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.

Estimating the Impacts of Route Changes for Chicago's Rapid Transit System

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Ari Ofsevit

MCP/MST

2019

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Student Theses

Estimating the Impacts of Route Changes for Chicago's Rapid Transit System

Towards 3-Minutes: Application of Holding and Crew Interventions to Improve Service Regularity on a High Frequency Rail Transit Line

Future Transit Service for a Broader User Base: Demand Analysis of Hypothetical Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Services Using a Stated Preference Approach

Detecting and Quantifying Bus Operation Impedance: The Balance Between Reliability and Speed

Mitigation of Passenger Effects of State of Good Repair Projects Using Automated Data Sources

Data-Driven Customer Segmentation and Personalized Information Provision in Public Transit

Driving Change: How Workplace Benefits Can Nudge Solo Car Commuters Toward Sustainable Modes

Transit Fare Policy: Use of Automated Data to Improve Incremental Decision Making

Modeling Crowding Levels by Trains in High-Frequency Transit Service Operating Near Capacity

Value of Information in Dispatching Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems: a Simulation Framework

A Framework for Identification of Systematic Service Deterioration in Urban Rail Systems

Simulation-Based Design of Integrated Public Transit and Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Uncovering Individual Mobility Patterns from Transit Smart Card Data: Trip Prediction, Activity Inference, and Change Detection

Advancing Accessibility: Public Transport and Urban Space

Bus Network Sketch Planning with Origin-Destination Travel Data

Strategies for Meeting Future Capacity Needs on the Light Rail MBTA Green Line

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