An unparalleled team of more than 50 faculty and research staff are involved in various aspects of transportation and logistics at MIT. Below, faculty and staff members are listed along with their research interests. Click on their name for contact information, as well as links to their personal websites where available.

	Name	Expertise
	Arnold Barnett	Aviation safety; statistics
	Cynthia Barnhart	Distribution, logistics, large-scale network optimization
	Peter Belobaba	Economics; airline marketing and management; applied operations research; aerospace industry analysis
	Moshe Ben-Akiva	Economics; airline marketing and management; applied operations research; aerospace industry analysis.
	Erik Brynjolfsson	Information technology, organizational transformation and the Internet
	Jonathan Byrnes	Supply chain management
	Chris Caplice	Logistics, supply chain management
	John-Paul Clarke	Air traffic management; intelligent application of advanced flight guidance technology; environmental impact of aircraft operations
	Joseph Coughlin	Public policy; strategic management; transport and the environment; transportation needs of an aging population
	Richard De Neufville	Airport systems planning; transportation technology and policy; geographic databases
	Charles Fine	International motor vehicle industry
	Ernst Frankel	Port development and planning; systems analysis; ocean systems design
	Stephen Graves	Operations management; optimization models; inventory analysis
	John Hansman	Air transportation
	Wesley Harris	Air transportation
	John Heywood	Automotive engines and fuels; use of ceramic materials in internal combustion engines; development and application of new analysis and experimental techniques
	Thomas Kochan	Labor management partnership
	George Kocur	Information technology, telecommunications, logistics, transportation, infrastructure management
	Richard Larson	Operations research and analysis of public systems; evaluation of technology applied to urban systems; postal services; urban transportation
	Stuart Madnick	Information systems engineering
	Thomas Malone	The use of computers and communications technology in groups and organizations
	Thomas Magnanti	Transportation planning including vehicle fleet planning, personnel scheduling, distribution system design and urban traffic management; network analysis; mathematical programming; combinatorial theory
	Henry Marcus	Transportation management, ocean transportation; ocean systems management; public policy
	David Marks	Environmental impacts of transportation
	Carl Martland	Railroad operations and management
	Fred Moavenzadeh	Construction; transportation in developing countries; transfer and adaptation of technology to developing countries
	Amedeo Odoni	Operations research; airport and air traffic control problems; analysis of urban service systems; project evaluation
	James Orlin	Mathematical programming; combinatorial and network optimization; design and analysis of heuristics
	James Rice	Supply chain redesign, organization, strategy
	Daniel Roos	Information systems; transportation systems; policy issues in transportation; automotive industry
	Donald Rosenfield	Supply chain management; global production and distribution strategies
	Jerome Rothenberg	Urban transportation systems; relationship between transportation and urban forms and industrial and residual location; urban transportation and environment
	Fred Salvucci	Transportation planning, government policy
	Yossi Sheffi	Transportation network analysis and design; business logistics; freight transportation; rail and truck systems; decision support systems
	Thomas Sheridan	Human factors in transportation
	Michael Siegel	Information technology
	David Simchi-Levi	Design, control and operation of logistics systems and telecommunication networks; supply chain; facility location; inventory models; vehicle routing; production scheduling
	Joseph Sussman	Transportation systems management and operations; systems analysis; simulation methods; rail systems; intelligent transportation systems
	Richard Wang	Total data quality management
	Abbott Weiss	International logistics and supply chain management
	David Gordon Wilson	Vehicle propulsion systems
	Nigel Wilson	Urban transport; public transport operations, planning and management; transport systems analysis

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