A future of shared mobility
MIT and Uber team up to study the potential for shared rides and vehicles to reshape urban mobility.
New plan refreshes MIT’s home for planning
Samuel Tak Lee Building filled with light and life after summer renovations.
Measuring exposure to pollution
Mobile-phone data helps researchers study an urban problem in greater detail.
Cities of tomorrow
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
When slower is faster
Study: Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently.
Real-time epidemiology from urban wastewater
MIT and Kuwait researchers have been awarded $4 million to fund Underworlds, a study of real-time epidemiology using biomarkers in urban sewage.
Carlo Ratti appointed as advisor to European Commission
Urban planning professor will advise on smart cities.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
3 Questions: Carlo Ratti on big data and health predictions
MIT researcher discusses a new study on correlations among medical problems.
Ride-sharing could cut cabs’ road time by 30 percent
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City.
Study: Commuting times stay constant even as distances change
Research on urban mobility shows how transportation options let commuters limit time in transit.
Achieving energy efficiency with “Local Warming”
MIT researchers develop a system that creates personalized climates around individuals — an alternative to heating entire buildings.
The Internet of medical things
Stephen Miles helps to bring the benefits of serialized identification systems to translational medicine and research.
Social media’s ‘law’ of short messages
Study shows a regular decline in length of social media messaging during public events as the volume of messages increases.
Telecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
New study uses network data to show communication patterns and divisions in many major nations.