Mobility Futures Collaborative

A research initiative that focuses on collaborative approaches, leveraging various analog and digital data collection and analysis tools, to mobilize a collective intelligence towards improved mobility conditions in a range of contexts around the world. We work with partners from around MIT and around the world, including: Megacities Logistics Laboratory, Intelligent Transportation Lab, TransitLab, BRT COE, SMART-FM, just to name a few.

Research focuses on three basic inter-related areas fundamental to ensuring that mobility systems can enhance human development and quality of life:

(*) Behavior -- understanding the way people and goods move through cities, the types of vehicles they own and use, where they decide to locate, etc.
(*) Modeling -- translating behavioral knowledge into predictions about how the system might evolve and respond to changes and interventions.
(*) Strategy -- devising, demonstrating and assessing new ways of skillfully adapting knowledge into successful plans and policies for more sustainable mobility.

Underlying this work in these areas, focus is also on digitalization, the ongoing evolution of communications, media, and computational technologies dramatically changing the ways we can understand, simulate, and act on mobility systems.