This paper presents a nonlinear model predictive control with terminal cost (NMPC–WTC) algorithm and its open/closed-loop system analysis and simulation validation for accurate and stable path tracking of autonomous vehicles. The path tracking...
The growing dominance of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in global air transport has intensified the need for airport terminal facilities that reflect their simplified, efficiency-driven operating principles. Traditional Level of Service (LOS) standards, ba...
As container ports become increasingly important to the global supply chain, a growing number of ports are improving their competencies by consolidating multiple terminal resources internally. In addition, in the context of energy conservation and em...
Based on the projected growth in passenger air traffic and the need for better utilization of existing capacities, the level of service (LOS) concept in the design and planning of airport terminal facilities is crucial. By monitoring and quickly resp...
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Background: Although medical costs need to be controlled, there are no easily applicable cost prediction models of transfer to palliative care (PC) for terminal cancer patients. Construct a cost-saving prediction model based on terminal cancer patien...
In France, the regional airport’s demand for services is facing challenges due to the continuous expansion of the high-speed train, high-speed line, and highway networks. This study focuses on the viability of regional airports in France throug...
Prosthetic humanoid manipulators manufacturing requires light overall weight, small size, compact structure, and low cost to realize wearing purpose. These requirements constrain hardware configuration conditions and aggravate the nonlinearity and co...
The multi-terminal AC/DC system will become one of the important forms of the future power grid. The negative impedance characteristic caused by the constant power load in the DC network will reduce the power transfer capacity between the terminals,...
Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) in the horizontal area play a crucial role in determining the operational efficiency of automated container terminals (ACTs). To improve the operational efficiency of an ACT, it is essential to decrease the impact of...
Background: Scheduling the arrival of external trucks in container terminals is a critical operational decision that faces both terminal managers and trucking companies. This issue is crucial for both stakeholders since the random arrival of trucks c...
The performance of low-cost smart terminals is limited by the performance of their low-cost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) hardware and chips, as well as by the impact of complex urban environments, which affect the positioning accuracy an...
This paper presents a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) modulation scheme and demodulation method for low-cost terminals in sixth-generation (6G), which is called one plus delay (1 + D) pi/2(N + 1) BPSK. Explicitly, the modulation scheme is firs...
A reverse mortgage supports the aging society more sustainably by providing stable cash flows to elderly retirees. Although the reverse mortgage market has successfully grown in many developed countries, we have observed significantly increased early...
A port is an intermodal system in which many logistics activities requiring properly constructed areas occur. The large extension of these areas poses a major problem in choosing materials with technical and economic implications. Choice and design o...
This paper develops a mathematical model for intermodal freight transportation. It focuses on determining the flow of goods, the number of vehicles, and the transferred volume of goods transported from origin points to destination points. The model o...
This article proposes a mathematical model for integrating terminal operation strategies with shipment scheduling. We are motivated by findings from the literature on the integrated design of logistic systems. The objective of this research is to eff...
Automated container terminals have been constructed to reduce emissions and labor cost. Resource allocation problems in automated container terminals have a critical effect on handling efficiency and cost. This paper addresses this problem with quay...
Research Highlights: The use of terminals can increase supply costs by 5–11% (when compared to direct supply), but terminals help secure supply during peak demand and cope with operational problems in the supply fleet in cases where direct supp...
Background: Random truck arrivals at maritime container terminals are one of the primary reasons for gate congestion. Gate congestion negatively affects the terminal’s and drayage firms’ productivity and the surrounding communities in ter...
The transport system is one of the main bottlenecks of the world’s largest producer and exporter of soybeans, Brazil. Long-distance truck transportation of grains increases costs, food waste, and CO2 emissions. To handle these problems, the Bra...
Today’s airport passenger terminals are required to be planned and designed to ensure flexibility for future adjustments at minimal cost, but also to respond to changes in demand and/or needs of passengers, airlines, and aircraft. To achieve th...
Forestry faces frequent and severe natural calamities causing high amounts of salvage wood. Especially under mountainous conditions, regional available self-loading truck capacity is often the main limiting factor causing transport capacity bottlenec...
Indonesia’s high logistics costs—approximately 14.6% of its GDP—pose a significant challenge to national economic competitiveness. Key contributing factors include complex geography, fragmented multimodal transport systems and ineff...
With the increasingly busy transportation of cargo at container terminals (CTs), the requirements for terminal throughput and operational efficiency are constantly increasing. The operational efficiency and cost of CTs are closely related to the seam...
Gate and yard congestion is a typical type of container port congestion, which prevents trucks from traveling freely and has become the bottleneck that constrains the port productivity. In addition, urban traffic increases the uncertainty of the truc...
Ferry operators in Sweden provide transportation for tens of millions of people annually. As electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more commonplace, ferries and ferry terminals seem like suitable places for providing charging services. However, high c...
As an efficient heating terminal, direct-condensation terminals are increasingly being applied. This study proposes novel direct-condensation heating panels with different aspect ratios, which have been optimized in structure and reduced in copper tu...
Financial leasing contracts usually include specific clauses for early termination of the agreement in the event that the lessee defaults. The lessor might, therefore, not immediately ask for termination of the financial lease agreement in order to t...
A mathematical model for the design of small-scale supply chains for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been developed. It considers the maritime delivery of LNG from supply ports to satellite terminals and land-based transports from the terminals to co...
The synchronous generators (SGs) supplying non-linear loads have harmonically distorted terminal voltages. Hence, these distorted terminal voltages adversely affect the performance parameters of the supplied loads such as the power factor, current di...
Intelligent vehicles are expected to yield significant benefits in traffic safety, traffic efficiency, energy conservation, and carbon emission reduction. As the collaborative intelligence technology route becomes an industry consensus, intelligent v...
The gradual commercialization of entirely autonomous vehicles is expected to bring numerous benefits, such as structural transformation in the industry. Specifically, in maritime transportation, automobile terminals that import and export finished au...
The future 6G mobile communication network will support an unprecedented amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which will boost the demand for low cost terminals under the principle of green communication. One of the critical issues for low cos...
There is a global trend of automation of container terminals. However, there is a lack of literature to guide automation projects for brownfield terminals. Therefore, the experiences and lessons learnt from historical brownfield automation of contain...
The development of inland terminals helps seaports mitigate inevitable storage capacity problems, extending their gravitational field and strengthening their competitive advantage. Optimizing the container storage, efficiency, and productivity of sea...
Discretionary activities such as retail, food, and beverages generate a significant amount of non-aeronautical revenue within the aviation industry. However, they are rarely taken into account in computational airport terminal models. Since discretio...
This study proposes a balanced truck dispatching strategy for inter-terminal transportation (ITT) in large ports, incorporating proactive demand outsourcing to address stochastic and imbalanced ITT demand. A portion of ITT tasks are intentionally out...
The multiple processes taking place on a daily basis at an intermodal container terminal are often considered individually, given the complexity of their joint consideration. Nevertheless, the integrated planning and scheduling of operations in an in...
With the advantages of large volume, low unit transportation costs, as well as sustainable and stable transport capacity, China in recent years has actively promoted the innovative pilot of double-stack container sea-rail intermodal transport in the...
This study addresses the critical gap in the literature regarding the energy efficiency of intermodal terminals in smart cities, mainly focusing on crane operations during train loading processes. Novelty’s contribution lies in developing a com...
This paper proves a new lemma that characterizes controllability for linear Volterra control systems and shows that the usual controllability assumption for the variational linearized system near an optimal pair is superfluous. Building on this, it e...
In this work, we study the integrated berth and crane scheduling problem in a tidal port with multiple terminals, considering the uncertainties, tides, maximum coverage of cranes and interference between cranes. For coping with the uncertainties, a c...
For photovoltaic applications, microcrystalline silicon has a lot of advantages, such as the ability to absorb the near-infrared part of the solar spectrum. However, there are many dangling bonds at the grain boundary in microcrystalline Si. These da...
Edge termination techniques play a crucial role in enhancing the breakdown voltage (BV) and managing electric field distribution in GaN-based power devices. This review explores six key termination methods—field plate (FP), mesa, bevel, trench,...
The uncertainty of the arrival time of trucks has increased the complexity of terminal operations. The truck appointment system (TAS) cannot respond to this problem in time, which can easily cause appointment invalidation and reduce the efficiency of...
The rapid increase in international trade volume has caused frequent fluctuation of the vessels’ arrival time in container terminals. In order to solve this problem, this study proposes a methodology for rescheduling berth and quay cranes caused by u...
Control cables transfer force between two separate locations by a flexible mean, and hence, they are important in the automotive industry and many others; their terminals interact with both moving and moved mechanisms, so they must be strong. Cable t...
With the continuous growth of air transportation demand, air traffic congestion in the Terminal Area has become increasingly serious. In order to assist controllers in efficiently alleviating the traffic congestion situation in the Terminal Area, thi...
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology and Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) technology are important ones to improve the computing rate and the sustainability of devices in the Internet of things (IoT). However, the system...
Sri Lanka, a country with 22 million people, has nearly 2000 thalassemia patients with severe thalassemia, two-thirds of whom have beta thalassemia major (TM). The current prevention program based on promoting “safe marriages”, which has...
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