MOBILITY INTIATIVE EVENTS
MIT MOBILITY
VISION DAY
MIT's annual Mobility Vision Day showcases the latest research and innovation in the realm of transportation. The event convenes leaders and thinkers from across the globe representing the public, private, and non-profit sectors to encourage cross-sector collaboration in setting a research agenda driving innovation that creates a transportation system that is more sustainable, equitable, and efficient.
MOBILITY
FORUM
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at www.mobilityinitiative.mit.edu/forum.
LEADERSHIP IN MOBILITY INNOVATION
A series of dialogues between entrepreneurs and faculty members to offer insights into the diverse frameworks and opportunities for innovation within the field of mobility. More details can be found at www.mobilityinitiative.mit.edu/entrepreneurshipdialogue.
Mobility Forum
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MMI Senior Fellows 2025 Presentations - Part 1 of 2
David Zipper | Stephanie Pollack | Kara Kockelman
MMI Senior Fellows 2025
December 5, 2025 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
School Transportation
Duncan McIntyre | Joanna McFarland
CEO, Highland Electric Fleets | Co-Founder & CEO, HopSkipDrive
December 19, 2025 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Dan & Eva Roos Best Dissertation Award Presentation & MMI Senior Fellows 2025 Presentations - Part 2 of 2
Kamessi Zhao | Adam Grosser | Jamey Tesler
Dan & Eva Roos Best Thesis Award 2025 Winner | MMI Senior Fellows 2025
December 12, 2025 at 5:00:00 PM
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AV Adoption in Cities
Tilly Chang | Stephanie Dock | Rachel Castignoli
Executive Director, San Francisco County Transportation Authority | Innovation Division Manager, District Department of Transportation, DC | Senior Business Process Consultant, City of Austin
October 10, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Re-examining our Streets: Engineering and Safety
Charles Marohn | Wes Marshall | Leah Shahum
Author, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer & Founder of Strong Towns | Author, Killed by a Traffic Engineer & Professor, University of Colorado Denver | Founder & Executive Director, Vision Zero Network
September 12, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
MIT Mobility Forum sub-series: Women in Transportation Tech
Hyun-A Park | Sampriti Bhattacharya | Robin Chase | Kristin White
President, Spy Pond Partners, LLC | Founder & CEO, Navier | Founder & Former CEO, Zipcar | Transportation Industry Executive & Head of Transportation Strategy & Partnerships, Google
April 11, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Congestion Pricing in New York City: ‘If you can make it there, can you make it anywhere?'
Sam Schwartz (Gridlock Sam), Will Carry, Matt Daus
Former NYC Traffic Commissioner | Assistant Commissioner for Policy at NYC Department of Transportation | Partner & Chair, Transportation Practice Group at Windels Marx
March 21, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM
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Automating Ports: Technology Frontier and Industry Application
Heidi Wyle | Daniela Rus
CEO & Founder, Venti Technologies | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT
February 21, 2025 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
The Future Takes Shape
Tom O'Leary
Co-Founder, JetZero
November 22, 2024 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
MIT Mobility Vision Day - Special Session on Autonomous Mobility
Jinhua Zhao; Raquel Urtasun; Henry Liu; Xiaodi Hou
Faculty Director, MIT Mobility Initiative; CEO, Waabi; Director, Mcity & Professor of Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Founder & CEO, BOT.auto
October 25, 2024 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
The 15-Minute City
Carlos Moreno
Author, The 15-Minute City & Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
August 30, 2024 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Transit Tech: Payment and Benefits Innovation
Ruth Miller, Avi Shavit, Lilly Shoup, Anson Stewart
Senior Product Manager at Jawnt, Senior Director at the Office of Innovation at LA Metro, Managing Director at Rebel, Research Scientist/Deputy Director, MIT Transit Lab
April 26, 2024 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Perspectives on Highway Safety: Contemporary issues and the forthcoming age of autonomous vehicles
Fred Mannering
Executive Director, Center for Urban Transportation Research & Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida
March 22, 2024 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Wheel and Deals: Institutional Investment in Mobility - Mobility Forum Sub-series - Jeff Shen & Meghan Sharp
Jeff Shen and Meghan Sharp
Co-CIO of Active Equity and Co-Head of Systematic Active Equity, BlackRock & Global Head of Decarbonization Partners, BlackRock
December 15, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Pedal, Power, and Tensions: A Panel Discussion on Micromobility and Cities
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Mike Frumin, Dave Montague, Tony Ho
Chief of Streets for City of Boston, Director of Product & Data Science at Lyft Transit/Bikes/Scooters, CEO at Metromobility, VP of Robotics & Business Development at Segway
November 17, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Women Leaders in Transportation: Mobility Forum Sub-series Co-Hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao and Hyun-A Park
Laura Chace, Hyun-A Park, Victoria Sheehan and Polly Trottenberg
President & CEO - ITS America, President - Spy Pond Partner & MIT Corporation Member, TRB Executive Director, US DOT Deputy Secretary
October 13, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM
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What about pedestrians in urban mobility
Panel : Andres Sevtsuk, Peter Norton & Kris Carter
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning, MIT, Associate Professor of History Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia, & Chair, New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston
April 14, 2023 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Tectonic shifts in science, technology, and industrial policy: looking ahead
Liz Reynolds & David Mindell
Lecturer, DUSP, MIT; Former Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the National Economic Council & MIT Professor, Executive Chairman at Humatics, Co-founder at Unless
March 3, 2023 at 5:00:00 PM
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VISTA 2.0: An Open, Data-driven Simulator for Multimodal Sensing and Policy Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
Daniela Rus & Alexander Amini
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT & Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
October 28, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
Roads, Transit, and the Denseness of São Paulo's Urban Development
Chris Zegras, Adriano Borges Costa, Siqi Zheng
Professor of Mobility and Urban Planning, Department Head DUSP & Post-doctoral Researcher & STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability
October 14, 2022 at 4:00:00 PM
Mobility Forum
The Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Emergency Response
John M. Contestabile, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Kevin Heaslip
July 28, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM
V2X Series
Part I: Large-scale monitoring and control of multi-modal urban networks
Part II: Research trends in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology
Nikolas Geroliminis
Editor in Chief, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies; Associate Professor, Urban Transport Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
May 28, 2021 at 4:00:00 PM
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