TIME & LOCATION
Mar 17, 2025, 14:00-16:00
Floor 10, School of Transportation
INTRODUCTION
The Physical Internet (PI) initiative promotes open, shared. collaborative and integrated logistics systems that have potential for substantial improvements in efficiency and sustainability. This seminar will describe numerous modelling approaches for implementing Hyperconnected City Logistics solutions using Physical Internet concepts, including network optimisation, Agent Based Models (ABM), Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) and Digital Twins. Applications for designing and evaluating initiatives such as parcel lockers, micro consolidation centres, on-line matching platforms and crowd shipping will be presented.
ABOUT THE LECTURER
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 freight and logistics. Russell is a co-author of the recent book, Urban Freight Analytics: Big Data, Models and Artificial Intelligence, (CRC Press).