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For transportation professionals and policy makers who want to understand what actually works, what’s not, and what might come next

    Issues

    15 minutes

    The 40,000-Death Problem the SELF DRIVE Act Could Solve: One Car’s Crash Should Be Every Fleet’s Lesson.

    #24
    9 minutes

    Inside Transport for London’s Secret Sauce: How TfL Got London’s Businesses to Fund a £19B Railway, and the 4 Moves US Cities Can Steal

    #11
    7 minutes

    What Is the Research Stack Powering the World’s Most Experienced Autonomous Driver?

    #11
    6 minutes

    Tier-1 Edge in ADAS and Autonomous Driving

    #11
    4 minutes

    Where do research ideas come from? The Missing First Step in Science

    #11
    6 minutes

    Not All Cities Can Learn from Copenhagen: Alternative Stories of Walking and Cycling

    #9
    2 minutes

    Advise to Applicants to the MIT Graduate Programs

    #10
    5 minutes

    Does Work From Home Reduce Urban CO2 Emission?

    #10
    4 minutes

    Time Through Six Lenses: Seeing the world as a scientist

    #10
    3 minutes

    Banning A.I. Won’t Save Our Kids, But Teaching This Will

    #10
    5 minutes

    The State of Play in the US Public Transit: 2025 October Update from Chicago and San Francisco

    #11
    3 minutes

    Why is it so hard for cities to regulate AVs: Three perspectives from SF, Austin, and DC

    #09
    6 minutes

    Automation Meets Urban Reality: Let’s Not Repeat the Governance Failure of Uber and Lyft

    #8
    2 minutes

    MIT Mobility Initiative Annual Report 2025

    #8
    < 1 min read

    Lab seminars likely a waste of time! Six ways to fix it

    #8
    < 1 min read

    What to learn in the AI age?

    #08
    5 minutes

    “Follow Your Passion” didn’t help my 16-year- old. Here is what I teach him instead

    #01
    3 minutes

    Why Embodiment in A.I.? Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S)

    #07
    4 minutes

    States Write the Laws. Cities Bear the Consequences. Resolving the State-City Tension in Autonomous Vehicle Regulation

    #06
    6 minutes

    Who’s in Charge? — Human Agency in AV Deployment

    #05
    3 minutes

    Three simple suggestions for preparing your PhD defense

    #04
    3 minutes

    Ecosystem Alignments: What China’s EV Surge Teaches the U.S.

    #03
    4 minutes

    Six Questions Each City Needs to Ask in AV Adoption

    #02
    3 minutes

    Governance Models for AV Deployment in Cities.

    #01
    8 minutes

    Cities Are Not Prepared for Autonomous Vehicles. —Here’s How Should They.

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