Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and Logistics

Galileo Labs Enhances Tracking with Advanced Satellite Solutions

Whether calculating routes, finding your vehicle, tracking products or simply knowing where you are at the moment, drivers and sailors currently use satellite…

Transportation and Logistics

MTSU Aerospace Unveils New Air Traffic Control Simulator

“It was one of the most impressive things I have seen on a college campus,” Massaro said of the Department of Aerospace's unique Air Traffic Control Training…

Transportation and Logistics

Revamped TES Portal: Safely Handle Dangerous Goods Today

In order to increase the safety of these transports, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) provides a lot of information about this topic…

Transportation and Logistics

Less Vibration in Cranes Boosts Ship Loading Efficiency

To restrict such motion, so that containers can be set down with an accuracy of a few centimeters, crane drivers have to reduce operating speed, which extends…

Transportation and Logistics

Economics: Triumph in the sky

The cargo industry has undergone a major transformation over the past 20 years, with air freight now preferred for a wide range of products. In 2006, the air…

Transportation and Logistics

Team Designs Optimal Supply Chains for Disaster Relief

The team includes Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, and Min Yu, a doctoral student in management science at the…

Transportation and Logistics

Fast and Frugal Trains: New Tech Cuts Fuel Use and Time

The trains consume the equivalent of around 0.33 liters of gasoline per passenger for every 100 kilometers, while beating airliners in terms of travel time for…

Transportation and Logistics

Air Force Enhances Flight Control Using Insect Brain Insights

“This work investigates sensory-motor feedback mechanisms in the insect brain that could inspire new approaches to flight stabilization and navigation in…

Transportation and Logistics

Motorcycle Simulator Offers Insights for Enhanced Road Safety

The study was carried out by researchers at The University of Nottingham’s Centre for Motorcycle Ergonomics & Rider Human Factors. The preliminary results of…

Transportation and Logistics

Carbon Nanomaterials for Transport

Carbon nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, nanofibres and graphene are becoming increasingly important in many applications including aerospace,…

Transportation and Logistics

Railroad Bypass Ignores Historic Black Town in Illinois

The bypass pushed what would have been a fairly straight, even run of railroad tracks from Griggsville, Ill. to Hannibal, Mo., in a wide, hilly arc around New…

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First Automatic Vehicle Navigates Real City Traffic in Braunschweig

A world’s first in Braunschweig: For the first time, an automatic vehicle is driving in everyday city traffic today.In the context of the research project…

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First Human-Powered Ornithopter Achieves Sustained Flight

The “Snowbird” performed its record-breaking flight on August 2 at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ont., witnessed by the vice-president (Canada) of…

Transportation and Logistics

Self-Organizing Traffic Lights Transform Urban Mobility

Currently, traffic jams and road congestion do a lot more than annoy millions of people every day. In the United States alone, delays linked to backed-up…

Transportation and Logistics

Innovative Solutions to Prevent Train Derailments During Disasters

Thousands of people around the world have died in train wrecks caused by natural disasters. In 2004, the tsunami in Southeast Asia derailed a Sri Lankan train,…

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Vectron – Siemens’ universal locomotive for rail transportation in Europe

Siemens presents Vectron, a new locomotive generation that has been developed for the widest possible range of traction tasks. These locomotives can be used…

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