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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.

Modeling Household Residential Choice Using Multiple Imputation

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Weixuan Li

MST/MCP

2014

Evaluating Online Surveys for Public Transit Agencies Using a Prompted Recall Approach

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William Chow

MST

2014

Whose Parking Space Is it? Managing Residential Parking in the Context of Urban Growth: Case Study of Cambridge, MA

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Winnie Chang

MCP

2014

Passenger-to-Train Assignment Model Based on Automated Data

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Yiwen Zhu

MST

2014

Improving Transportation Access to the South Boston Seaport District

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Zhuyun Gu, Saeed Mohammad, Markos Kladeftiras, Praj Xuto

MEng

2014

Intercity Passenger Rail Productivity in the Northeast Corridor: Implications for the Future of High-Speed Rail

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Andres Archila

MST

2013

Evaluation of Bus Priority Strategies for BRT Operations

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Anna Matias

MST

2013

Cambridge in Transition: Regulating Parking in a Growing City

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Cara Ferrentino

MCP

2013

Bus Use Behavior in Multi-Route Corridors

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Cecilia Viggiano

MST

2013

Quantifying the Current and Future Impacts of the MBTA Corporate Pass Program

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Dianne Kamfonik

MST

2013

Making Data Matter: The Role of Information Design and Process in Applying Automated Data to Improve Transit Service

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Dominick Tribone

MST/MCP

2013

Running Time Variability and Resource Allocation: A Data-Driven Analysis of High-Frequency Bus Operations

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Gabriel Sanchez-Martinez

MST

2013

Evaluating the Robustness of Crew Schedules for Rail Transit Systems

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Harsha Ravichandran

MST

2013

Evaluating Service Mitigation Proposals for the MBTA Green Line Extension Construction Delay Using Simplified Planning Methods

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Jamie Rosen

MST

2013

An Analysis of Area Type and the Availability of Alternative Transportation Services on Subjective Well-being : Are People Happiest in Cities?

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Janet I. Choi

MST/MCP

2013

Utilizing Automatically Collected Smart Card Data to Enhance Travel Demand Surveys

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Laura Riegel

MST

2013

Understanding Patterns of Growth at Kendall Square Using a System Dynamics Approach

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Laura Vina-Arias

MST/MCP

2013

Classification of London's Public Transport Users Using Smart Card Data

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Meisy Ortega

MST

2013

Improving Public Transportation to Boston Logan International Airport ?

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Siyuan Cao, Andrew O'Connor, Brenda Were

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Exploring The Relationship Between Destination Accessibility, Cluster Formation and Employment Growth in Kendall Square

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Tatiana Peralta-Quiros

MST

2013

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