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.
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.
The most efficient car-sharing, researchers find, also includes shuttle services.
Laboratory crash tests show both vulnerabilities and ways to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries used in electric and hybrid vehicles.
MIT researchers find vehicle efficiency standards are at least six times more costly than a tax on fuel.
A chat with Eran Ben-Joseph, the new head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Karplus, Paltsev honored for their study on the impacts of vehicle efficiency standards.
Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
MIT researchers show merits of a carbon tax.
A new approach to processing ‘big data’ creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently.
AgeLab study suggests ‘humanist’ lettering style is easier for drivers to read quickly.
MIT Sloan Fellow talks about the concept of car sharing.
Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe.
A new algorithm lets networks of Wi-Fi-connected cars, whose layout is constantly changing, share a few expensive links to the Internet.