Vehicle and Mobility Systems
Transportation Systems and Mobility
Assessing the impact of technologies and policies across metropolitan areas.
The Transportation Systems and Mobility group focuses on assessing the impact of technologies and policies when implemented across large metropolitan areas.
The research is centered around POLARIS, a high-performance agent-based modeling framework designed for simulating large-scale transportation systems. As an integrated network-demand model, all aspects of travel decisions (departure time, destination choice, planning and rescheduling as well as route choices) and travel execution (traffic flow, transit simulation, fleet movements) are modeled simultaneously to estimate the energy impact of vehicle technologies and mobility services at a range of scales (neighborhood to metropolitan region).