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.

innovations-report provides informative reports and articles on such topics as traffic telematics, toll collection, traffic management systems, route planning, high-speed rail (Transrapid), traffic infrastructures, air safety, transport technologies, transport logistics, production logistics and mobility.

Listening Technology for Wheelsets for Safer Trains

This solution improves the reliability of rail transport and reduces maintenance costs. As reported in the current issue of Pictures of the Future, the system…

Engineers Study How to Improve High-Speed Rail Ties Against Freezing, Thawing Conditions

The university's Kyle Riding, assistant professor of civil engineering, is leading a three-year study that looks at the freeze-thaw durability of concrete…

Making transport a driver for development in Africa

Transport is playing a big role in delivering economic development to Africa. But as the demand for transport grows and cities expand, policy makers need to…

Shared Transportation System Would Increase Profits, Reduce Carbon Emissions

The Physical Internet – a concept in which goods are handled, stored and transported in a shared network of manufacturers, retailers and the transportation…

Time to Change an Led Light? S&T Researchers Design System to Tell

But knowing when to replace the signal heads has remained a guessing game, says Dr. Suzanna Long, assistant professor of engineering management and systems…

New airport system facilitates smoother take-offs and landings

The system, developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), provides information pilots can use to route aircraft away from patches of…

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