Towards Sustainable Palm Oil

Towards Sustainable Palm Oil: The viability of entire industries depends heavily on social and environmental resources. One of the clearest examples of this is in the palm oil industry. Rapid growth in demand has resulted in high rates of deforestation and deeply...

An Alternative Route to a Fuel-Efficient Last Mile

By: Josué C, Velázquez-Martínez, Director, MIT Sustainable Logistics Initiative, Karla M. Gámez-Pérez, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Sustainable Logistics Initiative, Ken Cottrill, Editorial Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. The recent...

MIT Sustainability Summit Recap

MIT Sustainable Logistics Initiative director, Josué Velázquez Martínez, took part in this years MIT Sustainability Summit (Friday 26th April, 2019) and spoke with MIT Sloan School of Management for a follow-up article to discuss “People and Goods...

Last Mile Green Vehicle Assignment

Green vehicle assignment using Geospatial Analysis and Machine Learning algorithms The project proposes a new methodology for quantifying by type of road the impact of the last mile delivery operation in terms of Co2 emissions and allows the assignment of...