Jaya Chimnani, Jarrod Goentzel, Erin HasselbergPartner: Academic Consortium Combating Ebola in Liberia (ACCEL) September 2015 – August 2017 In 2014, the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab (MIT HRL) in the Center for Transportation & Logistics joined the...
Karn Budhiraj, Gabriel de la Torre In times of disaster, demand for goods and services in affected areas spikes. Private companies generally have contingencies in place for business continuity; however, most lack a strategic approach to join the general...
Human and Modeling Approaches to Transportation Planning in Emergency Response Project Reports Research Team Contact Us Project Partners This project focuses on transportation planning for emergency response, from both a behavioral and a modeling perspective. One key...
Ira HaavistoPartner: International Rescue Committee This initiative focuses on how humanitarian organizations can measure and manage the performance of supply chain & logistics processes. With the International Rescue Committee, we developed a resource...
Marie-Eve Rancourt, Jarrod GoentzelPartner: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) This project modeled transportation pricing for the WFP’s Ethiopian supply chain. Empirical research characterizing transportation markets in developing countries is...
