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

Research

Cost-competitive electric vehicles that go the distance

Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models

Mobility of the Future

Examining future changes in the transportation sector

On the Road toward 2050

Three paths forward for light-duty vehicles

Publications

Journal Articles

Personal Vehicles Evaluated Against Climate Change Mitigation Targets

September 2016

Jessika Trancik

Reports and Studies

On the Road toward 2050

December 2015

Journal Articles

Self-bearing motor design & control

June 2013

David Trumper

News

The problem with electric cars? Not enough chargers

The Wall Street Journal

The Future of European Transit: Driverless and Utilitarian

New York Times

Tackling air pollution in China

People

Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Wai Cheng Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Michael Driscoll Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Charles Fine Professor

Sloan School of Management

Abbas Ghandi Research Staff

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

James Kirtley Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Georgia Perakis Professor

Sloan School of Management

Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yogesh Surendranath Associate Director, CCUS center; Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Karen Willcox Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Nigel Wilson Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Jinhua Zhao Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning