research 
SMART pursues collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused on sustainable transportation in global urban regions, and generally related to five themes:
1. Systems Integration: Connecting the Dots
2. The Accessibility Paradigm: Getting Ends and Means Straight
3. Supporting the Emergence of a Vital New Mobility Industry: New Roles for the Private Sector in Sustainable Urban Transportation
4. Socio-Cultural Context: Values, Aspirations, and Making Sustainable Transportation Hip and Attractive
5. Building Capacity for Now and for the Next Generation
Current Research and Related Publication includes:
Community Based Building of Integrated, Dynamic Complex Systems Models For Sustainable Fuel Pathways. David Featherman, Thomas Gladwin, Douglas Kelbaugh, Carl Simon, all from the University of Michigan SMART / CARSS program. Supported by the National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Program. (2005 – 2008).... read more
Metropolitan Accessibility and Transportation Sustainability: Comparative Indicators for Policy Reform. Jonathan Levine, Joseph Grengs, Carl Simon (University of Michigan SMART / CARSS), Qing Shen (University of Maryland). Supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Michigan Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (GESI), the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Highway Administration Office of Acquisition and Management, and M-CASTL (the Michigan Center for Advancing Safe Transportation throughout the Lifespan) (2006 – 2009).... read more
New Mobility Industry Development
SMART’s New Mobility industry development research is undertaken with the support of Ford Motor Company, the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Illinois Institute of Design, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Prince of Wales Business and Environment Program, the Cambridge Program for Industry, and a range of business leaders, public officials, and community and non-governmental groups in India, South Africa, and now parts of the U.S.
SMART’s research focuses on opportunities, conditions, and implications related to New Mobility industry development, an area that is to date relatively unexplored. Primarily related to SMART’s pilot projects, research concentrates on new business models, strategic alliances for cross-sectoral industry development, marketing New Mobility (in relation to values and aspirations associated with transportation choices), and policy implications and directions for New Mobility industry development.
A Strategy for Improved US / EU Collaboration in Transportation Research. Contribution to a collaborative report developed by the TRB / ECTRI Working Group on EU/US Transport Research Co-operation Issues. C. Almeras (ECTRI - France), A Aparicio (CEDEX - Spain), G. Bourgeois, (INRETS, France), O.A. Elrahman (NYDOT, USA), D. Elston (FHWA, USA), M. Fraissard (World Bank, USA), G.A. Giannopoulos (Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece), J Halkias (FHWA, USA), B Lenz (DLR, Germany), W. Lum (Caltrans, USA), J.P. Medevielle (INRETS, France), M. Meyers (Georgia Tech, USA), M. Micozzi (TRB, USA), J. Munro (FHWA, USA), N. Paulley (TRL, U.K.), C. Pronello (POLITO / COST, Italy), J. Prozzi (Texas University, USA), A. Skarbardonis (U.C. Berkeley / PATH, USA), D. Wurzel (DLR / ECTRI, Germany), S. Zielinski (University of Michigan SMART/CARSS, USA). Link forthcoming upon completion. (2008) NO SUBSEGMENT AVAILABLE YET
Completed Research and Related Publication includes:
New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation. Published in the Bridge, Magazine of the National Academy of Engineering and reprinted in the magazine of the Australian National Academy of Engineers. http://www.nae.edu/nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/MKEZ-6WHPJK?OpenDocument . Susan Zielinski (University of Michigan SMART / CARSS).
Emerging Private Sector Roles in Urban Transport: Case Study of an Innovative Telecom-GIS Solution in Bangalore. Submitted to MIT Hidden Successes Competition (http://web.mit.edu/hidden-successes/). Ashwin Mahesh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Susan Zielinski (University of Michigan SMART/ CARSS), Moira Zellner (University of Illinois at Chicago), M.N. Reddi (Bangalore Traffic Police, Deepak Mehrotra (Mobility Business, Bharti Airtel). December 2007. Link forthcoming.
Levine, Jonathan, and Lawrence Frank. (2007) Transportation and Land-Use Preferences and Residents’ Neighborhood Choices: The Sufficiency of Compact Development on the Atlanta Region. Forthcoming, Transportation.
Levine, Jonathan, Aseem Inam and Gwo-Wei Torng. (2005) A Choice-Based Rationale for Land-Use and Transportation Alternatives: Evidence from Boston and Atlanta. Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(3):317-330.
Levine, Jonathan. (2006) Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press.
Looking Forward on SMART Research:
SMART is currently building a global research collaborative network focused on accelerating implementation of integrated, sustainable urban transport. For more information, contact Krista Gullo, at kgullo@umich.edu.
