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... 11 Plenary Sessions Keynote Address Innovation: Federal Maritime Commission's Innovation Supply Chain Innovation Team Initiative Rebecca F Dye, Federal Maritime Commission he Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
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... 12 efficiency is not necessarily enough to prosper in this system. Teams were encouraged to step out of their enterprise silos to consider the supply chain from an overall upstream–downstream perspective.
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... 13 were balanced with regular public presentations in commission meetings, testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, and public statements on the commission webpage. INNOVATION At the project launch, team members were encouraged to consider how innovation occurs.
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... 14 Shippers have critical needs. Marine terminals have critical needs.
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... 15 ports, marine terminal operators, and shippers with cargo moving through the ports who were active participants in the SCI Team were important to the development of the Port of Los Angeles/GE Transportation portal, resulting in significant and useful cross-fertilization. IN CONCLUSION The results of a recent Journal of Commerce survey of shipping industry executives and professionals, "Working as One: How Real-Time Cloud-Based Data-Sharing Will Benefit the Maritime Shipping Sector,"8 provides the following takeaways: • More than half of the respondents said that their operational performance would improve by at least 50 percent if they could share real-time information.
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... 16 Plenary Session 1 Perspectives Driving Marine Transportation System's Freight Analytics Helen Brohl, U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System, presiding Kathleen Hancock, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, recording Panelists Caitlin Hughes, Federal Highway Administration Bethanny Rooney, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Jonathan Rosenthal, Harbor Performance Enhancement Center, LLC Thomas Smith, U.S.
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... 17 bobtail trips, 15 percent for truck travel time, 20 percent for terminal queue wait time, and 5 percent each for emissions and fuel consumption. This example effectively demonstrates the value of technology and data sharing.
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... 18 better. Smith stated that two perspectives are considered: (1)
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... 19 TABLE 1. Summary of Comments and Questions.
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... 20 Plenary 2 Reaching the Vision: The Challenges and Opportunities of Advancing Multimodal Freight Network Analytics Jim Kruse, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, presiding Craig Philip, Vanderbilt University, recording Panelists Stuart Anderson, Iowa Department of Transportation Bill Eisele, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Sarah Hernandez, University of Arkansas Kenneth Mitchell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Birat Pandey, Federal Highway Administration SUMMARY This session considered real-world challenges in advancing multimodal freight network analytics.
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... 21 GPS, electronic logging devices) , point sensor (loop detectors)
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... 22 • Visualization is an underexploited capability that can be used to effectively manage the big data that are coming from the freight sector IoT revolution, especially as sensors become integral to everything mobile. DATA CONCERNS AND ISSUES • The AIS is a robust and granular data source for maritime activity.
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... 23 During his presentation, Alex Appel recommended that in using scenario planning, planners look at how land-based localized impacts could ripple across the marine system and vice versa. He discussed three scenarios.
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... 24 Nicole Katsikides touched on bridging the resources available to the public sector with those used by the private sector when planning for disturbances. She discussed the need to demonstrate that the transportation system operates as a connected system of systems and not just as an individual mode.
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... 25 affiliated Blockchain in Transport Alliance, where he works with groups interested in learning about blockchain technology and how it could affect their markets. In his presentation, he discussed how blockchains could influence supply chain efficiency and the multimodal freight system.

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