{"59942":{"#nid":"59942","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The 2007 Edition of the Great Package Race is Underway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003Ctable width=\u0022220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00227\u0022 cellpadding=\u00220\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreat Package Race is underway. Professor Bartholdi  assists student in stuffing packages.\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, April 13th, Professor Bartholdi\u0027s class contacted UPS, FedEx, and DHL to carry identical packages to contacts in:  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYangon\u003C\/strong\u003E: until recently, capital of Myanmar; formerly known as Rangoon, Burma \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETikrit\u003C\/strong\u003E: administrative center of the province of Salah ad Din, Iraq \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHarare\u003C\/strong\u003E: the capital of Zimbabwe \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlorianopolis\u003C\/strong\u003E: an island off the coast of southern Brazil \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApia\u003C\/strong\u003E, Samoa: in the western pacific \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\n\u003Ctable width=\u0022220\u0022 height=\u0022188\u0022 cellspacing=\u00227\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPackages include GT memorabilia\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E  Sites are chosen based on locations that challenge the business processes of the multinational package carriers. It is remarkable that most packages eventually reach their destinations, even under difficult circumstances, but there have been some dramatic lapses. One package was carried back-and-forth across the Atlantic Ocean nine times before delivery. Another was sent to Costa Rica instead of Croatia. One carrier claimed that the destination country did not exist. (It does.) \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere have been dramatic finishes as well. In 2006, UPS beat DHL to Croatia by 3 minutes. One race ended in a tie when delivery folk from competing companies arrived at the door simultaneously, even though the packages had taken completely different routes to the destination. Technically FedEx made the delivery first, but we gave extra credit to the UPS person for courtesy in holding the door. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jjb\/wh\/package-race\/package-race.html\u0022\u003EFollow the 2007 Package Race here.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-04-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}