Public Lecture – Future Mobility, Urban Analytics, and Land Use Planning

Topic:
Future Mobility, Urban Analytics, and Land Use Planning

Speaker:
Professor Joseph Ferreira, Jr.
Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Schedule:
Date: 6 September, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Venue: Room 820, 8/F Knowles Building, HKU

Abstract:
Emerging information and communication technologies provide desirable new opportunities for enhancing urban mobility. However, improved mobility tends to induce increased travel, burden transportation infrastructure, complicate sustainability efforts, and risk adverse distributional impacts. This talk will outline some of the challenges and current research using, as examples, ongoing MIT work involving Boston’s MetroFuture planning process and the ‘future urban mobility’ work within the Singapore/MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). The examples include ‘big data’ support for urban analytics and the use of data mining and activity-based modeling techniques to illuminate the ripple effects of mobility improvements on land markets and urban activity patterns.

About the Speaker:
Joseph Ferreira is Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research in the MIT Urban Studies and Planning Department. His undergrad and PhD degrees are also from MIT (in electrical engineering and operations research). Prof. Ferreira heads the Urban Information Systems Group and teaches analytical methods and computer-based modeling for planning and urban management, including courses involving extensive use of geographic information systems (GIS) and database management. His research uses interactive spatial analysis tools to model land use, transportation, and environmental interactions and to build sustainable information infrastructures for supporting urban and regional planning. He is a past-president of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and has supervised numerous research projects involving interoperable geospatial services, metropolitan information infrastructure, and urban performance measures. Currently, he is the SMART Research Professor of Urban Information Systems and a co-Principal Investigator of the “Future Urban Mobility” interdisciplinary research group at SMART.

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