On 13 May 2015 TRAIL PhD student Cornelis van Dorsser successfully defended his thesis.

Congratulations Cornelis!

Short summary

This thesis addresses how a new method for the evaluation of policies

with a very long term impact on the Dutch Inland Waterway Transport

system can be developed. It proposes an outline for a very long term

transport model, prepares a number of very long term scenarios, and

indicates that a different perspective on economic growth and future

discounting is required to obtain realistic projections and develop

sensible policies for issues with a very long term impact.