Electric cars aren’t the only way to lessen greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, says Marianne Hatzopoulou, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. “Decarbonization is not just about technology,” says Hatzopoulou, who leads the…
The many challenges we face to achieve zero emissions with positive outcomes for accessible, healthy, and equitable cities can’t be addressed by technology alone. Policy, planning, and changes in behaviour are crucial elements in our path to a decarbonized sector.…
A multidisciplinary team that includes several U of T Engineering professors has been awarded the 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The award recognizes outstanding Canadian…
The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) research suggests a majority of Canadians live in areas where levels of air pollution now exceed recently updated WHO air quality guidelines, which can damage their health. UTTRI associated faculty Dr. Jeffrey…
An exciting new initiative on the path to decarbonization started taking shape with the “Road to Net Zero,” an exploratory workshop held on August 9. Organized as a broad opening discussion on researching, designing and testing real-world solutions to transport decarbonization,…
Air quality on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway platforms improved substantially with the rollout of new cars on Line 1, a new study from U of T Engineering and Health Canada researchers shows. The team measured levels of fine particulate…
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jeff Brook, Scientific Director and Nominated Principal Investigator of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), spoke to CBC News about how the improvement in air quality during COVID illustrates what is possible. The article…
Researchers at SOCAAR, in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, have published a new method for measuring vehicle emissions from roadways. Traffic is a major source of air pollution and has negative impacts on human…
In a recently published study, researchers at SOCAAR, the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research, have found that policies to reduce emissions have yielded co-benefits in terms of reductions of ultrafine particles (UFP) in downtown Toronto. This improvement in…
Dr. Miguel Jaller, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Sustainable Freight Research Center at the University of California, Davis, presented “Who shops online and how sustainable is the delivery process?” on February 12, 2021 for the Smart Freight Centre Leadership…
