Delft University of Technology is the largest, oldest, most complete university of technology in the Netherlands. For more than 150 years numerous scientists and students have worked her on the most modern developments in the field of technology. The University of Technology in Delft has a national and international reputation of the quality of its scientific research and university teaching. The university employs more than 5,000 people and has approximately 13,500 registered students.

TRAIL
The Netherlands Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

TRAIL is a joint post-graduate Research School of the Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Groningen. TRAIL officially started on 1 January 1994 as the Netherlands Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics in which specialist faculties of the three universities participate. There are currently more than 230 researchers active at TRAIL, of which 100 qualifying for Ph.D. level.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY
Logistics Engineering

The field of activity of the Logistic Engineering group covers the coordination, control and design of transport systems from the transport market, transport units and means of transport through to the design of the infrastructure. It encompasses the integral functional aspects, the processes in the transport chain, the coordination of the transport processes and the control of the means of transport.

Design is a main issue in the research field. Warehouses and distribution centers, including their layout and engineering design also fall within this area.

Typical fields of application are intermodal transport, terminals and distribution centers. Important developments include the use of robots and telemetric coordination. Important aspects in logistic design are functionality, process dynamics, communication, control, industrial reliability, technical feasibility and economic exploitation.

The Logistic Engineering section has facilities and software available: computers and software for the development of control technology, the execution of design studies and simulations.

Within the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology work is also carried out in cooperation with the department of Marine Technology and the department of Measurement and Control.

The Logistic Engineering section participates in the TRAIL Research School.

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ITT Integrated Inter- and Intra Terminal Transport

The expansion of container terminals and the increasing number of terminals causes a tremendous increase of container exchange between locations of one terminal and also between different terminals. The project includes the design and performance analysis of systems for co-ordination, capacity allocation and traffic control of automated container transport on terminals and in terminal networks. The application area is the "Maasvlakte", "Eem/Waalhaven", "Gorinchem", "Haaglanden" and "Amsterdam".

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