Ryder System and the world-renowned researchers in transportation and mobility at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech are set to produce the industry’s first data-driven study on the impact of autonomous trucking. The groups sought to understand how to approach autonomy and the potential return on investment and the end result, they believe, is a roadmap to commercialization based on real-world data and a significant cost-savings.
“I’ve worked on a lot of different transportation problems in the past, and if you have 1% improvement that’s magic,” says Pascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and professor and associate chair for innovation and entrepreneurship at ISyE. “Here we’re talking about 29-40%, so it’s massive. It’s really massive.”
