There is a growing market for crowd-shipping, which hires people to transport packages on their regular commutes, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This thesis considers a hybrid crowd-shipping operation that hires crowd-shippers and regular drivers in a physical internet environment. An investigation into the spatial distribution of potential crowd-shippers is conducted by leveraging a […]
The University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE, announces a social event to welcome new grad students in transportation. Scheduled to take place within the usual UT-ITE seminar slot (Friday, 11-12), the event will be an interactive and fun ice-breaking social. "Let's sit around one virtual table, get the coffee and snacks ready, and start having […]
In 2016, in response to a general upward trend in traffic-related fatalities starting in 2012, particularly among vulnerable road users, as well as changes in values representing the Vision Zero approach, City Council approved the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This signaled a change in values representing the Vision Zero approach, moving away from primarily […]
Join us on Tuesday, October 12, 3-4 p.m. for the official launch and release of “THE SCARBOROUGH OPPORTUNITY REPORT: A Comprehensive Walking and Cycling Network” by Professor André Sorensen, Isaac Bortolussi, Ivan Chong, Jamila Gowie, Nadhiena Shankar and Kelly Anne Vigayan. Register Register on Eventbrite. Learn about a report that provides recommendations to help the City […]
The Smart Freight Centre Leadership Seminar Series presents special guest speaker Professor Lynette Cheah of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on Friday, October 15, 2021, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar via Zoom. Join at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87624482177. Description In the bid to stay competitive, online […]
Professor Khandker Nurul Habib Khandker Nurul Habib is the Percy Edward Hart Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Khandker Nurul Habib completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto (CIV PhD 0T7). After finishing his PhD, he joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai will speak on the panel "Steering towards an AI movement future" at WRLDCTY 2021. See the full conference agenda below. WRLDCTY runs from October 26-28, with Toronto’s program airing on October 27 from 1-7 EST. Born in the early days of the pandemic as one of the first truly […]
As the COVID pandemic began to take hold in Canada in March of 2020, the City of Calgary’s transportation department initiated several streams of work to manage the short- and longer-term impacts. One of these streams involved the use of strategic foresight to create a set of plausible scenarios for Calgary after the pandemic. Based […]
On-demand shared mobility is a promising and sustainable transportation approach that can mitigate vehicle externalities, such as traffic congestion and emission. On-demand shared mobility systems require matching of one (one-to-one) or multiple riders (many-to-one) to a vehicle based on real-time information. We propose a novel Graph-based Many-to-One ride-Matching (GMOMatch) algorithm for the dynamic many-to-one matching […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou, Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Air Quality, is one of eight speakers taking part in the “Electrification of Public Transport” session of the "Virtual Roadshow on Electrification of Transport" on November 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST). See the full agenda here. Register now to attend this […]
