About: Iris Lüpges

AlbrechtConsult at mid-term presentation of the ANITA project The ANITA project started on 01.07.2020 with the development of a fully automated truck that will perform automated transports on a short route between the container depot of DB Intermodal Services and the DUSS terminal (Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH) in Ulm. Time for a mid-term review: in  Continue Reading »

IoT applications are increasingly important in maritime container logistics The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) was founded in April 2019 by the international shipping companies MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, Yang Ming, HMM and ZIM to create IT standards that would enable interoperability of technology solutions across the industry. The purpose is to  Continue Reading »

Safe autonomous driving in automation zones with a minimum speed of 20 km/h Safe autonomous driving on yards (e.g. distribution centres, factory premises, ports and airports) will become increasingly important in the coming years and play a major economic role. The technical feasibility has already been demonstrated in individual applications. However, a holistic safety concept  Continue Reading »

Analysis of the use of technologies for autonomous driving in the road operation service on federal motorways Road maintenance staff, especially on federal motorways, often find themselves in potentially life-threatening situations during their work. Even though great efforts are made to protect the employees, severe accidents with other road users occur repeatedly. Autonomous or automated  Continue Reading »

In the research project “Corridor for New Mobility Aachen – Düsseldorf” (ACCorD), which started on 1.1.2020, Straßen.NRW is testing the networking between vehicle and infrastructure at selected locations as an example for the use cases “switching time prediction”, “green time request” and “traffic situation” based on vehicle data. For each of the three use cases,  Continue Reading »