RESEARCH:: Strategic Planning:: Projects
This project aims to develop an integrated, activity-based micro-simulation capability in an open source setting and building from existing software, such as MITSIMLab, DynaMIT-P, and UrbanSim. The objective is to have a behaviorally consistent representation of household and firm activities, taking advantage of advanced parallelized computing power, to enhance possibilities for predicting how the urban system will respond to a range of investment, policy and other interventions.
MIT students involved: Shan Jiang (PhD, DUSP), Weixuan Li (MCP13), Varun Pattabhiraman (PhD, Transportation), Yunke Xiang (MCP13), Jingsi Xu (PhD, DUSP), Yi Zhu, (PhD, DUSP)
SMART collaborators: Francisco Pereira, Caitlin Cottrill (postdoc), Sybil Derrible (postdoc)
MIT faculty collaborators: Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT, CEE), Joseph Ferreira (MIT, DUSP), Li-Shiuan Peh (MIT, CSAIL)
External partners: Der-Horng Lee (NUS), Gary Tan (NUS)
Sponsor: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Future Urban Mobility (FM)
iTEAM – Integrated Transportation Energy and Activity-Based Model 2009-present
A project seeking to develop an integrated capability to measure and simulate the energy and resource use associated with activities in the urban setting. Work includes experimental use of in-home energy metering, smartphone-based activity sensing, and web-based interfaces to gather data to calibrate behavioral models, a range of digital data sources to validate such models, and application of urban metabolism-based evaluation frameworks for assessment purposes. Closely linked to SimMobility (above) and SOTUR (below).
MIT students involved: Anwar Ghauche (MST10), Jae Seung Lee (PhD, DUSP), Laura Viña (MCP/MST12)
MIT faculty involved: Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT, CEE), Marta Gonzalez (MIT, CEE)
External partners: Francisco Pereira (Univ. Coimbra, SMART FM), Ana Maria de Almeida (Univ. Coimbra)
Related theses: Ghauche
Sponsors: MITEI planning grant; MIT Portugal Program
Strategic Options for Integrating Transport and Urban Revitalization 2008-present
This project seeks to leverage the land use-transportation interaction to identify viable strategies urban revitalization in Portuguese cities. The work includes stakeholder-based scenario planning exercises to elaborate alternative possible futures for which strategies will be tested, the development of an integrated land use-transportation model calibrated for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and the development and application of a multi-dimensional evaluation framework for performance assessment.
MIT students involved: Angelo Guevara (PhD10, Transportation), Shan Jiang (PhD, DUSP), Jae Seung Lee (PhD, DUSP), Weifeng Li (PhD, DUSP), Lisa Rayle (MCP/MST10), Yi Zhu (PhD, DUSP), Megan Bowman (SB, DUSP), Robert Powell (MSRP09, MST12), Laura Viña (MSRP09, MCP/MST12)
MIT postdocs: Marianne Hatzopoulou
MIT Faculty Collaborators: Joseph Ferreira (DUSP)
External partners: António Pais Antunes (Univ. Coimbra), Rosário Macário (Instituto Superior Técnico-Lisbon), Bruno Santos (Univ. Coimbra)
Visiting students: Luis Martinez (PhD, IST), Maria Spandou (PhD, IST), Ashenafi Weldemichael (PhD, Coimbra), Peter Goodings Swartz (MSc, EPFL)
Related Theses: Guevara, Rayle
Papers: see here
Sponsor: MIT Portugal Program
