This presentation outlines a framework for economics in the transport sector and for transportation planning. It develops microeconomic applications for project or program evaluation, looks at current practice in transportation economics, and seeks to answer the question, "How will economics figure in your engineering career?" William Denning William Denning has worked in transportation most of […]
University of Toronto transportation students are invited to join us at Gather Town for our 2021 virtual UT-ITE Student-Industry Mixer! Connect with public & private transportation professionals Learn about opportunities Get general career advice & information UT-ITE 2021 Student Industry Mixer flyer. Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE. Sponsored by: […]
In this talk we will present our experience building the SAVI (Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure) multitier cloud testbed to provide an application platform for smart city experiments. We will describe the CVST (Connected Vehicles for Smart Transportation) application platform which was built on top of SAVI and will then discuss challenges we are currently […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually all social and economic activities in our society, resulting in changing patterns of travel and traffic congestion in Canada. This analysis first analyzes traffic congestion changes throughout the first and second waves of the pandemic on detected freeway bottlenecks within the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA), using HERE travel […]
There is a growing market for crowd-shipping, which hires people to transport packages on their regular commutes, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This thesis considers a hybrid crowd-shipping operation that hires crowd-shippers and regular drivers in a physical internet environment. An investigation into the spatial distribution of potential crowd-shippers is conducted by leveraging a […]
The University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE, announces a social event to welcome new grad students in transportation. Scheduled to take place within the usual UT-ITE seminar slot (Friday, 11-12), the event will be an interactive and fun ice-breaking social. "Let's sit around one virtual table, get the coffee and snacks ready, and start having […]
In 2016, in response to a general upward trend in traffic-related fatalities starting in 2012, particularly among vulnerable road users, as well as changes in values representing the Vision Zero approach, City Council approved the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This signaled a change in values representing the Vision Zero approach, moving away from primarily […]
The Smart Freight Centre Leadership Seminar Series presents special guest speaker Professor Lynette Cheah of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on Friday, October 15, 2021, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST. All are welcome to attend this free online webinar via Zoom. Join at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87624482177. Description In the bid to stay competitive, online […]
Professor Khandker Nurul Habib Khandker Nurul Habib is the Percy Edward Hart Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Khandker Nurul Habib completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto (CIV PhD 0T7). After finishing his PhD, he joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor […]
As the COVID pandemic began to take hold in Canada in March of 2020, the City of Calgary’s transportation department initiated several streams of work to manage the short- and longer-term impacts. One of these streams involved the use of strategic foresight to create a set of plausible scenarios for Calgary after the pandemic. Based […]
