Transportation

Research on sustainable forms of transportation, aiming to reduce emissions, fossil fuel consumption, and impact on the environment

Orlando Ward Santos '17, Team Captain of MIT's Formula SAE team at the Edgerton Center Credit: Landon Carter

Getting the world off dirty diesels

Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks

Cost-competitive electric vehicles that go the distance

Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models

Mobility of the Future

On the Road toward 2050

Three paths forward for light-duty vehicles

Publications

Recharging Systems and Business Operations to Improve the Economics of Electrified Taxi Fleets

February 2020

Transportation Policymaking in Beijing and Shanghai: Contributors, Obstacles, and Process

December 2019

Transportation Policy Profiles of Chinese City Clusters: A Mixed Methods Approach

December 2019

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Florian Allroggen Research Scientist

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MIT Energy Initiative

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering

Bentley Clinton Postdoctoral Associate

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research; MIT Energy Initiative

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

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Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Nuclear Science and Engineering

Charles Fine Professor

Sloan School of Management

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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

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Mechanical Engineering

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MIT Energy Initiative

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

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Sloan School of Management

James Kirtley Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Karthish Manthiram Professor

Chemical Engineering

Joanna Moody Research Program Manager, Mobility Systems Center

MIT Energy Initiative

Georgia Perakis Professor

Sloan School of Management

Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Sanjay Sarma Vice President for Open Learning

Mechanical Engineering

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yogesh Surendranath Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Nigel Wilson Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Matthias Winkenbach Research Scientist

Center for Transportation & Logistics

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Jinhua Zhao Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning