Welcome to the website of T-SLOTS: Twente Smart Logistics and Transport solutions. T-SLOTS is a bottom-up initiative from researchers within the University of Twente active in the fields of mobility, logistics and optimalization. Dedicated to the entrepreneurial high-tech human touch focus of the UT, T-SLOTS aims to be cross-disciplinary. Four out of the five faculties are involved and are jointly working on the developments and challenges of the fields of Twente Smart Logistics and Transport solutions.
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Departments
Below, you can find a brief description of each of the departments within T-SLOTS. But if you wish to search on expertise or domain, please check out the Transport Expert Finder.
BMS - Cognition, Data and Education (CODE) - Drivers and operators training/learning in the real-world or in VR
- Digital twining, evidence-based design of AR and virtual agent support, cockpit design/prototyping
- Human performance, behaviour of traffic controllers, vigilance and attention in semi-automated driving; cognitive work analysis; state-of-mind detection; eye-tracking and EEG studies
BMS - Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS) - Freight transportation
- Artificial Intelligence for logistics management
- Logistics decision-support systems and planning applications
- Analysis of alternative transport modes (electrification of fleets, autonomous vehicles like drones, delivery robots, AGVs, platooning, etc.)
- Philosophy and ethics of technology and engineering science.
- Interdisciplinary way of working.
EEMCS - Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) - Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems
EEMCS - Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR) - Resource allocation and scheduling, Transportation and network routing problems, Traffic equilibrium models, Traffic light optimization, Network design, Online optimization, Queueing models
EEMCS - Pervasive Systems (PS) - Network of collaborative sensing, computational, and reasoning components (such as wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, distributed networked systems) within transport and logistics
EEMCS - Services, Cybersecurity & Safety (SCS) - Networked information systems for the transportation/logistics domain
- Enterprise interoperability, data sovereignty, enterprise architecture, linked data and semantic web technologies, context-aware applications and services, IoT for real-time data, ontology-based domain modelling, requirements engineering, data security, blockchain applications, cyberthreat analysis and detection, machine learning-based threat modelling, privacy enhancing technologies, security testing
ET - Construction Management and Engineering (CME) - Data-driven, sustainability-informed decision support systems for the design, construction and life cycle management of transport and civil infrastructure systems
- Predictive models that estimate (i) the infrastructure systems condition and serviceability over time, and (ii) the impact of road pavement deterioration and driving conditions on rolling resistance
ET - Transport Engineering and Management (TEM) - Transport networks, land-use and transport interaction, travel behaviour and intelligent transport systems.
- Smart mobility, people transport planning, people transport engineering and management.
ITC - Earth Observation Science (EOS - Core remote sensing methodology
- Mathematical and statistical methods for geodata and earth observation
- Mapping of topographical objects.
- Spatial data infrastructure.
ITC - Geo-Information Processing (GIP) - Geographical Information Systems
ITC - Natural Resources Science (NRS) - Enabling society to effectively develop and use geo-information and earth observation knowledge and technologies for agricultural and environmental sustainability.
- Systems modelling, geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS).
- Monitoring and managing of natural resources and the supply chains.
ITC - Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM) - Urban systems
- Empower society with specialized knowledge
- Expertise in spatial and temporal interactions between people, land tenure, land use, and urban systems
- Expertise in underlying governance processes to support inclusive planning and decision-making
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