[Logprofs] Announcement: Last Mile Routing Research Challenge hosted by Amazon and supported by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

[Matthias Winkenbach]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge<https://routingchallenge.mit.edu/> hosted by Amazon and supported by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.

The Last Mile Routing Research Challenge in a nutshell
The Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is a three-month scientific competition open to students and researchers from all over the world. Its goal is to encourage innovation at the intersection of operations research and data science. Specifically, participants will be asked to develop innovative, data-driven approaches to solving realistic route planning problems with the objective of outperforming traditional, optimization-driven methods in terms of solution quality and computational cost.

What’s at stake?
The winners of the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge will be awarded significant cash prizes of US$175,000 in total. Members of the best participating teams will also be given the opportunity to advance their careers in last-mile logistics by presenting their work in front of industry and academic experts from Amazon and MIT. Academic publication opportunities will also be provided to participants with particularly promising solutions.

Are you interested in participating in this challenge?
Sign up here<https://routingchallenge.mit.edu/> to receive news and updates on the event or to apply for participating in the challenge yourself. Participant registration is now open!

More information on the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge, its objectives, rewards and eligibility criteria can be found on the competition website<https://routingchallenge.mit.edu/about-the-challenge/> as well as this recent post<https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-mit-team-up-to-add-driver-know-how-to-delivery-routing-models> by Amazon Science. We look forward to welcoming a large and ambitious group of international contestants to this unique event. Sign-up today to reserve your spot!


Kind regards,

Dr. Matthias Winkenbach
Director, MIT Megacity Logistics Lab
Director, MIT CAVE Lab

Prof. Yossi Sheffi
Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT

The Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is hosted by Amazon and scientifically supported by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.


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Matthias Winkenbach, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)
Director, MIT Megacity Logistics Lab | Director, MIT Computational and Visual Education (CAVE) Lab
http://winkenbach.mit.edu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwinkenbach | mwinkenb at mit.edu<mailto:mwinkenb at mit.edu>

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