A team of students from the University of Toronto has placed first in an intercollegiate challenge to transform an electric car into a self-driving one – the team’s third consecutive […]
From Geotab’s Big Data group, Amir Sayegh, PhD, presented “Leveraging Telematics Data for Intelligent Transportation Systems” on September 25, 2020. Telematics is a method of monitoring an asset (car, truck, […]
The Bloustein School’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University presented “COVID-19 and the Future of Economic Activity and Transportation,” September 29, 2020. The one-day virtual symposium featured a […]
Congratulations to Feras El Said (CivMin PhD 2023) and An Wang (CivMin PhD 2020) on receiving CAA Graduate Scholarships in Transportation Engineering! Unique among scholarship donors, CAA invites winners to […]
“Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets” by Alexandre Milovanoff, UTTRI associated faculty Professor I. Daniel Posen and Professor Heather MacLean is making headlines. The research […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shauna Brail was one of several experts interviewed by CBC Radio’s “Spark with Nora Young” for “The Spark Guide to Civilization, Part One: Movement.” A web […]
Congratulations to three UTTRI associated faculty who received a 2020 Connaught New Researchers Award! Merve Bodur is Assistant Professor in the the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Dean’s […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe comments on Eglinton West LRT plans in the Toronto Star article “Burying the Eglinton West LRT will cost an extra $1.8 billion and may […]
The new age of on-demand transit in Canada Dr. Willem Klumpenhouwer Postdoctoral Fellow, Transit Analytics Lab, University of Toronto Smartphones have enabled a wide range of mobility options for Canadians. […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber of the Department of Human Geography at UTSC will lead the Suburban Mobilities Cluster of UTSC’s new Clusters of Scholarly Prominence Program (CSPP). The […]
Congratulations to U of T engineering students Bradley Kloostra (CivMin MASc 2021), Chandler White (CivMin MASc 2021) and Shawana Munir (CivMin BASc 2021) who have been awarded Transportation Association of […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou introduces the “UrbanScanner” and the air quality research it will make possible. “Two years in the making and finally this prototype is ready to […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in “Alberta Weighs $7B Hyperloop Between Calgary and Edmonton,” Engineering News-Record, September 3, 2020. TransPod’s Calgary-Edmonton 186-mile hyperloop project received approval – though […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shauna Brail was featured in the Globe and Mail article “Wide sidewalks key to help commercial real estate weather the pandemic,” September 8, 2020. The article […]
Check out the new YouTube channel from UTTRI’s Transit Analytics Lab (TAL)! Four videos created for TransitData 2020 by U of T graduate student volunteers have been posted to date: […]
The 6th International Symposium on the Use of Public Transit Automated Data for Planning and Operations, or TransitData 2020, was hosted online by the Transit Analytics Lab at the University of Toronto […]
PhD candidate Jason Hawkins (CivMin PhD 2021, supervisor UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib) reports on the second annual Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) conference held online August 11-12, 2020. […]
UTTRI Director Professor Eric Miller is quoted in the Toronto Star article “Should the city subsidize your Uber? What’s behind Ontario’s controversial push for private ‘microtransit.’” Transit agencies such as […]
“Estimating traffic emissions associated with the reduction in travel within downtown Toronto as a result of COVID-19 restrictions,” by Dr. Arman Ganji, Dr. Ran Tu, Dr. Junshi Xu and UTTRI […]
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Md Sami Hasnine on his new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of […]
Recent research from UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jonathan D. Hall and Professor Joshua Madsen of the University of Minnesota reveals that highway dynamic message signs increase crashes. Such highway signs […]
University of Toronto graduate student Alaa Itani (CivEng PhD candidate) won second prize for her entry “Decision Support Tool for Deploying Shuttle Buses during Major Rail Disruptions” in the ITS […]
All the recordings from the plenary and parallel sessions as well as the presentations can be found here. The evolution of transit data The first international TransitData symposium, held in […]
In an article posted by CBC News, UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou talks about how vehicle emissions are affected by speeds limits and by driving practices generally. In “How […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber is quoted in The Varsity article “Student unions call for emergency TTC funding as revenue halves under COVID-19,” August 2, 2020. According to The […]
What are the impacts of COVID-19 on the travel demand and travel behaviour of residents of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)? In May, UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker […]
It’s a phrase transit riders hear all too often: “Shuttle buses are on the way.” Service disruptions are a fact of life for transit systems around the world. The most […]
“Focus on Transit,” an RCCAO (Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario) podcast on the history of the Toronto Transit Commission, features senior transportation planner David Crowley and transportation consultant, […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Michael Widener was interviewed about his research on the links between food insecurity, transit and urban planning and the “Preliminary Results from the Public Transit and […]
Toronto City Council unanimously approved changes to traffic and parking regulation amendments required to install approximately 8.5 kilometres of priority RapidTO bus lanes on Eglinton Avenue East, Kingston Road and […]