2010 September
13.
The Cunningham
Report runs a full length article on MeTrIS.
2010 June 30.
The NCRST-MeTrIS research project
ended
on June 30. About 250 trucks, representing 12 motor carriers,
participated. Optimization models predicted (a) a reduction of 4,500
port entries and 50 tons in CO2 emissions per day, and (b) a
15% improvement in stack handling efficiency. The Executive Summary is
now available at Project Overview. The
remainder of the final report will be
posted here in due course.
2009
December 18.
Co-Principal Investigator Rick
Church elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS)
2009
October 23.
The Journal
of Commerce runs an article on MeTrIS.
2009
March 24.
Co-Principal Investigator Rick
Church elected Fellow of the Regional Science Association International
(RSAI)
2008 October 1. Our first modeling results are
in,
and they exceed all expectations. It has been shown that MeTrIS
tracking and optimization modeling can achieve (a)
a 25% reduction of traffic on I-710, and (b) a 25-50% reduction in
stack
rehandles at port terminals. For further information see the progress
update at metris.us.
Scientific papers detailing these results are being prepared.
2008
July 1. Commemorating the end of our first
year, we are pleased to announce that USDOT has funded an expansion of
the
MeTrIS project to
track the drayage fleet serving the
ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
2008 March 14. MeTrIS tracking devices
have been tested successfully, and nearly 20 truck-months of data have
been compiled. We are beginning “production” mode installations. Maps
and
charts of sample analyses are hosted at metris.us
Data modeling and optimization modeling are proceeding on
schedule.
2007
August 21. The first
operational MeTrIS
tracking device was
installed this afternoon in a port drayage truck (confidentiality
provisions prohibit disclosure of the motor carrier or driver details).
2007 July 25. Principal
Investigator Mike
Goodchild has been awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud, regarded by many as
Geography’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The presentation is to be on
October 4 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France. Details.
Separately, Mike and our long time Steering Committee member Don Cooke
are both to be inducted into the URISA Hall of Fame at the
August 20-23 URISA annual conference.
2007
July 13. The U.S. Department of Transportation
has
re-started the NCRST program, creating 7 national university-led
consortia to develop applications of space-based technologies in
transportation (details). The Freight
Congestion Mitigation research agenda on this site, centered on MeTrIS,
reflects the new direction of the program. In the previous round of
NCRST, the UCSB-based Consortium focused on Infrastructure Management.