MOBILITY INTIATIVE EVENTS
MOBILITY
FORUM
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at www.mobilityinitiative.mit.edu/mobilityforum.
LEADERSHIP IN MOBILITY INNOVATION
A series of dialogues between entrepreneurs and faculty members to offer insights into the diverse frameworks and opportunities for innovation within the field of mobility. More details can be found at www.mobilityinitiative.mit.edu/entrepreneurshipdialogue.
MOBILITY EQUITY SERIES
For communities both within and outside of the urban core, transportation plans and investments have often reinforced unequal land-use patterns and resulted in unequal access to economic and social opportunities. The MIT Mobility Equity Symposium and the Mobility Equity Series aim to help drive the dialogue around key mobility equity issues and to establish a shared research agenda.
MIT MOBILITY
VISION DAY
MIT's annual Mobility Vision Day showcases the latest research and innovation in the realm of transportation. The e convenes leaders and thinkers from across the globe representing the public, private, and non-profit sectors to encourage cross-sector collaboration in setting a research agenda driving innovation that creates a transportation system that is more sustainable, equitable, and efficient.
SPRING 2022
Building the Future of Transportation
Gill Pratt
Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research of Toyota Motor Corporation

May 20, 2022
Mobility Forum
Transportation Community Exchange

Feb 4, 2022
Mobility Forum
Efficient Deep Learning for Automotive Applications
Song Han
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Feb 11, 2022
Mobility Forum
Regional Air Mobility: Initial Thoughts
David Mindell
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing

Feb 18, 2022
Mobility Forum
Bumps along the Road to Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry

Feb 25, 2022
Mobility Forum
Transit Oriented Development in Disruptive Time
Robert Cervero
Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Mar 4, 2022
Mobility Forum
The Impact of Data Science on Freight Transportation Procurement
Chris Caplice
Executive Director, Center for Transportation & Logistics

Mar 11, 2022
Mobility Forum
Making Roads Safer by Making Drivers Better
Hari Balakrishnan
Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Mar 18, 2022
Mobility Forum
Shared Mobility and Automated Vehicles: Responding to Socio-Technical Changes and Pandemics
Susan Shaheen
Professor In-Residence, Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, Transportation Engineering, UC Berkeley

Mar 25, 2022
Mobility Forum
Highway construction and displacement in African American neighborhoods: 1940-2000
Brent Ryan
Head of the City Design and Development Group and Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Apr 1, 2022
Mobility Forum
Human-Centered Driving Research at Toyota Research Institute
John Leonard
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Apr 8, 2022
Mobility Forum
Future of Work and Urban Mobility
Jinhua Zhao
Director, MIT Mobility Initiative and Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Apr 15, 2022
Mobility Forum
Certifiable Perception Algorithms and High-level Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles
Luca Carlone
Leonardo Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Apr 22, 2022
Mobility Forum
Transportation from Earth to Space and back - latest developments
Olivier de Weck
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems

Apr 29, 2022
Mobility Forum
FALL 2021
Towards zero environmental impact aviation
Steven Barrett
Associate Department Head of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment

September 10, 2021
Mobility Forum
Rethinking Traffic Flow with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Ennio Cascetta, Hani Mahmassani, Kaan Ozbay, Markos Papageorgiou, Steve Shladover and Moshe Ben-Akiva

September 17, 2021
Mobility Forum
Pedestrian Impact Assessments for Urban Development Projects
Andres Sevtsuk
Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

September 24, 2021
Mobility Forum
Value-Sensitive Design in Mobility: A Conversation on Mobility Equity
Stephen Zoepf & Sarah Thornton

October 1, 2021
Mobility Forum
High-Speed Rail, Subway Network and Urban Vibrancy
Siqi Zheng
Samuel Tak Lee Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Center for Real Estate

October 8, 2021
Mobility Forum
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Daniela Rus
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

October 15, 2021
Mobility Forum
Optimization under uncertainty for various transportation problems
Patrick Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

October 22, 2021
Mobility Forum
"Deep Neural Networks for Choice Analysis" Dan and Eva Roos Transportation Thesis Award Presentation
Shenhao Wang

October 29, 2021
Mobility Forum
Applications of Machine Learning for Aviation Collision Avoidance
James Kuchar
Assistant Head of the Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

November 5, 2021
Mobility Forum
Towards Zero-Carbon Cities (Kendall Square as a Case Study)
Kent Larson
Director of the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab

November 19, 2021
Mobility Forum
Urban mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how often we go
Carlo Ratti and Paolo Santi

December 3, 2021
Mobility Forum
Understanding and Improving Transportation Systems
Thomas Magnanti
Institute Professor and a Professor of Operations Research

December 10, 2021
Mobility Forum
Spring 2021
The Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Emergency Response
John M. Contestabile, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Kevin Heaslip



July 28, 2021
V2X Series
Part I: Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networks
Part II: Research trends in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology
Nikolas Geroliminis
Editor in Chief, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies; Associate Professor, Urban Transport Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

May 28, 2021
Mobility Forum
Rhythmic Traffic Management and Control in a Fully Automated Vehicle Environment
Yafeng Yin
Professor and Associate Department Chair of Graduate Programs, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

May 21, 2021
Mobility Forum
Research trends in transportation: A conversation with the editors of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Elisabetta Cherchi
Co-Editor in Chief Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice; Professor of Transport, Newcastle University, UK

May 14, 2021
Mobility Forum
A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunities
in the CAV Era
Markos Papageorgiou
Technical University of Crete | School of Production Engineering and Management

May 11, 2021
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility
David Simchi-Levi
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, MIT Data Science Lab

May 7, 2021
Mobility Forum
Research trends in transportation: A conversation with the editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Chandra Bhat
Editor, Transportation Research Part B; Director, US DOT Center on Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning (D-STOP)

April 30, 2021
Mobility Forum
Calculating the value of car ownership
David Keith
Assistant Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

April 23, 2021
Mobility Forum
Cybersecurity and the Future of Transportation
Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning and Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering

April 16, 2021
Mobility Forum
Tri-POP, an online Prediction, Optimization and Personalization platform for on-demand mobility and e-commerce deliveries
Moshe Ben-Akiva
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering

April 9, 2021
Mobility Forum
Online-retailing and transportation systems
Steve Graves
Abraham J. Siegal Professor of Management

April 2, 2021
Mobility Forum
Supply Chain management beyond Covid-19
Yossi Sheffi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems

March 19, 2021
Mobility Forum
Transit-centric multimodal system design
Jinhua Zhao
Director, MIT Transit Lab; Director, MIT Mobility Initiative; Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning

March 12, 2021
Mobility Forum
Crowdsourcing the Missing Crash Data
Sarah Williams
Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning; Chair, Urban Science & Computer Science Program

March 5, 2021
Mobility Forum
Navigating The New Transportation Demands Of An Aging Society
Joe Coughlin
Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab

February 26, 2021
Mobility Forum
Mixed Autonomy Traffic: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Cathy Wu
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Enginerring

February 19, 2021
Mobility Forum
Incentivize safe driving: a RCT with behavioral information
Chris Knittel
George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics

February 12, 2021
Mobility Forum
Fall 2020
Karl Iagnemma, President and CEO at Motional
Julia Steyn, Chief Executive Officer at Bolt Mobility
Jay Walder, CEO at Virgin Hyperloop



September 9, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
Michael Ableson, CEO Arrival Automotive
Peter Kunsch, Head of Audi Tech Intelligence Boston
Thomas Andrae, Mobility Investor



September 21, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility, and Employment Policy: The Roads Ahead

John Leonard
September 25, 2020
Mobility Forum
Clara Fain, Chief Financial Officer at Via
Rasheq Zarif, Managing Director & Future of Mobility Tech Leader at Deloitte


September 30, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
Microlocation in Transit: The New York City Subway System

David Mindell
October 2, 2020
Mobility Forum
The Edge of Optimization: Large Scale Transportation Systems

Dimitris Bertsimas
October 9, 2020
Mobility Forum
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Executive Director at Open Mobility Foundation
Regina Clewlow, CEO & Co-founder at Populus
Stephen Smyth, Co-founder and CEO at Coord



October 13, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Technical Options and Societal Choices

Bill Green
October 16, 2020
Mobility Forum
Seleta Reynolds, General Manager at LADOT
Michael Hurwitz, Director of Transport Innovation, Transport for London


October 21, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
The Inefficiency of Dynamic Pricing in Ridehailing Systems

Daniel Freund
October 23, 2020
Mobility Forum
RJ Scaringe, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rivian
James Womack, Founder and Senior Advisor of Lean Enterprise Institute


November 3, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
Anna Dietrich, Co Executive Director of the Community Air Mobility Initiative
Assaf Biderman, Founder and CEO of Superpedestrian


November 16, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets

Jason Jackson
November 20, 2020
Mobility Forum
Reilly Brennan, Founding General Partner at Trucks & Lecturer at Stanford
Mary Chan, Managing Partner at VectoIQ
Regina Savage, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley



December 2, 2020
Entrepreneurship Dialogue
On demand urban aerial mobility planning: an adaptive discretization approach

Alexandre Jacquillat
December 4, 2020
Mobility Forum