June 10, 2020 — Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant and doctoral student Fiete Krutein is joining Amazon’s Middle Mile Transportation Research Team as an Operations Research Science intern for Summer Quarter, working in mathematical transportation optimization.
“I am particularly excited about changing my perspective. Being able to contribute to one of the most complex logistics networks in the world and solve complex problems from a corporate research perspective is something I think will boost my career and my understanding of how research can be done effectively,” said Krutein. “I am excited to learn more about the problems the Amazon supply chain faces and how to introduce complex modeling techniques into tools that will be used in the industry. I hope that Amazon’s culture will teach me something new about how to solve problems effectively and efficiently.”
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About the Urban Freight Lab (UFL): An innovative public-private partnership housed at the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center at the University of Washington, the Urban Freight Lab is a structured workgroup that brings together private industry with City transportation officials to design and test solutions around urban freight management. Since launching in December 2016, the UFL has completed an innovative suite of research projects on the Final 50 Feet of delivery, providing foundational data and proven strategies to help cities reduce truck dwell times in load/unload spaces, and failed first delivery attempts by carriers, which lowers congestion, emissions, and costs.