The sustainable last mile: An exploration to meaningful sustainable innovations for Vanderlande

In this report, a proposal for a sustainable last mile is given. Inner city logistics brings many problems with it regarding livability in the city; polluting vans standing in the way on the road or the sidewalk and driving too fast because of high demands of the consumer and competitive nature of carriers. Unsustainable practices are being...

Increasing the flexibility of a sliding shoe sorter by designing an individual actuated shoe-carrier system with local intelligence: A feasability study

Vanderlande Industries makes sorting machines for the parcel industry. One of these sorting machines is a sliding shoe sorter; the posisorter. Which ensures a positive, form closed, sorting action. Right now, the posisorter can handle 24.000 parcels per hour and is with that the market leader in high capacity sorting machines. <br/><br/>However,...