PECASE: The Integration of Education & Research in Transportation Engineering

摘要提案：CMS 97-02561 PI：琳达K。诺齐克，康奈尔大学 “职业生涯：交通工程教育与研究的融合” 本研究的重点是开发更强大的方法来优化危险品运输的路线和调度。 目前作出这些决定的分析未能充分考虑到这一问题的多目标性质、随机因素和固有的时间依赖性。 该研究将在多目标网络分析和方法方面取得进展，以确定决策情况下的适当分析范围。 交通运输行业的职业生涯越来越系统化，超越了传统土木工程的界限，专注于纳入非传统资源的机会，以科普日益增加的财务和环境压力，并涉及多个利益相关者，这些利益相关者往往具有相互冲突的目标。 因此，运输专业人员越来越多地被要求进行多目标的分析，包括对“非传统”资源和高度不确定性的评估。 由于这些原因，这里要完成的教学活动涉及在本科层次的三门课程的重新设计。 在MS。活动的重点是创建两个学期，现实世界的团队设计项目，其中包括许多相同的元素，并要求学生提出创造性的解决方案，可以根据复杂的分析实际实施。 危险材料运输决策情况的特点包括所有必要的元素，为本科水平的课程和硕士水平的项目提供一套优秀的家庭作业和项目。 ***

Abstract Proposal: CMS 97-02561 PI: Linda K. Nozick, Cornell University "Career: Integration of Education and Research in Transportation Engineering" This research focuses on the development of more robust methods to optimize the routing and scheduling of hazardous materials shipments. Analyses with which these decisions are currently made fail to fully consider the multi- objective nature, the stochastic elements, and the inherent time dependency aspects of this problem. The research will develop advancements in multi-objective network analysis and methods to identify the appropriate scope of analysis given the decision situation. Careers in transportation are increasingly systems-oriented, extend beyond the bounds of traditional civil engineering, focus on opportunities for the inclusion of non-traditional resources to cope with increasing financial and environmental pressures, and involve multiple stakeholders often with conflicting objectives. Therefore, transportation professionals are increasingly being asked to conduct analyses which are multi-objective, involve the evaluation of the inclusion of "non-traditional;" resources and high levels of uncertainly. For these reasons, the teaching activities to be accomplished here involve the redesign of three courses at the undergraduate level. At the M.S. level, the activities focus on the creation of two semester, real-world team design projects which incorporate many of these same elements and ask the students to propose creative solutions which can be realistically implemented based on sophisticated analyses. The characteristics of hazardous materials transportation decision situations include all the elements necessary to provide an excellent set of homeworks and projects for both the undergraduate level courses and the master's level projects. ***