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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Pay-as-you-drive mainly reduces shopping trips
Then people will choose to travel to work at a different time or to use public transport. The biggest change is in the non-daily shopping trips to another…
CESAR could hail cheaper and greener small aircraft
A team from the Power Conversion Group at the University will use the money to investigate how current mechanical and hydraulic systems on small aircraft -…
European first in aerospace engineering
The School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering is joining forces with Rolls Royce, the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and the…
Automated system installs pavement markers
On rainy nights in Georgia and across the nation, drivers greatly benefit from small, reflective markers that make roadway lanes more visible. A new automated…
World's first automated runway debris detection system goes live
Runway debris, known in the airport industry as Foreign Object Debris or FOD, as small and seemingly innocuous as a broken wheel from a suitcase, a bolt or a…
Steering Clear of Icy Skies: Enhanced Product Helps Guide Aircraft away from Hazardous Icing Conditions
Graphical displays, developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will for the first time rate areas by icing severity and…