Principal Investigator P Zegras
Project Website http://smart.mit.edu/research/future-urban-mobility/future-urban-mobility.html
The mission of the Future of Urban Mobility Interdisciplinary Research Group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) or SMART FM, is to develop, in and beyond Singapore, new paradigms for the planning, design and operation of future urban mobility systems that simultaneously tackle two opposing objectives:
(*) to improve the safety, comfort, and time associated with transportation, getting individuals and goods where they need to be, when they need to be there; and(*) to reverse the alarming, unsustainable energy and environmental trends associated with transportation, and to devise transportation systems that materially enhance sustainability and societal well-being at a global scale.
Launched in 2007, the SMART has research groups in five areas: biosystems and micromechanics; environmental sensing and modeling; urban mobility; infectious diseases; and low-energy electronics systems.
The Future of Urban Mobility group has been in operation for five years. Professor Zegras was named the lead principal investigator SMART FM in October 2015.
Innovative urban mobility systems, aimed at both passengers and freight, will materially enhance sustainability and societal well-being on a global scale. The FM IRG will:
(*) harness and enhance promising networked computing and control (NCC) technology-enabled innovations that may contribute to improved future urban mobility;(*) develop decision models that can be applied to support various novel mobility concepts, such as the pervasive use of real-time information, mobility-on-demand services and green logistics;(*) investigate the potential and impacts of these innovations and decision models; and()* assess their implications for urban development and urban planning organisations and institutions.
Emphasis will be placed on innovations in public transport, but private automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic will also be addressed. The IRG will adopt approaches that integrate information on human and commercial activities, land use, transportation, environmental impacts, and energy use.