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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New Logistics Model Improves Forecast Accuracy of Retail and Packaged-Goods Orders

Examining this problem at a specific link – suppliers and distribution centers – in the retail and consumer-packaged goods supply chain, a logistics researcher…

Compact and flexible code reading system for industrial applications

The compact device with high IP67 degree of protection can read both standard high-contrast codes as well as DPM (direct parts marking) codes even under…

Driver Misjudgment and Landscape Variations Cause Collisions at Stop Sign Intersections

In 2005 the Ministry of Transportation reported 62,000 crossing and turning collisions at stop-sign controlled and other types of intersections throughout…

Scientists develop an 'intelligent car' able to learn from his owner’s driving and warn him in case of accident hazard

Scientists from six European countries, including Spain, have developed a new computer system so called DRIVSCO that allows vehicles to learn from the…

Research Details Mathematical Model for Effectively Screening Airline Passengers

Changes in aviation security policies and operations since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have resulted in every passenger being treated as a potential…

Growing impact of urban freight traffic

Between 1993 and 2003 the number of journeys by commercial vehicles within the Swiss conurbations rose by half. The volume of freight, however, has not risen….

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