Dedicated Truck Lanes Investigated: Discovering the potential to serve as a corridor for re-export from the Port of Rotterdam

The expected container volume increase that will arise when the second Maasvlakte is completed requires major investments in the transport sector. This thesis will argue that road transport has more potential to cope with the increase in container volume than barges and rail transport. Dedicated truck lanes can drastically increase infrastructure capacity while limiting the external costs for society that are created by truck traffic. In order to develop the optimal approach and methods for analyzing the effects of such an infrastructure project, a parallel was drawn with the Betuwe-route. An extensive analysis including direct effects, indirect effects and social costs pointed out that the proposed dedicated truck lane has a net benefit for the Dutch economy.