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In most countries, freight is predominantly transported by road cargo trucks. We present a new satellite remote sensing method for detecting moving trucks on roads using Sentinel-2 data. The method exploits a temporal sensing offset of the Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument, causing spatially and spectrally distorted signatures of moving objects. A random forest classifier was trained (overall accuracy: 84%) on visual-near-infrared-spectra of 2500 globally labelled targets. Based on the classification, the target objects were extracted using a developed recursive neighbourhood search. The speed and the heading of the objects were approximated. Detections were validated by employing 350 globally labelled target boxes (mean F\(_1\) score: 0.74). The lowest F\(_1\) score was achieved in Kenya (0.36), the highest in Poland (0.88). Furthermore, validated at 26 traffic count stations in Germany on in sum 390 dates, the truck detections correlate spatio-temporally with station figures (Pearson r-value: 0.82, RMSE: 43.7). Absolute counts were underestimated on 81% of the dates. The detection performance may differ by season and road condition. Hence, the method is only suitable for approximating the relative truck traffic abundance rather than providing accurate absolute counts. However, existing road cargo monitoring methods that rely on traffic count stations or very high resolution remote sensing data have limited global availability. The proposed moving truck detection method could fill this gap, particularly where other information on road cargo traffic are sparse by employing globally and freely available Sentinel-2 data. It is inferior to the accuracy and the temporal detail of station counts, but superior in terms of spatial coverage.
Digital platforms, understood as multi-sided matchmakers, have amassed huge power, reimagining the role of consumers, producers, and even ownership. They increasingly dictate the way the economy and urban life is organized. Yet, despite their influential and far-reaching role in shaping our economic as well as sociocultural world, our understanding of their embeddedness, namely how their activities are embedded in systems of social and societal relationships and how they conceptualize their main functions and actions in relation to their wider setting, remains rudimentary. Consequently, the purpose of this frontier paper is threefold. Firstly, it reveals the need to discuss and evaluate (dis-)embedding processes in platform urbanism in order to understand the underlying dynamics of platform power and urban transformation. Secondly, it aims to reveal the main reasons in regard to the difficulties in pinpointing digital platforms embeddedness. Thirdly, it seeks to propose future research unravelling the (dis-)embeddedness of the platform economy.
This paper argues for three main reasons namely unawareness, unaccountability and non-transparency of digital platforms that drive the lack of embeddedness and reaffirms platform power. This is mainly based on the configuration of new commodities, platforms’ strategic avoidance of labour protections and other regulatory frameworks as well as platforms’ secrecy in which they operate. This frontier paper argues that transferring the concept of embeddedness to the platform economy might serve as a valuable tool to understand and pinpoint essential dynamics and relationships at play, therefore proposing embeddedness as a basis for future research on the platform economy. It strongly argues that a more detailed understanding is urgently needed, in order to be able to understand, accompany and actively influence the development of the platform economy in regulatory terms.
Strategies in Times of Pandemic Crisis — Retailers and Regional Resilience in Würzburg, Germany
(2021)
Research on the COVID-19 crisis and its implications on regional resilience is still in its infancy. To understand resilience on its aggregate level it is important to identify (non)resilient actions of individual actors who comprise regions. As the retail sector among others represents an important factor in an urban regions recovery, we focus on the resilience of (textile) retailers within the city of Würzburg in Germany to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address the identified research gap, this paper applies the concept of resilience. Firstly, conducting expert interviews, the individual (textile) retailers’ level and their strategies in coping with the crisis is considered. Secondly, conducting a contextual analysis of the German city of Würzburg, we wish to contribute to the discussion of how the resilience of a region is influenced inter alia by actors. Our study finds three main strategies on the individual level, with retailers: (1) intending to “bounce back” to a pre-crisis state, (2) reorganising existing practices, as well as (3) closing stores and winding up business. As at the time of research, no conclusions regarding long-term impacts and resilience are possible, the results are limited. Nevertheless, detailed analysis of retailers’ strategies contributes to a better understanding of regional resilience.
Data as the new driver for growth? European and Chinese perspectives on the new factor of production
(2021)
Amidst an emerging international systemic competition between China and the Western world, China’s sustained high economic growth rates, technological innovations and successful control of the corona pandemic have raised doubts over the West’s systemic capabilities. In this context, data resources and regimes play an increasing role.
This research note looks at data as present and future driver of innovation and economic growth in more detail. It compares the Chinese and the European perspective on data as well as their respective (planned) policy measures in order to draw tentative conclusions about their different approaches' implications.
Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr - Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung
(2019)
Handel und Verkehr sind eng miteinander verzahnt, und Standortsysteme im (Einzel-)handel können die Konfiguration von (städtischen) Verkehrssystemen weitreichend beeinflussen – gleiches gilt aber auch in umgekehrter Richtung. Aktuelle Wandlungsprozesse zeichnen sich insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Digitalisierung ab. So differenzieren sich Distributionsformen mit neuen IT-basierten Zustellsystemen aus. Onlineshopping steht dabei im Wettbewerb mit dem stationären Einzelhandel und initiiert zunehmende Transportströme (auch für Warenrückläufe). Wie wirkt sich diese Entwicklung im Einzelhandel auf Einkaufsverhalten und Mobilitätder Kunden aus? Was bedeutet dies wiederum für den Handel? Und inwieweit stimmt der dadurch ausgelöste Wandel mit den Leitbildern von Handel, Stadtplanung und Nachhaltigkeit überein oder verlangt neue Anpassungen? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht der vorliegende Sammelband „Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr. Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung“ der Schriftenreihe Geographische Handelsforschung nach. Die sieben Beiträge des Bandes standen im Zentrum der Vorträge und Diskussionen anlässlich der gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der VGDH-Arbeitskreise „Verkehr“ und „Geographische Handelsforschung“ vom 7. bis 9. Juni 2018 an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Aus wissenschaftlicher und dabei praktischer Perspektive diskutierten die Autoren aktuelle Trends und Entwicklungsperspektiven des nicht immer einfachen Managements von Mobilität und Konsum.
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Lieferketten im Einzelhandel
(2013)
Lieferketten im Einzelhandel haben sich in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt. Die wachsenden Marktanteile von Einzelhandelsunternehmen oder -genossenschaften, die größer werdenden Einzelhandelsformate und die Erweiterung der Produktbreite und -tiefe führten zu früher kaum vorstellbaren Quantitäten. Gleichzeitig haben die Einführung von Informationstechnologie, die intensive Kooperation zwischen Händlern und Lieferanten durch Informationsaustausch oder vertikale Integration von Teilen der Lieferketten sowie die globale Ausbreitung von Lieferbeziehungen Prozesse des Supply-Chain-Managements auch qualitativ erheblich verändert. Parallel dazu wurden Ansätze entwickelt, wie diese Entwicklungen analysiert und konzeptionalisiert werden können. Dabei haben Analyserahmen wie die Ansätze der Globalen Warenketten oder der Globalen Produktionsnetzwerke die komplexe Aufgabe, Prozesse zu erfassen, die einerseits immer globaler werden, andererseits lokal und regional stark eingebettet sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der vorliegende Band aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus einer geographischen Perspektive vor. Insgesamt acht Beiträge beleuchten Lieferketten im Einzelhandel aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven und analysieren Fallstudien aus Australien, Deutschland, Indien, Südafrika und den USA. Dabei bezieht sich ein Großteil der Beiträge auf den Handel mit Lebensmitteln.