New open-source online maps generated by MIT students
provide details of urban supply chains.
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.