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Center for Smart Transportation

Making Efficiency the Center of Every Transportation Decision 

The Center for Smart Transportation (CST) is a Tier 1 University Transportation Center funded by the Department of Transportation.  CST is a consortium of six Institutions including Johns Hopkins University (lead institution), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, Morgan State University (MSU), and Dine College

 

The Center for Smart Transportation (CST)’s research, education, leadership and technology transfer programs and activities are inspired by the urgent call for an evidence-based research agenda that goes beyond scientific merits, focuses on solutions and is practice-ready and would result in changes in transportation policy and practice, making efficiency the center of transportation decisions. CST contributes to this vision in the following focus areas:

Focus Area 1: Promoting Data-driven Efficient solutions in All Levels of Transportation Decisions

Focus Area 2: Accelerating the Mass Market Adoption of Emerging Transportation Technologies

Focus Area 3: Improving Multi-Modal Planning & Shared Use of Infrastructure 

Focus Area 4: Smart Cities, Big Data & Innovative Technologies to Improve System Efficiency