I/UCRC Fundamental Research: The Physical Internet Initiative: Positioning CELDi as the Leading Logistics and Distribution Research Center

工程物流与配送中心（CELDi）的定位是通过承担美国在国际物理互联网倡议（PI2）所需的基础研究方面的领导作用，成为领先的物流和配送研究中心。PI涉及运输和资源协调的智能标准化，以促进网络经济中系统范围的效率，就像数字互联网基于传输标准信息包一样。所提出的研究的智力价值在于与PI相关的变革范式，一般来说，特别是为建立物流系统获得潜力而制定的优化和模拟模型。这些模型公式将作为数学上严谨的模型对该领域做出贡献，导致出版物将出现在领先的档案期刊上。利用这些模型的研究将在以应用为基础的期刊上发表。PI2更广泛的影响包括通过智能标准化在消费部门大幅降低物流交易成本的潜力，消费部门需要在全球供应链上高效交付产品。这样的标准化将释放经济发展的潜力，促进工业增长，同时减少国家的能源消耗和浪费，并为我国的物流系统提供额外的能力。将强调学生的参与，包括继续从代表性不足的群体中招募学生，他们将从与工业界的合作研究项目中受益。

Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (#1032062 & #1031956)The Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) is positioned to be the leading logistics and distribution research center by taking the American leadership role in basic research required for the international Physical Internet Initiative (PI2). The PI involves the intelligent standardization of shipments and coordination of resources to facilitate system-wide efficiency in a networked economy much in the way that the digital Internet is based on transmitting standards packets of information. The intellectual merit of the proposed research lies in the transformative paradigm associated with PI, in general, and the optimization and simulation models formulated to establish the logistics system gain potential, in particular. These model formulations will be a contribution to the field as mathematically rigorous models, resulting in publications that will appear in leading archival journals. The studies utilizing the models will be disseminated in applications-based journals. The broader impacts of the PI2 include the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of logistics transactions through intelligent standardization in a consumer sector that demands the efficient delivery of product over a worldwide supply chain. Such standardization will then unleash economic development capable of growing industries while reducing energy consumption and waste for the nation, as well as providing additional capacity to our nation's logistics system. Participation by students, including continued recruitment of students from underrepresented groups, will be emphasized and they will benefit from this collaborative research project with industry.