PhD Student Workshop on Transportation and Logistics Challenges and Opportunities; Loyola University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois; May 2019

这笔拨款支持一个将有助于国家繁荣和福利的研讨会，通过扩大美国科学界专注于运输和物流系统的能力，以满足他们不断变化的需求和增加的机会。当日送达等市场因素、无人机等技术创新以及可持续性等社会问题推动了对更高效的新型运输和物流系统的需求和机遇。本次研讨会将汇集来自不同背景的美国大学的博士生，向这些领域的学术和行业专家学习。通过让这些博士生接触到来自学术界和工业界的专家，研讨会将拓宽和深化学生的知识，让他们看到这些知识如何影响实践。然后，这些学生将更好地定位和训练进行研究，使今天和明天的美国组织能够以可持续的方式在经济上取得成功。通过鼓励不同的学生群体参加研讨会，它将促进未来大学院系的多样性，以及一个准备好应对全球范围内挑战的科学界。本次研讨会将拓宽和深化在美国大学从事运输和物流研究的博士生在方法和应用领域方面的知识基础。研讨会将包括学习活动，使学生能够与学术和行业专家互动并向他们学习。学术演讲者将带来广泛的科学专业领域，包括确定性、随机和动态优化方法，以及它们在各种运输和物流系统中的应用。应用将包括设计运输系统，规划使用无人机送货上门，以及支持危险品运输。这些行业专家将来自各行各业，包括电子商务、软件开发和咨询以及交通运输，他们将确保学生的学习与实践保持联系。因此，这些学生将更好地定位和训练，以进一步发展我们对运输和物流系统应该如何设计，规划和执行的理解。为了确保研讨会吸引广泛的学生，组委会将积极从广泛的大学中招募学生，包括那些服务于代表性不足群体的大学。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant supports a workshop that will contribute to the national prosperity and welfare, by expanding the capabilities of the United States scientific community focused on transportation and logistics systems to meet their changing needs and increased opportunities. Market factors such as same-day delivery, technological innovations such as drones, and societal concerns such as sustainability are driving needs and opportunities for new and more efficient transportation and logistics systems. This workshop will bring together PhD students with diverse backgrounds and from a wide selection of United States universities to learn from academic and industry experts in these areas. By exposing these PhD students to experts from both academia and industry, the workshop will broaden and deepen the students' knowledge in a context wherein they see how that knowledge can impact practice. These students will then be better positioned and trained to perform research that enables today's and tomorrow's US organizations to succeed economically in a sustainable manner. By encouraging a diverse student population attending the workshop, it will foster diversity in tomorrow's university faculties, and a scientific community that is prepared to handle challenges on a global scale. This workshop will broaden and deepen the knowledge base of PhD students doing research in transportation and logistics at United States universities, both in terms of methodologies and application domains. The workshop will include learning activities that will enable the students to interact with and learn from the academic and industry experts. The academic speakers will bring a broad assortment of areas of scientific expertise, including deterministic, stochastic, and dynamic optimization methodologies as well as their application to various transportation and logistics systems. Applications will include designing transportation systems, planning the use of drones for home delivery, and supporting the transportation of hazardous goods. The industry experts will come from various sectors, including eCommerce, software development and consulting, and transportation, and will ensure that student learning remains connected to practice. As a result, these students will be better positioned and trained to develop further advancements in our understanding of how transportation and logistics systems should be designed, planned, and executed. To ensure that the workshop attracts a broad population of students, the organizing committee will actively recruit students from a broad selection of universities, including those that serve under-represented groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.