Protecting Perishable Foods During Transport by Truck and Rail

Drayage Optimization in Truck/Rail Networks

External Costs of Truck and Rail Freight Transportation

Transport supervision of perishable goods by embedded context aware objects

Intelligent freight objects can be introduced in order to simplify the solution of complex logistical planning tasks. This enables splitting logistical problems to local executable subtasks. The concept of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) presents a model to realize such intelligent objects. A local task can be handled autonomously by a group of objects. The realization of UbiComp needs a platfor...

Rail Transport and Energy Consumption

This paper attempts to portray the present unstable situation of handling passengers and freight inside Iran as well as to represent a clear view of the rail transport features that have given this mode of transport a special place among the transport system. In this paper the rate of fuel consumption as a main pivotal item has been evaluated as well as the amount and cost of fuel economized th...

Effects of season, truck type, and location within truck on gastrointestinal tract temperature of market-weight pigs during transport.

Two experiments were done to assess the effects of season, truck type, and location in the truck on the gastrointestinal tract temperature (GTT) of market-weight pigs during transport. In Exp. 1, a total of 504 sentinel pigs were selected from a total load of 3,756 pigs over 12 wk in summer or winter and transported in either a double-decked (DD) hydraulic truck or a pot-belly (PB) trailer for ...