Akkodis supports student team to win MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy A-Lab advancing the future of Sustainable Urban Mobility

 

Zurich, Switzerland, January 17, 2024 – Akkodis, a global digital engineering company and Smart Industry leader, is proud to have worked with the winning team of students of the Analytics Lab (A-Lab) at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE). The A-Lab is the IDE's flagship educational offering, where students use analytics, machine learning, and other methods to solve real-world business problems – culminating in a pitch day of more than 20 teams presenting the semester’s work to a panel of judges.

As part of their project, Akkodis and the MIT IDE students provided a European municipality with additional insights on how to rethink urban mobility by leveraging the transformative power of digital technologies, advanced analytics, and comprehensive transport data-sharing. The ultimate goal was to achieve a modal shift towards sustainable urban mobility.

The students based their analysis on data from the European Union-funded MobiDataLab initiative, a platform for European cities to share transport data. Akkodis is the project and technical coordinator of MobiDataLab, as well as the leader of the expert committee and the data management team.

"We are excited to be a part of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and work with the Analytics Lab to help develop new solutions that enable cities to achieve their sustainable mobility goals." said Jan Gupta, President of Akkodis. He continued, "At Akkodis, we are committed to connecting the brightest minds in tech to pioneer new ways of solving some of the world’s biggest challenges – we’re passionate about Engineering a Smarter Future Together.”

"The A-Lab is about using advanced analytics, machine learning and other methods of analysis to diagnose, enable or uncover solutions to real-world issues and opportunities,” said Sinan Aral, Director at the MIT IDE and Co-Instructor of the A-Lab. “At the IDE, we believe our research is shaping a brighter digital future. We were excited to work with Akkodis to craft a meaningful project and commend the MIT Sloan students for forwarding the development of new approaches that will help cities achieve their sustainability goals."

About Akkodis

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The Adecco Group is the world’s leading talent company. Our purpose is making the future work for everyone. Through our three global business units - Adecco, Akkodis and LHH - across 60 countries, we enable sustainable and lifelong employability for individuals, deliver digital and engineering solutions to power the Smart Industry transformation and empower organizations to optimize their workforces. The Adecco Group leads by example and is committed to an inclusive culture, fostering sustainable employability, and supporting resilient economies and communities.  The Adecco Group AG is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland (ISIN: CH0012138605) and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN). 

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