Keynote Speakers
Name: Russell G. Thompson
Title: Associate Professor
Unit: The University of Melbourne
Topic: Models for City Logistics and improving the resilience of traffic networks
Abstract:
 Models for City Logistics and improving the resilience of traffic networks

Associate Professor Russell G. Thompson

Department of Infrastructure Engineering

The University of Melbourne

 

Abstract

This presentation will outline how optimisation models have been developed for City Logistics, including CBD distribution routing, co-modality and anticipatory demand, collaborative freight systems, road pricing and the physical internet.

An overview of how optimisation models can improve the resilience of traffic networks from natural disasters will also be presented. New methods for improving diversion planning, network recovery and strengthening will be described.
Introduction:



Russell Thompson is an Associate Professor in Transport Engineering in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne in Australia. His research areas are urban freight, resilient transport systems and intelligent transport systems.

He has over 15 years of experience in urban freight research. Russell has been involved in a number of local and international studies relating to urban freight, including the European Union’s Best Urban Freight Solutions (BESTUFS) project and the OECD report on urban distribution.

Russell was a founding Director and has been the Vice President of the Institute for City Logistics based in Kyoto since 1999. He is also a Team Leader of the Volvo Research and Education Foundation’s Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Freight Systems. He has been involved in several studies that have estimated the economic, environmental and safety benefits of performance based standards. Russell has published over 10 books and 50 refereed publications in the field of urban freight. He is currently involved in a number of projects involving autonomous freight vehicles.
Russell leads the Transport research program in the Centre of Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) and coordinates projects relating to the disruption and recovery of traffic networks, traffic guidance systems and humanitarian logistics.