The iCity: Urban Informatics for Sustainable Metropolitan Growth project is coming to a close after five years of successful collaboration between UTTRI, OCAD-U and University of Waterloo, led by Principal Investigator and UTTRI Director, Dr. Eric Miller.
The goal of iCity was to find innovative ways to improve urban transportation system performance and design efficient, sustainable cities for the well-being of individuals and society. Outcomes were achieved by building select applications, enabled by novel visualizations, on a foundation of data, ontologies and platforms.
This webinar series, hosted by UTTRI Executive Director Dr. Judy Farvolden, aimed to summarize, share and celebrate the research initiatives and innovations produced over the course of the project, wrapping up with a preview of research proposed for iCity 2.0.
iCity researchers co-created innovative ways to improve urban transportation system performance through the design of complete streets, understanding parking behaviour, improving transit resilience, extending our understanding of the interactions between land use and transportation and exploring the behaviours of pedestrians. Rigorous transportation research, built on a foundation of data, ontologies and platforms was effectively enabled by novel visualizations, resulting in a suite of data standards, dashboards and tools we hope will be useful to our iCity partners and others.
Links to presentation PDFs and videorecordings
Ontologies and Platforms – June 8, 2020
- The iCity Ontology: Towards a Data Standard for Transportation Planning – Megan Katsumi
- iCity ITSoS Platform and ATIS Applications – Ahmed Aqra, Hasan Bayanouni, Mohammed El-Darieby
Ontologies and Platforms webinar videorecording
Visualization – Wednesday, June 10, 2020
- Understanding Urban Planning & Transportation Visualization Needs: Compara and Vizland – Jeremy Bowes
- 2D and 3D tools for Urban Analytics – Betaville and GraphTrails – A Case Study – Sara Diamond
Visualization webinar videorecording
Foundations for Planning and Operations – June 12, 2020
- Geo Semantics Exchange: Connecting Content and Providing Context – Hasan Bayanouni, Megan Katsumi, Anastassios Dardas
- Customizing ArcGIS for Visualization of Origin/Destination Model Outputs – Michael Leahy, Eric Miller
- Bus Bridging Assessment Tool and Visualization Dashboard – Alaa Itani, Olufunbi Disu-Sule
Foundations for Planning and Operations webinar videorecording
Elements of the Street and its Users – June 15, 2020
- A ‘Gamification’ Survey Approach to Assessing Parking Behaviour – Mehdi Nourinejad, Bo Wang
- Capturing Pedestrian Tours and Activities through Smartphone Data: Lessons Learned – Ming Xiaomeng Xu
- A Dashboard Tool for Mapping and Evaluation of Complete Streets in Toronto – Greice Mariano, Matthew Roorda
- KidScore: Child-Friendly Cities Assessment Tool – Josh Fullan, Susie Saliola
Elements of the Street and its Users webinar videorecording
The Long View and Next Steps – June 17, 2020
- Multi-Decade Longitudinal Analysis of Urban Growth and Transport Network Expansion in the GTHA – Eric J. Miller
- Next Steps and iCity 2.0 – Eric Miller, Sara Diamond, Steve Farber, Amer Shalaby, Judy Farvolden
The Long View and Next Steps webinar videorecording
iCity: Urban Informatics for Sustainable Metropolitan Growth is funded by the Ontario Research Fund, Research Excellence, Round 7.