The City of Belleville introduced on-demand transit for their evening service in September of 2018. After a year in service, and 3,000 registered users, a research team from the University of Toronto conducted a survey to better understand the social benefits of on-demand transit service. Read the full report The Benefits Of On-Demand Transit In […]
Technological advances and research on methodologies have dramatically increased the availability and quality of automated data that can be used to develop applications that enhance the planning and operations of public transportation systems. Automated Data Systems include: Advanced Fare Collection (AFC), Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Automatic Passenger Counting (APC), GTFS-RT, on-board video surveillance, but also new sources of passive data obtained from mobile devices, social media and other Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. A series of workshops have been held in recent years to explore both methodological challenges and potential applications, including: Gifu, Japan (2014), Boston, United States (2016), Santiago, Chile (2017), Brisbane, Australia (2018), and Paris, France (2019) .
The next Symposium will be held August 11-13, 2020 in Toronto, Canada, and we are planning to place more emphasis on applications, and substantially broaden the discussion between practitioners and researchers interested in the use of public transportation automated data.
This week's UT-ITE seminar features presentations by two University of Toronto PhD students, Patrick Loa and Sk Md Mashrur. Patrick Loa Title: "A survey-based study into the impacts of COVID-19 on the use of ride-sourcing services in the GTA." Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, ride-sourcing services (such as those offered by Uber and Lyft) were […]
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 […]
Rami Al-Sahar Rami Al-Sahar will present his MASc thesis "Evaluating the Use of Twitter in Gauging Customer Satisfaction Effects of Transit Service Interventions" on September 9, 2021, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Rami is an MASc candidate at the University of Toronto Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering working under the supervision of Professors Amer […]
Lisa Li Lisa Li will present her MASc thesis “Navigating the Transit Network: Understanding Riders’ Information-Seeking Behaviour using Trip Planning Data” on September 10, 2021, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Lisa is an MASc candidate at the University of Toronto Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering working under the supervision of Professor Amer Shalaby. Her […]
This presentation will demonstrate how concepts of transportation planning are applied in practice. Areas of transportation planning such as travel demand modelling, master planning, multi-modal planning, complete streets, transit planning and functional planning will be featured through real-world case studies, such as the City of Mississauga Lakeshore Transportation Studies, City of Brampton LRT Extension, City […]
While premium transit modes such as commuter rail can improve access to opportunities, the higher fares that accompany these services create barriers to their use. Fare-sensitive access measures require accurate estimation of fare costs between origins and destinations. They are not often included in public transit access analyses because of data limitations and computational complexity. […]
New mobility providers claim that smart technology and services – self-driving vehicles, ride sharing – will increase road safety and reduce emissions and that the data produced can reduce congestion by improving traffic flow. Shared mobility and self-driving vehicles may reduce dependence on personal automobiles or they may worsen traffic and by competing with public […]
Rick Liu will present his MASc thesis "A social equity lens on Toronto transit network performance using a graph theory approach: Examining node criticality, service redundancy, delays and disruptions" via Zoom on August 5, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Many past studies have examined where transit disruptions are […]
