Michigan Technological University has received $1.2 million from the U.S. Department
                                 of Energy (DOE) to develop a practical tool that will help shipping, rail and trucking
                                 companies develop cohesive logistics for both predictive planning and real-time decisions
                                 that save time, energy and money.
                              
                              Led by Kuilin Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental,
                                 and Geospatial Engineering, the Michigan Tech project is titled “A Decarbonized and
                                 Resilient Intermodal Freight Transportation (DRIFT) Modeling Platform for Intermodal
                                 Logistical Decisions Under Uncertainty.”