MIT Mobility Forum
The MIT Mobility Forum showcases the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. The Forum is online and open to all. Please register at Zoom beforehand.
SPRING 2023

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 Berkley
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
FALL 2022

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
SPRING 2022
FALL 2021
Spring 2021

Part I: Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networks
Part II: 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
May 28, 2021