Activities
Current activities
We are guest-editing a topical collection on “Reproducible Research in Transportation” for European Transport Research Review (ETRR), which is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing original high-quality scholarly research and developments in areas related to transportation science, technologies, policy and practice. A call for papers has been released here .
Past activities
Ruth Lu, an undergraduate researcher at MIT from our working group, gave our first conference presentation at the Transportation Research Symposium in Rotterdam, The Netherlands! We use Large Language Models (LLMs) to assess the state of data and code availability in transportation research.
Ruth Lu presented our joint efforts. Here’s a story of how a Computer Science undergraduate, working with Transporation colleagues, is leveraging AI tools to help accelerate progress in the field. (Photo credit: Dr. Rakhi Manohar Mepparambath) We organized a tutorial together with CPS Virtual Organization on "Going Public with Your CPS Code and Data" at CPS-IoT Week 2025. All the material from this tutorial is available here. A small step further can make great strides in reproducibility.
RERITE team and CPS-VO team and attendees, from left to right: Matt Bunting and Stephen Ress from the CPS-VO team, Junyi Ji from RERITE team and some attendees. 
We organized a hands-on tutorial on "Reproducibility in Transportation Research" at ITSC2024, with the following objectives:
(1) An introduction to the fundamental concepts and importance of RR to the domain of ITS
(2) Provide hands-on training in the use of tools and software that facilitate reproducibility
(3) Guide researchers on how to properly document and organize data and project outcomes to foster open science
(4) Encourage collaboration among tutorial participants to foster a community that values and practices reproducible research
This tutorial is co-organized by Cathy Wu (Associate Professor at MIT), Bidisha Ghosh (Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin), Zuduo Zheng (Professor at the University of Queensland), and Irene Martínez (Assistant Professor at the TU Delft). The tutorial materials are available and can be found here.
We organized a workshop at TRB 2024 on “Reproducible Research (RR) – Why, What, and How” sponsored by eight committees (ACP50, A0020C, AED10, AED50, ED60, AEP40, AEP50, AJE45), at TRB2024. More details of this workshop can be found here.
(credit: Xuesong Zhou) 
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(credit: Junyi Ji) 
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(credit: Junyi Ji) We organized a Call for Papers “Towards Reproducible Transportation Research” at TRB 2023, sponsored by ACP50: Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (primary sponsoring committee) and AEP40: Transportation Network Modeling Committee. More details of this event can be found here. As a result, a Lectern Session at TRB2023 was dedicated to Reproducible Transportation Research.
