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 chaired the symposium. UTTRI associated faculty Professor Amer Shalaby and UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden also chaired sessions.
Professor Abdulhai opened the symposium with a discussion of transformative transportation, touching on:
- a definition of transformative transportation;
- its causes;
- opportunities, risks and impacts that transformation may bring;
- how we should prepare to enable positive transformation and reduce negative impacts;
- ensuring sustainability.
The symposium featured three sessions and a total 13 presentations on many aspects of transformative transportation, delivered by 15 researchers from University of Toronto, City of Toronto, Region of York and Georgia Institute of Technology. Each talk was followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.
Keynote speaker Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian’s presentation on telework was extremely timely in light of the remote nature of the symposium due to the current pandemic.
The presentations were followed by a CATTS partners-only meeting.
Organizers and presenters kindly agreed to share a videorecording of the day, as well as individual presentation files, at the link below.
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