Francisco Calderón Peralvo presented “Modelling Mobility Services within Agent-Based Travel Demand Model Systems and Implementation of a Ridehailing Case Study” on January 22, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. Conventional travel demand model systems simulate a typical day by looking…
In May 2020, UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib initiated five new research projects to explore the the impacts of COVID-19 on the travel demand and travel behaviour of residents of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). He…
Professor Eric J. Miller presented “Using an Agent/Activity-Based Microsimulation Model to Test COVID-19 Control Strategies: Model Design & Preliminary Results” for the UT-ITE seminar series on November 13, 2020. He spoke about modelling disease spread through a study of scenarios…
The October 16, 2020 UT-ITE seminar featured two University of Toronto PhD students working under the supervision of UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib on “Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Travel Behaviour and Demand in the GTHA.” First,…
What are the impacts of COVID-19 on the travel demand and travel behaviour of residents of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)? In May, UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib initiated five new research projects to explore this…
A research project of UTTRI associated faculty Professor Chi-Guhn Lee was featured in “Scale AI, partners invest $29 million into five artificial intelligence projects,” BetaKit, July 21, 2020. Professor Lee is a partner on the project “Demand forecasting and real-time…
We congratulate Dr. Adam Weiss who begins a tenure-track faculty position in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa on July 1, 2020. Dr. Weiss completed his BASc (1T1), MASc (1T3) and PhD (1T7) degrees…
Research from several UTTRI iCity projects was presented at Esri Canada’s GIS in Education and Research Conference March 4 and 5, 2020 at U of T: Designing a Complete Streets Dashboard for Team iCity Veda Adnani, Research Assistant, OCAD University…
Arash Kalatian, a PhD student at Ryerson University, gave a presentation on “Decoding pedestrian and automated vehicle interactions using immersive virtual reality and interpretable deep learning” on February 28, 2020. The evolution of AVs is a highly debatable topic in…
Sanjana Hossain, a PhD candidate at University of Toronto, presented her ongoing research in a presentation entitled “Inferring the purpose of using ride-hailing service through Data Fusion of Trip Trajectories, Secondary Travel Surveys and Land Use Attributes” on February 14,…
