{"57671":{"#nid":"57671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"UPS, FedEx Make Comeback in 2008 Georgia Tech Great Package Race","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESupply Chain Digest\u003C\/em\u003E - April 20, 2008 \u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual in the 2008 edition of \u0022The Great Package Race,\u0022 a student project sponsored by The Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech parcel carriers were challenged to deliver packages to some of the most remote or difficult locations in the world. In the 2007 race, DHL came away the clear winner. In 2008, UPS and FedEx made a strong comeback, with nearly identical delivery times to two of the five destinations, although none of the four carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS) thus far have been able to get packages into three other ship-to locations. The students ship four identical packages, one for each carrier, to far flung and often dangerous locations. . . .The students also note that UPS did much better this year in handling packages it deemed undeliverable. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scdigest.com\/assets\/On_Target\/08-04-21-2.php?cid=1626\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scdigest.com\/assets\/On_Target\/08-04-21-2.php?cid=1626 \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-04-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"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":""}}}