The Ontario government announced that Metrolinx will provide weekday GO train trips between London and Union Station in Toronto beginning October 18, 2021. The pilot project will include one trip leaving from London in the early morning, and one return trip…
Guests actively contributed their expertise and opinions at a September 10 workshop led by UTTRI associated faculty Professor Chris Higgins in support of “An Integrated Approach to Transit System Evolution,” a research project supported by a Knowledge Synthesis Grant on…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shine a spotlight on inequities in our transportation systems. The U of T Transportation Alumni Committee once again chose a timely and relevant theme for their third annual student competition in 2021: “Addressing Transportation Equity…
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Mark S. Fox will head the new Urban Data Centre (UDC) at the School of Cities. The centre aims to enhance the design, planning and operations of cities by expanding the opportunities presented by data, and…
Building a new transit line or a highway almost always takes longer than initially planned. A new study suggests that the biggest contributor to such delays isn’t necessarily the design, planning or even construction phases. Instead, it’s the time required…
An exciting new initiative on the path to decarbonization started taking shape with the “Road to Net Zero,” an exploratory workshop held on August 9. Organized as a broad opening discussion on researching, designing and testing real-world solutions to transport decarbonization,…
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai comments in favour of automated GTA photo radar enforcement, with some allowances and properly timed traffic lights. Abdulhai is co-Director of the Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS) and also heads the…
Results of “Wave 2” of the Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey of Toronto and Vancouver are shared in “Who’s Back, Who’s Coming Back, and Who’s Left For Good? Results from Wave 2 of The Public Transit and COVID-19 Survey in…
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Sina Bahrami (CivE PhD 2019) on joining the faculty at the Department of the Built Environment at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), Netherlands, as an assistant professor. Sina holds a PhD in Transportation…
Air quality on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway platforms improved substantially with the rollout of new cars on Line 1, a new study from U of T Engineering and Health Canada researchers shows. The team measured levels of fine particulate…
