Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall of IT Limitations on Big Data

Andrew Higgins

Engineering & Technology

The nominating institution Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on the breakthrough: 

TraNSIT Web revolutionises transport infrastructure investments: reducing freight costs, improving supply chain resilience. Using machine learning it cracks IT limitations on big data, modelling >15 million annual freight trips for stakeholders to use in regional infrastructure planning. The Australian Government has used TraNSIT Web for $15B of rail/road projects, saving millions in supply chain costs. Such high impact has rapidly increased demand for TraNSIT Web across Asia, including Vietnam.

 

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science, Food & Agriculture, Mobility & Transportation, Resilience.

Andrew Higgins

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Dr. Andrew Higgins is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Land and Water business unit, based in Brisbane, Australia. He joined CSIRO in 1996, with a passion in developing novel methods to optimise agriculture transport & logistics to increase profitability across the supply chains. He initially developed tools to better manage harvest planning of sugarcane, and improving the harvest/transport logistics to the mill and markets. In 2012, Andrew led the development of TraNSIT. Andrew received his PhD from Queensland University of Technology on the topic of optimising rail freight timetables.

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