Transportation @ MIT rethinks the wheel

Transportation @ MIT is an interdisciplinary program that is exploring ways to leverage data and technology to move people and goods more efficiently. “There’s a wealth of data already there, with iPhones and GPS systems,” said Massachusetts Intitute of Technology researcher Christopher Zegras. “The problem with urban planning data in the past was that you’d do surveys and traffic counts, but people tended to tell you what you wanted to hear, so it was very unreliable.” The CityMotion program seeks to improve the reliability of travel data by tracking the transportation choices of volunteers in real time.  Link to full story in ArchitectureBoston.

Tagged as: data, GPS, iPhone, real-time