In The World: Mapping the logistics of megacities
As ever-larger “megacities” become home to more and more of the world’s people, the supply chains that bring essential supplies to these crowded populations will become increasingly complex. To help manage these logistics, researchers at MIT’s Megacities Logistics Lab have gathered data — collected by 11 MIT students paired with local students around the world — on representative neighborhoods in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Kuala Lumpur and Madrid.Now that data has been made available online, at no cost, in an open-access pool of information that’s graphically represented on city maps. This screen shot shows an example of the data now available on the open-access website called km2, produced by the MIT Megacities Logistics Lab. This map shows deliveries to different types of stores (color coded by type) in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Alessandra Babuscia Edgar Blanco, research director at MIT’s Center...