The Smart Freight Centre Leadership Seminar Series presents special guest speaker Professor Miguel Jaller of the University of California Davis on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar. Register here on Eventbrite. Description In recent years, the rapid adoption of omnichannel distribution strategies has dramatically changed how […]
This talk presents two projects that build data-driven solutions for city operations planning and management. The first part is devoted to the emerging food delivery operations. Working with a major food delivery service provider in China, we develop a data-driven optimization framework to minimize customers' expected delivery delay. To capture the driver's routing behaviors, we […]
Summary The COVID-19 crisis has put urban infrastructure under the spotlight. New questions on the ways we build (and build back) infrastructure in cities are now front and centre globally. Faced with a combination of economic, environmental, health and social challenges, cities are learning from each other, experimenting and innovating with strategies in an increasingly […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted travel behaviour in cities across the world, affecting how people travel and the reasons people leave their homes. In spite of the pandemic, and consequent the stay-at-home orders, the need to participate in non-mandatory activities remains. These activities, which include grocery shopping, social activities, and recreational activities, play a […]
ITS Canada presents: Research at the Transit Analytics Lab: Leveraging Twitter Data to Support Transit Planning & Operations Webinar Thu, Mar 4, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST The webinar, hosted by the APTS Technical Committee, will provide an overview of the activities of the Transit Analytics Lab (TAL) of the University of Toronto, […]
Transit technologies such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Advanced Fare Collection (AFC), as well as others, offer tremendous opportunities to support transit planning and management, but progress in the industry to seize on these opportunities has been slow. Dr. Brendon Hemily has been involved in many projects over the last three decades related to […]
The choice of vehicle type is one of the important logistics decisions made by firms. The complex nature of the choice process is due to the involvement of multiple agents. This study employs a random forest machine learning algorithm to represent these complex interactions with limited information about shipment transportation. The data are from commercial travel […]
Tri-POP is an online platform for operations of smart mobility solutions. In its core it combines online analytics for prediction, optimization, and personalization. It uses a bi-level optimization of system and user levels. The system optimization problem is solved periodically (e.g., every 5 minutes) to determine the optimal policy (e.g., pricing, fleet rebalancing, incentive allocation) […]
This presentation outlines a framework for economics in the transport sector and for transportation planning. It develops microeconomic applications for project or program evaluation, looks at current practice in transportation economics, and seeks to answer the question, "How will economics figure in your engineering career?" William Denning William Denning has worked in transportation most of […]
University of Toronto transportation students are invited to join us at Gather Town for our 2021 virtual UT-ITE Student-Industry Mixer! Connect with public & private transportation professionals Learn about opportunities Get general career advice & information UT-ITE 2021 Student Industry Mixer flyer. Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE. Sponsored by: […]
