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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]