Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Jason Hawkins on his new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. Jason earned his PhD (2021) degree…
UTTRI Executive Director, Dr. Judy Farvolden, took part in a panel discussion highlighting sustainable mobility in urban areas and how to achieve these strategies during the “Sustainable Mobility, Connected & Autonomous Driving and E-Mobility” conference on June 16, 2021. The…
Congratulations to UTTRI associated faculty, Professors Christopher D. Higgins and David A. Wolfe, who have been awarded Knowledge Synthesis Grants on mobility and public transit. “An Integrated Approach to Transit System Evolution” – Christopher D. Higgins, Principal Investigator Understanding the…
On June 8, 2021, Toronto City Council approved a plan to update City of Toronto bylaws to allow for the continued use of cargo e-bikes that support businesses in meeting unprecedented demand for local deliveries while also making way for…
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Shoshanna Saxe, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure, comments on the anticipated impact on the Cambridge community of the loss of a direct bus route to Toronto – and how to reduce that impact. Saxe says…
Congratulations to Shang Zhang, whose paper, “Potential Crowd-Shipper Commute Pattern in the Toronto Area: Analysis from a Household Travel Survey,” co-authored with UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matthew Roorda, won the first runner-up award in the Conference Paper Competition at the…
Analyses of results from the StudentMoveTO 2.0 survey of 2019 are now published in a paper co-authored by the project’s Principal Investigator, Professor Raktim Mitra of Ryerson University. StudentMoveTO is a collaborative partnership of ten universities and colleges (including University…
An opinion piece by UTTRI associated faculty Professors Matti Siemiatycki and Shoshanna Saxe on making the most of transit project funding was published in the Toronto Star, May 21, 2021. Siemiatycki and Saxe applaud the recent “record investments in new public transit…
UTTRI faculty associates Professors Heather MacLean, I. Daniel Posen, and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandre Milovanoff share their research on life cycle GHG emissions from electric vehicles (EVs) versus traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. EVs are being embraced by some…
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in “Transit providers say Greyhound’s pullout could present expansion opportunities” discussing the future of inter-city transit in Canada following the closure of Greyhound Canada. According to the article, Megabus plans to add Toronto-Kingston-Ottawa…
