Student Theses

Each thesis is the result of two or more years dedicated to pushing the boundaries of public transit design, operations and management. Below are the dozens of groundbreaking theses that students from the MIT Transit Lab have produced in recent decades.

Improving High-Frequency Transit Reliability: A Case Study of the MBTA Green Line Through Simulation and Field Experiments of Real-Time Control Strategies

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Joshua Fabian

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2017

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Student Theses

Improving High-Frequency Transit Reliability: A Case Study of the MBTA Green Line Through Simulation and Field Experiments of Real-Time Control Strategies

Mitigating Road Work Disruptions on Bus Service: A Framework for Passenger Impact Evaluation

Passenger-to-Itinerary Assignment Model Based on Automated Data

Disruption Management on High Frequency Lines: Measuring the Effectiveness of Recovery Strategies

Planning Transit Networks with Origin, Destination, and Interchange Inference

Understanding Bus Passenger Crowding Through Origin Destination Inference

Can We Reduce Parking at MIT: Design and Development of a Functional Commuter Dashboard

Productivity and Costs in the Transit Sector: The Impact of Baumol's Cost Disease

Accessibility-Based Analysis of Infrastructure Improvements to the Multimodal Western Corridor in Massachusetts

Understanding the Evolution of Transportation Pricing and Commuting at MIT: A Study of Historical Commuting Data

Improving Transit Demand Management with Smart Card Data: General Framework and Applications

A Framework for Measuring Passenger-Experienced Transit Reliability Using Automated Data

Using Real-time Data to Improve Reliability on High-Frequency Transit Services

New Incentives to Change Modes: An Experimental Design to Reduce Single-Occupant Vehicle Community in Kendall Square

Exploring Regularity and Structure in Travel Behavior using Smart Card Data

Real-Time Operations Planning and Control of High-Frequency Transit

Characterizing Transit System Performance Using Smart Card Data

Developing Strategies for Resource-Constrained Transit Growth through Increased Private Sector Involvement

Decision Support for Disruption Management on High Frequency Transit Lines

Analyzing Transit Equity Using Automatically Collected Data