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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Toll road privatization may result in indirect impacts
Peter Swan of Penn State – Harrisburg and Michael Belzer of Wayne State University will present the findings of their study, “Empirical Evidence of Toll Road…
Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians
Many traffic jams leave drivers baffled as they finally reach the end of a tail-back to find no visible cause for their delay. Now, a team of mathematicians…
Intelligent logistics put “five-day car” within reach
At present, Europe’s carmakers can produce 22 million cars a year but there is only demand for 15 million. The same is true around the world: car manufacturers…
Joined up air and rail travel for Heathrow
According to Moshe Givoni of the Transport Studies Unit, at Oxford University Centre for the Environment, environmental pollution from aircraft operation and…
Technology lifts customs burden off business
The ITAIDE project is tackling customs, security and administration with a broad-front approach. It is just as well because it is an enormous problem, and an…
Ground breaking passenger detection technology wins global award for innovation
The vehicle monitoring system, dtect, can be used in all weathers, day or night, to instantly to detect human skin behind all types of automotive glass at a…