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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Rotary engine technology takes off in general aviation

So, while designs are well proven, motors require some 70 or 80 moving parts and still use 100-octane low-leaded (100 LL) fuel that has long been displaced by…

Bird sized airplane to fly like a swift

The micro airplane will have unprecedented wing characteristics; the wing geometry as well as the wing surface area can be adjusted continuously. This makes…

'Smart' traffic boxes could help monitor roads, save money

They've developed new software that helps the computerized boxes locate road incidents — such as traffic back-ups or accidents — and notify transportation…

Towards a better and cheaper retail supply chain

By extending the Newsvendor-formula it can be proven that from the point where most of the value is created, inventory should move all the way downstream. He…

Too little scope for development in today’s aircraft technology

PhD candidate Alexander de Haan has researched how new aircraft technology can contribute to sustainability in aviation. He has developed a model comprising a…

Road traffic injury is an escalating burden in Africa

The road traffic injury mortality rate in Africa is 28.3 per 100,000 of the population when corrected for under-reporting, compared with 11.0 per 100,000 in…

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