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Summary Sentence: A seminar for ISyE, PIC, and SCL affiliated faculty and students
Full Summary: ISyE, PI and SCL affiliated faculty, corporate partners, Industry Advisory Board members, PI affiliated students, ISyE PhD students and MSSCE students... We would like to invite you to our upcoming Physical Internet Center seminar.
PIC Seminar: Recent Developments in Modeling City Logistics in MelbourneISyE, PI and SCL affiliated faculty, corporate partners, Industry Advisory Board members, PI affiliated students, ISyE PhD students and MSSCE students:
We would like to invite you to our upcoming Physical Internet Center seminar. Please join us for...
Presented by Russell G. Thompson
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Melbourne School of Engineering
The University of Melbourne
OVERVIEW
The seminar will introduce City Logistics and describe recent models developed for improving the sustainability of goods movement in Melbourne, including a collaborative freight system for suppliers distributing goods to retailers as well as a Central Business District (CBD) routing system for couriers.
Distribution systems in metropolitan regions are typically characterized by suppliers operating their own vehicle fleets, distributing only their goods to their customers on a regular basis. In sectors where there are multiple suppliers servicing common customers, there is an opportunity to develop collaborative systems and combine distribution networks to reduce the distance traveled by delivery vehicles. This can result in substantial savings in transport operating costs as well as environmental costs.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Thompson is an Associate Professor in Transport Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics (RMIT University), Masters in Transport Engineering (Monash University) and a PhD in Traffic Engineering (The University of Melbourne). For the last 15 years he has been involved in numerous local freight studies, including the Melbourne’s Freight Movement Model and the Victorian Freight and Logistics Plan. Russell is a Team Leader of the Volvo Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Freight Systems. and Vice-President of the Institute for City Logistics based in Kyoto. Currently, Russell is actively involved in several urban freight projects in Melbourne including High Productivity Freight Vehicles and Loading Dock Booking systems. He is currently supervising research projects involving modelling logistics sprawl, collaborative freight systems, road pricing, urban consolidation centers and multi-modal freight systems.
