Transportation

Graduate student Tianli Zhou (left) during a lab meeting. Zhou is studying how to make transportation systems more efficient, particularly through vehicle-sharing services.

Designing vehicle-sharing networks

Graduate student Tianli Zhou works to make transportation systems more efficient.

January 23, 2018

Bryan Reimer, an AgeLab research scientist and the associate director of the New England University Transportation Center, will be honored for his work developing a better understanding of how people engage with vehicle automation.

MIT AgeLab's Bryan Reimer wins Autos2050 award

Reimer is recognized for his work in creating a data-driven understanding of how people engage with vehicle automation.

January 17, 2018

“The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can change people’s lives for the better,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz.

Changing lives with heart, humor, and engineering

MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Nick Schwartz wants to solve the energy problem — and make people smile along the way.

January 3, 2018

A new digital tool developed by an MIT team lets people design alterations to transit networks and estimate the resulting improvements, based on existing data from urban transit systems.

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

The Terzo Millenio, or Third Millennium, concept car from Lamborghini marks an ambitious collaboration between the Italian automaker and researchers at MIT.

MIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future

Research from the Dinca and Hart labs, paired with Lamborghini’s “hypercar” concept, will result in the Terzo Millenio, an electric sports car for the third millennium.

November 17, 2017

A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as measured by the phone’s microphone and accelerometers. “We’re listening to the car’s breathing, and listening for when it starts to snore,” Joshua Siegel says.

Let your car tell you what it needs

MIT team develops software that can tell if tires need air, spark plugs are bad, or air filter needs replacing.

October 25, 2017

Left to right: Jarrod Goentzel of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, Kathy Fulton of the American Logistics Aid Network, and Michael Rettig of the nonprofit LIFT break for lunch after a private sector supply chain coordination call in a FEMA conference room.

MIT researchers respond to hurricanes Irma and Maria

The Humanitarian Response Lab works with FEMA to optimize public and private sector supply chains serving hurricane-affected areas.

October 20, 2017

CityScope Andorra is a 3-D augmented-reality platform that visualizes complex urban data on a small-scale model of the country. Users can interactively test scenarios on the model, such as how many parks to include in a city, adjust heights of buildings, calculate the optimal mix of residential and commercial real estate, and whether to allow private vehicles or only car-share services. The impact...

Small European nation becomes a “living lab” for urban innovation researchers

Andorra funds MIT Media Lab technologies that, in turn, help improve the nation’s cities.

October 13, 2017

The new MIT Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) will streamline the organization of materials research on campus and enhance collaboration, Vice President for Research Maria Zuber (center) says. To Zuber’s left is MRL Director Carl Thompson, the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. They are joined by newly named MRL Co-Director Geoffrey Beach, who is an associate pro...

Introducing the Materials Research Laboratory at MIT

Materials Processing Center, Center for Materials Science and Engineering merger brings together formidable resources for advancing next-generation materials.

October 10, 2017

Lincoln Laboratory researchers pose with the LASSOS sensors: (l-r) Emily Clemons, Tom Reynolds, and Brad Crowe of the Air Traffic Control Systems Group; Erin Tomlinson, Rich Westhoff, Brian Saar, Michael Joffe, and John Flint of the Laser Technology and Applications Group.

Developing sensors to defend aircraft against lasers

MIT Lincoln Laboratory team is working on ground-based cameras that detect sources of laser beam attacks on aircraft and may lessen dangers for pilots.

September 28, 2017

Texas Army National Guardsmen help Houston residents affected by flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey board a military vehicle. "With an event like this," says MIT associate professor of urban planning Brent Ryan, "it becomes viscerally evident which residential areas are absolutely not safe from even moderate flooding."

3 Questions: Brent Ryan on Hurricane Harvey’s implications for U.S. cities

Stranded in Houston by hurricane floodwaters, an MIT associate professor sees firsthand how design and policy decisions affected the storm’s impact.

September 1, 2017

New hybrid gas-to-electric drones from MIT spinout Top Flight Technologies offer an order-of-magnitude increase in range, payload size, and power over battery-powered counterparts. The drones may pave the way for package delivery and human flight.

Hybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances

Startup’s gas-electric engines may pave way for package delivery and human flight.

August 4, 2017

"Something I’ve recommended is for the Tour de France to have [recumbent bicycles] start prior to the regular upright bicycles," says Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson. "It would be very exciting to add this element, since recumbents are not only faster, but safer, so you wouldn’t see the domino-style pile-ups that often occur."

David Gordon Wilson's lifelong love of the bicycle

MIT emeritus professor, designer, and inventor, is set to release the fourth edition of his popular book, "Bicycling Science," known as the "bike bible."

July 25, 2017

Localizing ground-penetrating radar (LGPR) developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory uses inherently stable subsurface features and their geolocation to locate a vehicle, even in adverse weather conditions. Below the surface, an earlier map can be seen in gray on the left, while a current scan is shown in light blue under the vehicle, and the registered data is shown in blue and green behind the vehicle...

Lincoln Laboratory enters licensing agreement to produce its localizing ground-penetrating radar

Commercial prototypes of the system will be available to the self-driving vehicle industry.

July 18, 2017

"Eliminating high-occupancy vehicle restrictions led to substantially worse traffic," says economics professor Ben Olken. "That’s not shocking, but the magnitudes are just enormous."

A simple solution for terrible traffic

Study: Without HOV policies, urban traffic gets much, much worse.

July 6, 2017

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