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Salvucci, Frederick, John Attanucci, and Lawrence Brutti, 1.963 A Sustainable Transportation Plan for MIT, Spring 2007. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 08 Jul, 2010). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

A Sustainable Transportation Plan for MIT

Spring 2007

Photograph of Concord commuter rail station in winter.
This class focused on ways to shift a population of MIT employees away from parking and towards public transit, including the commuter rail. One question raised was whether increased commuter rail subsidies encourage people to live in the suburbs and drive for their non-commute trips. (Photograph courtesy of TalkingTree on Flickr.)

Course Highlights

This student-directed class culminated in a final report and presentation given to the MIT community, which are presented in the projects section.

Course Description

This seminar-style class will focus on evaluating and recommending alternative commuter and business-related transportation policies for the MIT campus. Emphasis will be placed on reducing transportation-related energy usage in a sustainable manner in response to President Hockfield's "Walk the Talk" energy initiative. Students will explore the relative roles of MIT and the MBTA as transportation providers, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of related subsidy policies currently in place for all modes of transportation.

Syllabus

Instructors

John Attanucci (Center for Transportation and Logistics)
Lawrence Brutti (Operations Manager, MIT Parking and Transportation Office)
Frederick Salvucci (Center for Transportation and Logistics)

Description

This seminar-style class will focus on evaluating and recommending alternative commuter and business-related transportation policies for the MIT campus. Emphasis will be placed on reducing transportation-related energy usage in a sustainable manner in response to President Hockfield's "Walk the Talk" energy initiative.

Students will explore the relative roles of MIT and the MBTA as transportation providers, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of related subsidy policies currently in place for all modes of transportation. Guest speakers will be scheduled to challenge students with innovative policy perspectives and provide valuable background information to enhance the required policy analysis.

Course requirements will include individual background research, readings and technical analyses leading towards a portion of a final, unified course written report and presentation on recommended alternative policies.

Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction to transportation at MIT  
2 Choice of policy options  
3 Working session Outline of research interest due
4 Discussion of analysis issues  
5 Current status of MIT parking  
6 Definition of goals and questions  
7 U-pass and transit subsidies Interim research report due
8 Defining scope of project  
9 Discussion of draft report  
10 Current use of public transit  
11 Model details and parking price structure Outline of final report due
12 Preliminary conclusions  
13 Practice presentation Final report and draft presentation due
14 Final presentation to MIT community  



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