“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 […]
Registration for TransitData 2020 has been extended to August 7. The 6th International TransitData Symposium on the Use of Public Transit Automated Data for Planning and Operations will place online […]
A research project of UTTRI associated faculty Professor Chi-Guhn Lee was featured in “Scale AI, partners invest $29 million into five artificial intelligence projects,” BetaKit, July 21, 2020. Professor Lee […]
UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Enid Slack says that pre-existing municipal finance issues are being exacerbated during the pandemic in her article “What COVID-19 teaches us about municipal responsibilities and how […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber discusses what we can learn from data gathered during COVID-19 in the interview “Using Data to Increase Access: Improving Post-COVID Travel Options,” Rocketman, July […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Tamer El-Diraby talks about why a smart city should be built in Toronto in “All of Toronto will soon be a ‘smart city’ riddled with sensors, […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Matthew Palm co-wrote the Opinion “Toronto must vote in favour of bus-only lanes,” Toronto Star, July 20, 2020. Further to […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber was interviewed about “transit in the era of COVID and how we can make transit access better for everyone coming out of this crisis,” […]
The City of Toronto announced a proposed plan to expedite the implementation of priority bus-only lanes across the city, “Implementation of priority bus-only lanes to be accelerated across the city; […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe and Dr. Kristen MacAskill of the University of Cambridge co-wrote “Stop Building More Roads” subtitled “There’s a right way to do infrastructure. Why does […]
UTTRI Director, Professor Eric J. Miller was one of three local city planning experts interviewed by the Toronto Star in “The cure for the social trauma left by COVID-19? Finally […]
A quantitative analysis of traffic and speed patterns in the GTHA, comparing March 2020 to March 2019, by Senior Research Associate Dr. Islam Taha and UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher […]
Co-Chairs Dr. Brendon Hemily and Professor Amer Shalaby are pleased to share a draft program for the upcoming online TransitData 2020 International Symposium. Download the PDF: TransitData 2020 Draft Program. […]
UTTRI is actively pursuing research into the development of transit-oriented communities, in both retrofitted existing neighbourhoods and new developments. Transit-oriented communities meet people’s needs for daily living through all stages […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shauna Brail was interviewed in “How will commuting change after coronavirus? Experts weigh in,” Global News, June 24, 2020. Quoting recent survey results, the article states […]
The annual iCity Urban Informatics Research Days went online this year with a five-webinar series hosted by UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden June 8-17, 2020. Previous iCity Research Days were scheduled […]
UTTRI mourns the passing of Professor Ralph Haas, an iconic figure in transportation engineering, specifically in the area of pavement design and asset management. His half-a-century long career has many […]
The TransitData 2020 6th International Symposium on the Use of Public Transit Automated Data for Planning and Operations will go forward August 11-13, 2020 in a virtual format, UTTRI associated […]
The U of T report “Preliminary Results from the Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey” was referenced by Bloomberg CityLab in “Pandemic Travel Patterns Hint at Our Urban Future,” discussing effects of […]
The 3rd annual symposium of the iCity-Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS) was held on June 3, 2020 online. UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai, Director of iCity-CATTS […]
Fluctuations in commuter behaviour and air quality are always a preoccupation for UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matthew Adams. So, it is with particular interest that the air-pollution scientist is examining […]
Congratulations to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai – a new Fellow elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)! CAE citation for Professor Abdulhai Professor Baher Abdulhai conducts leading-edge […]
Employment and tax revenues will take a staggering hit over the next decade unless governments work together to support municipal infrastructure investments, according to a new report prepared for the […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of the School of Cities, was a panelist on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin episode “Rethinking transportation after COVID-19” June 9, […]
CNN Business talked to UTTRI associated faculty Professor Michael Widener for a recent article on the negative impact of COVID-19 on food accessibility in the U.S. Professor Widener is Canada […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of the School of Cities, comments on the splitting of the Ontario Line project into three bid packages in “Ontario Starts Bid […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Steven Farber and Professor Shauna Brail co-hosted the webinar “The Social Benefits of On-Demand Transit” with Luke Mellor of Pantonium, Inc. on June 4, 2020. The […]