June 1, 2018 — The UW’s Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics (SCTL) Center, Valle Scholarship and Scandinavian Exchange program, and the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) have selected 14 UW finalists (out of 75 applicants) to participate in the fully-funded Seafood Industry Transportation Challenge in Norway in June, along with Professors Ed McCormack and Yinhai Wang and Assistant Professor Don MacKenzie. The competition aims to integrate and enhance existing research and education relationships between UW Civil & Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and transport related industries and organizations.
The UW finalists are:
- Sergey Adzhigirey (Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics ’19)
- Anna Alligood (Urban Freight Lab RA; Civil & Environmental Engineering Transportation Ph.D. student)
- Mayuree Binjolkar (Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. student)
- Mark Coyne (Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics ’19)
- Eric Cozens (Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics ’18)
- John Downing (Master of Marine and Environmental Affairs ’18)
- Mingjian Fu (Master of Civil & Environmental Engineering ’18)
- Burt Goodman (Master of Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics ’19)
- Ruyin Anna Huang (Master of Information Management ’18)
- Ruimin Ke (Civil & Environmental Engineering Transportation Ph.D. student)
- Haena Kim (Urban Freight Lab RA; Industrial & Systems Engineering Ph.D. student)
- Kousay Mohamad (Master of Sustainable Transportation ’18)
- Ziyuan Pu (Civil & Environmental Engineering Transportation Ph.D. student)
- Nazib Siddique (Civil & Environmental Engineering Transportation Ph.D. student)
Challenge Details
The Norwegian economy benefits from Norway’s ability to sell fresh seafood to international markets. Because this product loses considerable value if delivery is delayed, the reliable operation of Norway’s transportation infrastructure is critical to the seafood industry. However, mobility is a challenge because Norway is a rugged northern country with many bottlenecks, including constrained rights-of-ways, ferry routes, and narrow tunnels and bridges, as well as severe weather and rural areas with limited technology and infrastructure.
Cross-national student teams will be challenged to develop innovative solutions to improve the transport of seafood on two economically critical routes—by Skjervøy north of Tromsø in arctic Norway and on Frøya west of Trondheim in central Norway—with the winning team receiving a cash prize to continue their work.
About the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center: The Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center at the University of Washington is the go-to place to analyze and solve urban goods delivery, sustainability, logistic hubs and ports, and freight system performance management problems that overlay private and public spaces and control.
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