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In 2025, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts convened the Special Commission on Micromobility to examine the rapid emergence of lightweight m…
Shared autonomous bicycles could transform how we move through cities, but their impact depends on how they are designed and integrated. Th…
Cities exist to concentrate access to opportunities. A systematic approach to assessing how each person experiences this access is a p…
In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…
Gipuzkoa as a 30-minute accessible region Gipuzkoa is a unique region characterized by a dispersed population along the coast and…
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
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Ride into the Future: Discover the MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project!NOTE: This version of the website has been specifically designed for the …
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system—e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each …
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were …
Breathing Planet is an actuated expandable object that uses an iris structure as the underlying mechanism. It has a light source in the cen…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…