Infrastructure Interaction Improving Regional Master Planning of Infrastructure by taking into account Infrastructure Interaction Master Thesis Wouter K. Meyers March 2008 FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING AND POLICY ANALYSIS MSc DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Infrastructure Interaction 2 Infrastructure Interaction Improving Regional Master Planning of Infrastructure by taking into account Infrastructure Interaction Wouter K. Meyers Student Number 1271342 Email Address
[email protected] Graduation Committee Prof.dr.ir. M.P.C. Weijnen (Chair, Delft University of Technology) Dr.ir. G.P.J. Dijkema (1st Supervisor, Delft University of Technology) Dr.ir. W.M. de Jong (2 nd Supervisor, Delft University of Technology) Prof. K. Brown (External Supervisor, Queensland University of Technology) March 2008 FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING AND POLICY ANALYSIS MSc DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Infrastructure Interaction 3 Dedicated to my parents Infrastructure Interaction 4 Preface This thesis is the product of my graduation project at the Delft University of Technology in the master of Engineering & Policy Analysis and a visiting researcher at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The research has been funded by the CIBE project under the CRC for Construction Innovation. As a student and as a person I have always had a very broad interest, sometimes finding it difficult to make choices. In the thesis this part of my personality is reflected in the broad focus on infrastructure. Of course writing a thesis without making choices is impossible; one would end up with an encyclopedia. The choices I have made for my thesis, from delineating the scope of the project, to specifying the important concepts from the thesis and the people to interview, have coincided with important choices on where I want to take my life in the future.