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Looking beyond smart cities
Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Space Exploration Initiative
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
A discussion of the future of public transportation, with a highlight of the Autonomous Bicycle project led by PhD student Naroa Coretti.
Space Exploration Initiative director Ariel Ekblaw speaks with WIRED’s Ramin Skibba about the beginning and future of space tourism.
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
Wise Systems has grown from an MIT class project to a company helping multinationals improve last-mile logistics.
Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…
NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.
Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, Luis Alonso Pastor, and Kent Larson. "Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems." 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Congratulations to City Science researchers Alex Berke, Jason Nawyn, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, and group head Kent Larson!
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.
CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The sit…
Ariel Ekblaw and Charles Bolden consider the future of human spaceflight.
Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.
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MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordinat…
Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.
To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potentia…
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the e…
Noyman, Ariel, Agnis Stibe, and Kent Larson. "Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces." (2017).
The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – …
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…
Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
Y. Leng, L. Rudolph, A.S. Pentland, J. Zhao, H.N. Koutsopolous: "Managing travel demand: Location recommendation for system eciency based on mobile phone data". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
Alhasoun, Fahad, et al. "The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics." 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014). UrbComp: New York, NY. 2014.