On October 6, Chris Harding shared a comparison of travel survey smartphone applications as part of the UT-ITE Seminar Series. In his talk “State of the art and potential of […]
October 2, 2017 A Memorandum of Understanding between U of T and the City of Toronto was signed today at City Hall. The agreement formalizes collaboration as well as exchange of […]
October 2, 2017 Help shape the future of transportation in our region – it’s as simple as installing the City Logger app on your smartphone to log your trips! For more […]
Jason Hawkins talked about his recent work in the area of Fort McMurray, Alberta, at the UT-ITE Seminar on Friday, September 29th. In his presentation, “An Atypical RTM – Development […]
September 29, 2017 Four pedestrians have been killed by cars in Scarborough since Wednesday night. Metro Morning producer Morgan Passi visited the street where a mother and her five-year-old daughter […]
September 28, 2017 UTTRI researchers took the 11th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods in Estérel, Québec by storm this week, beginning with the opening keynote address given by Director […]
Dr. Kelly Clifton was our guest at U of T last week. She engaged with graduate students and postdocs and their research through roundtable discussions – in both Geography and […]
Paula Nguyen presented her MASc thesis, Determining the Factors that Influence the Probability and Time to Streetcar Bunching Incidents, at the UT-ITE Friday Seminar Series on September 22, 2017. Abstract […]
September 15, 2017 Greg Hoy presents A Comparative Analysis of Agent-Based Pedestrian Modelling Approaches Last Friday, Greg Hoy presented his MASc thesis as part of the UT-ITE seminar series. He […]
September 15, 2017 Professor Matt Roorda (top R) introduces Dr. Miguel Figliozzi (top L), September 15, 2017 (photo: T. Romancyshyn) A special guest from Portland State University, Professor Miguel Andres […]
September 8, 2017 MASc Thesis Supervisor Professor Amer Shalaby introduces Yishu (Roy) Pu (photo: T. Romancyshyn) Yishu (Roy) Pu presented his MASc thesis as part of the UT-ITE Seminar Series […]
Professor Matti Siemiatycki champions evidence-based planning over politics in his Sept. 3 Toronto Star article “Evidence-based planning in Toronto is dead.”
September 5, 2017 The UT-ITE Seminar Series (usually held on Fridays) opened today with Bo Wen at 1 p.m. Bo presented his MASc thesis, “Data-Driven Mesoscopic Simulation of Large-Scale Surface […]
August 31, 2017 UTTRI hosted a delegation from the Danish ITC Industry Association (IT-Branchen) for a half-day of transportation-related presentations. Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia gave two presentations: “Smart Grids, Smart Transportation” […]
On July 21, 2017, Mahyar Jahangiriesmaili presented his MASc thesis and discussed the results of his project researching the effects of CETA on Canada’s transportation system. Mahyar’s talk was well […]
Congratulations to the University of Toronto Institute of Transportation Engineers student chapter, UT-ITE. They are the 2016-2017 winners of the prestigious Student Chapter Delta Award bestowed by the Institute of […]
UTTRI hosted a visit Tuesday, July 18 from our iCity-ORF partners Maximum City and Esri. They brought along 25 young people; together, they used UofT computer lab facilities at the […]
On July 14, 2017, Nancy Hui presented her MASc thesis and discussed the results of her study exploring the use of machine learning to automatically recognize dangerous events on streets […]
UofT’s 2017 Traffic Bowl Team members Ran Tu, Christos Stogios and Catalina Parada participated in a Traffic Bowl Trivia Night hosted by UT-ITE on July 6, 2017. A practise competition […]
Professor Eric Miller delivered a keynote address entitled “Integrated urban modelling: Past, present and future” on Monday, July 3 at the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2017 (WSTLUR) in Brisbane, […]
Professor Heather MacLean was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) on June 26, 2017.
Select engineers of outstanding abilities are chosen by CAE for this honour. CAE President Douglas Ruth stated: “While they have widely varying backgrounds, what they all have in common is the demonstrated ability to go beyond the normal practice of engineering and contribute in exemplary ways towards their fields and to their communities.”
On June 29 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Eric Miller gave an invited research seminar “First We Take Toronto … Lessons from the TASHA Implementation and Next Steps” before delivering the Ogden Lecture “Public Transport in Toronto: What Can We Learn From the Last 20 Years?,” a free public presentation.
Thirteen summary presentations from eight iCity project areas were shared at the June 26, 2017 iCity Research Day.
Participants weren’t fazed by the weather at a day-long workshop “Smartphone Travel Surveys & the Itinerum™ Platform” given by Professor Zachary Patterson of Concordia University at UofT on Friday, June 23. Some thirty registrants […]
UTTRI’s Program Director Dr. Judy Farvolden was elected to the Canadian Urban Institute Board of Directors at their 2017 Annual General Meeting June 2nd in Toronto.
Professor Khandker Nurul Habib was awarded funding from NSERC’s Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Program to work with Stantec on the project “Simplified framework to forecast multimodal travel demand for […]
Developing a collaborative research program in the areas of transportation and smart cities was the focus of a recent Toronto workshop attended by researchers from UofT, the Chinese University of Hong […]
Professor Khandker Nurul Habib‘s research project “Assessment of the Impacts of Autonomous Vehicle System on Transportation Demand in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area” received funding from the Ministry of Transportation Ontario’s Highway Infrastructure Innovations […]
UTTRI Director, Professor Eric Miller participated in a two-day charrette (workshop) in Washington, DC May 24-25 on the theme of trip destination choice modelling. Destination choice models are widely considered to […]
Thirty participants from UofT, OCAD U, City of Toronto, Waterfront Toronto and Esri Canada took part in a software tool design charrette (workshop) on Wednesday, June 7 entitled “Visualization, Analysis, […]