Sunday, September 9, 2007

Amazon, FedEx and DayJet???

Michael Trick had an interesting posting last year regarding DayJet's Operations Research...........

My friend and business partner (in sports scheduling), George Nemhauser, read my post on air taxis and wrote to remind me that Georgia Tech worked with DayJet on the optimization issues that are key to the efficient running of their operation. This led me to an USA Today article by Kevin Maney that I had missed on the subject. The article covers the optimization issues very well:

Tech industry veteran Ed Iacobucci seems an improbable guy to start a new kind of airline. It’s like Donald Trump starting a chain of Laundromats, or Tom Cruise marketing an anti-depression drug.

Pretty jarring, in other words.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

More on complexity science, Mike Brown and DayJet's rocket scientists in May 07 Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-flight-plan.html

Anonymous said...

garbage

Anonymous said...

Why do you say that?