Combined transport not only drives our research, but also our teaching! During our Logistics Live! excursion this winter semester, our students were given a tangible and practical insight into the design of combined transport (CT) transport chains. They learned first-hand about the potentials and benefits associated with the use of CT and the difficulties and problems CT actors face.

In order to get to know the interfaces of the two transport modes rail and road in more detail, 28 students together with the team of the Chair were allowed to visit first the Railport Darmstadt of DB Cargo AG and then the KTL Kombi-Terminal Ludwigshafen last Friday. We would like to express our sincere thanks to Jan Bellinger, who guided the students around the Railport site, vividly demonstrating the challenges that have been overcome in recent years and how new concepts for the Railport have been developed and implemented. The impressions gained at Railport were greatly complemented by a presentation at KTL by Harald Schlegel and a bus tour of the KTL site, during which the students learned more about the handling of intermodal transports in one of Europe's leading transshipment terminals. The students followed the path of a loading unit and experienced live which steps it goes through during cargo handling as well as upstream and downstream and which administrative measures are necessary in the background.

The team of the Chair and especially Prof. Elbert, Anne Friedrich and Felix Roeper are very grateful for and happy about the exciting insights and the hospitality of the practice partners, which made the successful organization of the excursion possible!