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 cost-saving measure, or to deliver more efficient service to sparse suburban or rural regions of a city.

Dr. Willem Klumpenhouwer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Transit Analytics Lab.

He studies passenger rail and urban transit performance analytics and emerging technologies. He holds a PhD in Transportation Engineering from the University of Calgary and a bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Guelph.

In addition to his work as a transit researcher and advocate, he enjoys data visualization projects, and performing improvised theatre.

Join online via Bb Collaborate: https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/9dccb5b4a2ac49d8b6c9f7a7c568bb5a

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

Klumpenhouwer, Willem, “The State of Demand-Responsive Transit in Canada: Final Report,” prepared by the Transit Analytics Lab with support from Mitacs and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, July, 2020.