In December 2019, CITIES collaborated with Prof. Monica Menendez (LPI & Center Director) on the organization of a public lecture by Prof. Nigel Wilson titled: Using Automated Data Sources to improve the performance of Public Transport Systems: a framework and applications.
Nigel Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching focuses on urban public transport, with more than 100 articles and reports. He has directed major long-term collaborative research programs with urban public transport agencies including Transport for London, MTR (Hong Kong), Chicago Transit Authority and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; and has worked or served as a consultant for large transit agencies and a number of other North American transit authorities.