Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
AgeLab and New England University Transportation Center Director Joe Coughlin speaks on driving successfully as we age.
Energy 101: Biofuels
Energy 101: Biofuels
In this short video, Dr. Mark Mba Wright gives a broad overview of biofuels: from what they are to their technological requirements and challenges.
Transportation@MIT Data Hack-a-thon: Presentations
Transportation@MIT Data Hack-a-thon: Presentations
Transportation@MIT organized the first data hack-a-thon event, where talents with different skill sets gather and develop projects using transportation-related data
The City Car
The City Car
Conversation with Ryan Chin, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about the CityCar electric automobile.
Autonomous Driving/Charging Lots
Autonomous Driving/Charging Lots: A Conversation with Ryan Chin
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility
Corporate Opportunities in Urban Mobility: A Conversation with Ryan Chin
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
Mobility on Demand
Mobility on Demand: A Conversation with Ryan Chin
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
Urban Mobility and Electrification of Transport
Urban Mobility and Electrification of Transport: A Conversation with Ryan ...
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
Commemorating 20 Years of the JR East Fellowship
Commemorating 20 Years of the JR East Fellowship
A special event on Oct. 13, 2011 celebrated the 20th anniversary of the East Japan Railway Company Professorship at MIT — which is currently held by Engineering Systems Division Interim Director Joseph Sussman. The event included remarks from Sussman, JR East ...
Vehicle Design Summit
Vehicle Design Summit
In 2006, Anna Jaffe '07, Robyn Allen '07 and Nii Armar '06, SM '09, launched the Vehicle Design Summit, a collaboration that included 25 college teams from across the globe to build within three years a plug-in electric hybrid car. More than 50 students from 21 universities came to MIT to ...
CO2GO
CO2GO
A project by the SENSEable City Lab, MIT. Today, more than a third of global CO2 emissions are generated by transportation. CO2GO, a new type of smartphone application, is an effective tool that assists in making smarter individual transportation choices to collectively reduce carbon ...
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group ...
Marta Gonzalez
Marta Gonzalez
June 14, 2011 - Marta C. Gonzalez ntegrates methods of complex systems with statistical physics approaches, computational sciences, geographic information systems and network theory to characterize and model human dynamics. Her current research explores human mobility patterns using mobile ...
Beyond the Tailpipe: Particulate Matter Pollution from ...
Beyond the Tailpipe: Particulate Matter Pollution from Vehicular Emissions
04/26/2011 4:00 PM Jesse Kroll, Assistant Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering; Description: It turns out that the exhaust exiting a car's tailpipe is just the first part of a complex journey of pollutants that scientists like Jesse ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: ...
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: Application to Energy ...
04/12/2011 4:00 PM Youssef Marzouk, Assistant Professor; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Description: In search of better"burning fuels, or more accurate projections of climate change, researchers inevitably work through multiple models, sometimes at great ...
The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The ...
The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The Machine
04/05/2011 4:00 PM Daniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Description: The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of ...
03/29/2011 4:00 PM Noelle Eckley Selin, Assistant Professor; Engineering Systems Division; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDescription: It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin ...
Lost in Boston: Realtime
Lost in Boston: Realtime
Rick Borovoy explains the benefits of displaying relevant community information -- such as realtime bus location data -- using inexpensive displays in public-private spaces like coffeeshops.