect of Traffic Signals on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram. Proceedings of Traffic and Granular Flow 2017. Berlin: Springer
- Brands, D. (2017). The lasting impact of incentives: evidence from a peak-avoidance experiment, paper presented at the ITEA Annual Conference on Transportation, Barcelona, 22 June
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Managing congestion with tradable permits: The best of both worlds?, blog on www.spatialeconomics.nl
- Zeiske, N. (2017). The motivational impact of smart incentives to promote sustainable behaviour. Presentation held at the International Conference of Environmental Psychology in A Coruna, Spain, 29 August-1 September
- Verhoef, E.T. (2016). Stelling over de actualiteit: Eénmaal andermaal... geparkeerd!Verkeer in beeld, online publication, 16 March
IN THE MEDIA
- U-SMILE team (2018). Parkeerrechten verhandelen werkt (online news article on Parkeerskunde.nl, 13 September)
- U-SMILE team (2018). Verhandelbare rechten als oplossing voor schaarstevraagstukken (online news article on Platform31, 5 September)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Een nieuw huis in de stad? Zeg dan maar dag tegen uw auto, of toch niet? (interview, De Volkskrant, 25 June)
- Wee, B. van (2018). Verkeersdrukte neemt toe: steeds meer files in Limburg (interview, De Limburger, 13 June)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Surf-hoogleraar Erik Verhoef in Brandpunt+: 'Er mag wel een tandje bij qua bereikbaarsheidsbeleid' (newsitem on surf.verdus.nl, 18 June)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Nederland fileland (documentary, Brandpunt+, specific about the project at 9:35, 12 June)
- Wee, B. van (2018). Betekent meer asfalt minder files? (interview, radio programme Een Vandaag, 12 March)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). 100 miljoen extra voor aanpak files (interview, NOS 8 o'clock news, 17 March)
- U-SMILE team (2018). Eerste experiment met filehandel veelbelovend (article in Algemeen Dagblad, 8 March)
- U-SMILE team (2018). Eerste experiment met verhandelbare verkeersrechten veelbelovend (press release on Verkeersonderneming.nl, with factsheet attached, beginning of March)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Meideinen op de spitsgolven (interview, Het Financieele Dagblad, 10 February, p. 6-8)
- Wee, B. van, Verhoef, E.T. (2018). Meer asfalt: de weg van de minste weerstand (interview, Nederlands Dagblad, 6 January)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Een dag file kost vele miljoenen, een dag sneeuw een veelvoud daarvan (tv interview, NOS Nieuwsuur, 11 December, from 6:13)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Automobilisten prikkelen nieuwe stijl - nu zonder veto (interview on surf.verdus.nl, 1 December)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Files kosten 15 miljoen euro per werkdag (tv interview, NPO Goedemorgen Nederland, 30 November, from 15:00)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Experimenten met spitsrechten om files tegen te gaan (interview, RTL Nieuws, 4 September)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Nieuw experiment in strijd tegen files (radio interview, BNR Nieuwsradio, 29 August)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Wat als je stadsbewoners een verzilverbaar parkeerrecht geeft (interview, Trouw, 30 August)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Jij woensdag de parkeerplaats in ruil voor de donderdag (interview, NOS News item, 30 August)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). VU start proef met verhandelbare parkeervergunning (interview, NOS Radio 1 Journaal, 30 August)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). VU onderzoekt verhandelbare 'parkeerrechten' (interview, Het Parool, 30 August)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Nederland slibt dicht (discussie met Roger van Boxtel, NOS Nieuwsuur article, 29 July)
- Verhoef, E.T. (2017). Actueel: Erik Verhoef over rekeningrijden, interview in Vuurwerk (July).
- Spit, E. (2016). Spitsrijders bewust maken van keuzemogelijkheden, interview by VerDuS (in Dutch)
NEWSLETTERS
Start of the project: 1 April, 2016
Expected end of the project: 1 August, 2020
STATE OF AFFAIRS - MARCH, 2017 (in Dutch)
ABOUT U-SMILE
U-SMILE is a SURF (Smart Urban Regions of the Future) project, which is part of VerDuS (Verbinden van Duurzame Steden - Connecting Sustainable Cities). Within this knowledge initiative, scientific researchers work together with professionals to develop knowledge that helps address issues relating, for example, to urbanisation, the environment, mobility and transport. VerDuS is an initiative of NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Platform 31 and various Dutch ministries.
