May 3, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab Research Assistant and Student Research Group Manager Fiete Krutein (Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering ’22) defended his dissertation today, completing his graduate studies and earning a doctorate degree. Krutein now joins trucking software company Convoy as a Scientist.
Since joining the Urban Freight Lab four years ago, Krutein has:
- investigated disaster scenarios in collaboration with the Bowen Island Municipality (Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
- developed evacuation plans with a mixed integer programming formulation that aims to minimize the evacuation time of an isolated community through optimally routing a coordinated fleet of heterogeneous recovery resources
- collected and analyzed data on last-mile deliveries to identify inefficiencies in stopping and parking behavior of delivery vehicles for the development of new delivery modes
- co-authored paper that was awarded Best Practical Implications by the Transportation Research Board
Krutein’s dissertation, “Optimization Modeling Approaches to Evacuations of Isolated Communities”, presents the first formulation to address the Isolated Community Evaluation Problem (ICEP) — route optimization for isolated communities without road-based evacuation routes.
Anne Goodchild and Linda Boyle served as Krutein’s doctoral committee chairs; additional committee members were Jeff Ban, Chiwei Yan, and Michael Wagner.
Read more:
- Fiete Krutein’s research publications
Announcements:
- Fiete Krutein to Intern at Amazon
- New Urban Freight Lab Publication: Evacuating Isolated Islands with Marine Resources: A Bowen Island Case Study
- UFL Paper Awarded TRB “Best Practical Implications”
- New Publication: “Isolated Community Evacuation Problem with Mixed Integer Programming”
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.