Data-Driven Research Challenge (Urban Transportation)

TSL and Meituan, a platform offering location-based consumer products and services including entertainment, dining, delivery, travel, and more, are partnering to provide researchers and practitioners worldwide with access to Meituan’s operational-level food delivery data in the first INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge (https://connect.informs.org/tsl/tslresources/datachallenge). This initiative aims to foster data-driven research on real-world challenges. Participants are expected to develop data-driven optimization models using the real data provided by Meituan. We offer a thesis opportunity as part of the Research Challenge. Students are welcome to work on any of the suggested topics provided in the challenge, but we also encourage original ideas and creative approaches.