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Personalization of future urban mobility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
In the past few years, we have been experiencing rapid growth of new mobility solutions fueled by a myriad of innovations in technologies such as automated vehicles and in business models such as shared-ride services. The ...
Measuring car pride and its implications for car ownership and use across individuals, cities, and countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
As the world recognizes that its growing reliance on private, fossil fuel-based vehicles is unsustainable, understanding how to avoid growth in car ownership and how to shift current users towards more efficient, ...
Advancing accessibility : public transport and urban space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
After decades of academic research, urban accessibility metrics are beginning to see adoption in transportation and metropolitan planning practice. Such metrics capture the potential for reaching destinations enabled by ...
Resilient operations of smart highways : platooning, ramp metering, and incident management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Highway systems have witnessed a significant modernization in recent years due to the deployment of traffic sensing and control capabilities. In addition, the ongoing developments in connected and autonomous vehicle ...
Online calibration for simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment : towards large-scale and real-time performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The severity of traffic congestion is increasing each year in the US, resulting in higher travel times, and increased energy consumption and emissions. They have led to an increasing emphasis on the development of tools ...
Uncovering individual mobility patterns from Transit Smart Card data : trip prediction, activity inference, and change detection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
While conventional travel survey data are limited in sample size and observation period, recent advances in urban sensing technologies afford the opportunity to collect traces of individual mobility at a large scale and ...
Real-time operations planning and control of high-frequency transit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
High-frequency transit systems are essential for the socioeconomic and environmental well-being of large and dense cities. The planning and control of their operations are important determinants of service quality. Transit ...
Real-time personalized toll optimization based on traffic predictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Road pricing is a traffic congestion management strategy that alters traffic demand and raises funds for transportation supply improvements. Compared to static pricing and reactive dynamic pricing, proactive dynamic pricing ...
Modeling personal vehicle energy consumption to assess the potential for electrification and decarbonization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis develops a new model of the energy requirements of personal vehicle travel and uses it to evaluate tools to decarbonize the transport sector. Energy use and carbon emissions from transportation are spread across ...
Navigating congested cities : understanding urban mobility using new data sources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Rapid urbanization and technological innovations sparked the generation of massive volumes of data that is continually improving in resolution. In particular, mobile phones, having reached penetration levels above 97% in ...