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UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida says that the pandemic experience is changing perceptions about the separation of business and residential districts. “The idea of a 15-minute neighborhood, or what […]
UTTRI associates postdoctoral fellow Dr. Willem Klumpenhouwer and Professor Matti Siemiatycki comment on demand-responsive transit (DRT) in a recent Globe and Mail article about the Town of Cochrane’s experience. The […]
As Toronto real estate becomes increasingly unaffordable, finding new ways to deliver accessible housing and spaces for non-profit organizations to operate and provide quality public services has become a growing […]
A recent Toronto Star article hears from experts on both sides of Toronto’s e-scooter debate. Right now, operating an electric kick-scooter (or e-scooter) on public property is illegal in Toronto. […]
OPINION All Aboard How can we build a more equitable transit system? By Steven Farber In February, Toronto City Council voted to reallocate $1.2 billion for the controversial Scarborough subway […]
The Calgary Journal reports that “Canada Post set a goal in 2009 to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20 per cent by 2020. Instead, the agency doubled its emissions.” The […]
“Beyond transit infrastructure, think city building,” says UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki in an opinion piece in The Hill Times. Siemiatycki is Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Planning and Finance. […]
Essa: Real-time safety & mobility optimization of traffic signals in a connected-vehicle environment
Guest speaker Dr. Mohamed Abdelhay Essa presented “Real-time Safety and Mobility Optimization of Traffic Signals in a Connected-vehicle Environment” on April 9, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. In his […]
Congratulations to the team for the “Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit” project, which won a 2021 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). Project team members […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor David A. Wolfe, in a special to the Financial Post, outlines the need for a national innovation strategy to aid deployment of digitization and decarbonization throughout […]
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