MIT Megacity Logistics Lab Appoints New Director

Oct 6, 2015 | News

Dr. Matthias Winkenbach, Research Associate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, has been appointed as the new Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab. Dr. Winkenbach received his Ph.D. in Logistics and his Masters in Business with specializations in...

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...

ELA 2015 award for André Alho

Jun 30, 2015 | Events

IST-Lisbon PhD candidate and MLL visiting student André Alho recieved the “2015 best doctoral disertation award” at the European Logistics Association Doctorate Workshop, for his research on urban freight parking in Lisbon. About the workshop: The European...

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...

Sergio Caballero Completed his ITESM PhD Program

May 15, 2015 | Events

Dr Sergio Caballero completed his PhD program at Tecnológico de Monterrey on the 14th of May 2015. Dr Caballero worked at the Megacity Lab in Boston and in Mexico City for his PhD. During his PhD he has published several outstanding papers, and received an award at...

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....

Spring 2015 UROP Opportunities Available

Mar 2, 2015 | News

We have several UROP openings at the lab during the Spring. Join us by applying here. Project Title: MIT Megacity Logistics Lab: KM2 and Compass Project Description: We have developed prototype web tools that allow analysis and visualization of relevant urban...