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An ICT platform for urban freight distribution management
No full textFreight distribution systems are challenged by the globalisation of supply chains, demand for high-quality service, and continuously increasing fuel costs and environmental standards, all of which contribute to increasing competition in the last mile of the distribution chain, which is populated by many small transport operators with small margins. One way an operator can improve its operating efficiency and quality is through continuous monitoring of its operations with Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can solve the monitoring problem cheaply, efficiently, and effectively via the Internet. The Centre for Transport and Logistics (CTL) of the University of Rome has implemented a prototype ICT platform to conduct a pilot study on the daily distribution service in Rome of a transport operator with a small fleet. The pilot has highlighted the ease of collecting relevant data and using them to measure performance, but also the remaining barriers to the practical use of ICT
GIFTS, una piattaforma ICT a supporto del trasporto merci intermodale
No full textIl progetto GIFTS (Global Intermodal Freight Transport System, 2001-2004) finanziato dalla DG IST della Commissione Europea ha messo a punto un sistema ICT per la pianificazione ed il monitoraggio del trasporto. L'articolo presenta il sistema sviluppato da GIFTS, ne descrive i componenti e le applicazioni per il trasporto e la logistica. Viene quindi descritto il progetto pilota condotto sul trasporto ferroviario visto come segmento di un trasporto intermodale
I cybernetic transport system (CTS): i sistemi di trasporto innovativo per le città del futuro
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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