These Ph.D's were successfully defended at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics:

2012 The Airport Choice for Scheduled Freighter Operations in Europe
Author: Franziska Kupfer
Promotor: Ann Verhetsel, Eddy Van de Voorde
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2012 The Relation between Trade & Container flows
Author: Paresa Markianidou
Promotor: Hilde Meersman 
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2011 Improving the competitiveness of intermodal transport: applications on European corridors
Author: Monica Grosso
Promotor: Hilde Meersman 
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2011 Structuring and modelling decision making in the inland navigation sector
Author: Marjan Beelen
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde  
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2011 Developing a Small Barge Convoy System to reactivate the use of the small inland waterway network
Author: Edwin van Hassel
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde
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2010 Inside the box: assessing competitive conditions, concentration and the market structure of container liner shipping industry
Author: Christa Sys
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde  
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2010 From mobility management and multilevel modelling towards modelling mobility and multilevel management
Author: Thomas Vanoutrive
Promotor: Ann Verhetsel
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2010 When the Third Sector builds the City. Brownfield Transformation Projects in Marseille and Montréal
Author: Barbara Van Dyck
Promotor: Ann Verhetsel
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2008 Managing container shipping supply chains: modeling, empirical analysis and applications
Author: Jasmine Siu Lee Lam  ( Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

2007 Modellering van het Goederenvervoer in België
Author: Tom Pauwels
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde
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2005 The Economics behind Co-operation and Competition in Sea-Port Container Handling
Author: Thierry Vanelslander
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

2001 Verfijning van economische analyse van investeringsopportuniteiten: een toepassing in de Vlaamse context
Author : Kris Debisschop
Promotor: Eddy Van de Voorde

The following Ph.D's are under preparation at the Department :

Raimonds Aronietis: Economic, capacity and regulatory measures as solutions to road capacity problems 
Dan Behr (Behr & Associates): Investigation of the financial viability of establishing a European version of the US-style "short-line" freight railway, operating over selected corridors, through regions within the EU
Miguel Carmona (Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency): A Regulatory Model for Public-Private Partnerships in the Portugese road sector
Katrien De Langhe: Optimal balance between freight and passenger activities at an airport
Marcella De Martino (IRAT Naples): Port competitiveness adopting a Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach
Peyman Derakhshannik: The effect of piracy on transport economy
Koen De Winne: Haveninvesteringen als beleidsinstrument: strategische beleidsbeslissingen in complexe havenomgevingen
Wouter Dewulf: Analysis of the strategies of carriers in the air freight business
Sergio Domingues: Real option analysis of airport security
Jack Doomernik: Assessment of the European market for international train services
Omid Fadaeimanesh: Modeling and design of "Economical Path" in world transportation
Giannis Fasoulis: the relationship between maritime safety and ship’ chartering
Masoud Gargari: Shipberthing allocation and speed optimization
Prakash Gaur (Halcrow Consulting India Limited): Optimization of port capacity planning
Roel Gevaers: Innovation in logistics 
Mohammad Ali Hasanzadeh: The economics of safety at ports
Joost Hintjens: Co-operation between port authorities and impact on regions
Najd Javadipour (Euopars): Transport cost efficiency: the imminenet determining factor for the choice of glaobal gas production projects
Hossein Javadipour: Costs of security and impact of its implmentation throughout the specturm of aviation industry
Saeed Javdani: Investigation of empty containers, repositioning and logistics
Cosimo Lisi
Jochen Maes: In search of solutions to transport and logistics capacity 
Feliciana Monteiro: Productivity Measurement in Port Services - Focus on Mediterranean Container Ports
Marzieh Nazemzadeh: New Classical model of Logistics Services and the EU combined economy
Huong Nguyen: Collaboration in supply chain network
Evy Onghena: Expansion and co-operation strategies of integrators: an economic analysis
Yasmine Rashed: The relationship between trade and transport
Ali Akbar Safaei: A model to measure safety and environmental protection level of relevant IMO conventions (shipping industry)
Khosro Saraie: Market changes in competitive port environment
Els Struyf: Analysis of issues of competitive advantage in airports
Uten Marieke
Edwin Verberght: The effectiveness of transport policies
Patrick Verhoeven (ESPO): Economic assessment of management reform in European seaports
Spyros Vougios (BCA Business School, Athens): The ship demolition market and its impact to the economics of the shipping industry