MIT Mobility Forum

The MIT Mobility Forum hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao showcases transportation research and innovation across the globe. The Forum is online and open to the public. Please register at Zoom beforehand.
Beyond our regular research presentations, we are introducing three new sub-series in fall 2023:
1. Women Leaders in Transportation
2. Wheel and Deals: Institutional Investment in Mobility
3. VC-Startup Synergy in Transportation

Engineering Ecosystems with AI
Sandy Pentland
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor;
Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director
September 15, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM


Funding US Transportation needs in an electric, post-gas tax world
Jim Aloisi and Bhuvan Atluri
Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning & Program Manager, MMI
September 22, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Demand-Responsive Microtransit: Design and Operations
Alexandre Jacquillat
Associate Professor, Operations Research and Statistics
September 29, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM


MIT Mobility Initiative: Three Years On
Jinhua Zhao & John Moavenzadeh
Founder & Faculty Director - MMI and Executive Director -MMI
October 6, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Women Leaders in Transportation: Mobility Forum Sub-series Co-Hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao and Hyun-A Park
Laura Chace, Hyun-A Park, Victoria Sheehan and Polly Trottenberg
President & CEO - ITS America, President - Spy Pond Partner & MIT Corporation Member, TRB Executive Director, US DOT Deputy Secretary
October 13, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Learning with Certificate Functions for Automotive Systems
Chuchu Fan
Wilson Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and PI of LIDS, MIT
October 20, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Cities, Mobility & Complexity in a Post-Pandemic World
Eric Miller
Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto
Director, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute
October 27, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Geopolitical Shifts: The Pivotal Role of China in Global Mobility
November 3, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles – Opportunities and Challenges
Harry Tuller
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
November 10, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Pedal, Power, and Tensions: A Panel Discussion on Micromobility and Cities
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Mike Frumin, Dave Montague, Tony Ho
Chief of Streets for City of Boston, Director of Product & Data Science at Lyft Transit/Bikes/Scooters, CEO at Metromobility, VP of Robotics & Business Development at Segway
November 17, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

The Evolving Role of Venture Capital in Mobility: Mobility Forum Sub-series
Martin Miodownik, Jessica Robinson, Laura Fox
Co-Founder & COO/CTO at NAVIT, Co-Founder & Partner at Assembly Ventures, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Streetlife Ventures
December 1, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Dan and Eva Roos Best Dissertation Award and Presentations
Baichuan Mo, Rounaq Basu & Karthik Gopalakrishnan
Dan and Eva Roos Awardees
December 8, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM


Wheel and Deals: Institutional Investment in Mobility, Mobility Forum Sub-series Co-Hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao and Jeff Shen
Jinhua Zhao and Jeff Shen
Founder & Faculty Director - MMI, Professor of Cities and Transportation; Co-CIO of Active Equity and Co-Head of Systematic Active Equity (SAE) at BlackRock
December 15, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Envisioning Profitable Autonomous Transit Networks
Alain Kornhauser
Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Director, Transportation Program, Princeton university
February 17, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Telemobility, Hybrid Work and the Next Normal
Hani Mahmassani
W. A. Patterson Chair in Transportation; Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center
February 24, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Tectonic shifts in science, technology, and industrial policy: looking ahead
Liz Reynolds & David Mindell
Lecturer, DUSP, MIT; Former Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the National Economic Council & MIT Professor, Executive Chairman at Humatics, Co-founder at Unless
March 3, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

Modelling Sustainable Options - the importance of habit and perceptions
Juan de Dios Ortuzar
Emeritus Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
March 10, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM

The case against transportation policy priority one being electrified personal cars
Robin Chase
co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco
March 17, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

From Reinforcement Learning to Sequential Decision Analytics with Applications in Transportation and Logistics
Warren Powell
Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, Chief Innovation Officer at Optimal Dynamics
March 24, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

How safe is safe enough for Autonomous Vehicles
Philip Koopman
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Author - How Safe Is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety
March 31, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Moving from Citations to Collective Wisdom in Travel Behavior Research
Joan Walker
Professor, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
April 7, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

What about pedestrians in urban mobility
Panel : Andres Sevtsuk, Peter Norton & Kris Carter
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning, MIT, Associate Professor of History Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia, & Chair, New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston
April 14, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Last-mile logistics on steroids: how to connect humans, machines, and algorithms to deliver to the future needs of consumers
Matthias Winkenbach
Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab & Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
April 21, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Traffic Management Challenges in Advanced Air Mobility
Hamsa Balakrishnan
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
April 28, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

AI and Public Transit
Jinhua Zhao
Director, MIT Mobility Initiative and Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
May 5, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Entrepreneurship Returning to Automotive Industry: Electric Vehicle as a case study
Charlie Fine
Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management at MIT Sloan
May 12, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM

Shifting Gears
Susan Handy
Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis
September 16, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM


Public Transit in the US : Challenges & Opportunities
Jim Aloisi & Fred Salvucci
Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning & Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate
September 23, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

Tough To Decarbonize Transportation : MIT Climate Grand Challenge
Steven Barrett & Bill Green
Director, Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment & Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering
September 30, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

The Future Of Working From Home
Prof. Nicholas Bloom
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics , Stanford
October 7, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

Roads, Transit, and the Denseness of São Paulo's Urban Development
Chris Zegras, Adriano Borges Costa, Siqi Zheng
Professor of Mobility and Urban Planning, Department Head DUSP & Post-doctoral Researcher & STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability
October 14, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

Credit-based Congestion Pricing for Win-Win Traffic Solutions
Kara Kockelman
Dewitt Greer Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering at UT, Austin
October 21, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

VISTA 2.0: An Open, Data-driven Simulator for Multimodal Sensing and Policy Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
Daniela Rus & Alexander Amini
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT & Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
October 28, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

New paths for solving emergent problems of the EV sector
John Paul MacDuffie
Professor of Management, Wharton
November 11, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Flexibility and coordination in on-demand transportation: from ride-sharing to micromobility
Alex Jacquillat
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Statistics
November 18, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Entry and Coordination in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Charging Industry
Jing Li
William Barton Rogers Career Development Professor of Energy Economics
December 2, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

EV Policy and Regulation As Seen by a Regulator, Academic, and Policy Wonk
Dan Sperling
Founding Director, ITS-Davis;Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Science
December 9, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

The Supply of AVs in Open Platforms
Daniel Freund
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
December 16, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Efficient Deep Learning for Automotive Applications
Song Han
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
February 11, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Regional Air Mobility: Initial Thoughts
David Mindell
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing
February 18, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Bumps along the Road to Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles
Donald Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry
February 25, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

Transit Oriented Development in Disruptive Time
Robert Cervero
Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
March 4, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

The Impact of Data Science on Freight Transportation Procurement
Chris Caplice
Executive Director, Center for Transportation & Logistics
March 11, 2022 at 5:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

Transportation from Earth to Space and back - latest developments
Olivier de Weck
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems
April 29, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

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 at 4:00:00 PM

Building Climate Resilience in Transportation System
Andrew Whittle
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
May 13, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

Building the Future of Transportation
Gill Pratt
Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research of Toyota Motor Corporation
May 20, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM

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
September 10, 2021 at 4:00:00 AM

Rethinking Traffic Flow with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Ennio Cascetta, Hani Mahmassani, Kaan Ozbay, Markos Papageorgiou, Steve Shladover and Moshe Ben-Akiva
September 17, 2021 at 4:00:00 AM

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
September 24, 2021 at 4:00:00 AM

Value-Sensitive Design in Mobility: A Conversation on Mobility Equity
Stephen Zoepf & Sarah Thornton
October 1, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM

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
October 8, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM

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
October 15, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM

Optimization under uncertainty for various transportation problems
Patrick Jaillet
Dugald C. Jackson Professor. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
October 22, 2021 at 11:00:00 PM

"Deep Neural Networks for Choice Analysis" Dan and Eva Roos Transportation Thesis Award Presentation
Shenhao Wang
October 29, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM

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
November 5, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM

Towards Zero-Carbon Cities (Kendall Square as a Case Study)
Kent Larson
Director of the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab
November 19, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Urban mobility: using mathematical models to predict where and how often we go
Carlo Ratti and Paolo Santi
December 3, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Understanding and Improving Transportation Systems
Thomas Magnanti
Institute Professor and a Professor of Operations Research
December 10, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Incentivize safe driving: a RCT with behavioral information
Chris Knittel
George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics
February 12, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Mixed Autonomy Traffic: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Cathy Wu
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Enginerring
February 19, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Navigating The New Transportation Demands Of An Aging Society
Joe Coughlin
Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab
February 26, 2021 at 5:00:00 PM

Crowdsourcing the Missing Crash Data
Sarah Williams
Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning; Chair, Urban Science & Computer Science Program
March 5, 2021 at 5:00:00 AM