PhD Student Travel Funds for INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society 2020 Conference; Arlington, Virginia; May 27-29, 2020

这项资助通过资助研究生参加2020年5月举行的INFINS运输科学和物流学会会议，为运输科学和物流领域的下一代研究人员提供支持。这笔助学金有助于国家的繁荣和福利，因为参与其中的学生将是解决未来交通和物流挑战的下一代研究人员。交通运输和物流领域在不断变化。零售商亚马逊、沃尔玛和塔吉特以及GRubHub和UberEats等送餐服务大幅增加了送货上门的次数，随之而来的是城市拥堵和污染加剧。此外，人口迅速老龄化将需要新的交通方式，而长期环境条件的变化可能需要重新设计交通流量和基础设施。与此同时，自动驾驶汽车和无人机等新技术为解决这些挑战提供了创新机会。参加这次会议将使学生有机会通过其他学者的反馈来发展他们自己的研究，并了解其他人正在做的尖端工作。通过为旅行提供资金来消除出席障碍意味着将有广泛和多样化的学生群体能够参加，从而培养出不同的未来研究人员。通知运输科学和物流学会的三年一度的会议寻求成为应对运输和物流领域的挑战和机遇的学者和从业者的北美首要会议。具体地说，会议重点讨论了优化方法在运输和物流问题中的应用。此外，会议的目的是“在北美交通便利的地点举办一次定期、高质量和价格合理的会议，为运输科学和物流界的广泛研究兴趣服务，重点是促进新的和有影响力的研究领域。”作为参与者，研究生将有机会展示他们的作品，并看到其他学者的陈述。此外，学生们将有机会在类似的研究领域建立他们的学者网络，有助于提高他们的工作质量。申请和遴选过程将寻找有能力进行高质量研究的申请者，否则他们可能无法参加会议。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grants supports the next generation of researchers in transportation science and logistics by providing funding for graduate students to travel to the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference being held in May 2020. The grant contributes to the prosperity and welfare of the nation, since the participating students will be the next generation researchers who solve the future's transportation and logistics challenges. The field of transportation and logistics is constantly changing. Efforts by retailors Amazon, Walmart, and Target, and meal delivery services such as GrubHub and UberEats, have dramatically increased home deliveries and along with it increased urban congestion and pollution. Further, a rapidly aging population will require new transportation practices, while changes in long term environmental conditions may require redesigned traffic flows and infrastructure. At the same time, new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, offer innovative opportunities to solving these challenges. Attending this conference will give students the chance to both develop their own research through feedback from other academics and to also learn about the cutting edge work being done by others. Removing barriers to attendance by providing funds for travel means that a broad and diverse group of students will be able to attend, thus in turn developing a diverse set of future researchers.The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society's Triennial Conference seeks to be the premier North American conference for academics and practitioners who are addressing the challenges and opportunities in transportation and logistics. Specifically, the conference focuses on the application of optimization methods to transportation and logistics problems. In addition, the purpose of the conference is to "provide a regular, high-quality, and reasonably affordable conference in an easily accessible location in North America that serves the broad research interests of the transportation science and logistics community with an emphasis on promoting new and impactful areas of research." As participants, the graduate students will have a chance to present their work and see the presentations of other scholars. In addition, the students will have a chance to build their network of scholars in similar research areas, helping to increase the quality of their work. The application and selection process will seek applicants capable of high quality research who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference.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.