Opportunities for Collaboration: Concluding Observations

摘要

Robert E. Skinner, Jr., kicked off the final session of the symposium with two questions: 1. Do we need to have more interaction among researchers? 2. Do we need institutional collaboration? Lance Grenzeback said he heard two themes on which there was interesting research to be done. He noticed two cultures: an academic culture and a private-firm culture. Academics are interested in network analysis and in the system-the average truck flow, not the individual trip-but private firms consider trip-level data to be important. He noted that in the successful projects mentioned, such as the Binnenstadservice and Holguin-Veras's off-hour delivery project in New York City, the project planners brought together people from the academic and private sectors, as well as people representing the political view. Painting a picture of the structure and dynamics of those academia-industry-policy partnerships would be interesting.