Maritime logistics is referred to as the process of planning, implementing, and managing the movement of goods and information which is involved in the ocean carriage. As a central component of global logistics systems, maritime operators such as shipping lines, port terminal operators and freight forwarders now have to perform both sea transport-related services and other related and wider log...

Due to diverse and increased demands, logistics needs to move towards being more context-aware. Logistic planning and execution will benefit immensely by use of (real-time) contextual data, such as data about weather, traffic, and resources. Resulting benefits include better flexibility, lower greenhouse gas emission, reduced costs, and optimum usage of transport modalities. This paper demonstr...

In agricultural harvesting processes, the infield logistics of transporting the crop from the harvesters' tanks to a street transporter at the field border with an unloading vehicle is challenging. The harvesters have to be unloaded while driving and in time to prevent the loss of expensive process time. The path planning for the unloading vehicle has to consider the unharvested area as a dynam...

Many studies have shown that the careful planning of construction logistics can result in significant saving. However, despite attempts to improve the logistics of construction materials, the purchase, delivery, storage and movement of materials are still conducted in a rather unstructured manner. In this paper, construction logistics are modeled and analyzed using Petri Net (PN) techniques. Th...

The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent technology is promising. Due to the mobile nature of logistics the usage of mobile agent technology is promising as well. Scenarios of usage of mobile agents in logistics are presen...

This research describes the strategy and mechanism design methodology to realize a robot system that transfers and stores daily use objects in our living space. Unlike industrial applications, there are three specific problems in the home application: (1) variation of living environment, (2) diversity of daily use objects, (3) dispersion of human activity. First, we presented a concept of strat...

In November 2000, on one of those bright and sunny days typical for northern China’s winter, the managing director of GEARBOX (China) Ltd. (pseudonym) glances over the new manufacturing facilities erected next to the shimmering office building to meet the expected growth in Chinese domestic demand for GEARBOX’s products. Essentially being a duplicate of GEARBOX’s existing production facilities,...

Urban logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental objectives. However, most actions are started by public authorities without taking into account the impacts of the new organizational schemas in the existing distribution enterprises’ organization. This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for urban green logistics planning and e...

The sustainable logistics and transportation studies constitute a primordial research axis in the enterprises’ governance. In the last years, many reflections and developments in logistics research have studied the economic and the environmental questions related to supply chain management, but only few of them consider sustainability in its totality. Moreover, in practice, city logistics syste...