NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing smart logistics (IL, IN, MO, WI)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进智能物流（伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、密苏里州、威斯康星州）

• 批准号: 2302950
• 负责人: Reggie Greenwood
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Governors State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on transforming the transportation logistics system through five core strengths: interdisciplinary applied research, business incubation and entrepreneurship, adaptive lifelong learning, cross-sectoral economic development, and deep community engagement. Together, they form the Smart Logistics Engine. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many chronic failure points in logistics systems stressed by multi-scalar economic, social, and natural crises. Solving these challenges at all scales and across the urban-to-rural spectrum is crucial to the future economic prosperity of the U.S. The Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin-Missouri region is poised to lead in this sector because of its unique setting as a hub for all transportation modalities spanning river, air, road, and rail networks. This project is led by the Illinois Innovation Network, with Governors State University as the lead academic institution. Key partners across the state include Western Illinois, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, University of Illinois Chicago, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Eastern Illinois University.In recent years, companies have been forced to reconfigure their supplier locations to build resiliency while simultaneously seeking to satisfy the demand for rapid delivery without product shortages. During this time, 68% of small businesses cited supply chain disruptions as having moderate to significant impacts on their business, and 87% of consumers were impacted by shortages and rationing. To solve these issues, this project will focus on three core activities: (1) automation of logistics for truck middle-mile freight systems, (2) autonomous drones and electric vehicles deployment, and (3) inland waterway freight delivery systems. The team will center its planning around translatable research demonstrating automation as a systemic enhancement and research incorporating drone and electric vehicle technologies across industry clusters. It will use intelligent logistics and design thinking to engage port managers, community leaders, and private sector partners to develop a regional, urban-to-rural waterborne commerce system and inclusive labor market. The project also will identify strategies for reskilling and upskilling individuals whose career paths are disrupted by automation while ensuring that workers in local and sub-regional economies can attain long-term participation in new industry clusters.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是通过五个核心优势转变运输物流系统：跨学科应用研究，业务孵化和企业家精神，适应性的终身学习，跨部门的经济发展和深层社区参与。它们一起构成了智能物流引擎。 COVID-19大流行强调了多个阶段经济，社会和自然危机强调的物流系统中的许多慢性失败点。在各个规模和整个城市之间解决这些挑战对于美国的未来经济繁荣至关重要，因为伊利诺伊州 - 印度 - 威斯康星州 - 米苏里地区有望在该行业领导该领域，因为它是其独特的枢纽，作为所有运输方式，用于跨越河流，空中，道路和铁路网络。该项目由伊利诺伊州的创新网络领导，州长州立大学作为主要学术机构。全州的主要合作伙伴包括伊利诺伊州西部，伊利诺伊州大学卡本代尔，伊利诺伊州南部爱德华兹维尔，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥大学，伊利诺伊大学伊利诺伊大学Urbana-champaign和伊利诺伊州大学。近年来，公司被迫重新配置供应位置，以同时寻求恢复能力，而不必尽快交付产品，以快速交付产品。在此期间，有68％的小型企业将供应链中断视为对其业务产生的重大影响，而87％的消费者受到短缺和配给的影响。为了解决这些问题，该项目将重点介绍三个核心活动：（1）卡车中英里货运系统的物流自动化，（2）自动驾驶无人机和电动汽车部署，以及（3）内陆水道货运系统。该团队将围绕可翻译研究的计划，以表明自动化是一种系统性增强和研究，该研究结合了各个行业集群的无人机和电动汽车技术。它将使用智能物流和设计思维来吸引港口经理，社区领导者和私营部门合作伙伴，以开发区域，城市至农村水上的商业系统和包容性劳动力市场。该项目还将确定重新锻炼和提高技能的策略，他们的职业道路被自动化所破坏，同时确保本地和次区域经济体中的工人可以长期参与新的行业群体。这一奖项反映了NSF的法规使命，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的criter scriter scritia crietia crietia crietia crietia criteria crietia crietia crietia crietia crietia crietia crietia crietia criteria又有值得的支持。