Reinventing Urban Transportation: How free-floating scooter sharing can relieve congested cities
parking, and users benefit from reductions in overall travel duration. Dawe teamed up with the Hamburg-based start-up Jaano GmbH and analyzed their bookings with a focus on demand patterns. “Knowing the
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“The advantages are obvious. We can always provide our students and faculty with access to the most up-to-date research. The majority of the works are always available – 24 hours a day.” The emphasis on [...] to arrange appointments with the library staff so they can receive professional assistance when starting to do their research. Mojtaba Salem (27) has spent hundreds of hours in the library in the past
Questions Motivate: Respectful Inquiry study explores the theory behind the leadership technique.
even if you've only asked how the other person is doing. “If I ask a question and then immediately start checking my smartphone or get ready to leave, I signal that I am not particularly interested in the [...] listening. Where does Respectful Inquiry take place? Whether in meetings or in the hallway – managers spend up to 80% of their time communicating. “If they only ask a few open questions and listen to their employees [...] contexts” – because managers often neglect to ask questions when they need to the most.The boss sets up a schedule with tight deadlines, the project’s tasks are highly complex or the physical distance between
From MSc to PhD
2010. After graduating this year he chose to stay with the KLU for his PhD studies rather than taking up on several job offers. Kristoph, you are staying for your PhD at the KLU. We are very pleased about [...] four-month stay definitely broadened my horizons in every sense. Did you have any worries when you started studying at a newly-founded university? Those worries disappeared quickly. I already realized during
24-hour Access to Thousands of Online Media
“The advantages are obvious. We can always provide our students and faculty with access to the most up-to-date research. The majority of the works are always available – 24 hours a day.” The emphasis on [...] to arrange appointments with the library staff so they can receive professional assistance when starting to do their research. Mojtaba Salem has spent hundreds of hours in the library in the past six months
Revolution in the Global Logistics Sector – The Physical Internet
logistics services are pure transport services – empty journeys, idle time, loading and unloading take up the remainder. How would a supply chain based on the Physical Internet look? Franklin describes it [...] future, he is sure of one thing: “We can stop concentrating on optimizing the means of transport and start focusing on how we transport. Routes and ownership of the means of transport will no longer be important
Great potential for research
explained the affable 35-year-old Italian. “I started learning English when I was a child and I could speak a bit of French, so I thought I would take up a language which is a bit exotic – and the Netherlands [...] Erasmus University in Rotterdam. “I met a professor there – Hercules Haralambides– who was setting up an MS program in maritime economics and logistics,” Acciaro said. “I thought, ‘OK, I’m in Rotterdam [...] had not received a lot of academic attention.” He decided to stay and specialize in the area, picking up second master’s, a PhD, and a position at the university’s Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics
The Path to Success
Finding your ideal job starts with taking the first steps in the right direction. Anne Rehmet and Ina Renz of the KLU Careers Development and Alumni Relations Office explain how they help students with [...] which areas and concrete professions would be ideal for them,” she says. The students not only pick up new ideas and enhance their profiles, but are also rewarded for it. “The CPDP is incorporated into [...] corporate network,” explains Anne Rehmet. “It’s sent out before graduation so students have a head start in their job-hunting.” Once they’ve left the university, alumni continue to be offered life-coaching
How Sina’s dream of her own food truck came true
make a big change in their lives. They have started their own business, which appears to be as far away from shipping and logistics as you can get. Starting this July, the two tough women will be driving [...] idea. At Vattenfall’s summer event last year, somehow the idea of having her own food truck popped up. During a five-hour car ride, Sina convinced her sister to quickly quit her job too and become sel [...] voyage will take place on July 9 and Sina says she and her twin would love to see many KLU faces lining up for their delicious food. She recommends the beet/avocado/goat cheese and walnut salad and the fen
Planning for the future
operators to start activities in Luxembourg. And if Luxembourg is to evolve towards an important and strategic location for logistics companies, more and more specialists are needed to keep up with the fierce [...] Hamburg. I actually had the choice between the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the KLU. I finally made up my decision based on the organizational characteristics of the university and the city of Hamburg, [...] point.” Currently on an exchange semester in Ningbo, China, Biwer hopes to have the student network up and running in 2016. To this end he is working with the Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg. “The cluster