Lab Highlights
Research & Publications
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Regulatory Implications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile Delivery
read more: Regulatory Implications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile DeliveryPublished on MIT DSpace Authors: Farri T. Gaba and Matthias Winkenbach Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Transportation & Logistics,Cambridge, MA 02139, United States Abstract This report examines the legal, regulatory, and societal barriers…
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Quantifying the impact of urban road networks on the efficiency of local trips
read more: Quantifying the impact of urban road networks on the efficiency of local tripsPublication Details Published on Science Direct Authors: DanielMerchán1 MatthiasWinkenbach AndréSnoeck Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States Received 7 December 2018, Revised 9 February 2020, Accepted 19 February 2020, Available online 12 March 2020.…
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Why Last Mile Logistics
read more: Why Last Mile LogisticsDesigning urban logistics operations requires in-depth understanding of consumers and channels combined with high-resolution, data-driven modeling. There are three major drivers of increased complexity of urban logistics networks.
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Configuring the Last-Mile in Business-to-Consumer E-Retailing
read more: Configuring the Last-Mile in Business-to-Consumer E-RetailingDr. Matthias Winkenbach Director of MIT CTL’s Megacity Logistics Lab, and Stanley Frederick Lim, PMP, recently wrote an article examining how retailers operate and have reconfigured their last-mile distribution to cope with changing omnichannel…
News & Updates
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Regulatory Implications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile Delivery
read more: Regulatory Implications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Last-Mile DeliveryPublished on MIT DSpace Authors: Farri T. Gaba and Matthias Winkenbach Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Transportation & Logistics,Cambridge, MA 02139, United States Abstract This report examines the legal, regulatory, and societal barriers…
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Why Last Mile Logistics
read more: Why Last Mile LogisticsDesigning urban logistics operations requires in-depth understanding of consumers and channels combined with high-resolution, data-driven modeling. There are three major drivers of increased complexity of urban logistics networks.
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A UPS Story: Insights into the day-to-day of last mile drivers
read more: A UPS Story: Insights into the day-to-day of last mile driversOctober 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…
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Podcast: Can We Solve the Last-Mile Delivery Puzzle?
read more: Podcast: Can We Solve the Last-Mile Delivery Puzzle?As part of the Moving Urban Logistics Forward podcast series, Megacities Logistics Lab Director Matthias Winkenbach provides his perspective on the future of Last Mile Logistics.