“Beyond transit infrastructure, think city building,” says UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki in an opinion piece in The Hill Times. Siemiatycki is Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Planning and Finance. He says that recent federal transit infrastructure funding commitments can…
Guest speaker Dr. Mohamed Abdelhay Essa presented “Real-time Safety and Mobility Optimization of Traffic Signals in a Connected-vehicle Environment” on April 9, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. In his presentation, Dr. Essa discussed his research methodology and explained the…
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 are: Yvonne Yeung, Head of Urban Design at City of…
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 the Canadian economy. In the article, Wolfe considers two major…
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 Happens when the Uber Tailpipe Smoke Clears: An Examination of…
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 want to talk about transport economics – that’s what 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 Habib and Shoshanna Saxe comment on Canada’s first active transportation fund…
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 licence holders who have contributed substantially to advancing the engineering…
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 prediction, optimization and personalization.” UTTRI Director, Professor Eric Miller, introduced…
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 access is about more than location,” Canada’s National Observer, March…
