Remove Boston Remove Cargo Remove Metrics Remove Transportation
article thumbnail

Cargo Flight Launches a Vital Link in the Ebola Response Effort

MIT Supply Chain

The Lab is part of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. The other members of the consortium are the University of Massachusetts Medical School, which leads the current initiative, the Boston Children’s Hospital, Avenir Analytics, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. million grant from Paul G.

Liberia 40
article thumbnail

Amazon’s New Last Mile Program Will Improve Customer Service, But Higher Emissions Will Result

Logistics Viewpoints

In a later phase, deliveries are targeted to expand to large, dense cities including Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Hoboken New jersey. million metric tons of the company’s CO2 emissions are attributed to fossil fuel emissions. But that 85% metric makes things sound better than they really are. a package.