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.

Understanding Transit Travel Behavior - Value Added by Smart Cards

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Saumya Gupta

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2006

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Understanding Transit Travel Behavior - Value Added by Smart Cards

Designing Transit Concession Contracts to Deal with Uncertainty

Transition to Smart Card Technology: How Transit Operators Can Encourage the Take-Up of Smart Card Technology

Simulation of Urban Rail Operations and Control

To study comfort parameters that affects the users in transit facilities

Transportation Planning for Mega Events : a Model of Urban Change

The Parking Policy and Smart Growth Disconnect: Obstacles to Establishing and Implementing Smart Growth Parking Policy

A Transit Route Simulator for the Evaluation of Control Strategies Using Automatically Collected Data

Drive-Access Transit: A Regional Analytical Framework

Towards Understanding the Impacts of Congestion Pricing on Urban Trucking

Regional Parking Fee: A Potential Funding Source for Transit?

Toll Road Public-Private Partnerships in Malaysia: Using the CLIOS Process for Policy Improvements

Possible Benefits of Increased Data Availability after Implementing Smart Card in Public Transportation Systems

Optimization Models and Algorithms for Large- Scale, Capacity Constrained Pick-up and Delivery Problems with Time Windows

Public Transportation is Not Going to Work: Non-Work Travel Markets for the Future of Mass Transit

Using Land Value Capture to Fund Rail Transit Extensions in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile.

Performance Indicators to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structural Reform of the Chicago Public Transportation System

Transit Planning in Curitiba and Bogota: Roles in Interaction, Risk, and Change

Improving Transit Service Connectivity: The Application of Operations Planning and Operations Control Strategies

On-Line Calibration For Dynamic Traffic Assignment