Transportation and Logistics
This field deals with all spatial and time-related activities involved in bridging the gap between goods and people, including their restructuring. This begins with the supplier and follows each stage of the operational value chain to product delivery and concludes with product disposal and recycling.
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Technology into Heaven
The following year, two planes collided in mid-air over Überlingen in the south of Germany on the edge of Lake Constance. One was a Russian passenger flight…
Meet the European driver
“Really, we cannot talk about the European driver,” explains Matthias Schulze, coordinator of the PReVENT project and Senior Manager for ITS & Services Daimler…
Floating a big idea: MIT demos ancient use of rafts to transport goods
Details of how the ancient trading system worked more than 1,000 years ago were reconstructed largely through the efforts of former MIT undergraduate student…
Urban freight transport can be cleaner and cheaper
Extending designated pick-up and delivery times and improving coordination of the regulations imposed by the various cities would reduce harmful emissions and…
Velaro already ensuring short journey times in Spain – and soon in China and Russia
Velaro, the high speed train by Siemens, keeps going from success to success. The first five of a total order for 60 high speed trains will be rolling in China…
Tackling traffic’s biggest killer
It is the most powerful impact a car can suffer and it is very difficult to predict or avoid; twin fatal factors that make head-on collisions the most…