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(#1032062&#1031956)工程物流与配送中心(CELDI)通过在国际物理互联网计划(PI2)所需的基础研究中发挥美国的领导作用，定位于成为领先的物流和配送研究中心。PI涉及运输的智能标准化和资源的协调，以促进网络经济中的全系统效率，就像数字互联网以传输标准信息包为基础的方式一样。所提出的研究的智力价值在于总体上与PI相关的变革范式，特别是为建立物流系统获取潜力而建立的优化和仿真模型。这些模型公式将作为数学上严格的模型对该领域作出贡献，从而产生将出现在主要档案期刊上的出版物。利用这些模型的研究将在以应用为基础的期刊上传播。PI2的更广泛影响包括通过消费者部门的智能标准化大幅降低物流交易成本的潜力，该部门要求在全球供应链上高效交付产品。然后，这种标准化将释放经济发展能力，使工业能够增长，同时为国家减少能源消耗和浪费，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收学生，他们将从这一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.