Jose Holguin-Veras is the William H. Hart

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, Director of the Center for Infrastructure,

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, and the

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, and Head of the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the

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. He is a graduate of the

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, the

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. In 2013, Holguin-Veras received the White House Champion of Change Award for his contributions to

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. In 2014, he was elected a

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. Holguin-Veras was the leader of the team behind the "New York City Off-Hour Deliveries" project, which in 2017 became a finalist in the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Franz Edelman Award Competition. Dr. Holguin-Veras has been named an Edelman Fellow in the Class of 2017. He is a specialist in urban freight systems.

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