Lecturers - John Attanucci

Education

• S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (civil engineering, transportation), 1974
• B.S., Cornell University (civil engineering), 1972

View John Attanucci's CV (pdf)

Research Interests

Mr. Attanucci is the former president and CEO of Mutisystems, Inc., a Boston-based transportation consulting firm. At Multisystems, he participated in some of the firm's largest management information system installations at U.S. transit agencies, in transit agency management performance reviews, short-range transit service planning, and transit financing and privatization studies. At MIT, he specializes in public transport management, fare policy, information technology, and short-term planning and operations, and manages several graduate student research projects sponsored by large public transport and private agencies in London, Chicago and Boston.

Teaching Interests

Public Transportation Systems 1.258 (with Nigel Wilson); MENG Transportation Project 1.255; graduate guest lectures and special studies in public transport management, planning and operations.

Selected Publications

• Bus Service Evaluation Procedures:  A Review, with Leora Jaeger, Jeff Becker, prepared for UMTA by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Report No. UMTA-MA-09-7001-79-1, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1979
• Bus Transit Monitoring Manual, vols. I and II, with Imogene Burns and Nigel Wilson, prepared for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, May 1981.
• Design of Bus Transit Monitoring Programs, with Nigel Wilson, Brian McCollom, and Imogene Burns, Transportation Research Record, 1982.
• An Assessment of the Use of Part-Time Operators at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, with Nigel Wilson and David Vozzolo, Transportation Research Record 961 (1984).
• Potential Uses of Transit Smart Card Registration and Transaction Data to Improve Transit Planning, with Mariko Utsunomiya and Nigel Wilson, accepted for publication in Transportation Research Record, 2006.