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.

Assessing Journey Time Impacts of Disruptions on London's Piccadilly Line

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Yonah Freemark

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2013

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Assessing Journey Time Impacts of Disruptions on London's Piccadilly Line

Estimating Commuter Rail Demand to Kendall Square along the Grand Junction Corridor

MBTA Green Line 3-Car Train Operating Plans to Enhance Capacity and Reliability

The Case for Increased Local Funding Shares for Public Transportation Projects

Redesigning and Improving the Efficiency of Bus Transit Networks Using Automatically Collected Data - The Case of Gipuzkoa, Spain

Hysteresis and Urban Rail: The Effects of Past Urban Rail on Current Residential and Travel Choices

Intermodal Passenger Flows on London's Public Transport Network: Automated Inference of Full Passenger Journeys Using Fare-Transaction and Vehicle-Location Data

Cambridge Grand Junction Transit Implementation: Alternatives, Scheduling, Cost, and Performance

Utilizing Automatically Collected Data to Infer Travel Behavior: A Case Study of the East London Line Extension

Measuring Journey Time Reliability in London Using Automated Data Collection Systems

Driven to Congestion: How the Planning, Engineering and Politics of Transportation Established, Preserves and Perpetuates the Automobile City

Use of Automatically Collected Data for the Preliminary Impact Analysis of the East London Line Extension

Incorporating Livability Benefits into the Federal Transit Administration New Starts Project Evaluation Process through Accessibility-Based Modeling

The Evolution of Passenger Accessibility in the US Airline Industry, 1980-2010

The Dynamics of Long-Range Multimodal Transportation Planning: Using a High-Speed Rail Connection to Bilbao Airport as a Catalyst for Change in the Basque Country

Using Automatically Collected Data for Bus Service and Operations Planning

Merging Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria for Freight Investment Using Scenario Planning

Assessing the Impact of Recent Fare Policy Changes on Public Transport Demand in London

Planning for a Regional Rail System: Analysis of High Speed and High Quality Rail in the Basque Region

Improving the Estimation of Platform Wait Time at the London Underground