I n order to determine the type of transportation systems needed to accommodate a proposed shopping center development, an understanding of the characteristics of shopping trips is essential. Shopping trips are complicated for two reasons: first, because a proportion of trips made are a part of a series of linked trips; and second, because the trips have a vwiety of origins and destinations bef...

With the rapid progress of modern cities, the railway construction must be developing quickly in China.As a typical high-density country, shopping center on the subway should be one important factor during the process of urban development. The paper discusses the influence of the layout of shopping center on the subway, and put it in the time and space’s axis of Shanghai urban development. We u...

Shopping centers present a rich and heterogeneous environment, where IT systems can be implemented in order to support the needs of its actors. However, due to the environment complexity, several feasibility issues emerge when designing both the logical and physical architecture of such systems. Additionally, the system must be able to cope with the individual needs of each actor, and provide s...

The Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL) is an applicationoriented research laboratory of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) run in collaboration with the German retailer GLOBUS SB-Warenhaus Holding in St. Wendel. In this living lab, we conduct research in a wide range of different domains, mostly related to intelligent shopping assistance. Our demonstrators range from ...