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MIT CTL's Toby Gooley writes about the importance of how to get your distribution center ready for driverless forklifts.

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Newer vehicles today are packed with sensors and technology. This includes a group of features known as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (or ADAS), that aim to help drivers better react to danger on the road and partially automate the driving task. So how are drivers today actually handling all this new tech? Are we beginning to see safety benefits? Dr.

The MIT Supply Chain Management Master’s Program is pleased to announce the winners from the Class of 2024 of the Advancing Women Through Education (AWE) Fellowship.

The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, students, and staff with its 2023 awards.

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Each year, the MIT School of Engineering honors outstanding faculty, students, and staff across its departments, labs, centers, and institutes with a number of awards. Recently, the school announced the following members of the engineering community at MIT as winners of its 2023 awards.

Faculty and teaching awards

MIT AVT's Bryan Reimer comments on the concerns of self-driving vehicles in cities without the city's full consent.

PhD Candidate Jonas Lehmann, CTL Principal Research Scientist Matthias Winkenbach, and CTL Research Scientist Milena Janjevic published a study highlighting the leading carbon footprint of hybrid containers.

"As carbon emissions surge worldwide, mounting pressure from politicians and shareholders alike is driving decarbonization efforts across all industries. In our new study, we investigate the operational and tactical levers to reduce carbon emissions in temperature-sensitive cold chain logistics.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creeping into many industries, and now it’s coming for the automotive supply chain. Should we be nervous, or should it be embraced as a helpful tool? Yossi Sheffi, professor of Engineering Systems at MIT weighs up the pros and cons.

MIT AVT is collaborating with Toyota on vehicle technology.

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) today announced plans to launch three new projects as part of its next phase of research, dedicated to advancing safety in mobility technologies. The research projects include an investigation on driver support features for vehicle lane centering, the creation of an in-vehicle intervention prototype to promote safe driving and the use of data to help improve technology to aid driver decision making to encourage safer driving behavior.

Research Scientist and FreightLab Co-Director David Correll recently gave an interview to FreightWaves touching on the quality of life for truck drivers. Here's a brief excerpt:

"There are two things about the way truck drivers are managed that are out of date: one, they do not qualify for overtime pay, and two, that they’re paid by the mile. These have always struck me as anachronistic and part of the problem, so efforts to correct this notion that overtime pay doesn’t apply to truck drivers I really think would help.

Chris Caplice and David Correll discuss the innovations and precautions associated with AI in the freight industry in this Transport Topics article.

"David Correll, co-director of MIT FreightLab, agreed there are dangers associated with offering inexperienced workers direct access to data and analysis."

MIT CTL's Toby Gooley describes an interview with Charles Pascarelli on DC Velocity about how far forklift safety has come in the past decade and where he sees it heading in the future.

These days you can find robots at warehouses, in restaurants, and grocery stores. Artificial intelligence has computers completing jobs humans usually do. Together, they have a lot of people worried about the future of our workforce.

This article by Dylan Walsh was originally published as part of MIT Sloan School of Management's Ideas Made to Matter series. Read the entire article here.

CBS News spoke to postdoctoral researcher Sreedevi Rajagopalan, of the LIFT Lab at MIT CTL, about the impact that extreme weather in California will likely have on food prices this year.

Thanks to devastating storms in California this winter, shoppers everywhere will be paying higher prices on groceries this spring and summer.

The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) is pleased to announce that two students have been awarded the UPS Fellowship for the 2023–24 academic year. Made possible by a grant to CTL from the UPS Foundation, the UPS Fellowship is designed to support exceptional students, one incoming MIT Master’s student and one MIT PhD student pursuing scholarship relating to logistics, freight transportation, supply chain management, or a related topic.

In an article for Forbes, MIT AgeLab director Joseph Coughlin writes that men and women tend to think about retirement differently. Research conducted by Joseph and MIT AgeLab's Chaiwoo Lee shows that women see retirement as a new chapter of their life beginning, whereas men tend to see it as a destination, a time of relaxation and leisure after decades of work.

In an article for Forbes, MIT AgeLab director Joseph Coughlin writes that some couples must prepare for a potential second retirement, as women may have more financial responsibilities if they outlive their partner.

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As the pandemic receded and consumers began to return to stores, the retail landscape once again shifted, presenting supply chain professionals with a whole new set of challenges.

So what were these challenges and where are retailers feeling the pain? Dr. Eva Ponce conducted and analyzed a new survey in partnership with DC Velocity and examined the forces that shaped retailers’ omnichannel fulfillment strategies last year.

Dr. Angela Acocella is a research affiliate at MIT CTL and a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University. This article was originally published in the Mar/Apr edition of Supply Chain Management Review.

On Jan. 26, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) hosted FedEx founder and executive chair Frederick W. Smith for an intimate, one-on-one conversation with Yossi Sheffi, director of CTL and professor of civil and environmental engineering. Their talk, titled "50 Years of Delivering Innovation," centered on the evolution of the supply chain and logistics fields over the last half-century — in which FedEx played a large part.

Research Scientist Bryan Reimer discusses his work with the Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium with Automotive News on the Shift podcast.

Listen to their discussion here

In an interview with Barron's, MIT AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin discussed why we need to think about how we will achieve our goals in retirement, not just what they are.