Real-time hiring of vehicles for container transport

This study concerns the deployment of large numbers of container transporting vehicles on a network consisting of (dedicated) roads and logistic sites such as container terminals. Each site is managed autonomously by a site manager. The fleet of vehicles is deployed by a fleet manager. On request of the site managers, the fleet manager allocates...

Improving travel-time reliability by the use of trip booking

Transfer station and method for loading and/or unloading containers from a ship

Containers are transported with at least one quay crane (10) from and/or to a ship (14) along a quay (19). The quay crane (10) has a hoisting range comprising a first vehicle-positioning strip (26) on a quay surface. Depending on whether other vehicles (16, 17) are present or not on the positioning strips, vehicles (16, 17) are instructed to...

Road-rail vehicle

A transport vehicle equipped with a number of first wheel sets, having wheels provided with tires, to which steering means and driving means, if any, are coupled to enable the transport vehicle to be moved over a road surface. The transport vehicle further comprises at least one second wheel set, having rail wheels, which rail wheels can be...

Logistieke Systemen: de besturingsarchitectuur

Robotised inter-terminal transport of containers

Een geïntegreed systeem voor gerobotiseerd containertransport: concept R&D-programma DiTrans

Het simuleren van een replenishment demand

Forecasting a replenishment demand: a Kalman-filter approach

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