GTA can become Smart Cities leader: Siemiatycki
 UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in “Smart cities will be cleaner, accessible, even more democratic, proponents say. But governments adopting new tech must contend with risks, too,” published in the Toronto Star, January 4, 2020.
Siemiatycki says that the GTA "can become a leader in how cities leverage data and technology to support broad social goals, like sustainability and inclusion, while making municipal operations far more efficient and responsive."
Read more about his comments and link to the full Toronto Star article by John Lorinc.
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Hatzopoulou's "The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation & Health" featured by engineering.com
 A webinar by UTTRI associated faculty Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou is the subject of in an in-depth article at engineering.com published January 4, 2021.
In her presentation “The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation & Health,” Hatzopoulou confronts the challenges of climate change on transportation. The webinar was presented December 2, 2020 as part of the U of T Engineering Skule Lunch & Learn Seminar Series.
Read more about Hatzopoulou's talk, link to the webinar video recording and the engineering.com article "Exploring Transportation Trends to Achieve Net-Zero Goals.”
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COVID-19 changed travel behaviour in the GTHA: Habib
 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 speaks about this research in the article “Travel-related COVID spread in Ontario may be worse than we realize” published by TVO, December 23, 2020, which discusses the possible spread of COVID-19 through travel from places of lockdown – like the GTA – to neighbouring areas where shopping malls are open to in-person traffic.
Read more and link to the full TVO article.
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Siemiatycki on public transit’s importance
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki underscores the importance of Canada’s public transit networks in “‘Build it and they will come’: Canada’s public transit looks to rebound from COVID-19,” Toronto Star, December 16, 2020.
“Even through the pandemic, transit played a critical role in our economies,“ he states. ”Transit was a lifeline service for people to reach their front-line place of employment.“
Read more of Siemiatycki's remarks and link to the full article.
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ONLINE EVENTS
- Today! January 7, 2021, 4-5:30 p.m., Errick "Skip" Willis Memorial Event on Leadership and Emissions Trading. Dirk Forrister, former Chair of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton and current CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), Presented by School of the Environment. Free, donation to Skip Willis Undergraduate Scholarship encouraged. Registration req'd.
- January 11, 4-5 p.m., Supply Chain Optimization: An Operations Research Perspective, Professor Chris Beck, Industrial Engineering. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
- January 14, 1-2:15 p.m., Cities Post-COVID: What Does the Future Hold?, Professor Shauna Brail, Institute for Management & Innovation, UTM. Presented by TABE (Toronto Association for Business and Economics). Registration required; non-members fee $20.
- January 15, 12-1 p.m., Prediction of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Downtown Toronto Using Deep Sequence Learning, Dr. Lama Alfaseeh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans), Ryerson University. UT-ITE seminar series. Free, all welcome.
- January 25, 4-5 p.m., Role of Ontologies in Measuring Supply Chain Performance, Professor Mark Fox, Industrial Engineering and Associate Director (Research), Computer Science. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
- February 1, 4-5 p.m., Understanding Transportation Data with Ontologies, Dr. Megan Katsumi., Research Associate, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, U of T. Presented by School of Cities, Building Resilience in Food and Health Supply Chains seminar series. Free, registration req'd.
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