In February 2012, Transportation@MIT hosted our first data hack-a-thon event, where talents with different skill sets gather and develop projects using transportation-related data. The theme for this year’s hack-a-thon was transportation in Boston/Cambridge areas. Many interesting data sets were available exclusively for this event. 

Transportation@MIT and the MIT Transportation Club are pleased to announce the continuation of the Transportation Seminar Series.

A vision of smart, eco-savvy cars free from the threat of congestion, crashes, pollution and parking spats could soon become reality, according to the authors of a new book, “Reinventing the Automobile.”

Transportation@MIT is a vast undertaking that brings together multiple disciplines and schools. What better place to take on a problem so inextricably linked to data and technology? Where else to analyze the world’s urban infrastructure and how it can best facilitate the efficient and ecologically sound movement of people and goods?

Cindy Barnhart, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, Director of Transportation@MIT, Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs

John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory    

Nigel Wilson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hari Balakrishnan, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of CSAIL

Fred Salvucci, is a civil engineer specializing in transportation, in particular infrastructure, urban transportation, public transportation and institutional development in decision-making. He was the Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor Dukakis. He is a Senior Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Edgar Blanco, Research Director at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Andreas Schulz, Patrick McGovern Professor of Mathematics of Operations Research, Head of Operations Research and Statistics Group at the Sloan School of Management

Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management; joint work with Wei Sun and Justin Teo.

Joseph Sussman, Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Simchi-Levi, Civil and Environmental Engineering