“Just” Cities: Traffic-related air pollution and justice in the context of urban sustainability,” a Distinguished Lecture by Professor Dr. Julian Marshall of the University of Washington, drew a large audience […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber‘s presentation at Transport Futures’ “Transportation Equity Summit” December 9 was reported in the article “Scholar encourages GTA transit planners to build equity cases,” Daily […]
Call for abstracts: TransitData 2020 in Toronto, Canada The Toronto symposium will place more emphasis on applications, and substantially broaden the discussion between practitioners and researchers interested in the use […]
Researchers have released a report detailing the pilot project “Off-Peak Delivery Program in the Region of Peel” and their conclusions. The complete final report is available on the Smart Freight […]
Engineering Librarian Angela Henshilwood presented an informative talk designed to help those conducting transportation research get the most from University of Toronto library resources, many of which are open to […]
The Travel Modelling Group (TMG) held a workshop on mobility tools and services on the morning of February 5, 2020 in the ITS Lab, SF3103 at University of Toronto. The […]
In the wake of their intensive two-day workshop last November, Mobilizing Justice now shares 16 videos on YouTube. The videorecorded presentations and panel talks all took place at the workshop […]
Hamish Campbell, Country Manager at Via On-Demand Transit presented the seminar “How on-demand transit partnerships are transforming mobility for cities and transit agencies” on January 31, 2020. Campbell’s seminar focused […]
Livestream video is currently still viewable on Twitter @civmin part 1 here. and part 2 here, but will end soon. Guest speaker Professor Julian D. Marshall of the University of Washington […]
UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), has co-authored an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail January 24, 2020. “Ontario’s relationships […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki is the expert voice in the January 24 article “Uber, Lyft given green-light in Metro Vancouver, but is that a good thing?” posted online […]
Amy Jiang, Senior Associate at BA group, was at U of T on January 24th to present “The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and emerging directions in transportation engineering.” She […]
Professional Engineers Ontario’s Engineering Dimensions features University of Toronto recent graduate Nazli Kaya (MIE MASc 2019) on the cover of its January/February 2020 issue. “How human factors engineering drives automotive […]
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Mehdi Nourinejad, who began a position as Assistant Professor (tenure track) at York University in the Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, […]
The Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations Committee (AHB10) 2019 Best Paper Award went to “Development and Implementation of a Multi-Level Roadway Segmentation Methodology” by Dr. Reza Omrani, Transportation Safety […]
Keynote and presentation videos and slides from the Mobilizing Justice workshop are now available on the Mobilizing Justice website. The materials are invaluable transportation equity resources, posted with kind permission […]
Ten University of Toronto graduate students are receiving DiDi Graduate Awards in recognition of their contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, vehicle autonomy, transportation analytics, human-machine interfacing and related […]
UTTRI associate faculty Professor Steven Farber helped the Transportation Research Board (TRB) organize a curated track of transport equity sessions at their Annual Meeting next month. The sessions Sunday, January […]
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting January 12-16, 2020 will feature the research of thousands. To help you find UTTRI at TRB we share below a TRB 2020 UTTRI […]
Professor Steven Farber spoke at the Transportation Equity Summit presented by Transport Futures on December 9, 2019 at Innis Town Hall. He was joined on the panel “Building Fair Transit: […]
If you have dreams of reading a book or taking a nap while your self-driving car safely navigates city streets, you will have to wait awhile. That’s according to Professor Birsen […]
A new University of Toronto listserv, TransitData2020-l, will be used for direct email updates on the TransitData 2020 symposium. Subscription to TransitData2020-l is open and all are welcome to sign […]
UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden moderated and gave opening comments for the session “Integrating Smart Mobility: Planning to get from here to there” December 2nd at “Ahead of the […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Merve Bodur, of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, gave a lecture on “Model Optimization Problems via Stochastic Programming” as a part of the UT-ITE seminar […]
Call for extended abstracts: TransitData 2020 in Toronto, Canada The Toronto symposium will place more emphasis on applications, and substantially broaden the discussion between practitioners and researchers interested in the […]
The Smart Freight Symposium on sustainable urban and regional freight innovation was held November 4, 2019 at the University of Toronto Faculty Club. The one-day event featured two keynotes and […]
“Ask CBC News” devoted its November 26 episode, entitled “Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100, UN report finds,” to “take stock of Canada’s place in the world when it […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe took part in the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT) 5th annual Transportation Summit on November 27, 2019. She debated against Josipa Petrunic, Executive […]
The current Ontario government may revive a project to build a highway in the GTA West Corridor, the proposed Highway 413. Professor Steve Farber was one of four panelists on […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber was quoted in “Should public transit be free?” [paywall] in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2019. The article by Ben Spurr discusses MPP Michael […]