The Road Ahead: Forum on Future Cities 2014, hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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The Future of transportation and mobility
Forum on future cities
November 21, 2014
hosted by the MIT Senseable City Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

senseable.mit.edu/roadahead

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The Road Ahead: Driverless Cities

Published on Dec 2, 2014

While visions of self-driving vehicles have been the providence of science fiction, the attention of many has been captured by recent examples like the DARPA Challenge and the Google Self-Driving Car. Tesla’s Autopilot features get that company’s offerings to near self-driving to consumers in the coming months, and the State of California has begun offering licenses to “drivers” of au- tonomous vehicles. Unanswered, however, are the questions of regulation and safety. This session seeks to tease out the larger, societal implications of the technology to understand the truer nature of the “self-driving future”.

Nhai Cao, Global Product Manager, TomTom
Paolo Santi, Lead, MIT-Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL
Christian Zulberti, Researcher, ENEL Foundation
Lam Shann Wee, Futures Division Director, Ministry of Transportation, Government of Singapore

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The Road Ahead: Data Driven Mobility

Published on Dec 2, 2014

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, Bridj
Marta Gonzalez, Asst. Professor, MIT
Katja Schechtner, Mobility Expert, Asian Development Bank