Industry Research
NUTC strives to be an industry-responsive academic partner for novel, high-impact collaborative research. Throughout the years, NUTC has conducted technical “knowledge exchanges” and research projects with companies in the freight, logistics and transportation industries, including Association of American Railroads (AAR), Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), BNSF Railway, Boeing, Centerpoint Properties, Cintra, Daylight Transport, Echo Global Logistics, Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), Hub Group, IBM, Matson Logistics, Redwood Logistics, Roadie, Teradata, Uber Freight and U.S. Bank. Click the titles below to learn more.
PARTNERS & PROJECTS
- LOwering CO2: Models to Optimize Train Infrastructure, Vehicles, and Energy Storage (LOCOMOTIVES)
- The U.S. Railroads and COVID-19: Keeping Supply Chains Moving
- Blazing New Trails for Delivery Services–One Gig at a Time
- Grain industry dynamics in relation to rail service in the Upper Midwestern United States
- Mobility 2050: A Vision for Transportation Infrastructure
PUBLICATIONS
- Evaluation of Rail Decarbonization Alternatives: Framework and Application
- Daily load planning under different autonomous truck deployment scenarios
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Resilience of U.S. Rail Intermodal Freight during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Reinforcement learning framework for freight demand forecasting to support operational planning decisions
- Potential for a logistics island to circumvent container port congestion in a constrained environment
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Analytical models of rail transportation service in the grain supply chain: Deconstructing the operational and economic advantages of shuttle train service
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Sourcing truckload capacity in the transportation spot market: A framework for third party providers
- Predictive Analytics to Improve Pricing and Sourcing in Third-Party Logistics Operations
- Regional logistics hubs, freight activity and industrial space demand: Econometric analysis
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Industrial space demand and freight transportation activity: exploring the connection
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