Enterprise-wide Simulation and Analytical Modeling of Comprehensive Freight Movements

企业范围内综合货运运动的模拟和分析建模

• 批准号: 0085720
• 负责人: Kathleen Hancock
• 金额: $ 14万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0085720&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enterprise; wide; Simulation; Analytical; Modeling

The proposed work will develop a multimodal network analysis to simulatethe effects of e-commerce and different freight supply chain costs on themovement of goods. Major physical actions, including information exchange,and decisions required to move goods from source to destination will besimulated. A method will be developed for simulating large numbers ofindividual freight shipments by vehicle and for assigning them to specificlinks in the US truckrailwaterair freight transportation network. Within asupplychain management framework, information and cash flow will beincorporated into the network analysis. Created in the 1960's, theInternet has become an open access, inexpensive, and globally availablemeans for rapid correspondence with the rest of the world. On-lineInternet trading is now a major form of business activity. What this rapidtransition to e-commerce ultimately implies for the U.S. transportationsector remains to be seen. It is likely to initiate some profound changesin both domestic and international product supply chains, leading to someimportant new patterns of freight movement which can only be modeled byinter-relating the physical and information networks. The focus of thisresearch will be on the development of a sound theoretical base usinginformation in the literature as a guide to proof of concept instead of anempirical analysis.This award is made under the Exploratory Research on Engineering theTransport Industries (ETI) program solicitation.

拟议的工作将开发一个多模式网络分析，以模拟电子商务和不同的货运供应链成本对货物流动的影响。主要的物理行为，包括信息交换，以及将货物从来源地运到目的地所需的决策将被模拟。将开发一种方法来模拟大量的单个货运车辆，并将其分配到美国卡车、铁路、水路、航空货运网络的特定环节。 在供应链管理框架下，将信息和现金流纳入网络分析。 互联网创建于20世纪60年代，它已经成为一种开放、廉价和全球可用的手段，可以快速地与世界其他地方通信。 网上交易现在是商业活动的一种主要形式。这种向电子商务的快速过渡最终对美国运输业意味着什么还有待观察。它可能会引发国内和国际产品供应链的一些深刻变化，导致一些重要的新的货运模式，这些模式只能通过相互关联的物理和信息网络来模拟。 本研究的重点将是一个良好的理论基础的发展，使用文献中的信息作为指导，以证明概念，而不是实证分析。这个奖项是根据探索性研究工程运输行业（ETI）计划征集。