Latest Past Events

Joseph Chow presents “Microtransit deployment portfolio management using simulation-based scenario data upscaling”

Online via Zoom

Due to transportation technologies having such heterogeneous impacts on different communities, there needs to be better tools to evaluate the deployment of emerging technologies with limited data. Microtransit is one such technology. We propose a novel methodology to “upscale” the limited data available so that further decision-support analysis and forecast modelling can be achieved where […]

Willem Klumpenhouwer presents “Talking Demand-Responsive Transit in Canada: Effective, or Exaggerated?”

Online Event

Demand-responsive transit, on-demand transit, microtransit. Adding technology-powered flexibility to transit service is not a new concept, but with smartphones in (almost) every pocket and the emergence of cloud-based applications, a huge number of new on-demand transit services are being piloted in Canada. Many politicians, planners, and operators have looked to on-demand transit as a potential […]