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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Compact, robust and powerful: Siemens VDO presents new 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…
Students enter competition to produce a 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…
University of Leicester engineering modifications enhance 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…
New tools for exploiting flight test data
This procedure involves combining data from diverse ground, laboratory and flight tests. The EUREKA project E! 2419 FLITE, coordinated by France’s SOPEMEA and…
Bulging bumper could speed journey to computerised carriageways
A paper presented at the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) World Congress and Exhibition recently offers a glimpse of how a high-tech,…
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…