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SUMMARY:Big Data for Urban Analytics and Land Use Planning - Professor Jos
 eph Ferreira\, Jr.\,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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CONTACT:Joanna Laver
DESCRIPTION:Emerging information and communication technologies provide de
 sirable new opportunities for enhancing urban mobility.   However\, improv
 ed mobility tends to induce increased travel\, burden transportation infra
 structure\, complicate urban growth management and sustainability efforts\
 , and risk adverse distributional impacts.  This talk outlines challenges 
 and current research using\, as examples\, ongoing MIT work involving Bost
 on’s MetroFuture planning process and ‘future urban mobility’ work w
 ithin the Singapore/MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).   Th
 e examples include ‘big data’ support for urban analytics and the use 
 of data mining and activity-based modeling to illuminate the ripple effect
 s of mobility improvements on land markets and urban activity patterns.\n\
 nJoseph Ferreira is Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research in
  the MIT Urban Studies and Planning Department.  His undergrad and PhD deg
 rees are also from MIT where he heads the Urban Information Systems Group 
 and teaches analytical methods and computer-based modeling for planning an
 d urban management.  His research involves urban analytics and spatial ana
 lysis tools for modeling land use\, transportation\, and environmental int
 eractions.  Prof. Ferreira is past-president of the Urban and Regional Inf
 ormation Systems Association (URISA)\, the SMART Research Professor of Urb
 an Information Systems\, and a co-Principal Investigator of the “Future 
 Urban Mobility” interdisciplinary research group at SMART.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 7
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