Congratulations to the team for the “Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit” project, which won a 2021 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). Project team members […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor David A. Wolfe, in a special to the Financial Post, outlines the need for a national innovation strategy to aid deployment of digitization and decarbonization throughout […]
Congratulations to Dr. Mischa Young, who has received the 2021 TGSG PhD Dissertation Award by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) for “What […]
Transportation management consultant William Denning presented “How will economics figure in your engineering career?” for the UT-ITE seminar series on March 26, 2021. Denning opened his seminar by saying, “I […]
The Government of Canada has announced $400 million for Canada’s first active transportation fund, and the development of Canada’s first National Active Transportation Strategy. UTTRI associated faculty Professors Steven Farber, Khandker Nurul […]
Congratulations to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai, who has been awarded the 2021 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence. The Engineering Medal honours those PEO […]
The University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter welcomed special guest speaker Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva of MIT on March 19, 2021 to present “Tri-POP: An online platform for smart mobility with […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Michael J. Widener, Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Health, talks about food environments and barriers that affect our access to healthy food in “Why food […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jeff Brook, Scientific Director and Nominated Principal Investigator of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), spoke to CBC News about how the improvement in […]
Dr. Brendon Hemily presented “From SOP to DRIP to Business Intelligence: Challenges of Using ITS Data for Transit Planning & Management” on March 5, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. […]
Researchers at SOCAAR, in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, have published a new method for measuring vehicle emissions from roadways. Traffic is a major […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe talks about quick and inexpensive ways to increase the capacity of our transportation system for our growing population while we wait for large infrastructure […]
Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, and UTTRI associated faculty Professor Richard Florida co-authored a commentary on how changes made by cities during the pandemic may […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki says that decisions made now about allocation of public funds will “shape the direction of Canadian cities for generations to come.” Siemiatycki is Canada […]
Patrick Loa presented “Exploring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Modality Styles for Non-Mandatory Trips in the Greater Toronto Area” on February 26, 2021. In his seminar, Loa looked at pre-pandemic […]
UTTRI shares transportation-related pandemic resources available free online. We welcome your recommendations. Contact us at uttri@utoronto.ca with additional resource sites. American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Public Transit Response to Coronavirus […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber speaks out on Ontario’s plans for proposed Highway 413, or GTA West Corridor, in “A new highway dooms a new generation to become the […]
The Korea Herald today reported on the first AI achievement by LG, a South Korean multinational electronics company. According to the article, LG “announced two academic papers on explainable AI […]
In a recently published study, researchers at SOCAAR, the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research, have found that policies to reduce emissions have yielded co-benefits in terms of reductions […]
With COVID-19 making it vital for people to keep their distance from one another, the City of Toronto undertook the largest one-year expansion of its cycling network in 2020, adding […]
Motorists preparing to turn at an intersection must quickly process several pieces of information before making their move: traffic signals, traffic signs, pedestrians, cyclists and, of course, other vehicles. But […]
Dr. Sheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Statistics at the Rotman School of Management, presented “Data-Driven Approaches in Smart City Operations” on February 19, 2021. In this UT-ITE […]
Dr. Miguel Jaller, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Sustainable Freight Research Center at the University of California, Davis, presented “Who shops online and how sustainable is the delivery process?” […]
What rolls around the city getting a lot of admiring looks for its flashy chromed finishes and high tech roof protrusions? It’s not the latest tech from a popular web […]
Congratulations to the Region of Peel, a leader in the area of goods movement and founder of the Smart Freight Centre, on being designated a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) […]
On February 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $14.9 billion for public transit projects over the next eight years, which includes permanent funding of $3 billion per year for Canadian […]
Daniel Olejarz, Transportation Planner at IBI Group and graduate of U of T’s MASc program, presented “AI in Transportation – Industry Trends and Opportunities” on February 5, 2021. Through data […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe makes a case for improving shared infrastructure and investing in transit in “Could “Amtrak Joe” Revolutionize Public Transport?”. The article focuses on President Biden’s interest […]
When [UTTRI associated faculty] John Robinson joined the University of Toronto as its first presidential advisor on the environment, climate change and sustainability, he shared a vision of the campus as “living lab” […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Tamer El-Diraby‘s research is featured in “U of T survey of constructors seeks best practices for next pandemic,” Daily Commercial News, February 1, 2021. El-Diraby’s research […]