Fuelling the zero-emissions road freight of the future: routing of mobile fuellers

The future of zero-emissions road freight is closely tied to the sufficient availability of new and clean fuel options such as electricity and Hydrogen. In goods distribution using Electric Commercial Vehicles (ECVs) and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (HFCVs) a major challenge in the transition period would pertain to their limited autonomy and scarce and unevenly distributed refuelling stations. One viable solution to facilitate and speed up the adoption of ECVs/HFCVs by logistics, however, is to get the fuel to the point where it is needed (instead of diverting the route of delivery vehicles to refuelling stations) using "Mobile Fuellers (MFs)". These are mobile battery swapping/recharging vans or mobile Hydrogen fuellers that can travel to a running ECV/HFCV to provide the fuel they require to complete their delivery routes at a rendezvous time and space. In this presentation, new vehicle routing models will be presented for a third party company that provides MF services. In the proposed problem variant, the MF provider company receives routing plans of multiple customer companies and has to design routes for a fleet of capacitated MFs that have to synchronise their routes with the running vehicles to deliver the required amount of fuel on-the-fly. This presentation will discuss and compare several mathematical models based on different business models and collaborative logistics scenarios

Parameterfree Information-Preserving Surface Restoration

. In this paper we present an algorithm for parameterfree informationpreserving surface restoration. The algorithm is designed for 2.5D and 3D surfaces. The basic idea is to extract noise and signal properties of the data simultaneously by variance-component estimation and use this information for filtering. The variance-component estimation delivers information on how to weigh the influence of the data dependent term and the stabilizing term in regularization techniques, and therefore no parameter which controls this relation has to be set by the user. 1 Introduction The first step for gaining a description of a 3D scene is the measurement of 3D point coordinates. During the data aqcuisition errors occur. These errors include systematic and random errors. The systematic errors can often be eliminated by calibrating the measurement equipment. Then the result of the measurement is a noisy discrete data set. This data is the basis for the computation of the surface, on which the followi..