Topic
Traffic management
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How many taxis does a city need?
New dispatching approach could cut the number of cars on the road while meeting rider demand.
May 23, 2018 -
3 Questions: Chris Zegras on designing your city’s transit system
MIT-designed tool lets people test realistic changes to local transit networks.
December 8, 2017 -
A simple solution for terrible traffic
Study: Without HOV policies, urban traffic gets much, much worse.
July 6, 2017 -
Sharing the fares
Very different cities have similar potential for ride sharing, study finds.
March 6, 2017 -
MIT awarded Dept. of Energy grant to create and deploy energy-saving travel information and incentives system
$4 million grant will determine whether travel choices can be influenced by data and rewards to save energy.
August 6, 2015 -
Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
March 31, 2015 -
New way to predict how traffic will flow
Model provides a more accurate tool for city planning, emergency evacuations, tracking disease spread.
November 6, 2014 -
Reducing traffic congestion, remotely
System that would wirelessly route drivers around congested roadways wins best-paper award.
September 15, 2014 -
Ride-sharing could cut cabs’ road time by 30 percent
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City.
September 1, 2014 -
Traffic lights: There’s a better way
MIT researchers develop an improved system for timing of urban lights to minimize commuting times.
July 7, 2014 -
Forbes magazine highlights SMART research on robotaxis
Professor Emilio Frazzoli co-authors paper on automated mobility-on-demand systems in Singapore
May 7, 2014 -
HuMNet Lab students win big at MIT Big Data Challenge
Urban transportation expertise gave team the edge to earn first- and second-place prizes in different categories.
April 3, 2014 -
Eliminating unexplained traffic jams
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.
October 28, 2013 -
Study shows that people organize daily travel efficiently
A population-level study discovers small-scale details about individuals’ choices.
May 8, 2013 -
Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups
Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
December 20, 2012 -
At a crossroads
New research predicts which cars are likeliest to run lights at intersections.
November 30, 2011 -
Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphone
A network of dashboard-mounted phones can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting.
August 25, 2011