UTTRI associated faculty Professor Baher Abdulhai is quoted in a recent article about Ontario’s Highway 413. Abdulhai says in the article that “the highway would inflict ‘irreversible damage’ by further cementing the region’s dependence on the automobile, leading to more…
Ana Patricia Ayala, Research Services Librarian at University of Toronto Libraries, presented “An overview of knowledge syntheses methods” on November 19, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. A specialist in knowledge syntheses, Ayala defines the term broadly as the “contextualization…
Prospective urban planners will learn the importance of integrating accessible city designs for those living with a disability. Recently awarded the Mikey Milner International Professorship Award, University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) professor Ron Buliung presented the Holland Bloorview Research Institute…
The sustainable infrastructure research of UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe is profiled in the November 22, 2021 issue of “Globe Climate,” a newsletter about climate change, environment and resources in Canada. Saxe is Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure.…
On November 12, 2021, a second interactive workshop was hosted by UTTRI associated faculty Professor Chris Higgins in support of “An Integrated Approach to Transit System Evolution,” a research project funded by a Knowledge Synthesis Grant on mobility and public…
A multidisciplinary team that includes several U of T Engineering professors has been awarded the 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The award recognizes outstanding Canadian…
Professor Shauna Brail comments on planning for community and autonomous vehicles in CBC’s “Kanata North is ready to become more than just big tech,” November 10, 2021.
Dr. Joseph Chow, Institute Associate Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, presented “Microtransit Deployment Portfolio Management Using Simulation-Based Data Upscaling” for the UT-ITE seminar series on November 12, 2021. Chow collaborated with PhD students Srushti Rath, Bingqing Liu and…
PhD candidate Seyed Mehdi Meshkani of the Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans) at Ryerson University presented “A dynamic many-to-one ride-matching algorithm for shared mobility services on congested networks” for the UT-ITE seminar series on November 5, 2021. Meshkani began…
Eric MacNaughton, Senior Transportation Engineer at the City of Calgary, presented an overview of “The City of Calgary Transportation COVID Recovery Scenarios” for the UT-ITE seminar series on October 29, 2021. MacNaughton opened the seminar by introducing the “Transportation COVID-19…
