UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber and Professor Shauna Brail co-hosted the webinar “The Social Benefits of On-Demand Transit” with Luke Mellor of Pantonium, Inc. on June 4, 2020. The […]
The evidence we’ve released today in our Clearing the Air report shows that cleaner vehicles can be a pathway to cleaner air, improved public health, and reduced climate change impacts. […]
Electric vehicles are often touted as a means of mitigating climate change, but a new modelling study suggests that their public health benefits may be just as significant. “Local air […]
Matthew Palm, University of Toronto; Jeff Allen, University of Toronto, and Steven Farber, University of Toronto. Canadian cities are contending with how to maintain effective public transit during the coronavirus-induced […]
Short Biography Dr. Hurdle died June 1. He was born on December 27, 1935, in Pocatello, Idaho, and grew up in the smaller nearby town of Blackfoot. In 1950, he […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida coauthored the opinion piece “Canada’s new normal begins in our cities,” with Jennifer Keesmaat (CEO, Keesmaat Group) and Kwame McKenzie (CEO, Wellesley Institute), published […]
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the City of Toronto’s budget, not least because of the steep decline in TTC ridership. As UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki says in CBC’s […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib has been awarded the 2020 Sandford Fleming Award by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). Professor Habib’s citation for the Sandford Fleming […]
One of the great research outcomes of iCity: Urban Informatics for Metropolitan Sustainable Growth is the creation of the City Data Model Project Collaboratory. The City Data Model Project Collaboratory […]
Traffic and speed patterns in the GTHA have changed dramatically since COVID-19 restrictions came into effect. Much of the GTHA workforce no longer needs to travel to work, due to […]
We congratulate Dr. Adam Weiss who begins a tenure-track faculty position in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa on July 1, 2020. Dr. Weiss […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe was interviewed by Daily Commercial News by Construct Connect about findings published in “Embodied emissions in rail infrastructure: a critical literature review,” a paper […]
Dr. Matthew Palm and UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber have just released Towards Transportation for All: The Mobilizing Justice Workshop Outcomes Report. The report summarizes findings from the November 2019 […]
How will COVID-19 impact the travel demand and travel behaviour of residents of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)? The Travel Demand Modelling Group (TDMG), headed by UTTRI associated […]
The Smart Freight Centre (SFC) has started assessing the impact of COVID-19 on freight flows and supply chains in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Changes in freight flow and […]
Dr. Matthew Palm was interviewed by CP24 about preliminary results from the “Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey,” based on a sample of 2,753 survey respondents. In the video interview and article […]
Analyzing Twitter data is useful for planning and operating transportation systems. Current University of Toronto research in partnership with Calgary Transit, CUTRIC, SP NA, and NSERC creates a framework for […]
Demand-responsive transit, where vehicles, routes, and stop locations adapt in near-real time to customer requests, has gained new popularity in an app-enabled world. Transit agencies are considering this type of […]
A new Transit Analytics Lab (TAL) has been awarded funding for three years by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering through its Dean’s Strategic Fund. The lab is headed […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida, along with ten other leading global experts, shared his predictions for post-COVID cities in “How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus […]
What will COVID-19’s long-term impact be on Toronto? Will it forever change how people work and live? “Cities have been around for centuries and have survived pandemics,” says [UTTRI associated […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Amer Shalaby says public transit systems in COVID-19 recovery have implemented a variety of measures to keep transit safe for all in “Public transit prepping for […]
In light of the COVID-19 situation, the Public Transit Short Courses, previously scheduled for August 17 – 19, 2020, are postponed to a later date, to be determined based on developments. […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jeff Brook believes that the improved air quality we’re experiencing during the pandemic can be part of our post-COVID reality. With COVID-19 the recognition of public […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida was interviewed for a Q&A in “Urbanist discusses the pitfalls, possibilities for Toronto: The city will change and leaders need to be ready to […]
UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Enid Slack, Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) took part in “A COVID-19 Crisis for City Budgets” on TVO’s The Agenda with […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida was featured in the online webinar “How Will Cities Re-Open After the Pandemic? In Conversation with Richard Florida” presented by the Toronto Region Board […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Greg Evans, Director of The Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research (SOCAAR), was interviewed on Earth Day in “World marks Earth Day during coronavirus pandemic,” […]
UTTRI faculty associate Professor I. Daniel Posen thinks that habit-changing pandemic protocols may lead to longer-term, environmentally friendly changes in behaviour. “Seeing is believing,” he says in an article by […]