In partnership with a Fortune 500 customer, DSC Logistics will pilot the use of AGVs, automated vehicles that travel between destinations without a human operator. At a large plant buffer location that receives product from a manufacturing site via a conveyor belt, the AGVs will travel the length of the facility, pulling product on tugger carts from the conveyor to the storage location.

Laura Adams, Senior Director, Supply Chain Solutions, recently spoke to an undergraduate class at University of Illinois Chicago. In the introductory transportation engineering class taught by Assistant Professor Bo Zou, students are learning about fundamentals in transportation planning, systems analysis and traffic flows.