Safe and Resilient Logistics and Mobility Interventions for Supply Chain Workers in the New Normal Era

这场大流行突显了货物流动对加拿大经济和加拿大人福祉的重要性。在最近的经济停摆期间，安大略省高速公路上的总车次下降了约40%，但货运量几乎保持稳定，继续提供基本服务，如医院、食品杂货、加油站和主要配送中心(MDC)。这项拟议的研究旨在制定一套先发制人的交通战略，称为流动性干预，以最大限度地减少传染病在卡车司机和争取民主变革运动工作人员中的传播，并在紧急情况下改善运输物流。这项研究在今天具有价值，在我们考虑未来可能出现的突发公共事件的影响时也很重要，例如通过受污染的食物/水供应传播的传染病。拟议的研究应有助于电子商务、供应链和物流行业提高货运的安全性、可靠性和弹性，同时保持最重要的总体考虑：公众健康。这项研究的五年目标是：1)制定一个科学的程序，以确定在大规模公共突发事件之前和期间首选的卡车休息设施的变化；2)开发一个数学算法，以筛选中心和预测进出中心的交通流量模式；3)为已确定的卡车休息设施/便利设施开发一个先发制人的资源分配模型；4)开发一个数学模型，以确定卡车休息设施的优先提供；5)开发一个模型，以确定对乘坐公共交通的MDC通勤者最重要的公共交通路线；6)开发一个使用多目标优化技术的模型，以在公共紧急情况下确定最优的交通服务；7)开发身体距离指标，以定量评估乘坐积极交通工具通勤的MDC工作人员中传染病传播的相对风险；8)分析911呼叫数据，以调查重大公共危机期间重大公共突发事件对货运、供应链和物流的影响。拟议的研究有许多好处，包括：1)确定电子商务/物流公司通过提供更健康、更安全的交付体验来提高竞争力、改善客户体验和信心的重要机会；2)通过最大限度地减少重大公共突发事件期间的企业关闭，提高整个供应链的整体效率；3)使管理当局能够为货运业引入流动性干预措施，以适应电子商务的增加；4)加强货运业的竞争力和信心，并帮助加拿大经济复苏；以及5)为HQP提供与领域专业人员互动的独特机会，以获得所需的技能集，以便为工作做好准备，并促进加拿大劳动力的公平性、多样性和包容性。

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of goods movements to the Canadian economy and to the well-being of Canadians. During the recent economic shutdown, total trips on Ontario highways declined by about 40%, but freight traffic remained almost steady and continued to supply essential services such as hospitals, groceries, gas stations, and major distribution centres (MDCs). The proposed research is designed to develop a set of pre-emptive transportation strategies, called mobility interventions, to minimize the spread of communicable disease among truck drivers and MDC workers, and to improve transport logistics in emergencies. This research has value today and is also important when we consider the impact of future possible public emergencies such as communicable disease spread by a contaminated food/water supply. The proposed research should help the e-commerce, supply chain and logistics industries to improve the safety, reliability and resilience of freight delivery while maintaining the most important overall consideration: public health. The study's five-year objectives are: 1) Develop a scientific process to identify changes in preferred truck rest facilities before and during large-scale public emergencies; 2) Develop a mathematical algorithm to screen MDCs and predict traffic flow patterns to/from MDCs; 3) Develop a pre-emptive resource allocation model for the truck rest facilities/amenities identified; 4) Develop a mathematical model to prioritize the provision of truck rest facilities; 5) Develop a model to identify and prioritize the public transit routes most important to MDC commuters who commute by transit; 6) Develop a model using multi-objective optimization techniques to determine optimal transit services during a public emergency; 7) Develop physical distancing indicators to provide a quantitative evaluation of the relative risk of communicable disease transmission among MDC workers who commute by active transportation; and 8) Analyze 911 call data to investigate the impact of major public emergencies on freight transportation, supply chains and logistics during a major health crisis. The proposed research has many benefits including: 1) Identifying important opportunities for e-commerce/logistics companies to increase their competitiveness and to improve customer experience and confidence by providing healthier and safer delivery experiences; 2) Improving the overall efficiency of the entire supply chain by minimizing business closures during major public emergencies; 3) Enabling governing authorities to introduce mobility interventions for the freight industry to accommodate increased e-commerce; 4) Strengthening the competitiveness and confidence of freight industry and help the recovery of Canadian economy; and 5) Providing a unique opportunity for HQPs to interact with domain professionals to gain the needed skill sets to become job-ready and to promote the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Canadian Workforce.