Moderator Alan C. McKinnon of Kiihne Logistics University began the open forum by reiterating that the symposium goal was to promote collaborative research between the United States and the EU on city logistics. He recounted that when he was asked to join the symposium planning committee, he looked at several hundred papers on city logistics to see how many were coauthored by a researcher from the United States and a researcher from the EU. He said few such coauthored papers existed, which presented an opportunity to begin such collaboration now. He posed the question, "How can we catalyze better research interaction?"
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机译：Kiihne Logistication大学的主持人Alan C. McKinnon通过重申研讨会目标是促进美国和欧盟在城市物流之间的协同研究。他致辞，当他被要求加入研讨会委员会时，他看着城市物流上的数百篇论文，看看来自美国的研究员和来自欧盟的研究员的共同组织。他说，很少有这样的同义文件存在，这提出了现在开始这样的合作的机会。他提出了这个问题，“我们如何催化更好的研究互动？”
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