AGIFORS 2000 Cargo Study Group Meeting

AGIFORS 2000 Cargo Study Group meeting was held on 13-14 June 2000 in Louisville, Kentucky. Major topics of interest included:

Network and capacity planning
Revenue management
Shipper and forwarder interaction
e-Commerce
Ground/Sorting operation
Cargo strategic alliances

Official Sponsors

United Parcel Service

Sabre Inc.

Meeting Agenda

June 13
07:30 - 08:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
08:30 - 10:30	Introductions and Airline Updates
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00	Cindy Barnhart - Express Shipment Service Design Joe Smith - Operations Benefits of Implementing ADS-B Technology
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch at the Hotel
13:00 - 14:30	David Marshall - Keeping the Titanic Afloat Hossam Zaki - Cargo vs. Passenger Revenue Management
14:30 - 14:45	Coffee break
14:45 - 17:00	Jack Blaisdell - Computer Simulation for Hub 2000 Caleb Technologies - Vendor Presentation
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner Cruise on the Star of Louisville
*June 14*
07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast at the hotel.
08:30 -10:00	Jim Harris - Revenue Management Problem Related to Cargo Ed Kambour - Application of Bayesian Methods to Cargo Forecasting
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00	V Fa-Si-Oen - Simulation Model at KLM Joost Van der Leun - Hub Manpower Performance
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch at the Hotel
13:00 - 13:45	Beju Rao - An O&D based Model for the Cargo Revenue-Mix Optimization
13:45 - 14:00	Coffee break
14:00 - 15:00	Talus - Vendor Demo Sabre - Vendor Demo
15:00 - 15:45	Panel Discussion I - E-Commerce
16:00 - 16:45	Panel Discussion II - Cargo Strategic Alliances
23:00	Nightly Tour of UPS Hub Operations

Attendee List

Organization Attendees

American Airlines Hurt, Laura
Schermerhorn, Rob

British Airways Marshall, David

Caleb Technologies Nick, Robert

Cathay Pacific Kwok, Chiu-tai

Continental Bjorndal, Tomas
Sabom, Katherine

FAA Coleman, Nastaran

KLM Fa-Si-Oen, V.R.C.K.H.
Jansen, Bert
Van der Leun, Joost

MIT Barnhart, Cindy

PROS Revenue Mgmt Kambour, Ed
Savage, Rich

Sabre Murthy, Sowmya
Rao, Beju

SAIC Smith, Joe

Talus Solutions Harris, Jim

Unisys Zaki, Hossam

University of California Smilowitz, Karen

UPS Cheng, Chi-yin
Cornett, Kay
DePuy, Wynand
Doda, Melody
Mitchell, Lee
Neri, Patricia
Nuggehallie, Ranga
Ratkowski, Sue
Ray, Katharina
Ware, Keith
Wilson, Alysia