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

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

Public Perceptions of Autonomous Vehicle Safety: An International Comparison

July 2019

Joanna Moody, Jinhua Zhao

Car Pride and its Bidirectional Relations with Car Ownership: Case Studies in New York City and Houston

June 2019

Joanna Moody, Jinhua Zhao

From Traditional to Automated Mobility on Demand: A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling On-Demand Services in SimMobility

June 2019

Jimi Oke, Moshe Ben-Akiva

News

Can hydrogen become part of the climate solution?

The MIT Energy Initiative’s 2019 Spring Symposium investigates the resurgence of global interest in low-carbon hydrogen.

Elon Musk and the Tesla automation strategy: A disruptor in vehicle safety or not?

Forbes · April 28, 2019

In Forbes opinion piece, MIT research scientist and "Mobility of the Future" study member Bryan Reimer says driver attention and behavior remain critical elements.

The cost of self-driving cars will be the biggest barrier to their adoption

Harvard Business Review · January 31, 2019

People

Florian Allroggen Research Scientist

Aeronautics and Astronautics

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

David Keith Assistant Professor

Sloan School of Management

James Kirtley Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Karthish Manthiram Assistant 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

Karen Willcox 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