Kühne Logistics University

MapAnything: Evaluating Monocular Metric Depth Models for 3D Urban Asset Localization

City administrations increasingly rely on comprehensive databases and digital twins of city assets, such as traffic signs and trees, as well as incidents such as graffiti or road damage, to maintain an effective overview of urban conditions. Digitization has increased the demand...

The hunger games: procurement strategies under unmitigable supplier dominance

Purpose Most procurement research assumes that buyers possess negotiation power and viable alternatives. However, such assumptions do not hold in practice, as buyers in many industries operate under unmitigable supplier dominance. Against this backdrop, we examine how weaker buye...

Predict-then-optimise interchange control for rail logistics with combined passenger-freight chains

Interchange decisions at rail transfer stations directly affect end-to-end service reliability and cost-to-serve; yet, existing delay-management approaches either forecast delays without prescribing actions or optimise dispatch with coarse delay representations. We propose a pred...