The scope of research under the air cargo mode of transportation includes shipment consolidation at origin, air transportation, and shipment sorting at destination.
Planned Tasks
	Determine volumes and value of products moving by air by origin-destination pairs. This includes shipments originating at the Asia-Pacific region, shipments that are destined to that region, or those transshipped at one of the ports in the region.
	Determine shipment flow trends and the impact of economic and political status in countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
	Determine major air cargo shippers, especially those in the Asia-Pacific region, and also major providers of service including carriers, forwarders, and third party logistics providers. Document their needs.
	Investigate processes and key players in the air cargo supply chain, noting differences between integrated carriers like UPS and FedEx and combination carriers like Lufthansa and American Airlines. This work must encompass freight forwarders, airlines, airports, airport authority, and customs.
	Investigate  product  flow  at  the  airports  and handoffs between forwarders and carriers as well as among different carriers. Document bottlenecks and methods for improving the handoff process.
	Investigate improvement of customer service and cycle time reduction through better  booking, shipment  tracking, invoicing, collection  of funds, and on-time deliveries.
	Investigate the use of decision support systems, information technology, and e-commerce  in  air  cargo. Investigate  the status of the "Cargo 2000" project, sponsored  by  combination  carriers  and  forwarders,  that  attempts  to  use information technology to eliminate unnecessary processes and to reduce cycle time.
	Identify follow-up research problems of interest to the industry.
Faculty Staff (NUS)   A/Prof Huang Huei Chuen (Group Coodinator)   Dr Tan Kok Choon   A/Prof Teo Chung Piaw
Research Engineer (NUS)   Goh Keng Huat
Faculty Staff (Georgia-Tech)   Professor Ellis Johnson   Professor George Nemhauser   Dr Joel Sokol