Spring 2023 BAC Meeting

WELCOME

We are delighted to welcome you back at Northwestern for the Spring 2023 BAC meeting!

Our Spring BAC meeting is always the highlight and the culmination of our academic year at NUTC. As we approach the end of the Spring quarter, assess successes and accomplishments with our BAC, and gain new insights and directions towards the major research push of the summer. But the main event is the Annual Distinguished Patterson Lecture tied to the Spring BAC meeting, which this year (the 41st) features BAC member Doug Waggoner, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Echo Global Logistics. Doug, a pioneer and innovation leader, will discuss Technology in Transportation and Logistics - Past, Present, and Future. We couldn’t be more excited to hear his take on this very timely topic.

Our meeting takes place in the midst of continuing uncertainty about global and domestic economic conditions, the state of demand for goods and thus for logistics and freight services-- all in an environment rich with technological opportunities and uncertainties. We have called on NU Prof. Sergio Rebelo, a noted understand the factors driving the economy in the foreseeable future. We expect a vigorous conversation on this topic, and additional valuable insight from our BAC members.

Our transportation systems deliver day in and day out, and most people are not aware of the complex operations that make it happen. However, when things go wrong, considerable media attention is directed to the problem and the entire system is questioned. Rail derailments, when they occur, generate considerable attention. We have invited a panel of rail industry representatives, ably moderated by Roger Nober, to help address and place in context questions on overall safety of rail freight operations, derailments, and how best practices and new technologies are converging to minimize their frequency and impact.

Staying with the safety and security theme, not a day goes by without some dire warning about cybersecurity and its potential to cause all kinds of disruptions to our systems, especially with growing connectivity and automaton through all parts of the supply chain. We have invited an eminent global expert who recently mitigate them.

On the good news/bad news side of technological innovation, the explosion of news and opinions about AI and the remarkable accomplishments of ChatGPT and other similar tools have left everyone wondering what these tools could bring to our businesses and what the realistic limits might be to these opportunities. We have again called on Prof. Kristian Hammond, an AI pioneer and entrepreneur, to brief us on the latest developments and what surprises might lie ahead in that realm.

We trust you found value in the Industry Workshop on innovations in last mile delivery held before the reception and dinner preceding Doug Waggoner’s Patterson Lecture.

We take immense pride in the partnership with our BAC companies and the trust they place in our Transportation Center. We truly value the support and counsel we receive from our member companies. We time well spent. Our team at NUTC has worked hard to make it a productive and enjoyable experience.

Thank you for your continued support of NUTC programs and research. We sincerely value our association with all of you.

Hani S. Mahmassani

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center

AGENDA

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023

Northwestern University Transportation Center

(Chambers Hall) 600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL, 60208

7:30 AM

8:00 AM 8:05 AM

8:20 AM

8:40 AM 8:45 AM

Continental Breakfast

Call to Order: BAC Chair presiding

Jeff Silver - CEO, Mastery Logistics Systems

Welcome from the University – Provost Kathleen Hagerty

Director’s Report - Hani S. Mahmassani - Director, NUTC / Patterson Transportation Chair

BAC Membership: New Member Introductions

Panel – Rail Safety – Current Trends and Issues

Moderator: Roger Nober, Principal, Salten Point Consulting and former BNSF EVP & STB Chairman

Herman Crosson, Matt Igoe, Larry Jordan, CEO, Wi-Tronix, LLC

Brenda Moscoso, Assistant Vice President, Safety Policy and Analysis, AAR

10:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 11:45 AM

Presentation – “Cybersecurity in Transportation and Logistics”

V.S. Subrahmanian, Walter P. Murphy Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern

Break

Sergio Rebelo, Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management

Presentation – “What is the big deal about Al?”

Kristian J. Hammond, Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Introduction of Students

PM

Adjournment and Lunch

SPEAKERS

Speakers

Herman Crosson Chief Safety and Compliance Officer

Anacostia Rail Holdings

Herman Crosson joined Anacostia Rail Holdings Company in May 2022 as Chief Safety and Compliance Officer. Mr. Crosson has over 24 years of experience in the railroad industry, including various positions in operations and safety with CSX. Most recently, Mr. Crosson served as the VP of Safety, Training and Regulatory for Patriot Rail Company LLC. In 2021, he received the ASLRRA Safety Professional of the Year award. He serves on the ASLRRA Environmental Committee and serves as Chairman of the Sustainability Sub-Committee. Mr. Crosson has 36 years of military experience and serves as the Brigade Commander of the 59th Troop Command Brigade, South Carolina National Guard. Excelsior College (BS); Liberty University (MBA); US Army War College (MSS).

Kathleen Hagerty

Provost

Northwestern University

Kathleen M. Hagerty is the Provost of Northwestern University. She assumed this role on September 1, 2020 after serving as Associate Provost for Faculty during AY2019-20 and previous to this as Interim Dean of Kellogg School of Management. She joined Kellogg more than 30 years ago and holds the First Chicago Professorship in Finance. She has earned a reputation as an accomplished scholar and respected faculty leader, with vast experience attracting and retaining top faculty in an increasingly competitive market for academic talent.

Hagerty has held numerous leadership positions within Kellogg, including serving two terms as senior associate dean of faculty and research, two terms as chair of the finance department and two years as faculty director of Kellogg’s Ph.D. programs. She also is responsible for the development of several successful academic programs that foster partnerships across the University.

Her work has studied the micro-structure of securities markets, disclosure regulation, insider trading regulation and the effectiveness of self-regulatory organizations. Her research has appeared in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy and The Journal of Finance. She received a Bradley Foundation Research Fellowship and received the D.P. Jacobs Prize for the Most Significant Paper in the Journal of Financial Intermediation. She has also been a member of the editorial board of the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Markets.

Kristian J. Hammond

Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Northwestern University

Kristian Hammond is a professor of Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern University and the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science, a company specializing in automated narrative generation. He has also been involved in research on artificial intelligence and its applications, including case-based planning and the use of technology in education. Hammond has received funding for his work from the US Department of Education and has given a TEDx talk on artificial intelligence. His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, and the application of artificial intelligence to journalism and other fields.

Research Board’s Thomas Deen Distinguished Lectureship in 2016, and the inaugural Martin Beckmann Transformative Research in Network Modeling in 2019. He was elected Emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board (of the National Academies) committees on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior, Transportation Network Modeling Committee, and Traveler Behavior and Values Mahmassani received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in transportation systems and MS in transportation engineering from Purdue University.

Brenda Moscoso Assistant Vice President, Safety Policy and Analysis Association of American Railroads

Since 2015, Brenda Moscoso has served as Assistant vice president – safety policy and analysis for the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the world’s leading railroad policy, research and standard setting organization for the Class I freight railroads of the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as Amtrak. In this role, Ms. Moscoso manages safety data and analytics. She also serves on the Transportation Research Board’s Railroad Operational Committee and Joint Subcommittee on Trespass and Suicide Prevention. Prior to joining AAR in 2015, Ms. Moscoso served as Director of the Office of Safety Analysis at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) where she also held various positions related to regulatory development and impact analysis in the Office of Safety over the course of 23 years.

Roger Nober Principal Salten Point Consulting

Roger Nober is Principal at Salten Point Consulting. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at BNSF Railway and former Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board. He joined BNSF Railway Co. in January 2007 and oversees legal and regulatory matters, environmental, claims, compliance, communications as well as state government and community affairs. Prior to that, Nober was a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. From 2002 to 2006, Nober chaired the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. From 1993 to 2002, he served in various roles at the Department of Transportation and in the U.S. House of Representatives, including serving as chief counsel for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He has a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a Juris Doctor from Harvard University School of Law.

Sergio Rebelo

Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance Kellogg School of Management

Sergio Rebelo is the Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he has served as Chair of the Finance Department.

Professor Rebelo does research on macroeconomics and international finance. He has studied the causes of business cycles, the impact of economic policy on economic growth, and the behavior of exchange rates. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Sloan Foundation, and the Olin Foundation.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He has been a member of the editorial board of various academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary

Matthew Igoe Executive Vice President & Chief Operations Officer BNSF Railway

BNSF Railway named Matt Igoe, executive vice president & chief operations officer, effective Jan. 1, 2021. He will lead the entire operations organization after previously having held the position of vice president, Transportation since July 2017. Matt also served as vice president, Service Design and Performance, since May 2016. Following his career as an officer in the U.S. Army, Matt joined BNSF in 1998 as a management trainee. He has worked in a variety of positions with increasing responsibility within the Marketing and Transportation organizations. Matt served as general manager for the Chicago Division from May 2010 until October 2012, when he was promoted to general superintendent, Transportation. Matt was promoted to the position of regional vice president for the Central Region in February 2013.

Larry Jordan

Chief Executive Officer and President Wi-Tronix,

LLC

Larry Jordan, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Wi-Tronix, is committed to a global vision of saving lives by improving the safety, service reliability, and operational efficiency of transportation systems for the rail industry. Prior to founding Wi-Tronix, Larry spent 15 years at the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors working on innovative digital solutions for the railway industry. In 2004, Larry created the beginnings of Wi-Tronix in his own basement, deploying the first system in May of 2005. Despite humble beginnings and challenges, Larry adopted the “Make Things Happen” attitude early on. An inventor and innovator, Larry holds multiple patents in locomotive control systems. He believes passionately that innovation can provide the future of rail safety. Through collaborative innovation, Larry was able to gain new customers, deploy WiTronix event recorders, and expand the product line to include interface capabilities, ultimately leading to the Wi-Tronix IoT & Violet Edge systems.

Hani Mahmassani

Director, Transportation Center

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation

Northwestern University

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani is Director of the Transportation Center, and the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor in Transportation at Northwestern University, which he joined on September 1, 2007, with joint appointments in the McCormick School of Engineering and the Kellogg School of Management. Prior to Northwestern, he served on the faculties of the University of Maryland and the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 35 years of professional, academic and research experience in the areas of multimodal systems modeling and optimization, freight and logistics systems, autonomous vehicles, data science and predictive analytics in transportation and logistics.

Mahmassani has served as principal investigator on over 150 funded research projects sponsored by international, national, state, and metropolitan agencies and private industry. He is past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science, senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and founding associate editor of Transportation Research C: Emerging Technologies. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and a past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He serves on the Board of Advisors to the Panama Canal Authority, and Prince Albert of Monaco’s Digital Transformation Advisory Council. He was the recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the American University of Beirut in 2006, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2010, the Transportation

Economics, and the Journal of Economic Growth.

He has won numerous teaching awards at the Kellogg School of Management, including the Professor of the Year Award and the Executive Masters Program Outstanding Professor Award.

Professor Rebelo has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the European Central Bank, the McKinsey Global Institute, the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs, and other organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.

Jeff Silver Chief Executive Officer Mastery Logistics Systems

Jeff Silver joined American Backhaulers in 1984, fresh out of the University of Michigan with an undergrad degree in Economics. He helped grow the business by focusing on customer interactions and the sales force, training, and designing its ground-breaking technology. When ABH was sold to CH Robinson, Jeff spent a year helping to integrate the businesses and working to adapt the ABH system to the needs of the global company, and then retired. During his retirement, Jeff completed an MBA at Michigan as well as a Masters of Engineering in Logistics at MIT. In 2006, he and his wife Marianne, who created the methods of recruiting and training and focus on culture that have been copied by many in the industry, co-founded Coyote Logistics, which he led through its acquisition by UPS in 2015, after which he spent several years working with the broader UPS group on automation and advanced technology.

V.S. Subrahmanian

Walter P. Murphy Professor, Department of Computer Science

Northwestern University

V.S. Subrahmanian is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Buffet Faculty Fellow in the Buffet Institute of Global Affairs at Northwestern University. He was previously the Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society and Director of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society at Dartmouth. Earlier, served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland from 1989-2017 where he also served for 6+ years as Director of the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Prof. Subrahmanian is one of the world’s foremost experts at the intersection of AI and security issues. He pioneered the development of machine learning and AIbased techniques to analyze counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, text, geospatial, and social network based data in order to generate forecasts of various types of outcomes. He has written eight books, edited ten, and published over 300 refereed articles. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and received numerous other honors and awards. His work has been featured in numerous outlets such as the Baltimore Sun, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Science, Nature, the Washington Post, American Public Media and more. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Science, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of SentiMetrix, Inc. and on the Research Advisory Board of Tata Consultancy Services. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Development Gateway Foundation (set up by the World Bank), DARPA’s Executive Advisory Council on Advanced Logistics and as an ad-hoc member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board.

MEMBER DIRECTORY

David Arganbright VP Government Affairs | OmniTRAX Inc. darganbright@omnitrax.com

215.205.0202

Andrew Bata Regional Manager (North America) | UITP - International Association of Public Transport andrew.bata@uitp.org

917.403.3445

Farrukh Bezar CSX Transportation farrukh_bezar@csx.com

571.214.8578

904.359.1512

Jason Birnbaum SVP, Digital Technology | United Airlines, Inc. jason.birnbaum@united.com

872.825.4550 630.512.1411

L. Price Blackford Managing Director | Scott-Macon Ltd. pblackford@scott-macon.com

646.572.2409

917.861.7772

John Bowe Principal | American Maritime Group LLC johnbowe22@gmail.com

510.813.9574

Andrew Boyle Co-President | Boyle Transportation andrew.boyle@boyletransport.com

978.670.3409

978.430.9942

Marcus Brambila marcus.brambila@coyote.com 773.365.6047

Joe Boyle VP U.S. Transportation | UPS jboyle@ups.com

Mike Brennan President | Farmer’s Fridge mbrennan575@gmail.com 847.971.8939

Vicki Bretthauer Independent Consultant vickib777@sbcglobal.net 847.873.0664 847.331.5333

Shaun Bunch SVP, Inventory Control & Logistics | Northern Tool +Equipment shaun.bunch@northerntool.com 859.321.8127

Edward Burkhardt Former Chairman President & CEO | Rail World, Inc. eaburkhardt@railworld-inc.com 773.714.8669

James Burnley IV, Esq. Partner | Venable LLP jhburnley@venable.com 202.344.4054

Michael Burton President & CEO | C&K Holdings Acquisition, LLC mburton@cktrucking.com 312.617.7470

Frank Bush Senior Partner, Industry Consulting Travel & Transportation | Teradata frank.bush@teradata.com 972.971.9702

Perry Cantarutti SVP Alliances | Delta Air Lines perry.cantarutti@delta.com

404.715.2874

612.845.2849

Norman Carlson Board Chairman | Metra normancarlson2021@gmail.com

847.542.7393

Grace Cerocke VP Finance | Matson Logistics Inc. gcerocke@matson.com 630.203.3552

Satish Chandra Cummins Inc. satish.chandra@cummins.com

812.344.1534

Bob Chappuis General Manager | Uber Freight LLC bob.chappuis@uber.com

312.605.0192

Brandy Christian President & CEO | Port of New Orleans ChristianB@PortNO.com 504.528.3201

Lee Clair Managing Partner | Transportation & Logistics Advisors, LLC lclair@tandla.net 312.961.4403

Vince D’Angelo AVP East Geo Communications & Travel | Teradata Vincent.Dangelo@Teradata.com 631.672.1522

Bill Driegert

Head of Operations & Co-founder | Uber Freight driegert@uber.com 214.966.3366

Toby Enqvist United Airlines, Inc. toby.enqvist@united.com 872.852.7709

Sean Fahey EVP, Head of Freight Management | Capstone Logistics Sean.Fahey@capstonelogistics.com 847.372.7278

Ed Feeley Managing Director | Littlejohn & Co. LLC efeeley@littlejohnllc.com 203.552.3520 203.253.3187

John Fitzgerald VP Business Development | project44 630.373.4983

Mark Fornasiero Managing Partner | Clarendon Group mfornasiero@clarendongrp.com 301.990.3912

Andrew Fox Managing Director | Overland Limited Associates Inc. afox905@comcast.net 312.324.7360

Craig Fuller CEO & Founder | FreightWaves cfuller@freightwaves.com 423.503.3296

Michelle Dilley CEO | AWESOME michelle.dilley@awesomeleaders.org 269.277.3593

Eli Gross Managing Director | Head of Global Transportation & Infrastructure | Morgan Stanley eli.gross@morganstanley.com

212.761.8193

Ankit Gupta Airlines, Inc. ankit.gupta@united.com

872.825.2273

312.343.6322

Michelle Halkerston President & CEO | Hassett Logistics michelle.halkerston@teamhassett.com

630.530.6515

630.880.6578

Ed Hamberger former President & CEO | AAR edhamberger@gmail.com

202.297.6131

Rob Hart Senior Consultant | AllTranstek LLC rwh55@mac.com

312.316.7465

Brad Hicks Executive Vice President of People, President of Highway Services | J.B. Hunt Transport Bradley.Hicks@jbhunt.com

479.820.7501

David Horwitz VP & Executive Director | Fleet Portfolio Management | GATX Corporation david.horwitz@gatx.com

312.621.6563

312.882.4852

Matt Igoe Railway Co. matthew.igoe@bnsf.com

Adam Inselbuch Managing Director | South Street Ventures, LLC inselbuch@southstreetventures.com 917.727.5568

Ian Jefferies President & CEO | AAR - Association of American Railroads ijefferies@aar.org (202) 639-2100

Ed Jenkins Principal | Strategy & Logistics Consulting edjenkins58@icloud.com 904.629.3288

Regg Jones Founder & Managing Partner | Greenbriar Equity Group rjones@greenbriarequity.com 914.925.9688 203.979.0410

Larry Jordan CEO & Founder | Wi-Tronix lawrence.b.jordan@wi-tronix.com

Gary Kaufman gary.kaufman@wi-tronix.com 630.679.9927 ext. 424 847.877.8857

Peeter Kivestu Principal | Oplytix LLC peeter@oplytix.com 612.310.2297

Jan Krems President | United Cargo | United Airlines, Inc. jan.krems@united.com

872.825.3125

Suresh Krishna President & CEO | Northern Tool + Equipment suresh.kirshna@northerntool.com

763.234.2473

H. Merritt Lane, III President & CEO | Canal Barge mlane@canalbarge.com 504.584.1512

John Larkin Operating Partner | Clarendon Group LLC jlarkin@clarendongrp.com 301.337.2700 x702

Danny Loe President, Asset-Light Logistics and Chief dannyloe@arcb.com

Charles Lounsbury Former SVP | Ryder System chucklou@aol.com

612.819.8141

Regis Luther VP, Engineering & CTO | AM General LLC regis.luther@amgeneral.com 630.352.8471

Robert Martínez Senior Advisor for Freight and Economic Development | Moffatt & Nichol rmartinez@moffattnichol.com

757.630.2172

Jett McCandless CEO | project44 jett@project44.com 312.376.8883

Benjamin McLean CEO Ruan Transportation Management Systems bmclean@ruan.com 515.245.2594

Shawn McWhorter President (Americas Region) | Nippon Cargo Airlines shawn.mcwhorter@nca.aero 773.894.8201 347.203.5238

Gregg Mitchell Trinity Industries, Inc. gregg.mitchell@trin.net 214.589.8360 214.519.1344

Matthew Mullarkey SVP | Strategic Projects & Planning | CenterPoint Properties mmullarkey@centerpoint.com 630.586.8071 630.707.4982

Ben Nimmergut VP, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Engineering | Boeing Benjamin.K.Nimmergut@boeing.com 425.750.9112

Patrick Nolan VP North America | CH Robinson pat.nolan@chrobinson.com 800.334.8789 x1192 312.286.3431

Elsey Ocejo Director, Supply Chain Strategy | ILLES Foods ElseyOcejo@gmail.com

224.935.6259

Mike O’Malley SVP Government & Public Relations | DCLI – Direct Chassis Link, Inc. mike.omalley@dcli.com 904.314.2152

Aurelio Pérez Alonso Associate Director & CFO | Mobility ADO aureliop@grupoado.com.mx 52.555.133.2575

Jamie Peters VP - Intermodal Excellence | jamiepeters@up.com 402.544.5699

Craig Philip Research Professor & Director | VECTOR | Vanderbilt craig.e.philip@vanderbilt.edu 615.812.0300

Chris Pickett

312.835.3579

Robert Puentes President & CEO | Eno Center for Transportation rpuentes@enotrans.com

202.879.4711

202.415.1073

Cherilyn Radbourne Managing Director Equity Research | TD Securities Inc. cherilyn.radbourne@tdsecurities.com 416.308.3403

416.666.0348

Priya Rajagopalan priya@fourkites.com

James Rankin CEO | West Star Aviation jrank2004@aol.com 503.678.1222 920.475.3285

Jean Regan President CEO & Chairman | TranzAct Technologies, Inc. reganjean@tranzact.com 630.530.6191 708.751.9830

Steven Rothberg Founding Partner | Mercator International, LLC srothberg@mercatorintl.com 425.803.9876 425.503.6688

Jennifer Rumsey President & CEO | Cummins Inc. jennifer.rumsey@cummins.com

James Runde Special Advisor | Morgan Stanley jim.runde@morganstanley.com 212.761.8449

Thomas Sanderson Director | Product Marketing, 777, 787, & thomas.d.sanderson@boeing.com 206.259.1623

Andrew Schmidt Managing Director | Seabury Capital LLC aschmidt@seaburycapital.com 312.303.0800

Paul Schneider Managing Director | Schneider paulschneider@schneiderpe.com 920.403.7824 920.246.9865

Gene Seroka Executive Director | Port of Los Angeles gene_seroka@portla.org 310.732.7678

Jonathan Shaver Founder and COO | StrategIQ Commerce

Jonathan.Shaver@StrategIQCommerce.com 312.324.DATA 312.399.2830

Jeff Silver CEO | Mastery Logistics Systems silvjef@hotmail.com 847.235.8201 847.710.5988

Omar Singh President | Surge Transportation omar.singh@surgetransportation.com 571.350.3958 540.532.5579

Kathleen Smith Vice President Business Development and Real Estate | Norfolk Southern Corporation Kathleen.Smith@nscorp.com 757.876.1529

Chris Spear President & CEO American Trucking Associations cspear@trucking.org 703.838.1840 980.230.9115

Jo Strang SVP Safety, Regulatory and Environmental | American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) jstrang@aslrra.org 202.585.3432

Andy Sze Managing Director & Partner | Fastraxx Group LLC ahfsze@gmail.com 630.697.1728

Jeffrey Tallman VP Operations Planning and Engineering | FedEx Express jptallman@fedex.com 901.434.2018

Rick Tomcho President | Capstone Logistics rick.tomcho@capstonelogistics.com 770.414.1929

Doug Waggoner Chairman & CEO | Echo Global Logistics doug@echo.com 312.676.2700 800.354.7993

Daniel Washam SVP & Corporate Banking Relationship Manager | US Bancorp / US Bank daniel.washam@usbank.com

612. 303.9952

612.757.7355

Tomeka Watson-Bryant General Manager | New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, Port of New Orleans tomeka.bryant@railnola.com 504.896.7410

Thomas Wells President & CEO | TTX thomas.wells@ttx.com 312.984.3833

Barbara Wilson Principal | Hill Road Capital bww415@gmail.com 415.609.9811

Loli Wu Managing Director | Head of Global Transportation & Infrastructure | Bank of America Merrill Lynch loli.wu@bofa.com 646.855.4571 646.244.7442

James Zubik VP, Finance & Administration | Anacostia Rail Holdings Co. jzubik@anacostia.com 312.324.7363

Justin Zubrod Sr. Managing Partner | Justin Zubrod & Co. jzubrod@zubrodco.com

847.886.4401

224.659.2646

AAR - Association of American Railroads

ArcBest Corporation

AM General LLC

Anacostia Rail Holdings Company

ASLRRA – American Short Line Railroad Association

ATA - American Trucking Associations

AWESOME

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

ATA - American Trucking Associations

AWESOME

Bank of America

BNSF Railway

The Boeing Company

Boyle Transportation

C&K Holdings Acquisition LLC

Canal Barge

Capstone Logistics

CenterPoint Properties

CN - Canadian National Railway Company

CP - Canadian Pacific Railway

Coyote, A UPS Company

CSCMP

CSX Transportation

Cummins Inc.

DCLI

Delta Air Lines

Echo Global Logistics

Eno Center for Transportation

FedEx Express

GATX Corporation

Greenbriar Equity Group LP

Grupo ADO

Hassett Logistics

JP Morgan

Littlejohn & Co. LLC

Mastery Logistics Systems

Matson Logistics Inc.

Mercator International LLC

Merchants Fleet

Member Companies

Morgan Stanley

NCA - Nippon Cargo Airlines

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Northern Tool + Equipment

Oliver Wyman

OmniTRAX Inc.

Port of Los Angeles

Port of New Orleans

Project44

Ruan Transportation Management Systems

Schneider

Seabury Capital LLC

Spireon

StrategIQ Commerce

Surge Transportation

TD Securities

Teradata

TranzAct Technologies Inc.

Trinity Industries Inc.

TTX

Uber Freight

UITP - Union Internationale des Transports Publics

Union Pacific Railroad

United Airlines

UPS

US Bancorp / US Bank

Wi-Tronix

NUTC RESEARCH PROJECTS

New Kind of Experiment and Theory to Determine the Effect of Crack-Parallel Stresses on Fracture of Concrete and Similar Materials

National Science Foundation

Bazant, Zdenek

Enabling Predictive Scale-Bridging Simulations through Active Learning

Triad National Security, Lost Alamos National Laboratory, National Nuclear Security Administration

Bazant, Zdenek

HDR DSC: Collaborative Research: The Metropolitan Chicago Data Science Corps (MCDC): Learning from Data to Support Communities

National Science Foundation

Blomberg Stathopoulos, Amanda; Gray, Kimberly

Models and Policy Tools for Emerging Transportation Services: Promoting Socially Inclusive Outcomes

Federal Highway Administration

Blomberg Stathopoulos, Amanda

CAREER: Transformative Mobility Analysis: Mixed Methods Framework

National Science Foundation

Blomberg Stathopoulos, Amanda

Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: On the Criticality of the Submarine Cable Network

National Science Foundation

Bustamante, Fabian

National Science Foundation

Bustamante, Fabian

Multidimensional Network Analysis for Data-Driven Vehicle Preference Modeling and Segmentation Prediction: Extension to Spatiotemporal Modeling of Diffusion Pattern in China Auto Market

Ford Motor Company

Chen, Wei

NRI: Shape-Based Remote Manipulation

National Science Foundation

Colgate, Edward

Collaborative Research: TouchBots for Surface Haptics

National Science Foundation

Colgate, Edward

CREWS: Crew Recommender for Effective Work in Space

NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Contractor, Noshir

The Next Normal for Teaming: Transitioning Out of COVID-19

National Science Foundation

Contractor, Noshir

Natural Experiments with Online Games: Support, Impact and Mitigation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Science Foundation

Contractor, Noshir

Teaming in the Time of COVID-19: Understanding How Technology Affordances Can Enable Collaboration During Sudden Workplace Disruption

National Science Foundation

Contractor, Noshir

Diversity, Impact, and Potential of Teams

National Science Foundation

Contractor, Noshir

The Signatures of Success in Human-Agent Teams

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Contractor, Noshir

SCHNEIDER: System for Counterfactual Human Network Evaluation of Individual Differences, Errors, and Residuals

Smart Information Flow Technologies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Contractor, Noshir

Collaborative Research: Innovation in Sustainable Mass Timber Building Systems

National Science Foundation

Corr, David; Cusatis, G.

Optimizing Bridge Abutment Slope Protection at Stream Crossing

Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

Cusatis, Gianluca

HCC: Visual Processing Capacity in Dynamic Data

National Science Foundation

Franconeri, Steven

CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Empirically Validated Perceptual Tasks for Data Visualization

National Science Foundation

Franconeri, Steven

The Industry Origins of Slow U.S. Productivity Growth

Smith Richardson Foundation

Gordon, Robert

Designing Sustainable & Just Communities: Developing an Undergraduate Curriculum Around Innovation, Climate Action and Social Justice

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, Inc.

Gray, Kimberly; Blomberg Stathopoulos, A.; Corr, D.; Cusatis, G.; Durango-Cohen, P.; Youn, Hyejin

Future Innovations in Embassy Planning, Design, Construction & Operation

Krueck & Sexton Architects, LTD; Department of State

Gray, Kimberly; Blomberg Stathopoulos, A.; Corr, David; Cusatis, Gianluca; Nie, Yu

LEAP-HI: Catalyzing Resilient Urban Infrastructure Systems: Integrating the Natural and Built Environments

National Science Foundation

Gray, Kimberly

HDR TRIPODS: Collaborative Research: Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms and Learning

National Science Foundation

Horowitz, Joel

CRII CHS Early Detection of Collective Misconceptions with Network Aware Machine Learning Tools

National Science Foundation

Horvat, Emoke-Agnes

Collaborative Research:HCC:Small: Science communication in the ecosystem of digital media platforms

National Science Foundation

Horvat, Emoke-Agnes

Decision Flow Queueing Networks for Analysis of Knowledge Based Service Operations Systems

National Science Foundation

Iravani, Seyed

Comprehensive AI Architecture: One Model Fits Many Data Sources and Tasks

Allstate Insurance Company

Klabjan, Diego

Which cities will thrive in the next normal?

Cintra US Services

Mahmassani, Hani S

LOCOMOTIVES: Lowering CO2 – Models to Optimize Train Infrastructure, Vehicles, and Energy Storage

Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy

Mahmassani, Hani S.; Durango-Cohen, P.

NSF RAPID - Tracking and Deconstructing Covid 19 Vaccine as an Extreme Logistics

Event

National Science Foundation

Mahmassani, Hani S; Smilowitz, Karen

Tier I Center on TELEMOBILITY

Department of Transportation

Mahmassani, Hani S; Smilowitz, Karen; Blomberg Stathopoulos, Amanda; Sunil, Chopra; Yu, Nie; Durango-Cohen,Pablo; Schofer, Joseph; Shaheen, Susan (UC Berkeley); Walker, Joan (UC Berkeley); Stamatopoulos, Ioannis (UT Austin)

Advisory Services for MAG ABM-DTA Integration - Phase II MAG Project

Arizona State University, Maricopa Association of Governments

Mahmassani, Hani S

Third Generation Simulation (TGSim) Data: A Closer Look at the Impacts of Automated Driving Systems on Human Behavior

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Federal Highway Administration

Mahmassani, Hani S

Illinois, a Leader in Mobility 4.0 and Beyond

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Department of Transportation

Mahmassani, Hani S

Advancing Air Mobility in Illinois

Illinois Department of Transportation

Mahmassani, Hani S

Analysis of Metra Rail Commuter Service Contraction Impact on Regional Mobility Using Integrated Multimodal Network Modeling Platform

Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation

Mahmassani, Hani S

Inter Modal Analytics for Green Infrastructure Network Energy Decarbonization (IMAGINED) pending.

Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy

Mahmassani, Hani S

Redesigning Multimodal Transit Systems with Shared Fleet Mobility (SFMS) (SP00)

U Chicago-Argonne Laboratories,

Mahmassani, Hani S

SHRP2 L38 Travel Time Reliability

Leidos, Department of Transportation

Mahmassani, Hani S

CSP Real-time Operations Optimization Software

Alliance for Sustaining Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy

Morton, David

UT Austin Vaccines Planning Tool: COVID-19 Modeling Accelerator (CMA)

University of Texas at Austin, John Hopkins University

Morton, David

Value-focused Robust Optimization for Disaster Response

Arizona State University, Department of Homeland Security

Morton, David

Collaborative Research: Adaptive Gaussian Markov Random Fields for Large-scale Discrete Optimization via Simulation

National Science Foundation

Nelson, Barry

Mobility as a Service Network Optimization via Simulation

General Motors Corporation LLC

Nelson, Barry

National Science Foundation

Nie, Yu; Wang, Z.

SCC-PG: Improving Healthcare Access in Marginalized Communities Through Smart Connected Technologies

National Science Foundation

Nie, Yu; Blomberg Stathopoulos, A.; Zhu, Q.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: An Autonomous Modular Vehicle Technology-based Multifaceted Mobility Service Paradigm – A Proof-of-Concept Study

National Science Foundation

Nie, Yu

Rethink Ride-hail: from Understanding Limits to Reaching Full Potential

National Science Foundation

Nie, Yu

PFI BIC Smart CROwdsourced Urban Delivery (CROUD) System

National Science Foundation

Nie, Yu; co-PI Blomberg Stathopoulos, Amanda

Alterations of Sleep and Circadian Timing in Aging

National Institute on Aging

Reid, Kathryn

Effect of Sleeping Place on Objective and Subjective Sleep Quality

Technogel Italia S.r.l

Reid, Kathryn

Improving Veterans Referrals by Optimizing Network Design in Response to COVID-19

Smilowitz, Karen

EAGER ISN: Unraveling Illicit Supply Chains with a Citizen Science Approach

University of Notre Dame, National Science Foundation

Smilowitz, Karen

Exploiting Network Structure in Routing Problems: Applications to School Bus Routing

National Science Foundation

Smilowitz, Karen

PFI: AIR-TT SAFE (Situational Awareness for Events): A Data Visualization System

National Science Foundation

Smilowitz, Karen

Alterations of Sleep and Circadian Timing in Aging

National Institute on Aging

Turek, Fred

Mechanisms Underlying Sleep Disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease

U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command

Turek, Fred

Multi-System Physiology

NASA Ames Research Center

Turek, Fred

Team Dynamics, Networks and Assembly (Team DNA)

University of California at Los Angeles, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Uzzi, Brian; Contractor, N.

QUANTA Quantitative Network-based Models of Adaptive Team Behavior

Uzzi, Brian

Development of Instruments and Techniques that Can Assess Tire Life and Increase

Re-Manufacturing of Commercial Vehicle Tires

Michelin North America, Department of Energy

Wei, Chen

Integration of ICME Tools in Casting Design and Process Optimization for Intelligent Manufacturing

American Foundry Societym Inc., Defense Logistics Agency

Wei, Chen

Operator 4.0 via Fatigue and Motion Analyses in Human Digital Twin Enabled Framework for Smart Manufacturing

UI Labs, Picatinny Center for Contracting and Commerce

Zhu, Qi

CPS: Medium: Batteryless Sensor Enabling Smart Green Infrastructure

National Science Foundation

Zhu, Qi

S&AS: INT: Autonomous Multi-Robot Visual Monitoring for Urban, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Management

University of California, Riverside, National Science Foundation

Zhu, Qi

CPS: Synergy: Securing the Timing of Cyber-Physical Systems

National Science Foundation

Zhu, Qi

NUTC STAFF & EVENTS

HANI S. MAHMASSANI

Director

masmah@northwestern.edu

847.491.2282

BRETON JOHNSON

Senior Associate Director

bretj@northwestern.edu

847.491.2194

ANDREA CEHAIC

Assistant Director

andrea.cehaic@northwestern.edu

847.491.2280

TORENE HARVIN

Senior Program Coordinator

torene.harvin@northwestern.edu

847.491.2787

MARINKO KULJANIN

Financial Assistant

mrinko.kuljanin @northwestern.edu

847 491 2275

NAN NICHOLS

Associate Research Administrator

Nan. Nichols @northwestern.edu

847 491 2276

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTER

600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL

847.491.7287

tcinfo@northwestern.edu

transportation.northwestern.edu

About the Business Advisory Council

Unequaled by any academic transportation advisory board in the country, the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) Business Advisory Council (BAC) has long been a major force behind the Center’s success. The BAC is structured through four distinct levels of membership: Leadership, Sustaining, Individual, and research, education, and outreach initiatives.

All BAC members enjoy access to Northwestern’s world-class faculty, opportunities for networking with industry peers, invitations to and involvement in special programs and events, insights into cutting-edge research and industry trends, discounted tuition fees for the Center’s Executive Education Series, and access to Northwestern’s bright student population and renowned Transportation Library.

The BAC meets twice yearly on the Evanston campus to foster an exchange of ideas among its members and Center faculty, staff, and students. The meetings are designed to explore the areas of interest and relevance to BAC member companies. Each meeting features working sessions, panel discussions, and speaker presentations, as well as opportunities for more informal networking and exchange.

About the Transportation Center

For the last six decades, the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) has proudly conducted research, provided education and performed outreach for 600 Foster Street | Evanston, Illinois 60208

847.491.7287 | tcinfo@northwestern.edu

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