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      <title>Commuter Bus Demand, Incentives for Modal Shift, and Impact on GHG: Part II – Service Design Concepts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of a project to model and evaluate the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by expanding express commuter bus services in the Greater Boston area.  The previous project developed a model to estimate the emissions associated with the current mode split of commuters traveling by car, carpool, walk, bike, or four transit modes by walk or drive access.  The model was then used to estimate the effect of a new commuter bus service on operating costs, mode share, and greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of this project is to analyze the performance of existing commuter bus services that are included in the travel demand model that is maintained by the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) and new commuter bus service that has since been introduced.  This project includes specific attention on one of the corridors identified as a “high-efficiency corridor”: Framingham-Boston.  It also provides the opportunity to explore whether there are additional efficiencies that could be attained through service design adjustments. Specifically, this project involves refining the accuracy of the model, analyzing the potential impact of running buses in dedicated lanes or highway shoulders, and consideration of specific details of commuter bus stop location that affect the attractiveness for access by walking or driving.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PERCEPT Indoor Navigation System for Visually Impaired:  Beta Study</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Independent navigation through unfamiliar indoor spaces is beset with barriers for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) individuals. A task that is trivial and spontaneous for people without disabilities, has to be planned and coordinated with other individuals for the BVI population.  Currently there are no commercial systems that enable BVI users to independently navigate in indoor environments. The PERCEPT system (PERCEPT), is an affordable and accurate indoor navigation system for BVI users, that was developed by Professor Ganz and her team at the University of Massachusetts 5G Mobile Evolution Lab. Using real time localization and detailed navigation instructions that are automatically generated, PERCEPT enables BVI users to independently navigate through large indoor venues as demonstrated in trials in North Station. This project objective is to assist MBTA evaluate PERCEPT suitability for MBTA system-wide deployment. To accomplish this objective the research team will conduct a beta study with at least 20 BVI participants who will download and use PERCEPT on their Smartphones to independently access and navigate the MBTA’s subway system at North Station.  This information will be used to determine MBTA system-wide deployment of PERCEPT.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:47:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Coupled Mobility Networks: A Data Driven Approach</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Transport processes on spatial networks are representative of a broad class of real world systems which, rather than being independent, are typically interdependent. Applying networks methods to empirical urban trips the project proposes to capture key features that arise when such systems are coupled together. The defined coupling is not solely topological, but relies on both the distribution of origins and destinations, and the resulting travel times in route assignment. The project seeks to recover the largest network utility when coupling alternative modes of transport in Boston/Cambridge area. Based on data driven travel demands the study of coupled spatial systems is the first methodological step towards improved decision-making processes in the urban transit services. The project will generate couple networks from mobility models, extracted from big data sources of actual users as opposed to synthetic populations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:00:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing Transportation-Related Careers to Minority High School Students in Massachusetts Underserved Communities</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1235551</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Robert R. Taylor Network (RRTN) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will pilot a program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and transportation-related  careers  to minority high school students from underserved communities from the Brockton, MA area.  The program will be based at the MIT and executed during the Summer, Fall, and Winter of 2011.  The objective of the program is to develop the interests of the aforementioned students in STEM and to look at careers in transportation as economically viable.  RRTN proposes an introductory workshop and site visits for at least 15 students on "The Business of Transportation", culminating in attendance at the 26th Annual Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Conference in Philadelphia, PA in February 2012.  Students will be recruited from Brockton High School and or the South East Vocational Technical High School as well as students in the New York City area by way of the Center for Quality Urban Education's (CQUE) High Performance Learning (HPL) Institute.  Over the course of the program the students will be introduced to the following 4 topics in transportation via site visits with practicing professionals: Land, Sea, Air, and Safety in association with MA Department of Transportation and BEYA corporate and government sponsors.  They will begin by discussing the business of transportation as it pertains to each area from professionals in the field.  There will be site visits to transportation workplaces where the students will be able to interact and observe real world transportation operations and professionals.  Where possible, there will be MIT faculty research presentations in transportation. The students will also conduct and present research on the history of minority contribution to the transportation industry, such as the work of Garrett Morgan, Wesley Harris, Meredith Gourdine and James H. Williams.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on the I-95 Corridor in Maryland and Delaware</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Boston Norfolk (BOSFOLK) corridor is vulnerable to climate change. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and states in the corridor need to integrate mitigation of and adaptation to climate change into their planning, design and construction practices as the infrastructure of today will be impacted by climate change in the future. Our objective is to develop an outline of guidelines for states and MPOs in the corridor to recognize the impacts of global climate change in the planning, design and construction of the corridor. This includes: 1. Reviewing ongoing relevant research related to climate change in the corridor 2. Developing a catalog of expected impacts and actions 3. Developing a process for exploring the impacts of climate change 4. Understanding how the impacts of climate change can be factored into the planning process. 5. Exploring how design and construction practices may have to change to mitigate climate change and adapt to the impacts of climate change. We will build on past work in other states and areas, explore the impacts of one aspect of climate change, sea level rise, on the I-95 and Northeast rail corridor in Maryland and Delaware, and then develop guidelines for states and MPOs along the corridor.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:56:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Historic Resiliency of Bridges on the BOSFOLK Corridor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Boston-Norfolk (BOSFOLK) corridor is a major transportation corridor in the northeast, the main artery of which is Interstate-95 (I-95). With construction initiating in the 1960's, many of the bridges on I-95 and in the corridor are nearing the end of their design life. This presents a unique opportunity to study the long-term performance of bridge on a major heavily traveled corridor. The questions can be asked - How resilient were the bridges in the BOSFOLK corridor? And - How did the bridges on I-95 perform compared to those not on the I-95 corridor? The study will specifically examine the historic resiliency of bridges in the corridor. It will be done through a systematic investigation of historic data from the National Bridge Inventory database.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:56:02 GMT</pubDate>
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