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Farber, Palm on transport equity and new mobility at Roundtable on Shared Mobility

February 3, 2021

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber and Professor Matthew Palm of Worcester State University took part in “New Mobility, Covid-19, and the Future of Sustainable Urban Transport” presented by the […]

Alfaseeh: Predicting GHG emissions with deep learning

February 2, 2021

Dr. Lama Alfaseeh, postdoctoral researcher at Ryerson University, presented “Prediction of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Downtown Toronto Using Deep Sequence Learning” on January 15, 2020 for the UT-ITE seminar series. […]

Modelling mobility services: Calderón

February 2, 2021

Francisco Calderón Peralvo presented “Modelling Mobility Services within Agent-Based Travel Demand Model Systems and Implementation of a Ridehailing Case Study” on January 22, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. Conventional […]

Siemiatycki on survival of Canadian transit through pandemic

January 26, 2021

Public transit agencies across Canada are continuing to experience large budget shortfalls during the pandemic. While most agencies continue to provide an acceptable level of service, ridership – and fares […]

Plan now for a more liveable post-pandemic city: Saxe, Florida

January 26, 2021

A shift to online work and schooling due to the pandemic has some Toronto residents choosing to move their home base outside the city. A recent Toronto Star article interviewed […]

Looking at Toronto after the first wave: Brail

January 26, 2021

UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Shauna Brail, an associate professor at UTM’s Institute for Management and Innovation, is passionate about urban life, and her previous research endeavors have explored the transformation […]

Saxe, Khalil receive funding for project using data analysis to increase efficiency of city construction

January 22, 2021

Congratulations to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe, a member of one of eight teams comprising 14 researchers selected to receive seed funding from the Innovation at Interfaces Fund, co-funded by […]

Siemiatycki: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) insights for Unified Mobility™

January 22, 2021

Dr. Elliot Siemiatycki, Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives with RideShark, presented “Achieving Unified Mobility” on December 11, 2020. RideShark is a company that provides Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) by building […]