PhD at TPR

• Fares Abudayyeh: Public and Private Perceptions of Sea Freight intermodal competitiveness
• Rafael Ascanio Arevalo: Integration of the MooV-model with first/last mile optimalisation
  
• Felipe Bedoya-Moya: Spillover Effects from Inland Waterway Transportation Development
  
• Bianca Borca: The evaluation of economic benefits of resolving nautical bottlenecks at the Danube
• Yassin Boullauazan: Drivers of port actor adaptation through digital innovation
• Peter Bulckaert: Key factors in determining the success or failure of start-up airlines
• Miguel Carmona: A regulatory model for public-private partnerships in the Portugese road sector
• Emma Ceulemans: Innovative traffic management strategies in Antwerp
• Charis Christodoulou Raftis: 
  
• Marie Cryns: De impact van ontwikkelde technologieën en het corridor management systeem gecreëerd in functie van CRISTAL op verschillende actoren in de binnenvaartecosystemen
• Carlos Da Fonseca Nunes Marques: Transition from conventional vehicle taxation models in light of emerging energy and powertrain technologies: a system dynamics approach
• Mehran Farzadmehr: Research on the economics of implementing innovation in smart ports ecosystems
  
• Lorenzo Franchi: Smart and green ports: growth and development of an integrated ecosystem
• Dimitrios Georgoudakis: Investments decisions for new types of ships based on shipping cycle
• Christiane Hallensleben: Coopetition in the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service industry
  
• Elspeth Hanaford
• Xibei Jia: Demonstrating lower polluting solutions for sustainable airports across Europe
• Bruce Lambert: Does the presence of a ‘super-individual’ change the evaluation of potential benefits for public sector participation in multimodal freight (maritime) corridors?
• Hanane Llouh: Restructuring local commercial districts in a digitized and hypermobile society
• Shin-Jer Lu: Structuring operational strategy and business model of commercial cargo drone operators
• Joeri Meeús: Defining an industry Integrated Management System standard
• James Merten: Disaster Economics: How intermodal connections recover from a marine transportation disruption
• Stijn Michielsen: 
• Osvaldo Navarro: Evaluation of urban logistics policy measures
  
• Loghman Nanwayboukani: The economics of vessel platooning
• Sameh Omar: The Impact of Manufacturing Re-shoring on Maritime Trade volume and direction: An application to the East-West trade boundconcepts
• Jolien Pauwels: Strategische opties voor een duurzame ontwikkeling van regionale luchthavens
• Juan Manuel Pulido
  
• Periklis Saragiotis: Maritime trade regulatory impact analysis
• Ola Shawer: Towards Air connectivity in the African Continent: An Analysis
• Wouter Schmidt: Innovation for sustainable ports: analysing success and failure factors
• Daniel Schubert: Real options analysis to validate and assess risk of road and/or rail fixed links, bridges and tunnels
• Peter Shobayo: A holistic approach to barge congestion in large seaports
• Katrien Storms: Future vision for inland navigation
• Aanan Sutaria: last-mile delivery with micro hubs
• Vincent Van Bockstaele: Dynamic machine learning model of air cargo price forecast and its applications
  
• Noemi Van Meir: Greening maritime transportation
• Lars-Michael Wendel: Winning the race for customer ownership: Strategies and implications of commercial value chain recomposition in the airline industry
  
• Jeffrey Willems: Green ports economic analysis
  

Daniel Behr - Determining financial viability of freight railway undertakings under open access regulatory environments. Supervisors Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander & Prof. dr. Eddy Van de Voorde ( 31-01-2023)

Majid (Seyed Abolfazl) Mohseni -  Sustainability of maritime supply chain; economic analysis to comply with environmental regulations and social issues. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Thierry vanelslander & Prof. dr. Edwin Van Hassel (25-01-2022)

Sisangile Nduna - Efficiency and productivity in container terminal operation: A case study for the Hamburg - Le Havre range. Supervisor: Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander (18-03-2022)

Eleni Moschouli - Supporting the process of transport infrastructure decision-making: an instrument to identify the combinations of conditions under which project objectives can be achieved - supervisor: Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander (24-11-2021)

Edwin Verberght -  Innovation in Inland Navigation, Failure and Succes: The European Case. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Thierry vanelslander & Prof. dr. Ir. Edwin Van Hassel (10-02-2020)

Matteo Balliauw - Port capacity investments under uncertainty: The use of real options models. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Eddy van de Voorde & Prof. dr. Hilde Meersman (24-02-2020)

Thomas Van Asch - Air Cargo Competitiveness and European Airports: Markets and Strategy. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Eddy Van de Voorde, Prof.  dr. Wouter de Wulf & dr. Franziska Kupfer (28-09-2020)

Sven Buyle - Evolution of Air Navigation Service Provider Business Models within the Single European Sky. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Hilde Meersman, Prof dr. Wouter Dewulf & dr. Evy Onghena (29-09-2020)

Jeroen Cant: Food inaccessibility in Flanders identifying spatial mismatches between retail and residential patterns (6-3-2019) - supervisor Prof. dr. Ann Verhetsel

Joris Beckers: The Logistics sector in a consumer driven society, essays on location and  network structure (18-3-2019) supervisor: Prof. dr. Ann Verhetsel

Kostas Papoutsis: 'Retail logistics costs and policy impact - What is the total cost to secure innovation for a greener retail supply chain? (12-7-2019) - supervisors: Prof. dr. Wouter Dewulf & Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander

Iván Cárdenas: Unlocking the benefits of pick-up poinhts for sustainable E-commerce distribution in urban areas (23-8-2019) - supervisors: Prof. dr. Wouter Dewulf en Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander

Katrien De Langhe: 'What role for rail urban freight distribution?' (24-09-2019) supervisors are Prof. dr. Eddy Van de Voorde and Prof. dr. Christa Sys.

Valentin Carlan: 'Maritieme supply chain innovation: costs, benefits ans cost-effectiveness of ICT introduction' (20-11-2019) supervisors are Prof. dr. Christa Sys and Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander.

Joost Hintjens: 'Cooperation between seaports concerning hinterland transport' (22-11-2019) supervisors are Prof. dr. Eddy Van de Voorde and Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander.

Katja Bringmann: Essays on Cross-border Venture and Venture Internationalization- Supervisors Prof. dr. Ann Verhetsel and Prof. dr. Thomas Vanoutrive

Marcella De Martino (IRAT Naples): Port competitiveness adopting a Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach- Supervisors Prof. Hilde Meersman and Prof. Eddy Van de Voorde

Jochen Maes: In search of solutions to transport and logistics capacity

Jack Doomernik: Strategies for international High-Speed Rail operations in the European passenger transport market - Promotors: Prof. dr. Thierry Vanelslander en Prof. Dr Eddy van de Voorde

Ties Vanthillo: Shaping conditions for economic development: the role of regional strategies - Promotors: Prof. Ann Verhetsel and Prof. Dr. Thierry Vanelslander

• Els Struyf: Passenger and cargo?  Cost economies at airport level - Promotors: Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde
• Marzieh Nazemzadeh: The role of port infrastructure for economic development within applicatin to Belgium and the Port of Antwerp - Promotors: Hilde Meersman and Thierry Vanelslander
• Toon Zijlstra: On the Mobility Budget for Company Car Users - Promotors: Ann Verhetsel en Thomas Vanoutrive
• Yasmine Rashed: ContainerTroughput Modelling and Forecasting: An Empirical Dynamic Econometric Time Series Approach - Promotors: Hilde Meersman and Thierry Vanelslander

Patrick Verhoeven (ECSA): Economic assessment of management reform in European seaports - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

• Claudi Pani - Managing vessel arrival uncertainty in container terminals: a machine learning approach - Promotors: Thierry Vanelslander and Gianfranco Fancello
• Wouter Dewulf - The Strategy of Air Cargo Operators - About Carpet Sellers and Cargo Stars - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

• Evy Onghena: From Cost Structure to Strategy: The impact of the Cost Structure on the Strategic Behaviour of Integrators - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde & Hilde Meersman
• Roel Gevaers: Evaluation of innovations in B2C last mile, B2C reverse and waste logistics - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde & Hilde Meerman
• Feliciana Montero: Productivity in the Container Port Business - Focus on the Mediterranean Range - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde & Hilde Meersman
• Cosimo Lisi:  From waste to reusable raw material: the transport optimization within the recycling process of glass and iron - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde en Hilde Meersman
• Raimonds Aronietis:  Succesful Development and Implementation of Transport Policy Innovations: Tackling Congestion on Port Hinterland Links - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde & Thierry Vanelslander
   

• Franziska Kupfer: The Airport Choice for Scheduled Freighter Operations in Europe - Promotor: Ann Verhetsel & Eddy Van de Voorde
• Paresa Markianidou: The Relation between Trade & Container flows - Promotor: Hilde Meersman
   

• Monica Grosso:  Improving the competitiveness of intermodal transport: applications on European corridors - Promotor: Hilde Meersman
• Marjan Beelen: Structuring and modelling decision making in the inland navigation sector - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde
• Edwin Van Hassel: Developing a Small Barge Convoy System to reactivate the use of the small inland waterway network - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

• Christa Sys: Inside the box: assessing competitive conditions, concentration and the market structure of container liner shipping industry - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde
• Thomas Vanoutrive: From mobility management and multilevel modelling towards modelling mobility and multilevel management - Promotor: Ann Verhetsel
• Barbara Van Dyck:  When the Third Sector builds the City. Brownfield Transformation Projects in Marseille and Montréal - Promotor: Ann Verhetsel

• Jasmine Siu Lee Lam: Managing container shipping supply chains: modeling, empirical analysis and applications - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde
   

• Tom Pauwels:  Modellering van het Goederenvervoer in België - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

• Thierry Vanelslander: The Economics behind Co-operation and Competition in Sea-Port Container Handling - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

• Kris Debisschop: Verfijning van economische analyse van investeringsopportuniteiten: een toepassing in de Vlaamse context - Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde