• around view system for large vehicles, the methods of calibration and removal of barrel distortion for omnidirectional cameras. Abstract. Driving fraught with an uncontrolled risk of small collisions with other vehicles and pedestrians because of "blind spots": at parking, at exit from a parking lot, while driving in heavy trac of vehicles. For trucks the task of creating 360 • around view sy...

Cross docking is a warehouse management concept in which items delivered to a warehouse by inbound trucks are immediately sorted out, reorganized based on customer demands and loaded into outbound trucks for delivery to customers, without requiring excessive inventory at the warehouse. Compared to traditional warehousing, the storage as well as the length of the stay of a product in the warehou...

Heavy-duty vehicles are a major contributor to CO2 emissions in the transportation sector, and it is necessary develop clean green technologies replace diesel trucks. Electric trucks have not reached breakthrough German market. In addition technology development, customer acceptance of new critical factor success sustainable policies. This study aims fill this knowledge gap by investigating per...

Abstract We consider a packing problem that arises in direct-shipping system the food and beverage industry: Trucks are containers, products to be distributed items. The is constrained by two independent quantities, weight (e.g., measured kg) volume (number of pallets). Additionally, grouped into three categories: standard, cooled, frozen (the latter require refrigerated trucks). Products diffe...

This paper studies a scheduling problem arising in a beef distribution system where pallets of various types of beef products in the warehouse are first depalletized and then individual cases are loaded via conveyors to the trucks which deliver beef products to various customers. Given each customer's demand for each type of beef, the problem is to find a depalletizing and truck loading schedul...

complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Cross-docking is a logistics management concept that has been gaining global recognition in less-than-truckload logistics industries and retail firms. In cross-docking terminals, shipments are unloaded from inbound trucks at strip doors, consolidated insider cross-docks acco...

This paper analyzes the feasibility of using cellular telephone location data to determine the geographic extent of trucks from intermodal facilities. The feasibility analysis includes three aspects: location technology, cell phone penetration, and truck tracking methodology. As the results shows, the cell phone location technology is able to provide accurate location data. It can provide updat...

This study addresses the problem of scheduling the daily assignment of available trucks for delivery of forest products required at different destinations. The products are logs of various types depending on their point of origin, and are defined in terms of length and diameter. Their destinations include sawmills, pulp mills, and other plants, and ports for export abroad. They are available fo...

Fourier transform-infrared microspectroscopy (micro-FT-IR) operated in attenuated-total-reflectance (ATR) and transmission modes following stereomicroscopy was used for the purpose of matching known and questioned paint samples in a fatal hit-and-run case. A tiny, thin and smeared dot of red paint sticking on the broken-off cross section of a side-mirror rod was taken from the victim motorcycle...

This paper explores the impact of residential density on households’ vehicle type and usage choices using the 2001 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). Attempts to quantify the effect of urban form on households’ vehicle choice and utilization often encounter the problem of sample selectivity. Household characteristics that are unobservable to the researchers might determine simultaneously ...