Core Topics / Strategic Themes
- Smart Sustainable Cities
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Humanitarian Logistics & Disaster Response
- Automation in Supply Chains & Logistics
- The User Experience
Emerging Challenges & Core Topics
NUTC research addresses a broad range of complex issues that affect the movement of materials, people, energy, and information, and the policies and economics that govern such movements. NUTC’s research is driven by an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective on transportation systems and focuses on the efficient and productive operations and management of transportation and logistics organizations in the public and private sector.
Humanitarian Logistics & Disaster Response
NUTC researchers actively engage in many areas of humanitarian and non-profit logistics, including disaster relief, emergency response, hunger relief, and mobile health clinics.
Featured Reports
NUTC researchers regularly collaborate on special reports, including an analysis of Chicago’s red light camera enforcement, and a vision of transportation infrastructure in the year 2050.
Transportation Library
Containing more than 500,000 items, the Northwestern University Transportation Library is one of the largest transportation information centers in the world.Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across Northwestern
Our team is composed of skilled researchers representing a wide range of academic interests and expertise. Represented schools and departments include:
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Economics
- History
- Neurobiology and Physiology
- Political Science
- Sociology
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Management and Organizations
Kellogg School of Management
- Management and Organizations
- Management and Strategy
- Management Economics and Decision Sciences
- Marketing
People
Meet the transportation experts who drive our research
Learn more about our faculty, fellows, leaders, and staff.
Meet Our PeopleIndustry Workshops and Special Events
Through industry technical workshops, seminars, and special events, we're tackling transportation challenges and opportunities with leaders in the field.