Airlines

Air traffic control, scheduling, ticket pricing, environmental impacts and management comprise many of MIT’s competencies in the airline industry.

Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series

Transportation@MIT and the MIT Transportation Club are pleased to announce the continuation of the Transportation Seminar Series.
A link between air travel and deaths on the ground

Study suggests pollution from airplanes flying at ‘cruise’ altitudes contributes to 8,000 deaths per year globally.
MIT-led team’s eco-aircraft receives Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award

Popular Mechanics magazine has awarded a 2010 Breakthrough Innovator Award to an MIT-led team for designing an aircraft that could use 70 percent less fuel than current planes while reducing noise and emissions.
MIT goes to Copenhagen

Delegation of MIT professors, students and alumni attend historic global warming conference to present research and report on event
MIT Professional Education delivers its first course in India

This week, MIT Professional Education is conducting its first-ever three-day course in India, “Airport and Airline Systems: Planning, Design and Management,” as part of the program’s new international outreach initiative.

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
Environmental Impacts of Aviation

Ian Waitz, Aeronautics and Astronautics