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Smart Freight Centre built on regional collaboration, says Roorda

October 7, 2019

Regional collaboration among universities, governments and industry is essential to helping solve shared challenges across the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA), business leaders and university researchers said at a forum […]

Shalaby shares insights and latest research on technological innovations in transit

October 4, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Amer Shalaby was an invited speaker and panelist in “From point A to B, intelligently: Public transit expansion and modernization,” a public event presented by the […]

Transit in the GTA: How to Get Back on the Rails

October 4, 2019

“Transit in the Greater Toronto Area: How to Get Back on the Rails” was published online by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance as No. 26/2019 in its IMFG Perspectives series […]

Student travel needs StudentMove 2.0 focus

October 3, 2019

The negative effects of increasingly long commute times in the GTHA have been widely reported. Last week, researchers and partners launched a survey to gather data specifically on the commutes […]

UTTRI at TAC-ITS joint conference

September 26, 2019

The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)-ITS Canada Joint Conference and Exhibition took place in Halifax September 23-25, 2019. UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai presented “Academic research needed for automated and transformative transportation […]

Better air quality focus of conference

September 26, 2019

The third annual Air & Odor Management Conference and Technology Showcase (AOMCTS) was presented by Scentroid and the University of Toronto September 19 and 20, 2019, at U of T’s Hart […]

The Varsity features Hatzopoulou

September 25, 2019

The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s student newspaper, featured UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou in their “Women in STEM” series on September 14, 2019. The article Women in STEM: Civil […]

Saxe debates the future of cities at Elevate 

September 25, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe took part in Elevate‘s Smart City Summit 4.0 “Why Are We Even Doing This? with Dr. Shoshanna Saxe & Bilal Khan” on September 25, […]

Khandker Nurul Habib named Percy Edward Hart Professor

September 24, 2019

Seven new Hart Professorships – including one awarded to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib – will boost U of T Engineering research into technologies across a range of fields, […]

Optimizing the graduate student experience: Habib

September 23, 2019

On Friday, September 20, Professor Khandker Nurul Habib presented a seminar introducing the transportation research happening at the University of Toronto. Entitled “Graduate studies in transportation at U of T: […]

foundations profiles UTTRI associated faculty

September 20, 2019

Four UTTRI associated faculty were among those profiled in the first issue of foundations, the new magazine of the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. Professor Shoshanna Saxe‘s New York […]

Transportation UFP emissions focus of workshop

September 19, 2019

Pollution Probe and the University of Toronto Transportation and Air Quality Research Group (TRAQ) presented “A workshop on Ultrafine Particle Emissions from Transportation” September 18, 2019 at the University of Toronto to […]

Benefits of off-peak delivery clear: Roorda shares preliminary analysis of Peel pilot data

September 13, 2019

Early analysis of data collected during the Off-Peak Delivery (OPD) pilot project of the Region of Peel was shared with Peel Regional Council on September 12, 2019 by University of […]

Widener and Liu incorporate mobility in dietary behaviour research

September 10, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Michael Widener and his PhD student Bochu Liu created a research framework incorporating two research projects: the Canada Food Study (CFS) and the Food Activities, Socioeconomics, […]

Olejarz, Bahrami win top prizes in ITS Canada Student Essay Competition

September 10, 2019

University of Toronto students Daniel Olejarz (CivEng 2020 MASc candidate) and Sina Bahrami (CivEng 2019 PhD) for winning first and second prizes in the ITS Canada 2019 Student Essay Competition. […]

Imani, Miller, Saxe on cycling accessibility in Toronto

September 10, 2019

UTTRI postdoctoral fellow Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, Director Professor Eric Miller and associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe co-authored “Cycle accessibility and level of traffic stress: A case study of Toronto” which was published in Journal of Transport […]

Saxe, Miller on relieving congestion

September 4, 2019

UTTRI Director, Professor Eric Miller, and UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe were quoted in Emily Jackson’s August 29 article for the Financial Post,  “Congestion is only getting worse and […]

2019 Public Transit Short Courses get high marks from participants

August 28, 2019

Congratulations to all participants! UTTRI’s 2019 Public Transit Short Courses were held August 21-23 and attracted participants from a variety of backgrounds – transit agencies, government, consultancies, trade organizations – […]

Farvolden to speak at CAV19 Canada conference

August 27, 2019

UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden will speak on Panel #11, “Socio-economic impacts of CAVs” on September 10 at the CAV19 Canada conference in Ottawa. The conference runs September 9-10, 2019 […]

Siemiatycki comments on high-frequency rail project

August 1, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki commented on a project proposed by Via Rail to explore the possibility of high-frequency rail in the Quebec City-Toronto corridor. “Via’s case for major rail project […]

Urban goods movement focus of Future of Urban Mobility Seminar

July 31, 2019

U of T Professor Matthew Roorda and Janelle Lee, Analyst, Transportation and Urban Solutions at the Pembina Institute, presented a fascinating seminar July 25 for the Cities By Design: The Future of Urban […]

Hall: How is ride-hailing changing cities?

July 25, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jonathan Hall received SSHRC Insight funding of $85k for his proposal “Ride hailing, public transit, and consumer welfare” for a period of two years. The objective […]

Making use of collected data: Dr. Siva Srikukenthiran

July 25, 2019

A piece by UTTRI Research Associate Dr. Siva Srikukenthiran about a research project with Trapeze was posted by the organization July 19, 2019. In “The data conundrum: Turning transit data […]

Brail: Five-year study of ride-hailing across Canada

July 25, 2019

Will digital ride-hailing have profound consequences for Canada? To find out, “Taking Canada for a Ride? Digital ride-hailing and its impact on Canadian cities,” a five-year study of ride-hailing across Canada, has […]

Car-sharing on the rise, says Brail

July 23, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shauna Brail was interviewed in an article about R-Club, a new car-sharing club in Toronto. Here is a quote from Professor Brail from Toronto’s newest car-share company […]

Fox: Closing the back door of data privacy

July 19, 2019

Canadians are increasingly concerned about data privacy. According to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Mark S. Fox, clear liability for leaks will help ensure that private data remain private: “Without aggregator liability, […]

TRANSITDATA2019

July 17, 2019

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Amer Shalaby along with Patrick Loa (CivE MASc candidate 2019) and consultant Dr. Brendon Hemily attended the International Workshop and Symposium TRANSITDATA2019 held July 8-10 in […]

Future of Urban Mobility with Imani, Kasraian, Minet

July 17, 2019

Two UTTRI postdoctoral fellows and a PhD candidate spoke July 11 at the Cities By Design: The Future of Urban Mobility series, part of the Urban Challenge Project Seminars presented by the School […]

Youth learn about complete streets at Maximum City

July 17, 2019

Sneha Adhikari (CivE BASc 2019) presented workshops at the Maximum City Junior | Future City summer program for Grades 5-7 on July 11 and 16, 2019. Sneha reports that the participants […]

Saxe: The case for ‘dumb’ cities

July 17, 2019

“I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities” an opinion piece by UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe was published online in the New York Times on July 16, […]