MIT Mobility Forum
The MIT Mobility Forum showcases the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. The Forum is online and open to all. Please register at Zoom beforehand.
SPRING 2022
Efficient Deep Learning for Automotive Applications
Song Han
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
February 11, 2022
Regional Air Mobility: Initial Thoughts
David Mindell
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing
February 18, 2022
Bumps along the Road to Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry
February 25, 2022
Transit Oriented Development in Disruptive Time
Robert Cervero
Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
March 4, 2022
The Impact of Data Science on Freight Transportation Procurement
Chris Caplice
Executive Director, Center for Transportation & Logistics
March 11, 2022
Making Roads Safer by Making Drivers Better
Hari Balakrishnan
Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
March 18, 2022
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
March 25, 2022
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
April 1, 2022
Human-Centered Driving Research at Toyota Research Institute
John Leonard
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
April 8, 2022
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
April 15, 2022
Certifiable Perception Algorithms and High-level Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles
Luca Carlone
Leonardo Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
April 22, 2022
Transportation from Earth to Space and back - latest developments
Olivier de Weck
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems
April 29, 2022
Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment
James Poterba and Edward Glaeser
Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT and Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard
May 6, 2022
Building Climate Resilience in Transportation System
Andrew Whittle
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
May 13, 2022
Building the Future of Transportation
Gill Pratt
Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research of Toyota Motor Corporation
May 20, 2022
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
Friday, September 10, 2021
Rethinking Traffic Flow with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Ennio Cascetta, Hani Mahmassani, Kaan Ozbay, Markos Papageorgiou, Steve Shladover and Moshe Ben-Akiva
Friday, September 17, 2021
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
Friday, September 24, 2021
Value-Sensitive Design in Mobility: A Conversation on Mobility Equity
Stephen Zoepf & Sarah Thornton
Friday, October 1, 2021
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
Friday, October 8, 2021
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
Friday, October 15, 2021
Optimization under uncertainty for various transportation problems
Patrick Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Friday, October 22, 2021
"Deep Neural Networks for Choice Analysis" Dan and Eva Roos Transportation Thesis Award Presentation
Shenhao Wang
Friday, October 29, 2021
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
Friday, November 5, 2021
Towards Zero-Carbon Cities (Kendall Square as a Case Study)
Kent Larson
Director of the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab
Friday, November 19, 2021
Urban mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how often we go
Carlo Ratti and Paolo Santi
Friday, December 3, 2021
Understanding and Improving Transportation Systems
Thomas Magnanti
Institute Professor and a Professor of Operations Research
Friday, December 10, 2021
Spring 2021
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
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
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
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
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
Calculating the value of car ownership
David Keith
Assistant Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
April 23, 2021
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
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
Online-retailing and transportation systems
Steve Graves
Abraham J. Siegal Professor of Management
April 2, 2021
Supply Chain management beyond Covid-19
Yossi Sheffi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems
March 19, 2021
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
Crowdsourcing the Missing Crash Data
Sarah Williams
Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning; Chair, Urban Science & Computer Science Program
March 5, 2021
Navigating The New Transportation Demands Of An Aging Society
Joe Coughlin
Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab
February 26, 2021
Mixed Autonomy Traffic: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Cathy Wu
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Enginerring
February 19, 2021
Incentivize safe driving: a RCT with behavioral information
Chris Knittel
George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics
February 12, 2021
Fall 2020
The Value of Time: Evidence From Auctioned Cab Rides
Tobias Salz
Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor
Friday, December 11, 2020
On demand urban aerial mobility planning: an adaptive discretization approach
Alexandre Jacquillat
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics
Friday, December 4, 2020
The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets
Jason Jackson
Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning
Friday, November 20, 2020
Transportation Systems Resilience
Saurabh Amin
Robert Noyce Associate Professor
Friday, November 13, 2020
Mobility services without carbon emissions
Jessika Trancik
Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Friday, November 6, 2020
The Inefficiency of Dynamic Pricing in Ridehailing Systems
Daniel Freund
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Friday, October 23, 2020
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Technical Options and Societal Choices
Bill Green
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering
Friday, October 16, 2020
Transportation Inequities: Whose Data Counts?
Tamika Butler
Transportation Consultant; former Executive Director of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust; former Director of Planning for California and the Director of Equity and Inclusion at Toole Design
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The Edge of Optimization: Large Scale Transportation Systems
Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Friday, October 9, 2020
Microlocation in Transit: The New York City Subway System
David Mindell
Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility, and Employment Policy: The Roads Ahead
John Leonard
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, September 25, 2020
The Social Consequences Of Mobility Systems
Sandy Pentland
Director, MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory and MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
Friday, September 18, 2020
Introducing the MIT Mobility Initiative
Jinhua Zhao
Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Friday, September 11, 2020