City Logistics and the Physical Internet

讲座题目：City Logistics and the Physical  Internet

讲座时间：2024年2月27日（周二）10：00-11：30

讲座地点：明德楼1101会议室

主讲嘉宾：Russell G. Thompson教授  　 墨尔本大学

主讲嘉宾简介：

Professor  Russell G. Thompson leads the Physical Internet Lab at the University of  Melbourne and is Vice-President of the Institute for City Logistics based in  Kyoto. Russell was a leader of the Volvo Global Center of Excellence in  Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, 2013-2020. He has published over 15 books and  250 refereed publications in the field of urban freight. Russell is a co-author  of the recent book, Urban Freight Analytics: Big Data, Models and Artificial  Intelligence.

Currently,  Russell is actively involved in several urban freight projects in Melbourne and  Sydney including High Productivity Freight Vehicles, Urban Consolidation Centres  and the effects of COVID on urban distribution patterns. He is currently  conducting research studies investigating the benefits of the Physical Internet,  parcel lockers, logistics sprawl, collaborative freight systems, urban  consolidation centres and multi-modal freight systems.

讲座主要内容：

This  seminar will describe numerous modelling approaches for implementing City  Logistics solutions and the Physical Internet, including network optimisation,  Agent Based Models (ABM), Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) and Digital  Twins. Applications for designing and evaluating initiatives such as parcel  lockers, loading zones, micro consolidation centres, on-line matching platforms  and crowdshipping will be presented.

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