Exploratory Research on Engineering the Transport Industries (ETI): Transportation, Logistics and the Internet - New Challenges and Opportunities

运输行业工程 (ETI) 探索性研究：运输、物流和互联网 - 新​​挑战和机遇

• 批准号: 0085683
• 负责人: Cynthia Barnhart
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0085683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploratory; Research; Engineering; Transport; Industries

This award, made under the Exploratory Research on Engineering the Transport Industries (ETI) program solicitation, provides funding to identify important forces, trends and opportunities in transportation and logistics resulting from the increasing presence of the Internet and information technologies. One opportunity, using flexible pricing and bidding strategies to improve transportation and logistics efficiencies, will be studied in detail. The challenge is that most practical bidding systems possess a variety of complications, like uncertain demands, sequential bidding systems and conditional bids, which current models and algorithms are unable to handle efficiently. The results of this grant will include: (1) a survey of emerging practices in the transportation and logistics industry, cataloging among other things, the types (and timeliness) of information available to buyers and sellers of transportation services, the levels of integration among suppliers, producers and carriers, and the degrees of coordination between elements of the value chain; (2) a summary of the important emerging opportunities and the associated research problems in the transportation and logistics industry, serving as a potential roadmap for future research efforts in this domain; and (3) a case study (involving the development of a new optimization model and a solution approach) showcasing an important trend in the industry and characterizing the potential responses and implications. With the development and application of new theory, the major changes occurring in transportation can be exploited to improve transportation and logistics efficiencies significantly, for carriers and shippers.

该奖项是在工程探索性研究的运输行业（ETI）计划招标下颁发的，为确定互联网和信息技术越来越多的存在而导致的重要力量，趋势和物流机遇提供了资金。 将详细研究使用灵活的定价和竞标策略来提高运输和物流效率的一个机会。 面临的挑战是，大多数实用的招标系统具有多种并发症，例如不确定的需求，顺序招标系统和有条件的投标，当前模型和算法无法有效处理。 该赠款的结果将包括：（1）对运输和物流行业的新兴实践的调查，分类除其他事项，交通服务的购买者和销售商的信息类型（和及时），供应商，生产者和承运人之间的整合水平以及价值链元素之间的协调学位； （2）摘要关于运输和物流行业中重要的新兴机会以及相关的研究问题，这是该领域未来研究工作的潜在路线图； （3）案例研究（涉及开发新的优化模型和解决方案方法），展示了行业的重要趋势，并表征了潜在的反应和含义。 随着新理论的发展和应用，可以利用运输中发生的主要变化，以显着提高运输和物流效率，以显着针对载体和托运人。