Hyperconnected Transportation Systems

  • Overview
  • Course Content
  • Requirements & Materials
Overview

Hyperconnected Transportation Systems

Course Description

This course explores how the Physical Internet (PI) revolutionizes the movement of goods across cities, regions, continents, and beyond. Learn how PI shifts from siloed, dedicated systems to interconnected, multiparty, synchromodal networks using relay-based, hub-consolidated, modular containerized transport. Participants will also discover how advanced hubs, standardized protocols, and smart planning that enables efficient, resilient, and sustainable freight and parcel movement in a hyperconnected world.

Course Content
  1. How Physical Internet principles apply to transportation systems
    • Describe how modularization, relay-based flows, and hub consolidation transform goods movement.
    • Distinguish PI-based transportation from traditional models (e.g., direct shipment, hub-and-spoke).
  2. Analysis of synchromodal and multiparty transportation strategies
    • Understand how multiple transportation modes and providers dynamically collaborate.
    • Explore the role of shared infrastructure and open-access logistics hubs.
  3. Design and evaluation of hyperconnected transport systems
    • Apply protocol-based operations to transportation planning.
    • Understand requirements for smart containers, tracking, and routing.
  4. Assessment of the benefits and challenges of implementation
    • Identify improvements in cost, sustainability, resilience, and collaboration.
    • Recognize the technical and organizational barriers to shifting toward PI-based transportation.
Requirements & Materials

Prerequisites

RECOMMENDED:

  • A background in transportation, logistics, or supply chain management; industrial or systems engineering; or infrastructure planning or mobility strategy
  • Experience working in or with freight networks, transport planning, or supply chain operations
  • Comfort with analytical thinking, systems design, and basic network concepts

Materials

REQUIRED (Student must provide):

  • Computer with stable Internet access, basic productivity tools (e.g., PowerPoint or Google Slides for presentations and Excel or a similar tool for data-based exercise), and collaboration tools (e.g., Zoom or Teams)

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for transportation managers and planners, freight network designers and optimization analysts, logistics infrastructure specialists, and supply chain engineers and systems designers. Professionals working with sustainable or intelligent transportation systems, urban freight or regional logistics in the public sector, or multimodal or cross-border transportation projects will also benefit.

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What You Will Learn

  • Transformation of goods movement across all scales​
  • Shift to synchromodal, relay-based, modular containerized transport
  • Design and operation of hyperconnected transportation systems​
  • Utilization of logistic hubs for multi-party and multimodal consolidation​
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How You Will Benefit

  • Gain a future-ready understanding of freight transportation systems in the Physical Internet era.
  • Learn how to optimize transportation strategies using modularization, consolidation, and relay-based planning.
  • Understand how to improve resilience and reduce environmental impact through smarter, shared networks.
  • Build knowledge applicable across regions and industries — from urban delivery to global freight.
  • Earn a Georgia Tech credential that signals expertise in next-generation logistics and infrastructure.
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