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Machine Learning Enables Inverse Design of Optically Driven Microscopic Metavehicles

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Machine‐learning‐based inverse design is used optimize “metavehicles” — flat microparticles based on metagratings that generate a strong lateral optical force from normally incident light. The optimized design exhibits a force efficiency of ∼88% and a measured propulsion speed in water much higher than previously reported, demonstrating that inverse ...
Vasilii Mylnikov, Mahdi Shanei, Mikael Käll   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Road freight logistics, competition, and innovation : downstream benefits and policy implications [PDF]

This empirical paper sheds light on a significant element of the debate of whether infrastructure services have a strong impact on economic development by exploring the impact of innovative road freight services on downstream business users.
Dutz, Mark
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Survey techniques in urban freight transport studies [PDF]

, 2012
This article reviews and assesses the various survey techniques that have been used in studies in which data have been collected to obtain an understanding of road-based urban freight transport activities.
Browne, Michael, Cherrett, T, Allen, J, Browne, Michael,, Allen, Julian, Cherrett, Tom, Browne, M., Cherrett, T., Allen, J.   +8 more
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Investigating factors affecting road freight overloading through the integrated use of BLR and CART: a case study in China

Transport, 2020
Overloading of road freight vehicles accelerates road damage, creates unfair competition in the transport market, and increases safety risk. There is a dearth of research on the mining of data of highway Freight Weight (FW), and this paper therefore aims
Yikai Chen, Kai Wang, Yu Zhang, Renjia Luo, Shujun Yu, Qin Shi, Wenting Hu   +6 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving energy efficiency in the road freight transport sector: the application of a vehicle approach [PDF]

, 2008
Several approaches can be used to analyse performance, energy consumption and CO2 emissions in freight transport. In this paper we define and apply a vehicle-oriented, bottom up survey approach, the so called ‘vehicle approach’, in contrast to a ‘supply ...
Pérez-Martínez, P.J., Leonardi, J., Browne, M., Worth, R.W., Rizet, C., Allen, J.   +5 more
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Comparing freight transport strategies and measures in London and Paris [PDF]

, 2007
The paper compares the approach being taken to freight transport strategy and the specific policy measures being implemented in London and Paris. It highlights the serious consideration that has been given to freight transport by the Mayors of London and
Attlassy, M., Browne, M., Allen, J.
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Degradable Magnetic Composites from Recycled NdFeB Magnets for Soft Actuation and Sensing

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a degradable soft magnetic composite made from recycled NdFeB particles embedded in a gelatin‐based organogel. The material is processed into magnetic sensors and soft robotic components, which can later be dissolved in a green solvent to recover NdFeB magnetic particles.
Muhammad Bilal Khan, Lin Guo, Kilian Schäfer, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros‐Mata, Xiaotao Wang, Florian Hofmann, Matthias Lutzi, Mark Suppelt, Proloy Taran Das, Jan Schmidtpeter, Imants Dirba, Stephan Rinderknecht, Mario Kupnik, Denys Makarov, Oliver Gutfleisch   +14 more
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Regulating the Work Health and Safety of Australian Road Freight Transport Drivers [PDF]

, 2017
A summary report to the Transport Education, Audit, Compliance, Health Organisation (TEACHO) Ltd. This report summarises the findings of the research report for the project: "Evaluating approaches to regulating WHS in the Australian Road Freight ...
Thornthwaite, L, O'Neill, SM ; https://orcid.org/   +1 more
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Dynamics of intermodal logistical systems on containerisation and road transportation in Durban, South Africa

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2014
The underlying port operations in Durban, South Africa, epitomise intense global competitiveness in the intermodal logistics chain. The link between containerisation and theroad transport network can falter as a result of the dynamics of the logistics ...
Nerissa Govender, Thokozani P. Mbhele
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