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Ontologies and Platforms – iCity webinar series #1 of 5
June 8, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The first in the five-webinar series presented by iCity, Ontologies and Platforms features two presentations.
1. The iCity Ontology: Towards a Data Standard for Transportation Planning – Megan Katsumi
The iCity Transportation Planning Suite of Ontologies addresses the benefits of using ontologies to support transportation planning activities and explains how the iCity-ORF work has led to a series of ISO standardization efforts for city services’ data. Directions for future work on this key outcome, including the collaborative approach that will be pursued for the continued development of the ISO standards will also be discussed.
Speaker
Megan Katsumi is a post-doctoral fellow with the University of Toronto Enterprise Integration Lab, and the Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) Group. She has a B.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (Toronto), and completed her MASc and PhD with the Semantic Technologies Group at the University of Toronto where her research focused on foundations for ontology development. Currently, Megan’s research is concerned with the development of a set of ontologies and reasoning services to support city services.
2. iCity ITSoS Platform and ATIS Applications – Ahmed Aqra, Hasan Bayanouni, Mohammed El-Darieby
Next generation smart city applications will comprise complex workflows of services processing a heterogeneous multitude of voluminous datasets. Services and datasets are heterogeneous as they are provided by diverse public and private institutions using different technologies. The ITSoS platform uses Artificial Intelligence and contemporary software engineering technologies to facilitate seamless integration of these heterogeneous services and datasets into application workflows. The capabilities and services include an Open Trip Planner for the GTHA and a Trip Reservation-based Traffic Control System. These capabilities and services can be scaled for application to a mega city using Big Data techniques.
Speakers
Ahmed Aqra is a PhD candidate working towards his PhD in Intelligent Transportation Systems at the University of Toronto. Ahmed is a multi-dynamic ITS expert and self-motivated certified project manager (PMP). His research focuses on developing trip level and link level traffic assignment that will pave the road for a network-wide trip-level in-advance reservations platform in our transportation system. Ahmed received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Ajman University in 2006, and he obtained his Master of Engineering Management from University of Wollongong in 2013. In 2016, he received his Master of Applied Science in Software Systems Engineering from University of Regina. From 2006 to 2015, Ahmed worked in the industry as a software engineer, web developer, chief analyst, and ITS subject matter expert serving several international organizations. During his PhD journey, Ahmed led the “Big Data” team for traffic applications in ITS lab at University of Toronto to develop various applications and services. Ahmed is passionate about incubating new ideas and solving real life problems using state-of-art software technologies.
Hasan Bayanouni has 13 years of experience in the ICT industry. He received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Ajman University in 2003. In 2017, he received his PhD from University of Salford, UK. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto and the team leader of ITSoS (iCity-ITSoS) project which is part of the iCity-ORF project. He is working with the Smart Freight Centre on the Freight Data Warehouse and Data Analytics Solutions.
Dr. Bayanouni worked in the industry as IT infrastructure engineer and solution architect. He led mega projects in the ICT infrastructure. He also led mega projects in the Smart Cities domain. He is focusing on the big data, data analytics, IoT Solutions and Smart Cities Solutions.
Mohamed El-Darieby is a Professor of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Regina. Sask, CANADA. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Egypt and Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience in software development. His research interests are in the areas of software and networking systems with applications to Smart Infrastructure and City Dynamics with over 22 competitive industrial, national and industrial funding grants from agencies such as NSERC (DG, DDG and Engage), Transport Canada, CANARIE, CFI, GEOIDE, Sask. Highways, NRC, WestGrid, PTRC, and WED. Dr. EL-Darieby has more than 60 publications in technical conferences and journals. Dr. El-Darieby is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).
Note: Registration closes Monday, June 8, at 10:59 a.m. and Zoom details will be forwarded to all registrants by email via Eventbrite at 11 a.m.
About this webinar series
This webinar series, hosted by UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden, will summarize, share and celebrate the research initiatives and innovations produced over the course of the project, wrapping up with a preview of research proposed for iCity 2.0.
The online presentations are scheduled over five days as shown below. Admission is free and all are welcome. Registration for each webinar is required.
– June 8, 2020, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.: Ontologies and Platforms
– June 10, 2020, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.: Visualization
– June 12, 2020, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.: Foundations for Planning and Operations
– June 15, 2020, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Elements of the Street and its Users
– June 17, 2020, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.: The Long View and Next Steps
Details and registration links for all webinars
About iCity: Urban Informatics for Sustainable Metropolitan Growth
The iCity: Urban Informatics for Sustainable Metropolitan Growth project is coming to a close after five years of successful collaboration between UTTRI, OCAD-U and University of Waterloo. Led by Principal Investigator and UTTRI Director, Dr. Eric Miller, the goal of iCity was to find innovative ways to improve urban transportation system performance and design efficient, sustainable cities for the well-being of individuals and society.
iCity researchers co-created innovative ways to improve urban transportation system performance through the design of complete streets, understanding parking behaviour, improving transit resilience, exploring the behaviours of pedestrians, and extending our understanding of the interactions between land use and transportation. Rigorous transportation research, built on a foundation of data, ontologies and platforms was effectively enabled by novel visualizations, resulting in a suite of data standards, dashboards and tools we hope will be useful to our iCity partners and others.
iCity: Urban Informatics for Sustainable Metropolitan Growth is funded by the Ontario Research Fund, Research Excellence, Round 7.