ISUFT 2000

 

TRAIL Research School, OTB Research Institute and Connekt hosted the 2nd International Symposium (ISUFT 2000) in Delft, the Netherlands on the 28th and the 29th of September 2000.  Arjan van Binsbergen, Professor Hugo Priemus and Johan Visser organised this event and made it possible to researchers from various countries from all over the world to present their research progress.

A field trip was organised to the test site for Underground Logistics Systems (ULS) in Delft.

 

The proceedings contain the following sections:

-           History and future of underground freight transportation

-           Feasibility of underground freight transportation

-           Transport and tunnelling technologies for Underground Logistic Systems

-           Capsule pipelines

 

 

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

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 tunneling 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

 

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