Future Mobility Systems Lab
Automation, Equity, Resilience, Micromobility, and Food Systems
Dr. Corey Harper is an Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. In his role as the director of the Future Mobility Systems Lab he leads a team of researchers who explore the infrastructure, policy, and equity implications of emerging transportation technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicles and micromobility). The equity analysis side of his team applies equity metrics to assess how policy and regulation could affect distributional equality of transportation resources. The modeling and simulation side of his group is focused on incorporating new mobility modes (e.g., micromobility and e-commerce) into regional traffic demand models to promote better long-range planning of the transportation system. Dr. Harper is a recipient of multiple Mobility 21 Research awards and a Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance Grant and is a Young Member of the Vehicle Highway Automation Committee. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Harper was a consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, helping USDOT and DOD with the integration of connected and automated vehicles.
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Find out about our current research areas in transportation systems resilience, automated transportation, micromobility, and the transition to equitable food systems.
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Our group trains students with interdisciplinary methods to be leading energy, resilience, and automated systems researchers, practitioners, and decision makers.
Latest News
06/2024 [Policy] Prof. Harper publishes a policy brief with the Bipartisan Policy Center on best practices and recommendations to promote the equitable deployment of shared autonomous vehicles.
06/2024 [Grant] Prof. Harper awarded a grant from the Sloan Foundation to develop novel tools to explore grid and transportation systems impacts of EV charging infrastructure deployment.
04/2024 [Grant] Prof. Harper Awarded Grant from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance to develop a novel optimization model to site bike share infrastructure to improve access to hospitals, grocery stores, jobs, and other essential destinations.
02/2024 [Research] PhD student, Zhufeng Fan, and Prof. Corey Harper recently published a paper looking at how to equitably deploy bike share infrastructure and improve access to transit.
06/2023 [Grant] Prof. Harper awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to develop novel tools to promote the equitable deployment of EV charging infrastructure.
03/2023 [Research] PhD student, Mateo Samudio, along with Profs. Corey Harper, Destenie Nock, Greg Lowry, and Jeremy Michalek recently published a paper looking at how online grocery delivery affects transportation congestion and sustainability.
02/2023 [Research] PhD student, Lily Hanig, along with Profs. Corey Harper and Destenie Nock recently published a paper looking at COVID spread on public transit.
05/2022 [Grant] Prof. Corey Harper awarded the IN2 Strategic Partnership Award examine how the deployment of EV charging infrastructure will impact disaster response performance metrics across low and high-income communities in emergency evacuation scenarios.
