Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and Logistics

Satellite Data and Maps Combat Wrong-Way Driving Accidents

Wrong-way drivers driving against the permitted direction of traffic cause almost 2,000 traffic accidents with approximately 20 fatalities on German motorways…

Transportation and Logistics

New Traffic Technologies Transform Urban Driving Experience

Drivers have to be ready to react quickly to the unexpected, especially in busy traffic. For Fraunhofer IAO project manager Frederik Diederichs, the same…

Transportation and Logistics

Green Light for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Innovations

 

Transportation and Logistics

TriMet Opens MAX Orange Line With Siemens Rail Technology

Today, TriMet's new MAX Orange Line, a light rail project between Portland and Milwaukie (USA), was officially inaugurated. Siemens advanced rail technologies…

Transportation and Logistics

Siemens Modernizes Belgium’s Railway Network with New Tech

In a consortium together with the Cofely-Fabricom (GDF SUEZ) infrastructure development company, Siemens is to equip more than 2,200 track kilometers of the…

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Siemens’ First Class 700 Thameslink Train Arrives in London

Today, the first brand new Siemens-built Class 700 Desiro City train arrived in the United Kingdom (UK). The trains are set to transform passenger experience…

Transportation and Logistics

Guides for Medium-Sized Enterprises by University of Stuttgart

For over 100 years assembly in the automobile industry has gone in cycle sequences in which it is precisely determined when, where and how a certain work step…

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World’s First Electric Car Ferry Launches in Norway

The world's first electrical car and passenger ferry powered by batteries has entered service in Norway. The ferry only uses 150 kWh per route, which…

Transportation and Logistics

Smart Security Designs for Storm Resilience in Urban Areas

Storms are capable of paralyzing entire cities. Only recently, in the first week of April, large parts of Germany were deprived of power due to hurricane-force…

Transportation and Logistics

Stockholm Launches Electric Hybrid Bus Line with Siemens Charging

Siemens, together with Vattenfall, has installed a new supercharging station at each end of the route. The station can charge the lithium battery of the bus in…

Transportation and Logistics

LOGWERT adds to Heilbronn's status as a research hub

On March 1, 2015, the LOGWERT competence center in Heilbronn will be ready to start its work. The center brings together Fraunhofer IAO’s expertise in mobility…

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Bicyclists Will Ride 3 Miles for Transit: Innovations Ahead

Methods to do so could include installing bicycle lanes separated from vehicular traffic, adding off-street multipurpose paths for pedestrians and bicyclists…

Transportation and Logistics

Siemens Automates High-Speed Train Line in Spain

Siemens is in a consortium with the French technology business Thales that is to modernize the control, signaling and safety equipment on the roughly…

Transportation and Logistics

Global Ship Traffic Surges 300% Since 1992: Environmental Impact

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollution on the open seas,…

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Notre Dame Physicists Model Traffic Patterns for Better Flow

“Transportation networks and in particular the highway transportation network are like the body's circulatory system for the nation,” says Zoltán Toroczkai,…

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University of Stuttgart investigates electrically operated citizens’ buses

Scientists from the Institute of Business Administration and the Institute of Railway and Transportation Engineering at the University of Stuttgart are jointly…

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