{"588701":{"#nid":"588701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2017 Great Package Race","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/john-bartholdi-iii\u0022\u003EDr. John Bartholdi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Manhattan Associates\/Dabbiere Chair and Co-Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center, recently held his \u0026quot;Great Package Race\u0026quot;. The initiative is an informal contest to determine which leading carrier can first deliver a package to a hard-to-reach destination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor 2017, the destination was Namibia, where similiar shipments of books were destined for school children. The occasion was provided by Glynda Ratliff, through her experience with Ultimate Safaris and its support of The Conservation Travel Foundation. To start the race, Bartholdi and his students went online to fill out shipping forms, then took the packages to a nearby branch of Intown Business Center which accepts shipments for UPS, FedEx, and DHL.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jjb\/wh-more\/package-race\/2017\/2017.html\u0022\u003ELearn more about the project and see the final results\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe student project is sponsored by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Find out which carrier won the race..."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. John Bartholdi recently held the race, which involves shipping packages from the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech to a hard-to-reach destination around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Find out which carrier won the race..."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2017-03-13 22:52:50","changed_gmt":"2017-03-14 14:32:41","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588700":{"id":"588700","type":"image","title":"2017 Great Package Race","body":null,"created":"1489445306","gmt_created":"2017-03-13 22:48:26","changed":"1489445806","gmt_changed":"2017-03-13 22:56:46","alt":"Dr. John Bartholdi","file":{"fid":"224366","name":"homepage-gpr_600px.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/homepage-gpr_600px.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/homepage-gpr_600px.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28752,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/homepage-gpr_600px.jpg?itok=7Dc9Uclo"}}},"media_ids":["588700"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jjb\/wh-more\/package-race\/package-race.html","title":" About the Great Package Race and past results"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2007\/05\/01\/global-package-race-puts-major-carriers-test","title":" Global Package Race Puts Major Carriers to the Test"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/delivery-santa","title":" Just how hard is it to deliver a package to Santa Claus?"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/49728","title":"The Great Races"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/50029","title":"First Container Race is Underway"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/john-bartholdi-iii","title":"Profile of John Bartholdi III "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8068","name":"Great package race"},{"id":"172370","name":"John Bartholdi III"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}