Larry Lapide, Ph.D.
Research Director, Demand Management Solutions Group
Director, Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
The Center for Transportation & Logistics is part of the Engineering Systems Division in the School of Engineering. The center is widely recognized as an international leader in the field of transportation and logistics.
Along with basic contributions to the understanding of transportation system planning, operations and management, its efforts include significant contributions to logistics modeling and supply chain management for shippers; to technology and policy analysis for government; and to management, planning and operations for trucking, railroad, air and ocean carriers.
In addition to administering the Master of Engineering in Logistics program, the Center helps coordinate the extensive transportation and logistics research conducted throughout MIT. At any given time, research efforts typically number over 100, ranging from modest projects involving a single faculty member and a few students to large-scale international programs involving scores of people and a full-time research staff.
Over fifty faculty and staff are affiliated with the Center through participation in its education, research and outreach programs. The interchange of information, ideas and inspiration among the faculty, students and research staff makes it one of the most dynamic focal points of activity in the transportation and logistics field.
