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In the early 1990s, this facility could have come in handy for demonstrating the Airlift Deployment Analysis System (ADANS). The system was developed partly by Glen Harrison, Mike Hilliard, Cheng Liu, Ingrid Busch, and Charlie Davis, all of the Center for Transportation Analysis (CTA) in ORNL's Energy Division, and several UT researchers, who are all now working at NTRC's Operations Center. ADANS is a series of scheduling algorithms and tools that enabled the Air Mobility Command of the U.S. Air Force to deploy troops and equipment to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 more rapidly and more efficiently than had been done before. Since then, ADANS has been used for all major U.S. deployments, including Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
ADANS is now being maintained by an Air Force subcontractor. However, Davis and Busch still provide assistance as consultants, and the CTA group still helps with improving the scheduling algorithm.
CTA, which has provided analytical and operational support to the defense transportation community for more than 15 years, will continue to do so at NTRC through its Defense Transportation and Logistics Program. It is developing innovative, practical tools and techniques that will be used to analyze and manage military transportation and logistics systems.
Working with Robert Russell and other staff from UT's Transportation Management and Logistics Program and private consultants, Harrison, Hilliard, Liu, Rekah Pillai, and Angela Sexton (Computational Physics and Engineering Division) are evaluating the Defense Logistic Agency's (DLA) management of its supply chain from cradle to grave. DLA's mission includes managing over four million consumable items and processing 83% of all Department of Defense requisitions.
"If the military forces fight with it, wear it, eat it, burn it as fuel, or otherwise use it, DLA probably provides it and then arranges for its reuse after the consumer no longer needs it," Hilliard says. "We examine the flow of consumables for DLA to see if they can be transported efficiently but at lower cost. Currently, many items are sent across the country by Federal Express or other premium shipping options, which is expensive.
"We look at how the services acquire items by purchasing them from vendors, where they are stored in depots, and how they are distributed to end users. The major storage depots are in California and Pennsylvania, with 20 local depots in between. We are studying the use of third-party logistics providers and information technology, to minimize the cost of storage and transportation of goods."
Another transportation-related logistics project involving the CTA group is the development and testing of the Ohio River Navigation Investment Model for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Each year, more than 260 million tons of cargo move across the 2400 miles of the Ohio River system. The river is economically attractive as an alternative to rail and highway transportation of heavy bulk cargo such as coal, grains, and building materials if travel times are reasonable. However, as travel times increase because of congestion at the river's locks, the additional cost of operating a tow boat and barges cuts into the transportation savings.

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