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StudentMoveTO presents ‘Moving the Student Body’ symposium

June 3, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - June 4, 2022 @ 1:15 pm

StudentMoveTO presents a two-day symposium and seminar event on student travel in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), “Moving the Study Body.”

This event will feature conversations, presentations, debates, and panel discussions from a diverse body of researchers, academic leaders, policy makers and advocates, to discuss insights from the StudentMoveTO study and their implications for creating better transportation services in this region, and improving student well-being.

This event is open to anyone interested in transportation planning in the GTHA. Researchers, students, urban planners, policy makers, transportation advocates, and the broader public are welcome to attend.

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Agenda

June 3rd – York University

Time: 1 to 5pm
Location: Room 519 in the Kaneff Tower (74 York Blvd, North York)

StudentMoveTO: The Research – Moderated by Sara Diamond, President Emerita of OCAD University

1:00 – 1:05pm Welcome and Opening Remarks – Roger Keil, Co-Investigator, StudentMoveTO

1:05 – 1:20pm Introduction: What have we accomplished? Mobility research in a region under lockdown – Raktim Mitra, Principal Investigator, StudentMoveTO

1:20 – 1:40pm Designing the Survey: Cracking the code of student mobility – Khandker Nurul Habib, Co-investigator, StudentMoveTO

1:40 – 2:00pm Survey research: Bringing big data to policy makers – Matti Siemiatycki, Co-investigator, StudentMoveTO

2:00 – 2:20pm Data visualization: Demonstrating diversity across a growing region – Jeremy Bowes, Co-investigator, StudentMoveTO

2:20 – 2:40pm Listening to students: Qualitative research on mobility in a pandemic city – Patricia Wood, Co-investigator, StudentMoveTO

2:40 – 3:00pm Coffee and Tea

Partner Panel: Linking learning to mobility and vice versa – Moderated by Cameron MacLeod, Executive Director of transit advocacy group CodeRedTO

3:00 – 4:30pm A moderated discussion between researchers, transit advocates, and policy makers on the insights of the StudentMoveTO project.

  • Cameron MacLeod, Executive Director, CodeRedTO
  • Nicole Arsenault, Program Director, Sustainability, York University
  • Shelley Carroll, Councillor for Don Valley North, City of Toronto
  • Shahreen Shehwar, York University Environment and Urban Change PhD student
  • Herb Sinnock, Director, Office for Sustainability, Sheridan College
  • David Simor, Director at the Centre for Active Transport (TCAT)
  • Anthony Smith, Metrolinx Planning and Development

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June 4th – Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University)

Time: 9:30am to 1:15pm
Location: Room 312 in the South Bond Building (105 Bond St, Toronto)

Day 2 will feature seminars presented by researchers from Toronto Metropolitan University, York University, the University of Toronto and OCAD University to provide insights from the StudentMoveTO research projects.

Light refreshments and snacks will be served during the event.

Seminar Program

9:30 to 10:15am Session 1: Student transportation behaviour and wellbeing
  • Investigating the benefit of using multiple cross-sectional travel survey data in modelling the mode choice behaviour of university students in Toronto. Presenting author: Sanjana Hossain. Other author: Khandker Nurul Habib.
  • Infrastructure Turn and Transportation Equity: Student Commuters of the GTA. Presenting author: Mohammed Mohith. Other authors: Roger Keil, Seyedmohsen Alavi.
  • Disability and Postsecondary Education in the GTHA: Scratching the Surface using StudentMoveTO 2019. Presenting author: Ron Buliung. Other author: Jordan Aharoni.
  • Visual Sensemaking for Student Mobility Data: StudentMoveTO. Presenting author: Jeremy Bowes. Other authors: Dr. Sara Diamond, Bo Louie Siu, Ryan Barquero, Ernesto Ramirez, Iman Kewalrabi.
10:30 to 11:15am Session 2: Student transportation behaviour and wellbeing
  • Transportation and wellbeing: Exploring post-secondary students’ commute satisfaction and its relationship to campus participation and success. Presenting author: Ryan Taylor. Other author: Raktim Mitra.
  • Understanding Attitudes of Post-Secondary Students in the GTHA Towards the Private Car and Public Transit Modes of Transportation. Presenting author: Seyedmohsen Alavi. Other authors: Roger Keil, Mohammed Aziz Mohit.
  • The Determinants of Commute Mode Usage Frequency of Post-Secondary Students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Presenting author: Sanjana Hossain. Other authors: Patrick Loa, Felita Ong, and Khandker Nurul Habib.
11:30 to 12:15pm Session 3: Pandemic and student transportation
  • What Happens When Post-Secondary Programmes Go Virtual for COVID-19? Effects of Forced Telecommuting on Travel Demand of Post-Secondary Students During the Pandemic. Presenting author: Kaili Wang. Other authors: Sanjana Hossain, Khandker Nurul Habib.
  • Changes in post-secondary students’ travel behaviour patterns after covid-19 pandemic. Presenting author: Raktim Mitra. Other author: Attiya Haseeb.
  • Modelling the Choices of Telecommuting (Online Learning) Frequency of Post-Secondary Students. Presenting author: Sanjana Hossain. Other authors: Kaili Wang, and Khandker Nurul Habib.
12:30 to 1:15pm Session 4: Student transportation and City Building
  • International Students’ Experience with Public Transit During the COVID-19 Pandemic in The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and The Greater Vancouver Area (GVA). Presenting author: Mengyan Huang.
  • Between destinations: an ethnographic review of the tactics adopted by city walkers during (post)pandemic times. Presenting author: Guilherme Teixeira Costa.
  • Students in the City: Transportation and urban life. Presenting author: Roger Keil. Other authors: Seyedmohsen Alavi, Mohammed Mohith.
  • Exploring the environmental and social sustainability in the travel behaviour patterns of young adults. Presenting author: Attiya Haseeb. Other authors: Raktim Mitra.