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GARLAND CHOW
Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and
Director of the Bureau of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Freight Security Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C

Garland Chow is Associate Professor in the Operations and Logistics Division and Director of the Bureau of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Freight Security (BITSAFS) in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.  Dr. Chow actively teaches and writes in the fields of supply chain, business logistics and freight transport planning, management and policy.

He is an internationally known authority on motor carrier transportation and author of over 200 articles and reports.  Recent research includes: the role of Canadian firms in global supply chains, the relevance of Canada’s labour standards to long distance truck drivers, modelling the supply chains utilizing the Asia Pacific gateway and the modelling of total logistics cost performance.

Since June 2005, he has been the director of BITSAFS.  The Bureau has the mandate to encourage and conduct research on the use of intelligent transportation systems to enable secure, safe and efficient movement across borders. Dr. Chow’s principle research within BITSAFS has been the modelling of the intermodal transport chain across all modes and the use of these models to simulate public policy and IT scenarios. Other BITSAFS projects include vehicle infrastructure integration, the intelligent gateway concept, smart corridors, and securing the marine container supply chain.    

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