Tune in to our new UTTRI YouTube channel for our latest videos, including all nine recent AutoShow presentations which run about 10 minutes each – well worth a watch. Dr. Judy Farvolden, […]
Recently published research by Professor Matthew J. Roorda, Sina Bahrami, and Dr. Medhi Nourinejad on autonomous vehicle parking optimization continues to attract attention. February 20, 2019: IEEE Spectrum – Charles Q. Choi […]
Tyrone Gan, Senior Vice President, HDR Corporation, gave a fascinating talk about his personal journey from a young engineer to the owner of one of the leading transportation consulting firms […]
Autonomous vehicles are predicted to enter the consumer market in less than a decade. There is currently no consensus on whether their presence will have a positive impact on users […]
The EVE Park concept project set in London, Ontario was the focus of Ashley Hammerbacher’s February 22 talk entitled “EVE Park: Reimagining the neighbourhood in the autonomous vehicle future.” She […]
Professor Amer Shalaby travelled to London, Ontario February 21 to take part in an expert panel presenting to the Rapid Transit Implementation Working Group. He was joined by Barrie Kirk, […]
The University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) was proud to present, for the first time, at the Canadian International AutoShow on February 20, 2019. Billed as “a seminar on urban transit in the future” the 90-minute session took place in the John Bassett Theatre and featured a series of speakers – academics, city of Toronto experts and others – presenting a series of short, punchy sessions on everything from the “costs of congestion” to how to re-imagine parking in the age of autonomous vehicles.
Dr. Mark Fox, Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, and Associate Director (Research) in the School of Cities, gave a fascinating talk about […]
Dr. Ahmadreza Faghih Imani presented a UT-ITE seminar on February 8, 2019 entitled “Passive data for transportation modeling: imputing mode and purpose information from cellphone traces.” According to Dr. Imani, […]
UTTRI associated faculty Assistant Professor Shoshanna Saxe was quoted in the Toronto Star February 11 in “How a budget with less money for repairs could leave Toronto ‘rusted out, leaky, cracked, […]
In his February 1, 2019 talk, “How MIT Got a Handle on Parking: The Behavioural Impact of Commuter Benefits,” Adam Rosenfield shared learnings from his graduate research at MIT investigating […]
UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden was recently appointed to a two-year term on the ULI Toronto Advisory Board. ULI (Urban Land Institute) Toronto is a non-profit real estate and […]
Guest speaker James Reynolds began his talk “Public Transport Priority, Politics and Legitimacy; Strategic Frameworks for Pragmatic Implementation in Car-centric Cities” by comparing Toronto to Melbourne. He’s lived in both cities […]
Pantonium’s Luke Mellor gave a talk at University of Toronto on Friday, January 25, 2019. The UT-ITE Friday Seminar was co-sponsored by iCity-CATTS. After an introduction by Dr. Toka Mustafa […]
Congratulations to Dr. Anahita Jami for being voted “Best in Session” by the Standing Committee on Public Transportation Planning and Development Poster Contest at the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting. The […]
Applications are now being accepted for a Research Associate (Limited Term) to work under the supervision of Professor Matthew Roorda. The new hire will contribute to the management and growth […]
An excerpt from the article Making the most of Canada’s infrastructure revival by Drew Fagan, January 10, 2019, Policy Options Politique, Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP).
Why Smart Cities are maybe so 2017 (and what this means for urban transport innovation and our social relations), a free public presentation and moderated panel discussion, took place on […]
If you can’t afford a car or Uber, and there’s no major public transit route in your neighbourhood, finding a job and keeping it can be an uphill battle. It’s an […]
Many UTTRI associated professors, postdocs and students will attend the 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC next week. Make sure you mark presentations you don’t want to […]
Transportation Podium Research Day was an afternoon of presentations on an urban transportation theme, showcasing the breadth of research interests of UofT professors investigating issues of importance to policy and […]
The newly-minted UofT Transportation Alumni Committee is proud to call the 2nd UofT Transportation Alumni Reception on November 15, 2018 a smash hit! Transportation alumni from a variety of backgrounds […]
“Strategies to achieve deep reductions in metropolitan transportation GHG emissions: the case of Philadelphia” by Mohamad-Kenan Al-Rijleh, Ahsan Alam, Romano Foti, Patrick L. Gurian, Sabrina Spatari and Marianne Hatzopoulou is cited in the November 30 […]
Eman Hammad, Chair for IEEE Toronto Communication Society Chapter, gave a talk entitled “Cybersecurity & Innovation: Digital Trust” at the UT-ITE seminar series on November 30, 2018. Cybersecurity, an essential […]
Tyrone Gan, Senior Vice President at HDR Corporation and University of Toronto alumnus, gave a fascinating talk about lessons transportation professionals should learn from one hundred years of history of […]