Siemiatycki: ‘Parking-lite’ trend shows a shift in public thinking
 Toronto developers are reducing the number of parking spaces in new condominiums, and existing parking lots are being redeveloped as housing, according to a recent National Post article.
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki says that public acceptance of less parking is tied to the increasing popularity of “complete communities.”
Read more of Siemiatycki's comments and link to full article “Urban living: Endangered spaces,” National Post, December 3, 2020.
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Hatzopoulou: The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation & Health
 UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou explored the challenges of climate change on transportation in a webinar on December 2nd for the U of T Engineering Skule Lunch & Learn seminar series.
Read a summary of "The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation and Health" and link to the webinar videorecording.
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Four U of T transportation students win WTS Toronto area chapter scholarships
Congratulations to University of Toronto students (L-R) Mahia Anhara, Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga, Alaa Itani and Felita Ong who have been awarded “Advancing Women in Transportation” scholarships by the WTS Toronto area chapter.
The scholarships were announced at the WTS Toronto Virtual Conference on Wednesday, December 3, 2020.
Read more about the University of Toronto recipients of WTS Toronto scholarships.
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Ryerson University new Smart Freight Centre partner
Ryerson joins York, McMaster and U of T as a partner of the Smart Freight Centre.
Four Ryerson SFC faculty affiliates - Professors Said Easa, Bilal Farooq (Ryerson SFC Lead), Sharareh Taghipour, and Atefeh Mashatan - will contribute and collaborate towards three key areas of SFC research: (1) Freight Data: Management, Fusion, & Analytics; (2) Freight Logistics & Asset Management: Reliability, Maintenance, Routing, & Matching; and (3) Freight & Road Network: Geometric Design & Safety.
Read more about the new Smart Freight Centre partnership and meet the Ryerson SFC affiliated faculty.
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Miller shares best practices for writing technical reports
 UTTRI Director Professor Eric J. Miller presented “Everything you wanted to know about report writing but were afraid to ask” on December 4, 2020 for the UT-ITE seminar series.
He discussed various elements of report writing as a guide to graduate students preparing term project reports, journal articles, theses, etc., and addressed some typical issues that graduate students encounter in their writing.
Download Miller's PDF guide and access seminar videorecording.
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Nominations close soon: U of T Transportation Alumni Network
The University of Toronto Transportation Alumni Network (UTTAN) wants YOU!
Be part of a team that provides networking opportunities, student support & more. Nominations close Friday, December 11 at 6:00 p.m. for the following Executive Committee positions:
- Chair
- Treasurer
- Membership Officer
- Sponsorship Officer
- Student Representative (Planning)
- Student Representative (Engineering)
Alumni outside Toronto are welcome, though monthly meetings & other events will usually be scheduled weekdays between 1700-2000 EST/EDT.
UTTAN will host its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December 16 at 5:00 p.m. All transportation alumni are welcome to attend; registration is required.
Link to nomination details and register to attend the UTTAN AGM.
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ONLINE EVENTS
- December 11, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Achieving Unified Mobility, Dr. Elliot Siemiatycki, RideShark. UT-ITE Seminar Series. Free, all welcome.
- December 14, 4-5 p.m., Performance Management for Public Health and Health System Resilience, Professor Laura C. Rosella, Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
- December 16, 5-6 p.m., University of Toronto Transportation Alumni Network Annual General Meeting. Presented by U of T Transportation Alumni Network. Free, registration req'd.
- January 11, 4-5 p.m., Supply Chain Optimization, Professor Chris Beck, Industrial Engineering. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
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OPPORTUNITIES
The Smart Freight Centre is hiring a research associate and a postdoctoral fellow for their new major research initiative, CLUE (City Logistics for the Urban Environment). Both of these positions will be at University of Toronto:
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RESOURCES
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UTTRI Research Reports
- Hossain, Sanjana, Kaili Wang, Khandker Nurul Habib, “Modelling the Choices of Telecommuting (On-line Learning) of Post-Secondary Students: Learning from the Revealed Behaviour to Prepare for Greater Acceptance in COVID-19 Induced Contexts,” November, 2020.
- Dianat, Alireza, Jason Hawkins, Khandker Nurul Habib, “An Assessment of the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown in Summer 2020 on Activity-Travel Behaviour in the Greater Toronto Area: Results from Cycle-1 of CASAS Satellite Survey,” August, 2020.
- Loa, Patrick, Sanjana Hossain, Yicong Liu, Sk. Md. Mashrur, Khandker Nurul Habib, “How has COVID-19 Impacted Ride-sourcing use in the Greater Toronto Area? Results from the first cycle of the SiSTM satellite survey,” August, 2020.
- Mashrur, Sk. Md., Kaili Wang, Sanjana Hossain, Patrick Loa, Khandker Nurul Habib, “An Assessment of the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown in Summer 2020 on Transit Use in the Greater Toronto Area: Results from the Cycle-1 of SPETT Satellite Survey,” August, 2020.
PAST WEBINARS / PODCASTS
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy: Urban Leadership & Innovation During Times of Crisis, Carole Saab, Richard Florida, Anita McGahan, Shauna Brail, moderated by Supriya Dwivedi,
- December 3, 2020.
- U of T Engineering Skule Lunch & Learn Series: The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation, & Health, Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou, December 2, 2020.
- UT-ITE Seminar Series: University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter YouTube channel
- ITE YorkU Seminar Archives: ITE YorkU Student Chapter YouTube Channel
- McGill TRAM/CIRRELT Equity in Transportation webinar series: TRAM McGill YouTube channel
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