SMART CITIES RESEARCH CENTER

The Smart Cities Research Center strives to sustainably and equitably improve mobility and quality of life in our cities. We do this through advanced quantitative modeling of urban systems, using that data to power the complex, interdisciplinary decision-making required to manage modern cities... We focus on optimizing mobility, energy, productivity, regional economics, and quality of life in our cities by increasing mobility system efficiency, reducing cost, reducing fossil fuel use and increasing the effectiveness of transportation... Sense-making of imperfect, massive geospatial datasets is foundational to everything else we do. We're experts in efficiently determining staypoints, interpreting driver behavior, and even automatically detecting which intersections in a road network use stoplights.

Primary location: Berkeley United States