Eric Miller presents “Using an Agent/Activity-Based Microsimulation Model to Test COVID-19 Control Strategies: Model Design & Preliminary Results”

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Common models for disease spread modelling are usually aggregated, with population heterogeneities ignored. These heterogeneities typically include: Spatial distributions of population size and density Population age structure Age-specific mixing Size and composition of households Travel and out-of-home activity participation patterns. Household-based agent/activity-based microsimulation (ABM) models of daily out-of-home activity and travel such as the Travel/Activity […]

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Smart Freight Symposium 2020

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This event has ended. Details and resources from the 2020 Smart Freight Symposium are posted on the Smart Freight Centre website. The Smart Freight Centre presents its 2nd annual Smart Freight Symposium, hosted by the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. Building on the success of last year’s symposium, the Smart Freight Symposium 2020 […]

Marlin Ulmer presents “Urban Services with Demand and Resource Uncertainty”

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The number of instant delivery and transportation services grows rapidly with many competing companies such as Amazon Now, GrubHub, Doordash, GoPuff, MOIA, or Uber. The service-providers respond in real time to customer demand and promise a successful service fulfillment only a short time later. To keep customers happy and to grow the customer base, reliable […]

Willem Klumpenhouwer presents “Talking Demand-Responsive Transit in Canada: Effective, or Exaggerated?”

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Demand-responsive transit, on-demand transit, microtransit. Adding technology-powered flexibility to transit service is not a new concept, but with smartphones in (almost) every pocket and the emergence of cloud-based applications, a huge number of new on-demand transit services are being piloted in Canada. Many politicians, planners, and operators have looked to on-demand transit as a potential […]

Marianne Hatzopoulou presents “The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation & Health”

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Join us December 2nd at noon as Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou confronts the challenges of climate change on transportation. Climate-change mitigation in the transportation sector is a wicked-hard problem. Low emission technologies have begun to demonstrate some promise for air quality improvements. However, higher demand for these same technologies can therefore enable uncontrolled consumption. Almost every […]

How Can Policy Makers Incentivize Innovation in Public Transit? Pantonium webinar

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With public transit facing enormous funding and operational challenges for 2021, there will be a surge of new funding from all levels of government to help with the recovery. How can policy incentivize public transit to avoid making service cuts as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and not return to “business as usual”? Jeremy […]

Eric Miller presents “Everything you wanted to know about report writing but were afraid to ask”

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This presentation discusses various elements of report writing as a guide to graduate students preparing term project reports, journal articles, theses, etc. It is intended to address some typical issues that graduate students encounter in their writing. Topics discussed include: report organization; report style; treatment of tables, figures, exhibits and appendices; grammar and syntax; spelling […]

TMG Workshop: Population Synthesis Methods for the GTHA

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UTTRI's Travel Modelling Group (TMG) presents "Workshop: Population Synthesis Methods for the GTHA" on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 9:10 – 11:45 a.m. This free workshop will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.  All are welcome. Registration is required. Agenda (Download PDF agenda) 9:10 – 9:15: Workshop Welcome, Objectives & Agenda (Eric Miller) 9:15 – 9:30: Overview of […]

Dr. Elliot Siemiatycki presents “Achieving Unified Mobility”

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As a leading provider of software solutions for commuter/transportation demand management, RideShark has evolved over 15 years to promote shared, active and public transportation options. In this presentation, Siemiatycki will discuss the challenges and opportunities RideShark is pursuing in what has come to be known as Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). He will provide real-world examples of how […]

U of T Transportation Alumni AGM

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UTTAN 2020 Call for Executive Committee Nominations The University of Toronto Transportation Alumni Network is holding an AGM on December 16 at 5:00 p.m. Currently, the Executive Committee is accepting nominations until December 12 at 6:00 p.m. for the positions of Chair, Treasurer, Membership Officer, Sponsorship Officer, Student Representative (Planning), and Student Representative (Engineering). An […]