Greater efficiency along the ‘middle mile’ in logistics as a result of collaboration between companies

When goods are delivered from A to B, a significant part of the journey involves transporting shipments between warehouses, hub facilities and distribution centres. A research team working on the COMMIT project, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is developing technologies to prevent vehicles from travelling this ‘middle mile’ empty or with low load utilisation. The project is co-located at the University of Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt.

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Ada Lovelace Programme presented at kick-off event

The Ada Lovelace Programme was established in 2023 with the aim of developing new potential for cooperation in the thematic area of Humans in the Digital Age (HDA) and to further strengthen cross-disciplinary research networking efforts. In a competitive award procedure, the Rectorate selected a total of six research projects (each with one pre-doc position, some of which not yet filled) in the course of two calls for proposals (May 2023 and May 2024) after consulting the Research Council. The research projects were recently presented at a kick-off event.

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Sustainable trucks for long-haul transportation

How can you sustainably schedule and deploy a fleet of long-haul trucks that often cross entire continents? A research team at the Department of Operations, Energy and Environmental Management at the University of Klagenfurt is investigating this question. Preliminary findings are now available in the form of a mathematical model. Next, the results will be applied to the complex requirements on the road.

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University of Klagenfurt team is the only group to complete drone competition in London without accident

Explore and map an area, detect objects and find people in need and then provide them with first aid kits: These are the challenges involved in three competitions in the SAPIENCE project. Four research teams from four universities compete against each other in the competitions to learn from each other. At the first competition, which took place in London at the end of August, the Klagenfurt team was the only team to complete every task without an accident. What makes this special: The team, coordinated by doctoral student Luca Di Pierno, consisted exclusively of Bachelor’s students from the University of Klagenfurt’s Robotics & Artificial Intelligence programme, in addition to Luca and a Master’s graduate.

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