Australian Centre for Integrated Freight Systems Management

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Australian Centre for Integrated Freight Systems
Management

• A long tradition of managing single transport
  modes and modal systems and setting targets on
  the efficiency of stand-alone logistics
  operations have set in place a culture that
  'disintegrates' rather than integrates our
  freight and supply chain systems.The freight
  industry is in desperate need of new ways of
  thinking and new ways of dealing with the
  challenges of fully integrating business
  processes across often extended and complex chain
  systems.The Centre's unique 'integrating'
  perspective, its high level research capability
  and its teaching and executive development
  programs will provide the basis for assistance to
  proactive managers, corporate executives,
  planners and decision-makers as they seek to deal
  more effectively with pressing industry
  issues.The Centre draws on the exceptional
  resources of the second oldest University in
  Australia, the University of Melbourne, and the
  School of Enterprise to create an outstanding
  national focus for research and teaching in
  freight systems design and management.The
  Centre is a major initiative of the School of
  Enterprise, The University of Melbourne and
  incorporates and builds upon an earlier but
  continuing focus on freight and logistics in the
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  at the University of Melbourne and on an emerging
  research and teaching framework in integrated
  freight systems.It seeks to understand the
  structuring of chain systems, and their dynamics,
  power and performance to understand value
  capture and value delivery in chain systems by
  third party service providers and to find
  effective ways and means of achieving
  value-driven, fully integrated, end-to-end
  freight systems on a sustainable basis.

Centre objectives The Centre's focus and
perspective is the integration, integrity and
robustness of chains and supply chains and the
role and business success of third party service
providers as key players in chain systems within
efficient and equitable policy environments.Its
strategic intent is to be a leading national and
international focus of research and teaching in
integrated freight systems and in chain and
supply chain systems integrity.It has strong
links to industry to ensure relevance of research
and teaching and is proud of its close
association with leading edge industry players. 
It is convinced also of the critical need for
effective policy environments and of
understanding the private/public sector
interface.
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Education and Training

• The Centre is committed to the development of
  innovative, industry-relevant and analytically
  rigorous teaching programs.  These programs are
  often taught in off-campus locations in flexible
  modes and offered to participants nation-wide and
  internationally.  The current teaching locations
  are indicated below.  The Centre teaches both
  Award (degrees, diplomas) and Non-Award Programs
  (executive development programs, specialist
  programs).
• Award Programs
• The Integrated Freight Systems Management
  Program is a postgraduate program that
  articulates from a Graduate Certificate, through
  a Graduate Diploma to a Master's Degree. 
  Progression to a PhD or DBA program is available
  for outstanding students. It comprises (Click on
  each to download program brochures)Graduate
  Certificate in Integrated Freight Systems
  Management - taught in BrisbaneGraduate
  Certificate in Bulk Freight Systems Management -
  taught in BrisbaneGraduate Certificate in Urban
  Freight Systems Management -new in 2006 and to be
  taught in MelbourneGraduate Diploma in
  Integrated Freight Systems Management - taught in
  Brisbane, may be provided in other States in the
  futureMaster in Integrated Freight Systems
  Management  Master of Transport
  PolicyInnovative, accredited programs bridging
  the gap between Certificate IV and Advanced
  Diploma levels and articulating into the graduate
  programs are also available through our Centre
  associates.

Corporate and Executive Level Programs Excellence
in operational logistics specialist
programsThe Centre is developing specialist
programs for operational and middle management
personnel using sophisticated simulation-based
learning.  These programs are industry-leading
programs taught over two, three or four days. 
Programs include rail-based bulk operations
landside logistics containerized and road
haulage operations container terminal and
landside operations retail and cold chain
operations and air freight operations. Excellenc
e in senior management leadership programsThe
Centre is also developing national and global
senior leadership programs that will focus on
critical issues - like the ones listed below - in
the freight industry and/or on special areas of
emerging knowledge. It will be team-taught by
leading researchers and outstanding industry
leaders.
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ACIFSM Academic Personnel

• Professor Ross Robinson
• Executive Director, Australian Centre for
  Integrated Freight Systems ManagementProfessor
  Robinson is Professor and Executive Director of
  the Australian Centre for Integrated Freight
  Systems Management in the School of Enterprise at
  the University of Melbourne.He has held a
  number of senior academic appointments including
  the Foundation Chair in Transport Systems at
  Victoria University, Melbourne, and positions at
  the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in
  Sydney, the Institute of Transport Studies in the
  Graduate School of Business at the University of
  Sydney and from 1986 to 1995 he was Director of
  the Centre for Transport Policy Analysis at the
  University of Wollongong.Professor Robinson was
  a member of the first Port Research team at the
  United Nations Conference on Trade and
  Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva and later directed
  the Port Development Program for the United
  Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
  and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Bangkok. He is
  Regional Advisor of the Journal of Maritime
  Policy and Management, is a Member of the
  International Symposium on Logistics, is a
  Council member and Treasurer of the International
  Association of Maritime Economics and is a Fellow
  of the chartered Institute of Logistics and
  Transport Australia.In 1994 Professor Robinson
  was nominated by UNCTAD as one of the worlds
  leading researchers in port development and
  shipping, in 1996 and again in 1998 he was
  nominated as Supervisor of the Year at the
  University of Sydney and at the Macquarie
  Graduate School of Management respectively, and
  in June 2001 he was awarded the Hanjin Shipping
  Prize for his paper presented at the Hong Kong
  Conference of the International Association of
  Maritime Economists.
• Associate Professor Sophia Everett
• Deputy Executive Director, Australian Centre for
  Integrated Freight Systems ManagementSophia
  Everett is Associate Professor and Deputy
  Executive Director of the Australian Centre for
  Integrated Freight Systems Management in the
  School of Enterprise at the University of
  Melbourne.Dr Everett completed a MA (Hons) and
  a PhD at the University of Wollongong, and a
  Master of Public Policy (Hons) at the University
  of New England. She was awarded a three-year
  Doctorial Fellowship by the NSW Coal Association
  for research into the policy making mechanisms of
  coal transport infrastructure provision and an
  ARC post-doctoral fellowship for research into
  the impact of globalisation of liner shipping. In
  her Master of Public Policy thesis she examined
  in detail the role of the Australian National
  Line and policy problems related to Australian
  flag shipping.Dr Everett has a special research
  interest in government policy making and policy
  processes particularly in relation to coal
  transport infrastructure provision, location and
  efficiency. Associate Professor Everett has
  followed closely governments policy on
  microeconomic reform and in 1995 was the
  recipient of the Australian Chamber of Shipping
  Research Award for Investigation into
  corporatisation and privatisation of Australian
  ports. Since that time she has continued research
  into deregulation with particular reference to
  the rail and the emergence of integrated freight
  networks.Dr Everett was a Senior Research
  Fellow at the Centre for Transport Policy
  Analysis at the University of Wollongong, the
  Associate Director of the Maritime Program at the
  Graduate School of Business at the University of
  Sydney, and delivered jointly the Intermodal
  Systems Management Program at Macquarie Graduate
  School of Management at Macquarie University. She
  is the Manger of the Secretariat and a Council
  Member of the International Association of
  Maritime Economists, a Member of the Institute of
  Public Administration Australia and a Member of
  the Chartered Institute of Logistics and
  Transport in Australia.