Mingzhou Jin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center Director
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PI Jin has conducted more than 30 projects to solve freight transportation and supply chain problems. At the national level, he has developed simulation and optimization models and tools for USDOT and US DHS for the national freight network and waterways, focusing on resiliency and security. Regionally, he has developed intermodal transportation freight simulation models for the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. For corporations, his developed tools helped Nissan optimize their finished vehicle delivery, Lockheed Martin improve their supply chain management, FedEx improve their transportation workforce scheduling, K&S Customer Warehousing investigate alternative supply network, and Consolidated Nuclear Complex implement optimized inventory and logistics operations. He has also helped various industry associates solve their issues, such as designing alternative routes for American Trucking Associations, developing models and algorithms for automatic warehouse design and operations for Material Handling Industry, designing furniture supply chain network for American Furniture Foundation, and evaluating life-cycle benefits and cost for railways and trucking with OnTrackNorthAmerica.
Bruce Wang, Texas A&M University, Research Director
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Co-PI Wang has covered a variety of topics with a focus on intelligent transportation and with a system’s approach, and particularly has worked with the USACE on significant waterway-oriented national multimodal system problems such as dredging budget optimization, studied truck parking issues on a national scope to address the truck parking capacity shortage problems, port and terminal operations for efficiency as well as truck drayage operations to improve the intermodal efficiency.
Shailesh Chandra, Cal State Long Beach, EWFD Director
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Co-PI Chandra has worked with the Caltrans and the State of California through various tools and guidance. He has been actively involved with collaborative work with the Ports of Long Beach and LA as well as the City of Long Beach in identifying solutions to congestion, noise pollution, and sustainability. As an affiliated faculty to two UTCs, he has taken up leadership roles in advancing freight transportation solutions to highway congestion for California and the neighboring states of Arizona and Nevada. He has also been actively collaborating with public and private entities in trucking (such as the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center and American Transportation Research Institute), California Trucking Association, and the Volvo Group. These entities have been well-recognized for their contribution to solving truck driver shortages, green technologies for freight truck fleet, and improving trucking infrastructure that is crucial in contributing to an efficient supply chain ecosystem.
Salvador Hernandez, Oregon State University, Engagement Director
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Co-PI Hernandez has over 15 years of researching and utilizing large scale disaggregate datasets for developing strategic, tactical, and operational models to address transportation safety, supply chain and logistics problems. He helped EL Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization evaluate park and ride facilities and warehouse locations and helped Texas DOT analyze real-time commercial traffic data.
Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago, T2C Director
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Co-PI Zou and his colleagues at UIC and his colleagues provided Illinois DOT with technical assistance to build Illinois’ first inland waterway freight transportation performance database. They helped the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) establish a comprehensive framework for assessing the impacts of intercity and high-speed rail in the US. Their first-of-its-kind comprehensive study sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to understand the impact of flight delays in the US.
Steven Xiaochun Jiang, North Carolina A&T State University, Diversity Director
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Co-PI Jiang is junior faculty at NCAT. Research Interests include modeling human performance in complex systems, usability engineering, and visual analytics. Applications include manufacturing, construction, aviation, healthcare and military.
