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 […]
Professors Shoshanna Saxe and I. Daniel Posen were jointly awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant for their project entitled “Improving Sustainability of Urban Infrastructure Systems.” The funding will enable the development […]
How do we solve the global problem of climate change? With technology, says U of T expert Steve Easterbrook, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, has […]
Professor Steven Farber was honoured with the “2018 Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group’s Emerging Scholar Award” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers held in New […]
“What do driverless cars hold for the future of our transportation system?” Dr. Adam Weiss gave this keynote presentation to the Bayview-Cummer Neighbourhood Association at their Annual General Meeting on April […]
Professors Heather MacLean, Bradley Saville and I. Daniel Posen presented a summary of their research project on the evaluation of the impact of using biobased diesel fuels to the City of Toronto’s Parks […]
UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden presented “Preparing Society for 21st Century Transportation” as part of an “Innovation Day” for Enterprise Holdings. The March 22 workshop was organized by Tata […]
Laura Minet was the lead author on a recent journal article that compares and analyzes traffic-related air pollution data collected in Toronto in two different ways: (1) using mobile collection […]
How self-driving cars could shrink parking lots March 28, 2018. By Tyler Irving New U of T Engineering research shows that adoption of self-driving cars — also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs) […]
Professor Panagiotis (Panos) Papaioannou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, gave a special guest seminar for the UT-ITE Friday Seminar Series on March 23. Following his presentation “Public Transit Service Quality and […]
A distinguished panel of six experts discussed urban transportation policy and economics from a variety of perspectives on March 22. The event was co-sponsored by the School for Public Policy […]
UTTRI Director Dr. Eric Miller was in Detroit for the Canadian Automotive Innovation/R&D Summit, on March 22 to take part in a panel on Autonomous / Connected Vehicles and AI. […]
Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia was interviewed by CBC News online in Super-fast, next-generation 5G wireless to get $200M research boost from governments with the recent announcement about ENCQOR, or Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor […]
Dr. Anahita Asadolahniajami, UTTRI Postdoctoral Fellow in Green Transportation, will share her work on modelling Ontario transit agencies’ greenhouse gas emissions at the EV2018VÉ Conference & Trade Show in Ottawa in […]
Professor Matti Siemiatycki talks about the issue in the March 11 Toronto Star article “How rampant development and poor planning left residents of this Etobicoke neighbourhood stuck in traffic,” stressing the […]
Professor Baher Abdulhai was quoted in the March 6 Globe and Mail article Rudeness is the new norm on Canada’s busy urban routes. He shared a personal anecdote about unexpected […]
Professor Baher Abdulhai, Research Director of Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS) weighed in on the February 26 article in The Verge, California green lights fully driverless cars for testing on […]
How much will we pay for the REM? It depends on the number of riders. Professor Matti Siemiatycki commented in the Montreal Gazette Feb. 15 on the Réseau express métropolitain […]
New Infrastructure Funding Sources Step Up in Canada. Matti Siemiatycki in ENR Engineering News Record Feb. 14 comments on the new Canada Infrastructure Bank which will begin investing in projects […]
Research for this recent paper, published online in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, was supervised and carried out collaboratively by researchers from University of Toronto and McMaster University. The paper authors are Arash […]
February 7, 2018 Olivia Da Silva’s article in today’s GTHA edition of Novae Res Urbis continues the conversation started by Professor Markos Papageorgiou and panel at Traffic Management for the 21st […]
The 2018 WTS-UTTRI Career Mixer for U of T Transportation students was held on January 31 at the University of Toronto. The two-hour reception allowed for lots of mixing and mingling […]
On Feb. 1 Professor Markos Papageorgiou presented a free public lecture in Toronto as part of the University of Toronto Department of Civil+Mineral Engineering Distinguished Lecture series. This particular lecture […]
Jonathan Hall’s recent paper Pareto improvements from Lexus Lanes: The effects of pricing a portion of the lanes on congested highways is now available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.01.003. It is published […]
January 29, 2018 The Daily Commercial News reported on the January 19 City of Toronto Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting in “Toronto drives discussions forward on automated vehicle planning.” At […]
January 31, 2018 Professor Amer Shalaby was interviewed by CityNews in Cracked rail triggers another day of TTC delays on Line 1. Professor Shalaby’s research over the past 25 years has […]
Congratulations to UofT alumnus Greg Hoy (2017 MASc) who was awarded the Albert Stevens Award (Master’s Category) of the 2016-2017 Student Paper Competition of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF). Greg’s […]
The City of Toronto staff report on preparing for automated vehicles is now online. Highlights include partnerships, potential impacts on a range of City services, public opinion in the GTHA, […]
Professor Steve Farber was quoted in the article Self-driving cars will change your life more than you can ever imagine by CNN Tech in Episode 1 of the series Our Driverless Future: […]