Global Transport and Logistics Research Group

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GTL stands for Global Transport and Logistics research group. We aim to be the research structure to go to nationally and even internationally.

Global Transport and Logistics group provide a unique opportunity for academics to collaborate and reduce meaningful outcome for industry to work together and a single platform.

If you wanted to have that change and impact on the industry, we need to be engaged with them. We need to work with them and see what are their issues, what are their challenges? 

They're fighting from the research that we have been conducting actually touch every aspect of our daily life.

So because those practical solutions will benefit the industry, different stakeholders and the whole community. 

The purpose of research is to create knowledge, and also to share that knowledge. So any group like ours, creates impact by bringing together the various research stakeholders. You bring all these interests together, you analyze the issues, and then you share this out in a way that creates policy, and industry and strategy impact. 

My research is about application of special technologies such as GIS and GPS in modeling logistic systems. For example, a model can help predict the likely impact of events such as Covid-19 and be able to eliminate the potential destruction caused by such significant events of global scale.

Supported by the research group we have now set up a global research network and produces solutions to significant industry problems. 

In the GTL research group, I'm the leader of gender matters in transport research team. In this research team, we focus on the workplace gender equality issues, and we investigate the challenges and barriers that the sector and the organizations are facing with in terms of increasing their women participation.

We need to continue the research and see how we can provide a better environment for women to drive in the transport sector. 

I'm Dr. Sofia Dunn. I'm the same co-leader of smart-mobility scene in the GTL group. I always love different technologies, I've got an engineering background and I would like to see how those technologies can be used to drive the organizational change and to have an impact on the individuals. For example in 10 years time Brisbane is going to hold the Olympic games. So it's very important for them to build those smart-mobility systems. I believe that there is a high value in working with the industry to co-generate some practical solutions. 

So I'm passionate about using my research to inform policy change to have impact on organization, individuals and society. 

So, my name is Evan Thai and I'm the team leader of Maritime Logistics within GTL.

Recently, we have been conducting research on supply chain disruption. In Australia more than 99% of foreign trade, are actually conducted by sea. The finding from the research that we have been conducting to actually mitigate the negative impact of certain event in the future touch every aspect of our daily life.

We have always been very proud to say that we have a big group of logistic and Supply Chain management professional in Australia. 

In addition to being the director of the GTL group, I'm also the team leader for technology transformation and future work. The focus of the research team is the ways in which technologies have changed, so transport technologies, how they have changed over time and how this change has impacted upon the workforce. 

I cannot really overstate the significance of the research that I do and my colleagues do because the workforce that Australia develops is what forms the basis for the success of Australia as an economy going forward. 

Bringing like-minded academics to work together under a single umbrella produces solutions to significant industry problems. 

Without having this significant and sufficient research in any problem, we cannot provide solutions to those issues. That's why it's really important to have these type of research centers and research activities. 

So I'm passionate about using my research to inform the policy change to have impact on organization individuals and society.

It helps us to understand where we've come from, where we are going, and how we should get there. To impact on outcomes, economic, social and environmental. That's what excites me..

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