Newsletter No.3
18 October 2000
Institute for City Logistics
Contents
In Delft, the Netherlands the Second International Symposium on Underground Freight Transportation by capsule pipelines and other tube/tunnel systems (ISUFT 2000) was organised. The first International Symposium on Underground Freight Transportation by Capsule Pipelines and Other Tube/Tunnel Systems was held in Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A., in September 1999. The symposium was hosted by the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) and organised by Dr. Henry Liu, director of the Capsule Pipeline Research Center, UMC.
TRAIL Research School, OTB Research Institute and Connekt took the initiative to organise the 2nd International Symposium on Underground Freight Transportation by Capsule Pipelines and Other Tube/Tunnel Systems (ISUFT 2000) in Delft, the Netherlands on the 28 and the 29th of September 2000.
The ISUFT 2000 symposium focused on underground freight transport by automated transportation systems or capsules, moving through underground tunnels or pipelines. The purpose of the 2nd International Symposium was to present an overview of the underground freight and capsule pipeline transportation concepts, the technological developments, the potential area of application and its characteristics, transport performance, costs and benefits, implementation and construction aspects and research progress. Papers were presented by international experts, engineers, economists, geographers and planners working on various types of underground freight transport and/or capsule pipelines and construction and tunnelling technology.
Part of the ISUFT 2000 symposium was a visit to the Connekt Testsite. At the testsite researchers from Delft University of Technology demonstrated the control system for automated vehicles for the ULS Schiphol project. The 1:3 scale vehicles and 1:1 scale vehicles run automatically on the floor of the test site.
The following papers were presented during the symposium:
History and future of underground freight transportation
Development and future perspectives for underground freight transport systems in Japan
E. Taniguchi, R. Ooishi and T. Kono
Capsule pipeline: An overview
H. Liu
Underground Logistical Systems in cities: A visualisation of the future
J.G.S.N. Visser and A.J. van Binsbergen
Mailrail ? 70 years of automated underground freight transport
D. Bliss
Feasibility of underground freight transportation
Economic and technical feasibility of a freight pipeline system in Texas
S.S. Roop and D.H. Bierling
Current progress of the research project 'Underground transportation and utility systems" at the Ruhr-University Bochum
D. Stein and B. Schoesser
COST 339, small containers. A new challenge to optimise door to door transport chains, including possibilities for underground freight transport
Ch. van Roost
In search of strategic positioning of underground freight transport in the framework of a coherent transport policy
W. Winkelmans and T. Notteboom
Even good ideas need to be paid for!! The initiatives in underground transport in the Netherlands.
J.O.P. Tessensohn, M.M. Kraan and M. Ham
Towards a public freight network with underground pipeline transportation
M. Iding and M. van der Heijden
Differential drayage and short-haul costs of container movement among ports in Galveston Bay, Texas
A.P. James and A.G. Dixon
Data collection and potential freight volume for urban, underground logistics systems
J.H.K. Boerkamps
On the location of Urban Logistic Parks
F.Bruinsma , C. Rodenburg, and P. Rietveld
Transport and tunnelling technologies for Underground Logistic Systems
Design approach and prototyping of automated underground freight transportation systems in the Netherlands
B.A. Pielage
Designing effective terminals and their control systems for the Underground Logistic System Schiphol
A. Verbraeck, Y Saanen and E. Valentin
A basic study on the smart tube transport systems using a Maglev capsule
M. Minakami
Electromagnetic pipeline demonstration project
B. Montgomery, S. Fairfax, D. Beals, E. Taylor, J. Whitley and B. Smith
Development of dedicated vehicles for a tunnel transport system
L.J.J. Kusters
The use of Trenchless Technology for the construction of underground pipelines for transport of goods
G. Arends and B. Grote
Settlements of Micro-Tunnels in reflection to their use in underground logistic systems
W. Broere
Capsule pipelines
Pneumatic capsule pipelines in construction industry
S. Kosugi, M. Uchida and T. Fukunaga
Improving economics of existing pneumatic capsule pipeline system for transporting general cargoes
H. Liu
Risk and decision analysis for the tubular freight system
R.C. Shih, G.A. Arroyo and W. Ingersoll
Development of vertical pneumatic capsule pipeline system for deep underground
S. Kosugi, K. Saitou, N. Matsui and Y. Tomita
Experimental study of capsule flow in bent and inclined pipeline
P. Vlasak, V. Berman and S. Kril
Drag coefficient of slurry log inside a vertical pipe
K. Magata-Yanaida and R. Oyama
The papers are available on CD-rom. Contact TRAIL Research School for further information (email: E.vanBaarle@Trail.TUDELFT.nl)
This year, 2000 a thematic network (BESTUFS), funded by the European Commission under then key-action “Competitive and Sustainable Growth”, is set up to address all aspects of urban freight transport. With BESTUFS a start is made with establishing and maintaining an open European network between urban freight transport experts, user groups/associations, other stakeholders and the relevant European Commission Directorates and representatives of national transport administrations. The aim is to identify, describe and dessiminate best practices, success criteria and bottlenecks with respect to the movements of goods in urban areas.
For further information on the Thematic Network, please visit the website at www.bestufs.net or contact: the BESTUFS administration centre:
BESTUFS
Administration Centre
P.O. Box 1969
2280 DZ Rijswijk
the Netherlands
email: bestufs@nea.nl
tel: +31.70.3988.393
fax: +31.70.3988.426
In Montreal, Canada a series of conferences was organised between 3 and 6 October 2000 by the Jacques Cartier Centre in Montreal. One of the conferences, no. 10, L’int?gration des marchandises dans le syst?me des d?placements urbains (The integration of freight traffic in the system of urban movements) dealt with issues of freight transport in urban areas. In this three day conference presentations were given by experts from Europe, Canada and the USA. The language spoken was French. Twenty-three papers were presented.
Different presentations from researchers from the University of Montreal and the local transport planning agency focused on freight traffic in the city of Montreal. A plan to control freight traffic in the city centre is implemented. Also, the relevance of the port of Montreal in freight traffic generation is described.
Michel Gendreau from the University of Montreal, Canada presented a land use transportation model related to freight transportation. The model is used for the city of Shanghai.
The WIVER-model for modelling urban freight transport was presented by Bertram Weinbresse from IVU Traffic Technologies in Berlin, Germany. This model, developed for the German situation, estimates the freight traffic flows within an urban area. The model is available for commercial use and educational purposes.
Michael Browne from the University of Westminster, London (UK) discussed the benefits of using a supply chain approach when considering aspects of urban freight transport.
Jean-Louis Routier of LETS, France demonstrated a software tool developed for French cities to estimate the demand for freight transport by different commercial sectors. This tool uses MS Access for data management. A cd-rom and a manual is available.
Laetitia Dablanc presented some experiences in France with local transportation plans. In many local traffic plans in France measures to control the negative impacts of freight traffic, are proposed.
Johan Visser from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands described the policy practice regarding urban freight transport in the Netherlands and some option for consolidation urban goods flows.
Kai Tullius from IVU Traffic Technologies in Berlin, Germany described the importance of multimodal freight centres for city logistics.
Marc Gaudry from the University of Montreal proposed a methodology for the assignment of the infrastructure and external costs to freight transport.
The papers will be published in the proceedings, edited by Daniele Patier of LETS, France. For further information, please contact Mrs Daniele Patier (email: daniele.patier@let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr)