Samenvatting

Infrastructure agencies are responsible for maintaining the quality, safety and availability of their infrastructure. This is often done in isolation, without much consideration for cascading effects in other infrastructure. There are interdependencies between the transport infrastructure systems of the different agencies. Meanwhile, all agencies face uncertainty regarding future developments that affect their socio-technical system, for instance, demographic, economic and technological developments. Decisions on investments have to be made in the present, whereas the necessary information only becomes sufficiently available in the future. Simulation models can provide decision-making support for infrastructure agencies in cross-sectoral intervention strategies. To do so, simulation models need to take various modalities into account and explore possible futures, rather than trying to predict the future.