A UPS Story: Insights into the day-to-day of last mile drivers

Jan 30, 2019 | Projects, Research, Staff Stories

October 25th, 2018. 7h47. I have just locked my bicycle to a “no parking here” pole located in an industrial area just outside Boston and make my way towards the Somerville United Parcel Services (UPS) sorting facility. Dr. Matthias Winkenbach and I are...

Future Urban Mobility Symposium, 2015

Jul 11, 2015 | Events, Projects, Publications

This is the annual Future Urban Mobility Symposium, organized by the Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center. The two-day Symposium, featuring contributions from researchers at SMART, MIT, NTU, NUS, and...

MIT MLL partners with Monterrey Tech to explore urban freight solutions in Mexico City neighborhoods

Jul 3, 2015 | Projects

The MIT Megacity Logistics Lab is partnering with Monterrey Tech Campus Santa Fé to explore sustainable urban freight solutions in the Azcapotzalco area in Mexico City. The research methodology devised for this project combines state-of-the art logistics data...

Research grant awarded for urban freight research in Quito

Jun 20, 2015 | Projects

  Daniel Merchán, graduate student at the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab, was awarded a research grant by Instituto de la Ciudad to continue his research work on urban logistics in Quito. This project will add another case study to the Better Cities for...

Looking for Postdoc to work on Big Data in City Logistics

Mar 10, 2015 | Projects

We are actively looking for candidates to fill a postdoctoral position for the modeling and analysis of urban logistics systems through large data sets created by GPS, cellphone and transactional data of company operations, combined with human generated activity (e.g....

GPS data for logistics

Aug 14, 2014 | Projects

The Megacity Logistics Lab launched Compass, a web-based technology for visualizing and analyzing GPS traces of freight vehicles.