Partial and complete replanning of an intermodal logistic system under disruptions

The exclusive and excessive use of long-distance road transportation is not suitable way to reduce the negative environmental impacts of logistics systems. Intermodal transport, combining road with other transport modes, has the potential to reduce both operating costs and carbon footprints. One of the reasons for the low share of intermodal...

Visual Inertial 3D Modeling: Improving the performance of dense 3D point cloud reconstruction algorithms

Dense 3D modeling based on monocular visual data is a powerful process of gaining spatial 3D understanding from 2D observations. The use of visual data to reconstruct such 3D models is still a challenging topic. To obtain the accurate dimensions, additional metadata is required such as a GPS which is not always available. Besides this, dealing...

Inland Shipping & Container Handling: Feasibility study on scalable inland container transport and terminal concepts

Small scale inland shipping, especially in the case of transported containers, is used only marginally compared to its capacity. The small inland waterways have abundant capacity to accommodate up to 700 percent more transport. On the other hand, road based container transport is cause for external damages in the form of congestion, emissions...

STM imaging and spectroscopy of single copperphthalocyanine molecules

Spontaneous resistance switching and low-frequency noise in quantum point contacts