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How tech is set to change travel and transport
11:53 AM ET Fri, 8 Nov 2019 From seamless travel to tailored experiences. What are the big ideas and innovations set to transform the travel and transport sector? CNBC Nancy Hungerford sits down with Angel Llull Mancas VP and Managing Director Asia Pacific at Booking.com and Christopher Zegras, Lead Principle Investigator at Singapore-MIT Alliance for…
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Towards an autonomous future (guest blog post)
Blog post based upon a presentation at CoreNet Global (Corporate Real Estate) Conference in Singapore.
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Mayor Enrique Alfaro visits MIT for students’ final presentation from Guadalajara TOD class
On Friday, 8 December, 2017, the Honorable Enrique Alfaro, Mayor of México’s second largest city, Guadalajara, visited MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The Mayor and members of his team came to participate in students’ final presentation from the graduate class, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Guadalajara, which identified TOD strategies around the city’s…
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CoAXs in the (MIT) News (Celebrating completion of TransitCenter Project!)
A new digital tool developed by an MIT team lets people design alterations to transit networks and estimate the resulting improvements, based on existing data from urban transit systems. (Check out the CoAXs Website)
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Digitalization: Opportunities for New Forms of Participation in Urban Transportation Planning
Video of Webinar hosted by Meeting of the Minds.
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Bridging Divides in International Transportation Planning
From an interview series made possible by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. Each month Meeting of the Minds features someone from VREF’s Future Urban Transport program. April’s issue featured Chris Zegras.
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Open Data and Open Source: Towards Partcipatory Urban Planning? (in Spanish)
An opinion article in the Chilean Newspaper La Tercera, co-written by Juan Carlos Muñoz, Lake Sagaris and Chris Zegras.
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Mexico City Transit-Oriented Development class
In the Spring semester, 2016, 16 MIT graduate students (and one Harvard GSD student) participated in a Practicum class (taught in workshop format) focused on the development and implementation of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Mexico City. The practicum explored the relationship between the city’s mass transit infrastructure and services and the planning and design of their…
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“Citify” – Award-winning documentary celebrating 30 years of Beijing Studio
‘Citify’ by Elyse Frenchman Wins Award in Best Women Filmmakers at Hollywood International Independent Documentary Film Awards. This short film charts the 30 year history of MIT’s Joint Urban Design Studio with Tsinghua University, against the backdrop of drastic urbanization in China. It features a number of MIT and Tsinghua faculty and students and…
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Driverless Cars: What Will They Change – and When?
An audience of approximately 250 gathered Monday, June 13th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a forum exploring the transformative technology of autonomous vehicles and their likely impacts.The forum was moderated by MAPC’s Executive Director, Marc Draisen. Sponsored by MAPC and Transportation for Massachusetts (T4Mass), the event featured an expert panel from both the public…
