Cases
In addition to the projects that we carry out for various clients, we take part in workshops, present our work at conferences and publish in scientific journals. Here you can our the findings.
Update BasGoed to baseyear 2018
Read this caseIn cooperation with the national Freight Transport Alliance Significance has worked on a substantial data improvement, shifting the base year of the BasGoed transport model from 2014 to 2018. Up-to-date and accurate input data are vital in order to make high quality freight transport forecasts. The base year update was performed in 2021 and 2022.
Read this caseDevelopment Flemish 4G models
Read this caseThe 4th generation modelling framework for passenger transport in Flanders is fully agentbased, in design, estimation as well as in implementation.
Read this caseModelling vans and freight trucks in Amsterdam
Read this caseIn 2020 Significance developed a new module that forecasts freight and van trips for the VMA model of the Municipality of Amsterdam. This model allows for better forecasts of the impacts of mobility policies and infrastructure developments on freight and van traffic within and around Amsterdam.
Read this caseTIGRIS XL Land Use Transport Interaction model
Read this caseTigris XL is a so-called Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) model for the Netherlands. A first version of the model was developed around 2005, commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Water, to provide insight into the spatial effects of options for new infrastructure and the accessibility effects of urban strategies. Since 2011, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) has become a co-owner of the model and PBL uses the model for scenario and evaluation studies.
Read this caseA new version of the new Dutch national passenger transport model (GM4)
Read this caseSignificance has developed Growth Model 4, the core of the new Dutch national and regional passenger transport models (LMS and NRM), in a project commissioned jointly by Rijkswaterstaat, responsible for the trunk road system in the Netherlands, and ProRail, responsible for the National Rail system. The Netherlands have a long history of strategic passenger transport modelling and Significance has been continuously, since its establishment, involved in improving the multimodal models at a national and regional level.
Read this caseOverview market-can-bear studies
Read this caseMarket-can-bear tests have been carried out in recent years in several countries (e.g. Germany, The Netherlands, Austria) to determine a part (the so-called ‘mark-up’) of the price that rail infrastructure providers charge for the use of the rail.
Read this caseSignificance developes Urban freight simulator in project 'Harmony' for the EC
Read this caseHARMONY stands for “Holistic Approach for Providing Spatial & Transport Planning Tools and Evidence to Metropolitan and Regional Authorities to Lead a Sustainable Transition to a New Mobility Era”.
Read this caseTicket tax has a limited positive effect on the prosperity, the economy and the climate
Read this caseThe Dutch Ministry of Finance has commissioned Significance and research institute CE Delft to determine the effects of an aviation tax. The study reveals that the tax has a limited positive effect on the prosperity, the economy and the climate.
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New indicator for PT accessibility
Read this caseThe BBI-ov is an area indicator for the accessibility quality of the integral public transport (PT) system. Significance supported The Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM) with the development of this indicator.
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