Raphael Dumas presents “Analyzing the transportation impacts of Toronto’s vehicle-for-hire industry 2019-2021”

In 2019 the Big Data Innovation Team, in partnership with Municipal Licensing and Standards, prepared an analysis of the impacts of Vehicles for Hire and Private Transportation Companies on the City of Toronto’s Transportation Network including on congestion, equity, transit, and curb utilization. Following that report Council required further datasets of the Vehicle-for-Hire industry starting in 2020. Transportation Data & Analytics prepared a follow up report which was presented to Council in December of 2021 and covers the period from October 2018 to July 2021, examining the period following the previous report and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vehicle-for-hire industry.

This talk will discuss the methods used in the analysis and the results, as well as the outcomes following the presentation of these analyses to Toronto City Council.

Raphael Dumas did his undergrad at McGill in civil engineering before doing a double degree at MIT, completing a Master of City Planning and a Master of Science in Transportation in 2015. During his three years there he did his thesis research in the MIT Transit Lab for the MBTA, Boston’s Transit Authority.

Raphael joined the City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Big Data Innovation Team as a Research Analyst in 2016 and now leads the Data Operation Team in the Data & Analytics Unit. His team focusses on automating the extraction, transformation, and loading of datasets as well as performing analyses on Emerging Mobility.

Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.

Free. All are welcome.

If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.

Join link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/s/81320181425. Please note that the same Zoom link will be used for all UT-ITE seminars this term.