Transit-Centric Smart Mobility System for High-Growth Urban Activity Centers: Improving Energy Efficiency through Machine Learning

Two images of the City of Boston, the top is in black and white and shows an older period of development before the Bid Dig, the second shows the infrastructure that has filled previous highway spaces after the Big Dig
Project Members
Engagement Method
Economics, Finance, Policy
Urban Science
Action Area
Energy and the Environment
Livelihoods
Mobility
Strategic Priority
Achieving Racial Justice
Closing the Wealth Gap
Tackling the Climate Crisis

A US Department of Energy sponsored project with teams from Northeastern University, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Chicago Transit Authority, and MIT. The MIT team will improve public transportation service quality, ridership, and energy efficiency by designing a Transit-centric Smart Mobility System platform. The platform created by this project will aid public transportation agencies in creating short-term operating plans and real-time control strategies that adapt to changing demand patterns and are resilient and responsive to disruptions. The MIT project will conduct field experiments to demonstrate the mobility and energy efficiency impacts in Boston and Chicago. The MIT team will work with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to measure their project impacts using the Mobility Energy Productivity (MEP) metric. 

Project Members
Engagement Method
Economics, Finance, Policy
Urban Science
Action Area
Energy and the Environment
Livelihoods
Mobility