Port Competition through Hinterland Connectivity—A Case Study for Potential Hinterland Scope in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Regarding an Environmental Policy Measure

Port Hinterland Modelling Based on Port Choice

This paper presents a new approach for hinterland modelling based on the results of port choice modelling. The paper follows the idea that the shippers’ port choice is a trade-off between various objective and subjective factors. The presented model tackles the problem by applying the AHP method in order to obtain ports’ preference rates based on subjective factors, and combine them with object...

Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia

Sync&share North Rhine-Westphalia

Raimund Vogl is the project leader of a large-scale project which aims to introduce a university-based cloud storage services to major German universities. The protagonist needs to prepare himself for a meeting with the project sponsors, the Ministry of Science and Research, to convince them to go ahead with the project. The scenario is based on a real case and shows real challenges. The univer...

European Mining Database North Rhine – Westphalia (emd-nrw): a Mashup for Intuitive Usage of Archive Data

The European Mining Database for North Rhine Westphalia (EMD-NRW) has the objective to present information about the industrial heritage of mining in an intuitive web mapping application. With the increasing abandonment of these industrial objects, especially in the area of NRW, the digital preservation of information, locations and relations between and about these objects is important. These ...

Hinterland Revisited

This study aims to display how Carol Shileds’s short story Hinterland subverts the fundamental aspects of the classical definition of literature. Via parody, the story deconstructs the mediums that are peculiar to the concept of literary art. Moreover, Shileds does not only question central truths, but she also renders the reader to open a new perspective by revising the grand narratives of lit...