Urban Challenges

Urban transportation challenges addressed through research and course work include public transportation and land use, Intelligent Transportation Systems, operations, and service reliability.

News

Joseph F. Coughlin: Will Robot Cars Get Stuck in Policy Traffic?

Imagine cars driving themselves seamlessly and safely down the highway. Gone are traffic jams, crazy drivers, and commute-induced headaches.
MIT Transportation Hackathon

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.
Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series

Transportation@MIT and the MIT Transportation Club are pleased to announce the continuation of the Transportation Seminar Series.
Driver-facing Technologies to Improve Urban Mobility

An MIT symposium on technology and research for smart roads and smart vehicles.
Cars as traffic sensors

A new algorithm optimizes the dissemination of information about traffic and road conditions through networks of wirelessly connected cars.

Events

An Introduction to Transportation@MIT

Cindy Barnhart, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, Director of Transportation@MIT, Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs
The Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit Systems

Nigel Wilson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving Your Commute

Hari Balakrishnan, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of CSAIL
Alice in Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat: Which Way Are We Going, and Does it Matter? Thinking Globally, Acting locally, and Walking the Talk

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.
Network-Driven Transportation

Li-Shiuan Peh, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Algorithmic Game Theory and Transportation: A Survey

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

Emilio Frazzoli, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood

Presented by Transportation@MIT and the MIT Energy Initiative.
Transportation, the Built Environment and Green House Gas Emissions in Developing Cities

P. Christopher Zegras, Urban Studies and Planning
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials is Critical to Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

Krystyn Van Vliet, Materials Science and Engineering
Sustainable Transportation Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and MIT

John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management; Director, MIT System Dynamics Group; MIT Sloan School of Management

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