Several U of T transportation engineering graduates got together in Toronto last week to mark the 30th anniversary of their 1988 graduation. The international gathering visited UTTRI to hear about […]
A recent research study examined failures by drivers to check for vulnerable road users during right turns at intersections. The study was carried out by researchers in the Human Factors and […]
The Region of Peel’s first Off-Peak Delivery (OPD) pilot project will run July-December 2018 with participation from: LCBO Loblaw Companies Limited PepsiCo Walmart Canada Corp. Weston Foods The University of […]
July 5, 2018 The results of the 2018 XSeed program were recently announced. Three of the eight projects approved involve UTTRI associated faculty (see details below). “XSeed: Expanding Our Research […]
July 3, 2018 Professor Shauna Brail‘s remarks to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference on June 3, 2018 have been published online by Policy Options Politiques in the article […]
July 3, 2018 Professor Amer Shalaby was quoted in the Toronto Star today in Toronto plans to test driverless vehicles for trips to and from transit stations. The article by […]
University of Toronto’s School of Cities has just announced its senior leadership team, tasked with shaping the newly-created school’s urban-focused research, educational and outreach initiatives. The team will be led […]
The inaugural symposium of the iCity-Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS) on June 28, Transformative Transportation ’18, welcomed over 125 attendees. The public event was held in UofT’s spacious Health […]
June 21, 2018 Professor Amer Shalaby gave a presentation entitled “Social Media Analytics for Improved Customer Service and Transit Management” and was a panelist on “The Future of Smart Vehicle […]
UTTRI hosted a closed workshop for 50 participants on June 27 entitled “Transportation & E-Commerce: Opportunities & Challenges.” Director Eric J. Miller provided welcome remarks. The day’s objectives included: understanding the e-commerce […]
Congratulations to Baher Abdulhai who received the 2018 Sandford Fleming Award for outstanding contributions to research and practice in Transportation Engineering in Canada from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering […]
UTTRI associated faculty and postdoctoral fellows shared recent research at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society of Canada (ITS Canada) Annual Conference and General Meeting, June 17-20, 2018. The conference was […]
The recent iCity-ORF Annual Research Day 2018 presented the third year of the project’s research activities across a wide spectrum. The June 22 showcase, held in GB202, marked the first […]
Congratulations to Syed Imam who was awarded the CITE WSP Undergraduate Scholarship for 2018. Syed submitted his paper “Envisioning Opportunities in Multimodal Transportation Planning” as part of his application, and […]
Researchers found a problem with an existing model for group decision-making. They then adapted an alternate and problem-free group decision-making model to take any number of decision-makers into account, and […]
UTTRI was well represented at CTRF’s recent conference, The Future of Canada’s Transportation System, in Gatineau, Quebec. E-Commerce Logistics in Canada Dr. Glareh Amirjamshidi, a postdoctoral fellow working with Matthew Roorda […]
The ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl competition has taken place annually since 2009, and is designed to test knowledge of the ITE, transportation planning and engineering topics as well as some […]
Creating child-friendly cities was published on the Spacing Toronto blog on May 30, 2018. The article discusses the rising demographic of urban youth and the need for inclusive child-friendly design. […]
New research on anticipated impacts of automated transportation “Automated, electric, or both? Investigating the effects of transportation and technology scenarios on metropolitan greenhouse gas emissions” was published in Sustainable Cities and […]
Professor Baher Abdulhai travelled to Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, this past week, invited as a keynote to the Huawei Strategy & Technology Workshop May 15-16. Hundreds of Huawei’s most senior technologists and invited […]
Professor Khandker Nurul Habib recently accepted the role of Associate Director of the Data Management Group (DMG). Founded in 1988, the DMG provides travel behaviour data collection, management and analysis services to […]
UTTRI Director Eric Miller participated in Tuesday’s free conference Toronto: Towards a Smart and Inclusive City-Region. He joined the panel session “Working Together: Building the City-Region of the Future” which focused on the […]
Professor Baher Abdulhai took part in an interactive panel discussion on the future of smart transportation at the Smart Cities Expo World Forum in Toronto on May 7, 2018. Discussion […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki was quoted in the May 3 Toronto Star article “Future residents likely to push King St. streetcars back past limits, study finds“: Toronto has seen […]
May 7, 2018 A group from Toronto Global and Invest Ontario visited UTTRI to learn about our research expertise, projects and impact. UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden welcomed the […]
UTTRI associate faculty Professor Michael J. Widener is one of sixteen new Canada Research Chairs at the University of Toronto. An assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, […]
Executive Director of the Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO), Andy Manahan, shares why they believe a subway relief line is necessary. Click here to watch the interview […]
Professor Amer Shalaby was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last week as an invited guest participant at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s 1st International R&D Collaboration Conference. He was the lead facilitator […]
Dr. Anahita Jami presented “Greenhouse Gas Emission Modelling for the Transit Sector” at the EV2018VE Conference in Ottawa in April. Dr. Jami is a postdoctoral fellow with the Canadian Urban […]
MASc Candidate Chris Stogios presented his thesis research and won “Best Poster” for “Determining the Effects of Automated Vehicle Driving Behaviour on Vehicle Emissions and Traffic Performance” at the Hellenic Canadian […]