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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

MOBILITY INTIATIVE EVENTS

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

Rethinking Traffic Flow with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Ennio Cascetta, Hani Mahmassani, Kaan Ozbay, Markos Papageorgiou, Steve Shladover and Moshe Ben-Akiva

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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

Value-Sensitive Design in Mobility: A Conversation on Mobility Equity

Stephen Zoepf & Sarah Thornton

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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

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

Optimization under uncertainty for various transportation problems

Patrick Jaillet

Dugald C. Jackson Professor. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

"Deep Neural Networks for Choice Analysis" Dan and Eva Roos Transportation Thesis Award Presentation

Shenhao Wang

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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

Towards Zero-Carbon Cities (Kendall Square as a Case Study)

Kent Larson

Director of the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab

Urban mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how often we go

Carlo Ratti and Paolo Santi

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Understanding and Improving Transportation Systems

Thomas Magnanti

Institute Professor and a Professor of Operations Research

Spring 2021

The Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Emergency ResponseJohn M. Contestabile, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Kevin Heaslip

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Part I: Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networksPart 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

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

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

A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunitiesin the CAV Era

Markos Papageorgiou

Technical University of Crete | School of Production Engineering and Management

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

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)

Calculating the value of car ownership

David Keith

Assistant Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

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

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

Online-retailing and transportation systems

Steve Graves

Abraham J. Siegal Professor of Management

Supply Chain management beyond Covid-19

Yossi Sheffi

Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems

Transit-centric multimodal system design

Jinhua Zhao

Director, MIT Transit Lab; Director, MIT Mobility Initiative; Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning

Crowdsourcing the Missing Crash Data

Sarah Williams

The Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Emergency Response

John M. Contestabile, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Kevin Heaslip

Part I: Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networks

Part II: Research trends in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology

A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunities
in the CAV Era

Karl Iagnemma, President and CEO at Motional

Julia Steyn, Chief Executive Officer at Bolt Mobility

Jay Walder, CEO at Virgin Hyperloop

Michael Ableson, CEO Arrival Automotive

Peter Kunsch, Head of Audi Tech Intelligence Boston

Thomas Andrae, Mobility Investor

Clara Fain, Chief Financial Officer at Via

Rasheq Zarif, Managing Director & Future of Mobility Tech Leader at Deloitte

Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Executive Director at Open Mobility Foundation

Regina Clewlow, CEO & Co-founder at Populus

Stephen Smyth, Co-founder and CEO at Coord

Seleta Reynolds, General Manager at LADOT

Michael Hurwitz, Director of Transport Innovation, Transport for London

RJ Scaringe, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rivian

James Womack, Founder and Senior Advisor of Lean Enterprise Institute

Anna Dietrich, Co Executive Director of the Community Air Mobility Initiative

Assaf Biderman, Founder and CEO of Superpedestrian

Reilly Brennan, Founding General Partner at Trucks & Lecturer at Stanford

Mary Chan, Managing Partner at VectoIQ

Regina Savage, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley