Cooperative Mobility
Program
The Cooperative Mobility Program (CMP) brings together transportation
scholars from MIT and other universities with private sector specialists
and corporate sponsors to explore current and future issues of worldwide
mobility.
CMP proposes a new vision: a sustainable multimodal transportation
system that will provide the mobility necessary to foster global
economic development compatible with social needs and environmental
concerns.
CMP is grounded in empirical research on travel behavior, technological
approaches, and public policies that affect mobility in both developed
and developing countries. The program compiles an annual Mobility
Observatory that tracks innovative developments in transportation
policy, management, and technology.
Other research projects include forecasts of worldwide demand for
mobility; implications of transportation trends for controlling
greenhouse gas emissions; trajectories of motorization in developing
countries; public policies to control transportation-related regional
air quality; impacts of intelligent transportation systems on mobility;
land use policies to control and shape transportation demand; and
innovative public transit policies.
Outreach
CMP communicates research results widely through publications and
research conferences such as Traffic Congestion: A Global Perspective,
a June 1999 MIT conference on new strategies for moving people and
goods in the 21st century.
CMP findings on mobility innovation are reported in Kenneth Orski,
International Mobility Observatory, 3rd. ed. June 1999.
Recent discussion papers include "Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Automobiles-Technology
and Costs," "Special Prospects for Mobility Enhancement in Cities
of the Developing World: The Performance of Land Use Planning and
High Volume Public Transport," "Scenarios Toward Understanding the
Future of Mobility," and "Portland Oregon: Land Use as a Mobility
Tool."
Faculty and Staff
Daniel
Roos, Director
Associate Dean for Engineering Systems; Japan Steel Industry Professor
of Engineering
Arnold
Howitt, Executive Director
Executive Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government,
Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University
Ralph
A. Gakenheimer, Professor of Urban Planning and Civil and Environmental
Engineering
John Heywood,
Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering
John
Miller, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fred Salvucci, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation Studies
Andreas Schafer, Principal Research Engineer
Qing
Shen, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Joseph
Sussman, JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nigel
Wilson, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alan Altshuler,
Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government; Ruth and
Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University
Joseph
F. Coughlin, Director; New England University Transportation
Center, MIT Center for Transportation Studies
Meinrad
K. Eberle, Director; Paul Scherrer Institute Professor, ETH,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Jose
A. Gomez-Ibanez, Derek Bok Professor of Urban Policy and Planning,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Charles
Lave, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
David Luberoff,
Associate Director; Taubman Center for State and Local Government,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Katsutoshi
Ohta, Professor of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo
C. Kenneth Orski, President, Urban Mobility Corporation
Remy Prudhomme, Professor and Director, OEIL, Universite de Paris
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Sponsors
Akebono Brake Co. Ltd., Japan
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Germany
Robert Bosch Corporation
DaimlerChrysler AG,
Germany
EDF (Electricite
de France), France
Fiat S.P.A., Italy
Ford Motor Company
General Motors Corporation
Honda Motor Company, Ltd.
Renault S. A, France
Toyota Motor Corporation
TRW, Inc.
US Steel
United Technologies Corporation
Volkswagen
AG, Germany
AB Volvo, Sweden
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