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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Computer solution to delivery problem
With the gift-giving season almost upon us and increasing concerns about the environmental effects of all those deliveries and pickups, it is timely that…
Commission launches new generation of research projects for greener, more competitive air transport
The 36 highly innovative projects selected in that first call should bring important advances into greener, safer, more secure air transport and improved cost…
Computers solve delivery problems
Writing in a forthcoming issue of the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, researchers suggest a new…
Down to the wire for eco flights
If there’s a short circuit machines stop and systems break down. When the wiring is inside a jet engine, generating power for all the electrics in an aircraft,…
Putting rail freight transport back on the map
In spite of efforts by railway companies, it is still not easy for users to arrange the movement of their own goods, especially when compared with road…
Jules Verne dry cargo prepared in Turin
The cargo items which will be on board the inaugural flight of the European-built Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) when it docks with the International Space…