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June
26, 2008
Articles
by Professors Richard de Neufville
and Joseph M. Sussman are featured
in the Summer
1008 issue (Volume 30, Number
2) of the National Academy of Engineering's
journal The Bridge.
The
article by Professor de Neufville—Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Engineering Systems, and founding
chairman of the MIT Technology and
Policy Program—is on "Building
the Next Generation of Airport Systems."
In it, he argues that airport systems
need to be rebuilt and enhanced, not
by "continuing to misallocate
resources by patching up component
parts" but by designing "for
the airport system as a whole."
In
his article "Intelligent
Transportation Systems in a Real-Time,
Customer-Oriented Society,"
Professor Sussman—JR East Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Engineering Systems—describes
ways in which Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) can benefit the surface
transportation system. He also outlines
the "organizational and institutional
changes that will be necessary for
the full benefits of ITS to be realized."
Professor Sussman is chair of the
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department
of Transportation.
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