In this presentation, I will discuss the progress and our most recent findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on households’ long-term residential mobility and relocation choice, on behalf of the Transportation Demand Modelling Group.

The data used in the study is from a two-stage survey we collected in July 2020 and 2021. The presentation starts with reviewing our findings on residential relocation behaviour observed in July 2020. Then, I will discuss the challenges we faced during data collection and analysis and how we attempted to improve our second cycle by using an efficient-adaptive choice experiment design.

The main theme of the presentation will be around theoretical discussions on designing a survey that collects data that is well-matched with the actual residential relocation behaviour. The presentation will be more engaging to the audience who are interested in location choice data collection and modelling or those who are curious to know the recent pandemic relocation behaviour.

Saeed Shakib is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Khandker Nurul Habib.

His research focuses on location choice modeling and survey design methods.

He earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the Sharif University of Technology in Iran.

Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.

Free. All are welcome.

If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@studentorg.utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.

Join link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/s/81320181425. Please note that the same Zoom link will be used for all UT-ITE seminars this term.