Over the last couple of years, the global logistics community has managed challenges across the first, middle, and final mile. The ongoing global turbulence associated with war-related and lingering Covid-19 disruptions in the supply of various commodities, labor recruitment challenges, and inflation have continued to pressure supply chains and increase volatility on both the demand and supply sides. Economic uncertainty for the feasible future will continue to impact the freight transportation system across every mode and across all geographies. In this essential three-day Executive Education program, Northwestern faculty and industry experts will provide fundamental knowledge and practical insights for managing through these challenges and beyond.
NUTC’s Executive Education Freight Transportation & Logistics program has a proven track record of delivering current and forward-looking insight and actionable knowledge into North American and global transportation and supply chains. From domestic transportation (intermodal, parcel and last mile delivery, rail, third-party logistics, trucking), to international (air cargo, ocean shipping, ports), the three-day program provides unmatched insight into how freight moves. Attendees receive a first-hand look at logistics, and supply chain trends, while learning to leverage freight management technology and data analytics in order to enhance efficiency and ensure resilience within their respective organization.

Program content is thoroughly integrated by instructors, to ensure participants gain a comprehensive understanding and unique perspective of both domestic and international transportation sectors. Program content is interactive, providing numerous networking opportunities and in-depth discussions with faculty and fellow attendees. Prior knowledge and experience in logistics, transportation and supply chain management will benefit attendees, but is not a prerequisite. This year's course is specifically designed for early- to mid-level transportation managers, at both carriers and shippers, seeking to deepen their overall knowledge of the freight transportation ecosystem.

Instructors

Mike Burton – CEO, C&K Trucking

Timothy Jones - Owner, Timothy Jones & Associates

Hani Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair & Director, Transportation Center,

Northwestern

Shawn McWhorter - President (Americas Region), Nippon Cargo Airlines

Steven Rothberg - Founding Partner, Mercator International

Ian Savage - Associate Chair and Professor of Instruction in Economics, Northwestern

Joseph L. Schofer -Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Northwestern

Jan Van Mieghem - Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics and

Professor of Operations, Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern

Justin Zubrod - Managing Partner, Justin Zubrod & Co.

Course Leadership

Hani Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair & Director, NUTC

Justin Zubrod - Managing Partner, Justin Zubrod & Co.

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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free light breakfast on the Tech East Plaza will follow.

Over the last couple of years, the global logistics community has managed challenges across the first, middle, and final mile. The ongoing global turbulence associated with war-related and lingering Covid-19 disruptions in the supply of various commodities, labor recruitment challenges, and inflation have continued to pressure supply chains and increase volatility on both the demand and supply sides. Economic uncertainty for the feasible future will continue to impact the freight transportation system across every mode and across all geographies. In this essential three-day Executive Education program, Northwestern faculty and industry experts will provide fundamental knowledge and practical insights for managing through these challenges and beyond.
NUTC’s Executive Education Freight Transportation & Logistics program has a proven track record of delivering current and forward-looking insight and actionable knowledge into North American and global transportation and supply chains. From domestic transportation (intermodal, parcel and last mile delivery, rail, third-party logistics, trucking), to international (air cargo, ocean shipping, ports), the three-day program provides unmatched insight into how freight moves. Attendees receive a first-hand look at logistics, and supply chain trends, while learning to leverage freight management technology and data analytics in order to enhance efficiency and ensure resilience within their respective organization.

Program content is thoroughly integrated by instructors, to ensure participants gain a comprehensive understanding and unique perspective of both domestic and international transportation sectors. Program content is interactive, providing numerous networking opportunities and in-depth discussions with faculty and fellow attendees. Prior knowledge and experience in logistics, transportation and supply chain management will benefit attendees, but is not a prerequisite. This year's course is specifically designed for early- to mid-level transportation managers, at both carriers and shippers, seeking to deepen their overall knowledge of the freight transportation ecosystem.

Instructors

Mike Burton – CEO, C&K Trucking

Timothy Jones - Owner, Timothy Jones & Associates

Hani Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair & Director, Transportation Center,

Northwestern

Shawn McWhorter - President (Americas Region), Nippon Cargo Airlines

Steven Rothberg - Founding Partner, Mercator International

Ian Savage - Associate Chair and Professor of Instruction in Economics, Northwestern

Joseph L. Schofer -Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Northwestern

Jan Van Mieghem - Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics and

Professor of Operations, Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern

Justin Zubrod - Managing Partner, Justin Zubrod & Co.

Course Leadership

Hani Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair & Director, NUTC

Justin Zubrod - Managing Partner, Justin Zubrod & Co.

Related Info

Register Now

Enjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.

Fall 2024 Classes Begin (No Northwestern Monday in Fall)

"Reflections on Being a Member and Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board: Did the railroads or I learn anything?"

About "Marty" Oberman:

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman retired from the Board on May 10, 2024.

Chairman Oberman was designated Chairman of the STB by President Biden on January 21, 2021, and was sworn in as a Board member on January 22, 2019.

Marty has had an extensive career in both the public and private sectors. His first public position was serving as the first General Counsel to the Illinois Racing Board from 1973 to 1974, where he worked closely with the Board’s chairman to bring long needed reforms to the Illinois horse racing industry.

From 1975-1987, Marty served on the Chicago City Council as Alderman of the City’s 43rd Ward where he earned a reputation as a reform leader, committed to promoting transparency in key governing processes while also working to reduce government corruption and profligate spending.

Following his departure from the Council, the Mayor of Chicago appointed Marty as Chairman of a special commission to fix Chicago”s eroding shoreline, which required collaboration with an extensive set of stakeholders, and resulted in the publication of formal recommendations, many of which have since been implemented.

In 2013, Marty was appointed to the board of Metra, the Chicago region’s commuter railroad, the second largest in the U.S. In 2014, he was unanimously elected Metra chairman and served until the end of 2016. While at Metra, he gained approval for the agency’s first long term fare program aimed at tackling the agency’s multi-billion dollar state-of-good-repair backlog, and led the Board’s effort to institute transparency and professional management in an effort to overcome an historic culture of politics and patronage abuses at the railroad.

Since 1975, Marty also maintained a successful practice in Chicago as both a trial and appellate lawyer.

His unique combination of litigation experience, elected public service, and exposure to the significant complexities of railroad infrastructure finance and operations will inform his work as a Member of the Surface Transportation Board.

Marty graduated from Yale University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude, and served as a Note Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. He has been married to his wife, Bonnie, since 1971, and has two children, and three grandchildren. Marty is a native of Springfield, Illinois.

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Last day to add a class or change a section for Fall (Last day for tuition adjustment related to enrollment changes (to or from full-time). No reductions are made to bills for dropped or swapped classes after this date)

Abstract:

The railroad track system and its components are a critical transportation asset that is responsible for transmitting rolling stock wheel loads to the roadbed. To ensure safe and efficient operations, railroads perform frequent track inspections, some of which generate substantial amounts of track health data. Furthermore, with the rise of data science tools and machine learning methods, the potential for these data to move maintenance and safety towards more robust analysis is possible. This presentation will provide an overview of track assessment tools and data requirements. Results from multiple track geometry and heath assessment systems will be presented to show the relationship between the change of track geometry and track component condition for different types of track locations, such as curved and tangent track segments. Results show non-intuitive correlations between track geometry, degradation of track component health, and the initial condition of the track within a given maintenance interval. Findings have the potential to improve maintenance effectiveness and prioritization and provide a method for quantifying track degradation rates under different operating conditions and maintenance scenarios. These outputs fill a criticalresearch need and encourage further development of a mechanistic-empirical approach to railway track system design and analysis.

Bio:

J. Riley Edwards, Ph.D., P.E., is an Assistant Professor in the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Heobtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and his MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are railway infrastructure track system and component design and performance and failure modes associated with infrastructure components. Dr. Edwards has published over 100 conference proceedings and over 70 journal articles related to the design, analysis, performance, and failure modes of railway infrastructure and its components. Riley also serves as the Deputy Associate Director for the National University Rail Center of Excellence, a US DOT transportation center funded by the Federal Railroad Administration.

Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure
Engineering in the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and
Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. She is also an advisor to the
World Bank Group. Previously, Dr. Miller-Hooks served as Program Director of the
National Science Foundation (NSF) Civil Infrastructure Systems Program in the
Engineering (ENG) Directorate, lead Program Officer for the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) solicitation, and a cognizant program officer on CMMI’s Smart and Connected Communities (i.e. Smart Cities) initiative (2014-2016). She served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University and Duke University. Dr. Miller-Hooks received her Ph.D. (1997) and M.S. (1994) degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas – Austin (UT) and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College (1992). She has expertise in: disaster planning and response, e.g. urban search and rescue, building and regional evacuation and sheltering, and crowd modeling; multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification and infrastructure protection investment; sustainability, including carbon footprint estimation for construction and transportation and infrastructure investment strategies for climate change; stochastic and
dynamic network algorithms; mathematical modeling and optimization; transportation systems engineering; intermodal passenger and freight transport; maritime transport, port operations, supply chains; real-time routing and fleet management; delivery, paratransit, ridesharing and bikeways; and collaborative and multi-objective decision-making. Her research program has been funded by numerous agencies, including, for example, NSF,
European Commission, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, state departments of transportation, and various agencies and companies. She received a NSF CAREER award, Charley Wootan Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation from the Council of UTCs, and several other national awards related to her dissertation and ongoing research, including two best paper awards, and was inducted into the UT Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni 2021. Dr. Miller-Hooks has authored approximately 175 articles and reports, and 325 conference presentations/seminars with over 110 invited lectures. She has served as principal investigator (PI) of ~ $14 million in externally funded research; co-PI on 5 additional externally funded centers with combined > $22 million in federal funds ($44M with match) and co-PI on a Mason $1.1 million center. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Sustainability Analytics and Modeling journal and serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Research Part C
(Associate Editor), Operations Research (Associate Editor - Policy Modeling and Public Sector OR Section), Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data Analytics in Transportation, Communications in Transportation Research, and previously Transportation Science (Associate Editor over 15 years), Transportation Research - Part B (member/editor
10 years). She is past chair of the TRB Transportation Network Modeling Committee, founding Co-Chair of the TRB Task Force on Emergency Evacuation (now a full committee), and past president of the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) and the Women in OR/MS Forum (WORMS).

Prof. Durango-Cohen's research activities involve developing and analyzing optimization and econometric models to support monitoring, management and operation of transportation infrastructure systems. He has also published in transportation economics and policy, as well as in environmental design and life-cycle assessment of transportation systems. Among others, his research has been recognized with a Faculty Early CAREER Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 2006, and with a Young Author Prize at the 2007 World Congress on Transport Research.

"Resource Planning and Dynamic Management of Demand-Responsive Mobility Services".

Yanfeng Ouyang holds a B.Eng. in civil engineering (summa cum laude, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2000), M.S. in civil engineering (University of Washington, 2001), M.S. in industrial engineering and operations research (University of California at Berkeley, 2005), and Ph.D. in civil engineering (University of California at Berkeley, 2005). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) since August 2005. At UIUC, he serves as the Director of the Chinese-American Railway Transportation Joint Research Center, and also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the Computational Science and Engineering Program. He has also been a Changjiang Chair Professor by the China Ministry of Education via affiliation with Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, since 2018, an Affiliated Professor and Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Transportation Science and Engineering at HIT since 2011, and the International Director of the Department of Production and Operations Management and Logistics Management, School of Management, at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2015-2017. During the 2014-2015 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, as well as an Invited Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Fall classes end

The aim of the ITEA Annual School is to provide young researchers with a high-quality introduction to academic research on transportation economics, including many recent advances in the field. The School’s program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials conducted by some of the most prominent researchers in transportation economics. In addition, the students are given the possibility to present their own work at the Conference.

The aim of the ITEA Annual School is to provide young researchers with a high-quality introduction to academic research on transportation economics, including many recent advances in the field. The School’s program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials conducted by some of the most prominent researchers in transportation economics. In addition, the students are given the possibility to present their own work at the Conference.

The aim of the ITEA Annual School is to provide young researchers with a high-quality introduction to academic research on transportation economics, including many recent advances in the field. The School’s program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials conducted by some of the most prominent researchers in transportation economics. In addition, the students are given the possibility to present their own work at the Conference.

The aim of the ITEA Annual Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transportation economics and to provide a forum for scientific exchange. Research presented at the conference covers both theory and empirical work, including all transport modes and a wide range of research methodologies.

The aim of the ITEA Annual Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transportation economics and to provide a forum for scientific exchange. Research presented at the conference covers both theory and empirical work, including all transport modes and a wide range of research methodologies.

The aim of the ITEA Annual Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transportation economics and to provide a forum for scientific exchange. Research presented at the conference covers both theory and empirical work, including all transport modes and a wide range of research methodologies.