MIT Senseable City Lab - Flatburn MIT Senseable City Lab 2023-11-02 | FLATBURN: the open source city scannerhttps://senseable.mit.edu/flatburnFLATBURN is an open-source, low-cost, solar-powered sensing platform designed to monitor urban air quality and heat levels. Air pollution and heat are serious health risks on the rise due to environmental degradation and climate change. Unfortunately, many communities lack the necessary data to address these issues effectively. FLATBURN seeks to fill this gap by providing easy-to-deploy sensors that can attach to public or personal vehicles, gathering hyperlocal data critical for understanding and managing these challenges.With its open-source design, FLATBURN allows citizen scientists to customize the data they collect, putting the power of information into the hands of communities. This low-cost, high-impact solution offers a practical and scalable way to address environmental issues.
Roboat.org MIT Senseable City Lab 2021-12-03 | What if autonomous boats could help the city of Amsterdam to move part of the road traffic to the water, while creating innovative solutions for urban challenges? Roboat – a research project by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and AMS Institute – successfully developed autonomy for two full - scale prototypes . After five years of R&D, the project is ready for next step s towards pilots and commercialization. Starting November 2021, the project will continue developing three use cases: passenger transport , logistics (waste collection) and surveying water infrastructure and monitoring water quality .Contact us at contact@roboat.org or press@roboat.org.
MIT Senseable City Lab - Urban Mobility [P.Santi, C.Heine] MIT Senseable City Lab 2021-06-21 | Using mathematical models to predict where and how often we goUnderstanding the patterns underlying human mobility in urban areas is essential to better plan cities, engineering traffic, and mitigating diseases. However, existing studies have characterized only some spatial features of mobility — such as travel distance — overlooking an important temporal feature: how frequently do we visit a particular place? And, how is this visitation frequency related to the distance we traveled? Modeling the interplay between the spatial and temporal features of mobility is critical; for instance, it can provide urban planners with the information to best place a shopping mall to attract customers.This webinar will walk the audience through the discovery, based on the analysis of over 8 billion human mobility traces collected over four continents. The results display that humans have a natural tendency of trading off travel distance with frequency: the further we travel, the less frequently we do it, according to a “visitation law” that can be described through a simple mathematical law. We will then show how this striking discovery can be used to better locate businesses and facilities in urban spaces and find effective containment strategies for disease spreading.
MIT Senseable City Lab - Wanderlust MIT Senseable City Lab 2021-05-26 | Understanding how people move within their cities and around the world is essential to better planning cities and mitigating diseases. Based on the analysis of over 8 billion human mobility traces collected over four continents, researchers at Senseable City Lab have discovered the universal visitation law of human mobility. We found that humans have a natural tendency of trading off travel distance with frequency: the further we travel, the less frequently we do it. The number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of the product of their visiting frequency and travel distance. This discovery can be used to fully reproduce real-world mobility data, better locate businesses and facilities in urban spaces and find effective containment strategies for disease spreading.
MIT Senseable City Lab - Favelas 4D MIT Senseable City Lab 2021-04-26 | Of the 4 billion people who live in cities worldwide, almost 1 billion reside in informal settlements. Although often massive, they are largely impervious to traditional mapping technologies, making them invisible and devoid of urban rights. Favelas 4D uses 3D laser scanning technology to analyze the morphology of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, making the informal visible.
MIT Senseable City Lab - Roboat [G.Baron, F.Duarte, D.Meyers & T.Shan] MIT Senseable City Lab 2020-11-23 | Reimagining Amsterdam’s CanalsHow can we re-imagine urban infrastructures with cutting-edge technologies? Listen to this webinar from Ger Baron, Amsterdam’s CTO, and Senseable City Lab’s researchers, on how MIT and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) are reimagining Amsterdam’s canals with the first fleet of autonomous boats. Roboat investigates the potential of self-driving technology to change our cities and their waterways. Roboat is a new kind of on-demand infrastructure: autonomous platforms will combine together to form floating bridges and stages, collect waste, deliver goods, and transport people, all while collecting data about the city.
Unparking_MITSenseableCityLab MIT Senseable City Lab 2020-10-08 | Private cars sit parked 95% of the time. Cities have roads clogged with traffic, while premium spaces sit empty or occupied by a parked car. Unparking uses data from Singapore to propose a systematic quantification of parking demand in a world of shared mobility. Currently, private cars occupy a parking spot at every destination. However, the scenario will change when shared self-driving cars are put to more productive use after finishing any particular trip. As much as 86% of current parking spaces are freed up or repurposed if a complete switch occurs from private cars to shared mobility.Track: Pure — KV [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: youtu.be/6q57kOJuJRc Free Download / Stream: alplus.io/Pure
Roboat - Waste Streams MIT Senseable City Lab 2020-07-17 | Roboat is a 5-year research project and a collaboration between the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In developing the world's first fleet of autonomous floating vessels for the city of Amsterdam, it investigates the potential of autonomous technology to change our cities and their waterways.Roboat is a new kind of on-demand infrastructure: autonomous platforms will combine together to form floating bridges and stages, collect waste, deliver goods, and transport people, all while sensing the city e.g. for water quality. How can we re-imagine urban infrastructures with cutting-edge technologies?Lights by Sappheiros soundcloud.com/sappheirosmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/LightsSappheiros Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/-lbbHQbZNKg
MIT Senseable City Lab - Tracking Epidemics in Cities [Fabio Duarte, Daniel Kondor & Newsha Ghaeli] MIT Senseable City Lab 2020-05-29 | Tracking Epidemics in Cities: Urban environments and the insights they provide into disease
MIT Senseable City Lab - Carlo Ratti & Martina Mazzarello: How Office Design is Changing MIT Senseable City Lab 2020-05-12 | Seminar by Carlo Ratti & Martina Mazzarello on how the office design is changing. 21st-century people's communication patterns have become increasingly reliant on digital tools, a fact made especially apparent by the contemporary conditions of social distancing and quarantining. Our researchers are investigating how the physical and digital layers within work or universities' environments impact people's aggregation and interaction in order to stimulate innovation and the creation of new knowledge. Listen as they discuss the implications this research has on imagining future urban public spaces in a post-COVID-19 world.
Roboat - 36 Months MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-09-09 | Updates from the Roboat project which is the first fleet of autonomous boats. The project is a joint collaboration between MIT Senseable City Lab and AMS
Urban Sensing MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-06-12 | Cities have many factors that need measuring, like air pollution, weather, traffic patterns and road quality. By attaching inexpensive sensors to crowd-sourced urban vehicles, we can capture hyper-local measurements across a large portion of a city.-How many vehicles would be required to adequately scan a city? In this project, we show that the sensing power of taxi fleets is unexpectedly large. Just 10 taxis typically cover one-third of Manhattan’s streets in one day—and the sensing power of taxis is very similar across cities around the world.
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 6: New Citizenship MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Technologies, data and artificial intelligence are changing how companies are creating new urban solutions, how universities are advancing knowledge, and how governments are planning and managing cities. What about the urban dwellers? Across the globe people have been appropriating digital technologies and data to advance political agenda, to foster civic movements, and assess the environment from a citizen-science perspective.Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor, University of Pennsylvania. Carolien Gehrels, Arcadis Penny Abeywardena, Commissioner for International Affairs, City of New York
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 5: Governing Innovation: Education MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Around the world, start up grow near university campuses. That’s were human talent convenes, and develops those ideas that are then brought into the real world. Such process seems to have accelerated in recent years—with an increasing number of graduates following the entrepreneurial route and prompting innovation districts around academic institutions to swell. How should universities approach such trends, both in terms of educational programs and campus planning?Moderated by: Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab Panelists Richard Lester, Associate Provost, MIT Sigbritt Karlsson, President, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_ Session 3: Urban Sensing MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Cities are becoming giant data factories. Powered by a new generation of micro-sensors and smart handheld electronics that can gather large amounts of information about the urban environment. Mobile sensors allow cars, buses, bicycles and even humans to potentially become moving probes, collecting information about air quality, pathogens, pollution, urban infrastructure and so on. What type of new data are becoming available to governments and how should they be used?Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Nigel Jacob, New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston Newsha Ghaeli, co-founder, Biobot Diane Hoskins, CEO, Gensler Andrew Whittle, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 7: Governing Innovation: What is Next? MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | UI and data are at the core of a new wave of innovations, which use the city both as container and as content. Collectively referred to as “urban tech”, this sector has been estimated as the top one for venture capital investment, beyond pharma and biotech. In order to grow successfully, urban tech requires new collaborations – between universities, innovators and funders but also city governments and bureaucrats. How could cities then become living labs?Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Abha Joshi Ghani, Senior Adviser Infrastructure, PPPs & Guarantees, The World Bank Hazem Galal, Global Leader Cities & Local Government, PwC Ger Baron, CTO, City of Amsterdam Jeremy Kelly, Lead Director of Global Research Programmes, JLL Miguel Gamino, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Cities, Mastercard
Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 1: Innovation and City Government MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | As the internet enters the built environment and becomes an “Internet of Things”, innovation leaves research labs and enters cities. Urban areas around the world are transformed into “Living Labs” for different technologies. Sometimes such process happens in a deliberate way - for instance by volunteering test sites for autonomous or self-driving cars. In other cases innovations just makes its way through cities. How should mayors harness new technologies and deal with possible failures?Introduced by: Alice Charles, World Economic Forum Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Anna König Jerlmyr, Mayor of Stockholm, Sweden Mauricio Rodas, Mayor of Quito, EcuadorNaheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary, CanadaJefferson Koijee, Mayor of Monrovia, Liberia
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 4: Visual Informatics MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Session 4: Visual InformaticsCommercial systems such as Google Street View collect photos at street level from cities all over the world, while tourists and citizens in general provide a constant stream of photos shared online. UI is opening up new possibilities to analyze this massive visual repository in what we call urban biometrics. Applications allow the characterization of the urban environment in terms of materials, quality, safety and so on. What is the potential and the limits of such technologies?Fire starter: Snoweria Zhang, Senseable City Lab Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Timnit Gebru, Research Scientist, Google AI & Black in AI Yu Li, Associate Dean of the School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University Ricardo Álvarez, Research Associate, Senseable City Lab
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Welcome MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab Alice Charles, World Economic Forum Assaf Biderman, Senseable City Lab
2019 Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 2: New Mobilities MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Data, edge computing and AI promise to have a dramatic impact on mobility. Autonomous systems are being developed at the intersection of computer vision, robotics and AI. They are poised to increase car sharing, generate new forms of micro-mobility, and enable new business models in-between public and private transportation. Could they allow us to meet tomorrow’s mobility challenges with more silicon and less asphalt?Fire starter: Umberto Fugiglando, Senseable City Lab Moderated by: Peter Woodward, Facilitator, Quest Associates Panelists Arjan van Timmeren, Scientific Director, AMS Institute Daniela Rus, Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) MITTrent Lethco, Leader Americas Transport Consulting, ArupAssaf Biderman, Senseable City Lab and Superpedestrian
Forum on Future Cities Urban Intelligence_Session 3: Urban Sensing Firestarter MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-04-23 | Fire starter: Priyanka deSouza, Senseable City Lab
Roboat : Ideation and VR prototyping workshop MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-03-13 | One day workshop with MIT Senseable City Lab to generate new scenarios for autonomous systems in water. This workshop is part of the Roboat project, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute).
Mind the gap MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-03-08 | 50% of STEM Undergrad students are women but they only represent 24% of the workforce. Could female leaders help to fill the gender gap in science?A project by MIT Senseable City Lab
Driving DNA MIT Senseable City Lab 2019-02-26 | Cars generate large amounts of real-time data, used mainly for the proper function of the vehicle itself. What can we learn about drivers and cars’ environment by analyzing these data?A project by MIT Senseable City Lab
Good Vibrations MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-12-03 | In the United States 55 707 bridges are structurally deficient. What if we could use smartphones to measure a bridge's health?A project by MIT Senseable City Lab
LASERSCAPE MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-10-05 | Laserscape, an unprecedented trip through Amsterdam's canalsLaserscape is part of the Roboat project, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute), with the participation of Waternet.Video by MIT Senseable City Lab
Roboat - 24 months MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-10-05 | Roboat is a research project and collaboration between the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Roboat is a world-class investigation into the potential of autonomy to change our cities.Video by MIT Senseable City Lab
Scribit at SCL MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-09-04 | The Senseable City Lab had the chance to play with a Scribit prototype.Many thanks to https://scribit.design/Soundtrack by Dj Quads
Laserscape Trailer MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-08-09 | Full video here: youtu.be/-6Oz5_jYuIY Laserscape, an unprecedented trip through Amsterdam's canalsLaserscape is part of the Roboat project, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute), with the participation of Waternet.
Roboat - 12 months MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-08-09 | Roboat is a research project and collaboration between the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Roboat is a world-class investigation into the potential of autonomy to change our cities.Video by MIT Senseable City Lab
A summer day in Amsterdams canals MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-07-03 | This project visualizes the boat traffic in Amsterdam's canals using data from MarineTraffic. This visualization is part of the ongoing project Roboat, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and AMS —the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions— that seeks to design and test the world's first fleet of autonomous boats in the city of Amsterdam.© Senseable City Lab 2018
Minimum Fleet MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-05-23 | What is the minimum number of vehicles needed to serveall the trips in New York without delaying passengers’ pick up times? The Minimum Fleet Network model developed by the Senseable City Lab could reduce the taxi fleet size by 40%.Music: All Good by Beatfux, under the license Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) soundcloud.com/beatfux/all-good
City Scanner MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-05-23 | City Scanner, what we discover when we turn urban vehicles into sensing platforms© Senseable City Lab 2018
Signature of Humanity MIT Senseable City Lab 2018-05-23 | As digital technologies are becoming more and more widespread, data from communication networks allow us to better understand human behaviour. The exploration of these data provides many new perspectives, revealing characteristic usages and regular dynamic patterns at both the individual and collective scale.The Senseable City Lab and Ericsson have embarked on a journey inside an unprecedented communications network data set including networks from different parts of the world. Our leading project aims at exploring the spatio-temporal voice, sms and data traffic in major cities from various continents. We investigate questions such as: Can we find repeating dynamical patterns?How are these patterns affected by specific events? Can we differentiate specific spatial areas with their activity patterns? Which are the similarities and difference between major cities in different parts of the world?Preliminary results suggest that while a city global signature is mainly based on its cultural background (same-country cities' signatures being more alike), all major cities share a same partitioning in spatial areas with specific patterns.As the partnership between Ericsson and MIT continues, research will delve more deeply into these questions, thus fostering our understanding of how the pulses of cities around the world interact to shape a single signal, the signature of humanity.
Bits & Bricks: Session 2 / Building MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | New technologies have produced progressive means of constructing the built environment, although resource scarcity has placed constraints on what is built and how it is built. By examining the shifting nature of construction and assessing the entire chain of production, from urban planning to design, materials, construction, post- occupancy, and nally re-use or destruction, we seek to identify how new innovations will impact the construc- tion and composition of the built environment.SpeakersChristoph Reinhart / Associate Professor, MIT ArchitectureAnita Arjundas / CEO, Mahindra Lifespace Developers LtdStephania Aleixo / Secretary of International Relations, City of Belo Horizonte, BrazilCarlo Ratti / Director, MIT Senseable City LabPanel discussions & Audience discussion with panelists---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Green Canopy Initiative MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | Launch of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities “Green Canopy Initiative”SpeakersCarlo Ratti / Director, MIT Senseable City LabAssaf Biderman / Associate Director, MIT Senseable City Lab & CEO, Superpedestrian ---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Closing Remarks MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | Closing RemarksSpeakerDr. Joan Clos / Executive Director, UN-Habitat---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Audience Discussion on Future Cities MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | Audience Discussion on Future Cities---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Session 4 / Responsive Environment MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | Sensors are becoming inexpensive, powerful and networked – and as a result, they are quickly blanketing cities. Devices report on many dimensions of physical space, from environmental conditions to human and vehicle traffic flows, offering unprecedented material for researchers and technologists to understand the city and enable it to actively respond to its citizens. This session will investigate how the accessibility of sensor technology will result in the emergence of the future city as an interactive landscape for research, industry, development, and citizenship.SpeakersZia Khan / Vice President, The Rockefeller FoundationNaheed Nenshi / Mayor, City of CalgaryTom Szaky / CEO & Founder, Terracycledam Green / Project Lead, Global Studios, ExplOratoriumPanel discussions & Audience discussion with panelists---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Session 3 / Transportation MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | A change is happening in transportation, focusing on greener, more comfortable and more autonomous, ef cient mobility solutions. The session will explore how innovations in transportation from laboratories, busi- nesses and metropolitan governments will collectively revolutionize urban transportation.SpeakersAssaf Biderman / CEO, SuperpedestrianJens Martin Skibsted / Board Member, Dansk Design CenterAndrew Salzberg / Global Mobility Policy Lead, UberKatherine Fichter / Asst. Secretary, Policy at MassDOTPanel discussions & Audience discussion with panelists---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Session 1 / Utilities MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | As our cities change—some growing, others shrinking (some built newly from scratch and others crumbling), infrastructure is a crucial topic of research, investment and policy. Thus, the first session will impact the field of urban utilities.SpeakersPiyush Goyal / Minister of New and Renewable Energy, IndiaMaryrose Sylvester / President & CEO, GE LightingKees van der Klauw / Senior Vice President, PhillipsAnna Brogi Senior / Vice President, ENEL GroupPanel discussions & Audience discussion with panelists---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Opening Remarks, the Top 10 Urban Innovations MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | Opening Remarks : the Top 10 Urban Innovations (in collaboration with the World Economic Forum)SpeakerGretchen Effgen / coUrbanize---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Bits & Bricks: Welcome Address MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-05-20 | SpeakersMartin J. Walsh / Mayor, City of BostonCarlo Ratti / Director, MIT Senseable City LabAssaf Biderman / CEO, Superpedestrian and Associate Director, MIT Senseable City Lab---Bits & Bricks: Forum on Future Cities 2016, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/bitsbricksCities are undergoing a profound transformation: the convergence of digital information(bits) and physical environment(bricks). As virtual systems become spatialized—entering our world through the Internet of Things—no industry remains unaffected. From utilities to transportation, construction to environmental resilience, the 21st century condition presents new challenges… As well as new opportunities.
Light Traffic | MIT Senseable City Lab MIT Senseable City Lab 2016-03-16 | Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ), and the Italian National Research Council (CNR) have developed slot-based intersections that could replace traditional traffic lights, significantly reducing queues and delays. This idea is based on a scenario where sensor-laden vehicles pass through intersections by communicating and remaining at a safe distance from each other, rather than grinding to a halt at traffic lights.This approach based on slot-based intersections is flexible and can be designed to accommodate pedestrian and bicycle crossing with vehicular traffic.The model provides a performance breakthrough: all safety requirements being equal, traffic efficiency is doubled with respect to current state-of-the-art traffic lights. With today's traffic volumes, queues would vanish and travel delays would be cut to almost zero.More information at http://senseable.mit.edu/light-traffic
The Road Ahead: Ambient Mobility MIT Senseable City Lab 2014-12-02 | Greatest innovation might not be systems themselves, but how they interface with each other. Ubiquitous computing and new technologies are enabling pioneers and inventors to create new systems that enhance the experience of getting from A to B. We explore the new mobility portfolio and intermodal innovations, as well as the visions driving visionary ideas of the future.Jennifer Dungs, Competence Center Mobility Innovation, Fraunhofer IAONicole Freedman, Director of Bicycle Programs, Boston Gil Perez, SVP of Industry Cloud, SAPLuca Sacchi, Strategic Innovation Head, Piaggio Group---The Road Ahead: Forum on Future Cities 2014, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/roadaheadThe Road Ahead is not just about emerging technologies — it will be a forum on all dimensions of future urban mobility, bringing leading theorists, dreamers, and practitioners into conversation and debate — from designers to financiers, from policy makers to provocateurs. Conversation and presentations will seek to showcase innovations, address challenges, and holistically explore the future of moving from A to B. Sessions will focus on key topics in mobility: self-driving, sharing, policy, legality and risk and society at large among others.
The Road Ahead: Data Driven Mobility MIT Senseable City Lab 2014-12-02 | Urban spaces are creating an unprecedented amount of data, from mobile phone data about individuals to the traces created automatically from machine-to-machine interactions. This session seeks to explore how the ubiquity of “big data” and increasing prevalence of situated technology is changing how decisions are made about policy, urban planning, and citizen behavior with respect to mobility.Nick Arcolano, Senior Data Scientist, FitnessKeeper (RunKeeper)Oded Cats, Asst. Professor, Delft University of Technology Matthew George, CEO, BridjMarta Gonzalez, Asst. Professor, MITKatja Schechtner, Mobility Expert, Asian Development Bank---The Road Ahead: Forum on Future Cities 2014, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/roadaheadThe Road Ahead is not just about emerging technologies — it will be a forum on all dimensions of future urban mobility, bringing leading theorists, dreamers, and practitioners into conversation and debate — from designers to financiers, from policy makers to provocateurs. Conversation and presentations will seek to showcase innovations, address challenges, and holistically explore the future of moving from A to B. Sessions will focus on key topics in mobility: self-driving, sharing, policy, legality and risk and society at large among others.
The Road Ahead: Driverless Cities MIT Senseable City Lab 2014-12-02 | While visions of self-driving vehicles have been the purview of sci- ence fiction, the world’s attention has been captured by recent examples like the DARPA Challenge and the Google Self-Driving Car. Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ feature will bring nearly autonomous func- tion to users in the next few months., and the State of California has begun offering licenses to “drivers” of autonomous vehicles. Unanswered, however, are the questions of regulation and safety. This session seeks to address broad societal implications which may outline our “self-driving future”.Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAILNhai Cao, Global Product Line Manager, TomTom Christian Zulberti, Researcher, ENEL FoundationPaolo Santi, Lead, MIT-Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility Lam Shann Wee, Futures Division Director, Ministry of Transportation, Government of Singapore---The Road Ahead: Forum on Future Cities 2014, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab. More information on the event at http://senseable.mit.edu/roadaheadThe Road Ahead is not just about emerging technologies — it will be a forum on all dimensions of future urban mobility, bringing leading theorists, dreamers, and practitioners into conversation and debate — from designers to financiers, from policy makers to provocateurs. Conversation and presentations will seek to showcase innovations, address challenges, and holistically explore the future of moving from A to B. Sessions will focus on key topics in mobility: self-driving, sharing, policy, legality and risk and society at large among others.
