Recent and Current Projects on Transportation
and Built Environment Interactions
Below are some recent relevant projects.
Related projects can also be found under research in transportation finance and transportation energy use and
greenhouse gas emissions.
Strategic
Options for Integrating Transportation Innovations and Urban Revitalization
Undertaken as part of the MIT Portugal Program,
this project seeks to leverage the interactions between transportation
innovations and the built environment to promote desirable urban development
patterns and travel outcomes. Project
details and working papers can be found here.
MIT students involved: Angelo
Guevara (PhD Candidate, Transportation, CEE), Lisa Rayle (MCP/MST10), Andres Sevtsuk
(PhD Candidate, DUSP), Weifeng Li (PhD Candidate,
DUSP), Grafton Daniels (UROP, EECS), Christos Samolis
(UROP, EECS), Robert Powell (MSRP 2009), Laura Viña
Arias (MSRP 2009)
Faculty collaborators: António
P. Antunes (FCTUC, Portugal), Joseph Ferreira
(MIT-DUSP), Rosário Macário (IST, Portugal), José M. Viegas (IST, Portugal)
Travel Behavior of the Aging Boomers: Evidence from
Age-Restricted Communities
Undertaken with support from the New England UTC,
this project aims to improve our understanding of baby boomers’ travel behavior and
residential preferences, via a focus on age restricted communities in suburban
MIT students involved: Frank Hebbert (MCP08), Cha-Ly Koh
(MCP09), Jae Seung Lee (PhD Student, DUSP), Victoria
Ruiz (MSRP 2007), Lamont Cobb (MSRP 2008)
Faculty collaborators: Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT-DUSP)
Gated
Communities and Travel Behavior: Evidence from a Latin American Metropolis
Undertaken with support from a MIT Humanities, Arts, and
Social Sciences (HASS)
Fund grant, this research explores the influence of gated communities on
household travel behavior in Santiago de Chile.
The work includes design and implementation of a small-scale household travel
and residential preferences survey in the comuna
of Puente Alto. Data analysis and
behavioral modeling are ongoing.
MIT students involved: Catherine Seaborn (MCP/MST08),
Rodrigo Diaz (MCP08)
The
Accessibility and Development Impacts of New Transit Infrastructure:
The Circle Line in
Undertaken as part of the MIT/Transit Professional
Development Program’s ongoing collaboration
with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), this work developed and demonstrated
a framework and methodology for quantifying the accessibility and development
impacts of a transit infrastructure project, the proposed Circle Line,
providing an example of how to improve the current Federal Transit Agency (FTA)
evaluation methodology. Resulting thesis
can be found here.
MIT students involved: Ritesh Warade
(MCP/MST07)
Faculty collaborators: Mikel Murga (CEE-MIT)