About Us
What we do
Helping companies to improve their Supply Chain Operations via better Logistics Sustainability.
The Challenges
Currently, transportation contributes roughly 28% of the United States’ total greenhouse gas (GHG) making it the largest source of GHG emissions in the country.
GHG emissions from the transportation sector may double by 2050 due to the rate of adoption of vehicles in developing countries.
Highly urbanized cities and increasing trends in Omni-channel operations increase CO2 emissions.
Online shopping is growing in the United States and represents 9.6% of the total retail trade in 2018.
The increase of logistics intensity due to e-commerce is pushing companies to offer faster and more frequent deliveries, which increases fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The Opportunities
While companies face many challenges in their logistics and supply chain operations, there are plenty of opportunities to reduce not only their environmental impact but also costs. Since many emissions reduction projects revolve around increasing fuel efficiency, sustainability positively impacts the bottom line as well.
Companies can incorporate sustainable logistics through different initiatives, such as:
- Optimize last-mile operations by selecting proper vehicles according to the characteristics of the routes.
- Study consumer behavior and the environmental impact of same-day delivery: Analyze the drivers that affect the customer’s willingness to wait for home delivery after providing environmental impact information.
- Design sustainable and cost-effective transportation modes: Help planners make choices that can be expressed not only in monetary terms but also in environmental benefits associated with the implementation of these modes.
- Identify what patterns or characteristics within different regions can explain the variability of CO2 emissions among them.
- Analyze how to improve routing decisions, what is the effect of topography in these decisions, and when solutions that consider topography affect the distance-min route.
- Analyze the relationship between CO2 emissions in transportation and driver behavioral patterns.
Our Team
Dr. Josué Velázquez Martínez
Director
Dr. Sreedevi Rajagopalan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Camilo Mora Quiñones
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tori Arnold
Project Manager
Maria Jose Chiang Rebatta
Project Coordinator
Fabio Castro
PhD Student
Junyi Sha
PhD Student
Yael Cervantes
Master's Student
Andrés Camarillo
Master's Student
Marie Fillon
Master's Student
MIT Collaborators
Dr. Yossi Sheffi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, Director of CTL
Dr. Matthias Winkenbach
Director, Megacity Logistics Lab and CAVE Lab
Dr. Jarrod Goentzel
Director, MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab
Dr. Joann De Zegher
Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Dr. Charles Fine
Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor, MIT Sloan
International Collaborators
Dr. Cansu Tayaksi
Assistant Professor, Boston University
Jairo Alberto Jarrín Quintero
Universidad de la Sabana
Dr. Jaime Alberto Palma Mendoza
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México
Dr. Iván Andrés Arana Solares
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México
Dr. Karla Beatriz Valenzuela Ocaña
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe
Dr. José Calderón Lama
Universidad de Piura
Dr. Brenda Liz Silupú Garcés
Universidad de Piura
Dr. Mario Chong
Universidad del Pacífico
Dr. Carlos Suárez Núñez
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Dr. Martín Tanco
Universidad de Montevideo
Dr. Daniel Jurburg Melnik
Universidad de Montevideo
Dr. María Ileana Ruiz Cantisani
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr. Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas Barrón
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey
Ruth Guadalupe Castillo González
Universidad del Istmo
Dr. Maria Teresa Castaneda Galvis
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Juan Carlos García Sánchez
Universidad Panamericana
Rocío Márquez Martínez
Universidad Panamericana
Begoña Noriega
Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes
Fabiola Lima Sagui
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Laguna
Luis Aarón Ramírez
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca
Paúl Guerrero Vargas
Universidad de Piura
Dr. Jairo Nuñez Rodriguez
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Alejandro Cardenas
Software Engineer
Rafael Escamilla
Tilburg University
Enrique Franco-Scherer
Front-end Engineer
Dr. Eva Selene Hernández Gress
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Hidalgo
Dr. Fabiola Vasquez Garcia
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe
MIT Alumni
Alessandro Scutari SCM '21
Analiz Cabrera Hernández SCM '20
Ashish Chhabria SCM '22
Aviva Tova Kosansky SCM '21
Bastian Silva GCLOG '19
Beatriz Hidalgo GCLOG '19
Blake Stimpson SCM '21
Bonaventure Muhongo SCM '18
Caio Negro GCLOG '17
Cecilia Salum GCLOG '17
Christian Gatmaitan SCM '20
Daniel Rodríguez GCLOG '18
Denise Chin GCLOG '19
Deviana Sia SCM '22
Elise Fredericks SCM '22
Elissar Samaha SCM '19
Elizabeth Raman Grubbs SCM '20
Emma Eustis SCM '23
Fadi Abou Chacra SCM '19
Federico G. dos Santos Izaguirre SCM '21
Frances Gremillion SCM '22
Gianmarco Merino SCM '23
Hannah Sonnenberg SCM '23
Heloisa Pinzon de A. Cesar GCLOG '18
Jessica Yao Xiong SCM '22
Jesus Guajardo SCM '22
Joshua Rocha SCM '19
Karim Farran SCM '22
Karla Romero GCLOG '17
Lisha Yangali SCM '20
Marcos Mogollon Linares SCM '21
Maria del Pila Pardo Rodriguez SCM '22
Mauricio García GCLOG '18
Mirna Arizaleta SCM '18
Nicolas Torrealba GCLOG '18
Nora Lestari SCM '22
Rafael Grillo Illipronti SCM '21
Rafaela Pereira Nunes SCM '18
Ramón Paulino SCM '18
Roberto Russo
Rosana Builes GCLOG '16
Sadia Rahman Shathi SCM '20
Sebastian Libál
Timothy McCormack SCM '22
Trevor Nathan Thompson SCM '20
Tzu-Ning Chao SCM '21
Valera Arizaleta GCLOG '18
Vrushali Shivaj Patil SCM '19
Xiaohan Zhu SCM '18
Ximena Castañon Choque SCM '18
Yan Huang SCM '20
Yen-Nong Su SCM '19
Yuchen Yvonne Cao SCM '20
Visiting Students
Alejandro Montenegro - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe '25
Agustín Pérez Hermosillo - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus León '19
Camilo Andrés Mora-Quiñones - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey '19
Carla Ligia Choque Hidalgo - Universidad Mayor de San Simón '17
Carolina Mendoza - Universidad EAFIT '16
Dafne Pamela Ugalde Saucedo - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey '17
Gianmarco A. Merino Sandoval - Universidad de Piura '17
Jorge Antonio Saldívar Rentería - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey '19
Martha Sofia Castillo Gomez - Universidad de Piura '19
Mauricio Enrique Rada Orellana - Universidad Del Pacifico '17
Mojdeh Azad - University of Tennessee, Knoxville '19
Montserrat Gaytán Gutiérrez - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus León '18
Omar Joaquín Rodríguez Loyo - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Veracruz '18
Paloma Santos Vela - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey '18
Pamela Ugalde Saucedo - Tecnológico de Monterrey '17
Sayda Elka Benitez Villarreal - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey '19
Wilder Zuluaga Ospina - Universidad EAFIT '19