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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On-demand shared mobility is a promising and sustainable transportation approach that can mitigate vehicle externalities, such as traffic congestion and emission. On-demand shared mobility systems require matching of one (one-to-one) or multiple riders (many-to-one) to a vehicle based on real-time information. We propose a novel Graph-based Many-to-One ride-Matching (GMOMatch) algorithm for the dynamic many-to-one matching […]
Due to transportation technologies having such heterogeneous impacts on different communities, there needs to be better tools to evaluate the deployment of emerging technologies with limited data. Microtransit is one such technology. We propose a novel methodology to “upscale” the limited data available so that further decision-support analysis and forecast modelling can be achieved where […]
Learn about the different types of knowledge syntheses: systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and more. The similarities and differences between these study types, the different steps in the process, and key aspects critical for ensuring their successful completion. Patricia Ayala Patricia Ayala is Research Services Librarian at University of Toronto Libraries. She has worked on […]
This presentation will demonstrate how concepts of transportation planning are applied in practice. Areas of transportation planning such as travel demand modelling, master planning, multi-modal planning, complete streets, transit planning and functional planning will be featured through real-world case studies, such as the City of Mississauga Lakeshore Transportation Studies, City of Brampton LRT Extension, City […]
The point of travel forecasting is to inform decision-makers about the likely impacts of transport policies and investments that will irrevocably shape our cities and regions. In the past we've assumed that tomorrow will simply be a more crowded, prosperous, and congested version of our existing world. But today assuming a "business as usual" progression towards 20-30 […]
Despite the plethora of tools and data available to transit planners, transit network design has remained mostly a manual task. Nevertheless, there have been many attempts to use algorithms and computing to optimise transit network design based on geography, demand and operating resources. However, the Transit Network Design Problem (TNDP) and Transit Network Design and […]
This presentation discusses various elements of report writing as a guide to graduate students preparing term project reports, journal articles, theses, etc. It is intended to address some typical issues that graduate students encounter in their writing. Topics discussed include: report organization; report style; treatment of tables, figures, exhibits and appendices; grammar and syntax; spelling […]
