MIT 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.

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

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

New statistical paradigms for optimizing transportation
Patrick Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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)

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 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
Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Co-Editor in Chief Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice; Emeritus Professor, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

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

Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networks and 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
Fall 2020 events

Introducing the MIT Mobility Initiative
Jinhua Zhao
Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

The Social Consequences Of Mobility Systems
Sandy Pentland
Director, MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory and MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program

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

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.

The Edge of Optimization: Large Scale Transportation Systems
Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

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

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Technical Options and Societal Choices
Bill Green
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering

The Inefficiency of Dynamic Pricing in Ridehailing Systems
Daniel Freund
Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Community Discussion: Addressing Transportation Conundrums

Mobility services without carbon emissions
Jessika Trancik
Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Transportation Systems Resilience
Saurabh Amin
Robert Noyce Associate Professor

The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets
Jason Jackson
Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning