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Workshop: Innovation in Urban Freight
February 6-7, 2012
Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Glareh
Amirjamshidi, University of Toronto, Canada
Glareh is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. She received
her bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from (2005), and her MASc in
(2007) from Sharif University of technology in Iran. She started her
PhD in 2008 at the University of Toronto and her research focuses on
microsimulation, vehicle emissions and vehicle routing.
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Bari Bookout, Port of Seattle
Ms. Bookout is the Director of Commercial Strategy at the Port of
Seattle. She is a transportation professional with over 20
years of experience in the international shipping business.
She has worked for the Port of Seattle for more than three
years in a strategic role focused on increasing business through the
Port of Seattle. Prior to the Port, she spent 18 years in the
ocean carrier side of the business, including 15 years with APL, Ltd.,
in a variety of sales and marketing positions.
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Joe
Bryan,
PB
Freight & Logistics
Mr. Bryan has more than 30 years of experience, with a broad background
in freight operations and markets. He has been a leading contributor to
the development of public and public-private freight planning in the
U.S., working at the state and national levels. He has aided
metropolitan planning organizations to research and characterize the
patterns, distribution systems, operating requirements, and future
needs of goods and services movement in their regions, and to prepare
responsive strategies. Mr. Bryan holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School
at Dartmouth College and a B.A. from Princeton University. He is a
member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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Antonio
Comi, "Tor Vergata” University of Rome, Italy
Antonio Comi obtained his first degree in Transportation Engineering in
2000, and completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering in 2004. In
2005 he was research granter at “Mediterranea” University of Reggio
Calabria, and since 2006 he is Assistant Professor at “Tor Vergata”
University of Rome, Department of Enterprise Engineering. He teaches
Transport and Environment and his research activity is mainly addressed
to the development and the application of models and methods for the
analysis and the design of freight and passenger transport systems at
urban and extra-urban scale. He has involved in many national and
international research projects, through which the last ones on urban
freight transport titled Guidelines for City Logistics Plans editing,
and Innovative solutions to freight distribution in the complex large
urban area of Rome supported by Volvo Research and Educational
Foundations. He has published more than 60 papers in transportation
area.
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John
Creighton, Port of Seattle
John Creighton has served on the Port of Seattle Commission
since 2006. He came to the commission with broad experience as a lawyer
who worked on complex international transactions in the port cities of
Singapore, Helsinki and Istanbul prior to returning home to Seattle.
Creighton was selected by his colleagues to serve two consecutive years
as Commission President in 2007-2008, and has served at various times
on the audit and strategic planning committees of the Commission.
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Terry Finn, BNSF
Railway
Terry Finn is Executive Director of Government Affairs for BNSF Railway
with responsibility for railroad legislative and regulatory activity in
Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. He is a
gubernatorial appointee to the Washington Freight Mobility Strategic
Investment Board, an appointee to the Oregon Rail Funding Task Force
and a member of the rail advisory committees of Washington and Oregon.
Before joining the railroad he helped to manage government
affairs for the Port of Seattle in both the aviation and maritime
areas, and long ago in another universe he was a reporter and editor
for United Press International.
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Nicholas
Fortey, Federal
Highway Administration, Oregon Division
Nick
Fortey is the freight operations engineer for the
Oregon Division of the Federal Highway Administration where he works
with a broad
variety of partners to administer the Federal-aid highway program.In
the freight arena, one
of the primary
efforts of FHWA is to ensure integration of freight considerations into
the
statewide and metropolitan planning processes and to highlight the
importance
of including design and operation elements in individual corridor
studies and
capital projects to facilitate freight movements. As the case study
cited here
shows, while
such efforts may be laudable, the complex trade-offs that emerge in
practice
entail a reconsideration of some basic approaches to roadway
classification.
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Xiaoling
Huang, Dalian Martime University, Dalian, China
Xiaoling Huang is a full Professor of
Logistics Engineering and
Management at the Transportation Management College of Dalian Maritime
University, China. She obtained a B.S degree in radio-technology, an
M.S in communication & electronic systems and a Ph.D. in
control theory & control engineering, all from Northeastern
University China. She has taught various courses such as “Logistics and
Supply Chain Management”, “Production and Operations Management”,
”Signal Analysis and Processing”, and “Mobile Communication.” Her
research covers a wide range of topics, including Integration of
Planning and Scheduling Optimization Algorithms, Transportation and
Logistics Management, Production Process Management, and The Theory and
Method of Intelligence Optimization and its Application in Enterprise
Information. She has participated in several national projects of
industry engineering in China, and now her current research area is
Integration of Planning, Scheduling and Controlling for Container
Terminal based on Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS).
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Barbara
Ivanov, Washington Department of Transportation
Barbara
Ivanov is the Co-Director of the Washington State
Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Freight Systems Division. Her
current responsibilities
include developing the Washington State Freight Mobility Plan, managing
the state’s
freight research program, and leading initiatives to: analyze and
improve truck
corridor system performance, develop a resilient freight system, and
reduce the
environmental impacts of freight movements. Ms.
Ivanov is a graduate of the University of Washington Executive MBA
program and
holds a B.A. in English cum laude. Ms.
Ivanov’s current professional associations
include serving as the chair of the National Academies of Science
Transportation Research Board Intermodal Freight Committee and chair of
the
National Cooperative Highway Research Program "Potential Changes in
Goods
Movement and Freight in Changing Economic Systems and Demand."
She is a member of the TRB National
Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP)
Oversight Committee, Freight Commodity Flow and Urban Freight Panels,
and the
NCHRP Surface Transportation Security Committee.
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Tomas
Levin, SINTEF, Trondheim,
Norway
Tomas
Levin graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
in 2001 with a master in transportation. He then worked as a consultant
for Rambøll for 4 years with transport and traffic modeling. In 2006 he
started a PHD in the field of freight transport and emissions. As part
of the PHD he developed a model for estimating a freight transport
emissions based on single vehicle emissions. The end result of the PHD
project was an emission database that is being integrated in the track
and trace systems of the four largest freight transport providers in
Norway. This will allow freight transport providers to monitor their
climate and environmental performance based on actual shipments. Tomas
is currently employed as a researcher at SINTEF, the largest
independent research organization in Scandinavia, where he specializes
in the field of freight transport emissions. |
Cheng-Chang Lin,
National
Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lin, Cheng-Chang
is a Professor in the Department of Transportation and Communication
Management Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and Master’s
degree from Pennsylvania State University. He was the section
manager of the OR division in charge of network applications at United
Parcel Service of America, Inc. He has extensive experience
in the application of OR to the operational planning of freight
delivery common carriers. His current research interests and
teaching areas are international logistics and distribution, network
analysis, and supply chain management. |
Agostino
Nuzzolo, "Tor Vergata” University of Rome, Italy
Agostino Nuzzolo is full professor of
Transport at the Faculty of Engineering of “Tor Vergata” University of
Rome, Department of Enterprise Engineering, where he teaches
“Transport, Logistics and Land-use”. His research work is relative to
the theory of transportation systems and its application in
transportation analysis, modeling and planning. He is the author or
co-author of several books on the innovative schedule-based dynamic
approach to transportation networks, and of more than 150 papers and
book chapters. Main research fields are also Land-Use Transport
Modeling and Urban Freight Modeling and City Logistics. He is currently
the President of the Italian Academic Society of Transports (SIDT). He
has been working as consultant mainly in the field of transportation
planning and feasibility studies of transport infrastructures.
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Deborah
Redman, Metro, Portland,
Oregon
Deborah
Hart Redman is a transportation planner for
the Portland, Oregon area's elected regional government and
Metropolitan
Planning Organization, Metro. There she specializes in
multimodal freight
issues and corridor planning. Like most people at her agency, she's
interested
in an equitable and sustainable future that continues to provide
affordable
mobility and access to opportunities. Her recent experience with a
local
corridor plan has required her to explore the original intent and
consider the
current relevance and utility of roadway designations--federal, state
and local--
in light of community and regional goals. |
Matthew
J. Roorda, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof.
Matthew Roorda is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, has been
at the University of Toronto since 2005, and has worked in the
transportation engineering profession for 13 years. He is the director
of the Centre for Urban Freight Analysis and co-chair of the
Infrastructure Engineering program at University of Toronto. Dr.
Roorda’s research interests include urban freight transportation,
freight planning and operations, agent-based simulation, disaggregate
choice models, passenger and freight travel survey methods, emissions
analysis, activity-based travel demand modelling, and firm behaviour.
Dr. Roorda is a member of 3 TRB committees, and subcommittee chair for
freight surveys subcommittee. Publications can be found at
http://www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/staff/professors/roorda.htm. |
Cristina
Van Valkenburgh, Seattle Department of Transportation
Cristina Van Valkenburgh holds a Master Degree in Urban Planning from
the University of Washington and has been working in the public sector
for over 20 years. Presently, Cristina works for the Policy
and Planning Division of the Seattle Department of Transportation
managing the Mobility Programs. Her current portfolio
includes issues related to transportation demand management, freight
and parking. Prior to working for SDOT, Cristina's
professional responsibilities focused in land use issues and she was
the land use director for both Bellevue, WA and Naperville, IL. |
Erica
J Wygonik, University of Washington
Erica Wygonik is pursuing a PhD in Transportation Engineering in the
department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Washington. She is interested in the relationship between land use and
goods movement and modeling of complex systems. Her current research
focuses on ways to adapt the existing transportation system to reduce
its environmental impacts through improved logistics and land use
planning. She is also examining the benefits of replacing personal
vehicle travel with home deliveries. Before matriculating at the
University of Washington, Erica worked for Resource Systems Group, a
transportation and environmental engineering consulting firm based in
Vermont. A Senior Associate at RSG, she led the Microsimulation and
Traffic Operations practice areas. She is a licensed professional
engineer. |
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