Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and Logistics

Paris Air Show 2023: Key Innovations Unveiled in London

Officials from the biennial Paris Air Show organisation, a full subsidiary of GIFAS (the French aerospace industries association), will discuss developments…

Transportation and Logistics

Fast Jet Pilot Directs Multiple Unmanned Aircraft in UK Test

The system, developed by QinetiQ and funded by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), gives unmanned aircraft an advanced level of independence and intelligence, or…

Transportation and Logistics

New Long-Range RFID Tech for China’s Road Toll System

The new system could become the foundation for nation-wide traffic and road toll monitoring. The new technology will be first deployed in Wuhan, a city with a…

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Siemens VDO Unveils Compact Navigation Computer for Fleet Management

The new unit for professional use on company cars or commercial vehicles thus does entirely without CD ROMs. This trend-setting system change has a number of…

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Students Compete to Create Zero-Emissions Snowmobile

Snowmobiles long ago replaced dogsleds for hauling people and cargo in the polar regions, particularly in remote research stations and field camps such as…

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Leicester Engineering Enhancements Boost Aircraft Safety

The Leicester modifications have effectively compensated for an inherent design limitation that has led to several disastrous crashes – most notably the JAS-29…

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Unlocking Flight Test Data: Insights from EUREKA Project FLITE

This procedure involves combining data from diverse ground, laboratory and flight tests. The EUREKA project E! 2419 FLITE, coordinated by France’s SOPEMEA and…

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Bulging Bumper: A Step Toward Computerized Carriageways

A paper presented at the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) World Congress and Exhibition recently offers a glimpse of how a high-tech,…

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Better designed roadway intersections can boost older drivers' performance

Wider road shoulders, right-turn lanes that allow drivers to merge into traffic without stopping and angle intersections no sharper than 90 degrees all led to…

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Pay-As-You-Drive: Shifting Shopping Habits and Commutes

Then people will choose to travel to work at a different time or to use public transport. The biggest change is in the non-daily shopping trips to another…

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CESAR Project: Cheaper, Greener Small Aircraft Innovations

A team from the Power Conversion Group at the University will use the money to investigate how current mechanical and hydraulic systems on small aircraft -…

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European Aerospace Innovation: Engineering Partnership Unveiled

The School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering is joining forces with Rolls Royce, the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and the…

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Automated System Installs Reflective Pavement Markers

On rainy nights in Georgia and across the nation, drivers greatly benefit from small, reflective markers that make roadway lanes more visible. A new automated…

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World's first automated runway debris detection system goes live

Runway debris, known in the airport industry as Foreign Object Debris or FOD, as small and seemingly innocuous as a broken wheel from a suitcase, a bolt or a…

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Innovative Graphical Displays Guide Aircraft from Icing Hazards

Graphical displays, developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will for the first time rate areas by icing severity and…

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World's first in-flight demo of multiple unmanned aircraft autonomy system

The successful flight trial, part of a programme of work under contract to the UK Ministry of Defence, was conducted to support the concept of using a package…

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