Principal Investigator P Zegras
Co-investigators Eran Ben-Joseph , Joseph Ferreira , Ralph Gakenheimer , Carlo Ratti , William Wheaton
Project Website http://scripts.mit.edu/~czegras/transport/?p=01.Home
Within MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), transportation serves as one of the cross-cutting research/education areas, since transportation links to all elements of DUSP's Program Groups: housing and community economic development, environment, city design, and international development. Students interested in transportation have several paths to fulfill their academic and professional interests, both within DUSP and across MIT. Students pursue their transportation interests from a broad range of perspectives -- focusing on policy, finance, modeling, design, and more.
Students studying and conducting research in transportation at DUSP work with a range of faculty and researchers, both within the Department and across MIT. The broad range allows students to draw on expertise in urban planning and design, public transportation infrastructure and services, intelligent transportation systems, information and communication technologies, transportation economics, airports and air transportation systems, among other relevant disciplines.
Many faculty and researchers in DUSP have transportation-related research and teaching interests.
Previous transportation research included sustainable transportation and environmental quality in Mexico City and Bangkok, network modeling with the Malaysian University of Science and Technology, and the planning, policy, and design of the Tren Urbano project in San Juan, Puerto Rico.