Data Collection for Urban Atlas

10 MIT undergraduates students attended a training workshop for km2-Urban Logistics Atlas data collection. The students are destined for Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Beijing. This effort is funded by MISTI.

The nanostore

My colleague Jan Fransoo and myself have coined the term nanostore to refer to the wide variety of small shops, owner operated and usually much smaller than convenience stores, that abound in emerging markets, specially in megacities. Some of our ideas on the unique...