NEWS

Air quality improvement post-COVID is possible: Brook

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jeff Brook, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), spoke to CBC News about how the improvement in air quality during COVID is "a good reminder of what’s possible."

Read his comments and link to the full article “Cleaner air during pandemic lockdowns shows what’s possible, say researchers,” CBC News, March 13, 2021.

Hemily on the challenges of using ITS data for transit planning and management

Dr. Brendon Hemily presented “From SOP to DRIP to Business Intelligence: Challenges of Using ITS Data for Transit Planning & Management” on March 5, 2021 for the UT-ITE seminar series. The webinar was presented jointly with UTTRI’s Transit Analytics Lab (TAL).

Hemily shared an historical overview on the development of transit data as well as practical perspectives on some of the key challenges transit agencies face in making use of transit data.

Read more about Dr. Hemily's presentation.

ONLINE EVENTS

FEATURED EVENT

Tomorrow! Friday, March 19, 12-1 p.m.

"Tri-POP: An online platform for smart mobility with prediction, optimization and personalization" presented by special guest speaker, Dr. Moshe Ben-Akiva

Tri-POP is an online platform for operations of smart mobility solutions with potential benefits for regulators, operators and users.

Dr. Moshe Ben-Akiva is the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab, and Principal Investigator at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter. Free. All welcome. Details and join link.

More Events

March 22, 9-10 a.m., Building Sustainable Cities at the Neighbourhood Scale. Speakers: Prof Maarten Hajer, Utrecht University; Prof Mee Kam Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prof Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago. Moderator: Prof Karen Chapple, UC Berkeley. Presented by School of Cities. Free. Registration required.
March 24, 1-2:45 p.m., Globe Drive Urban Mobility Summit. Speaker: Stephanie Chan, Globe and Mail. Moderators: Oliver Moore and Stephanie Chan, Globe and Mail. Panelists: Brent Toderian, Toderian UrbanWorks; Danny Harris, Transportation Alternatives; Karen Lee, University of Alberta; Meghan Winters, Simon Fraser University; Hannah Parish, Lyft Canada; Shauna Brail, University of Toronto Mississauga; Remi Desa, Pantonium; Lisa Salsberg, Access Planning. Presented by the Globe and Mail. Free. Registration required.
March 24, 7-8 p.m., Infrastructure Risk Management. Camelia Bucur, Global Director of Risk Management, Hatch. Presented by McMaster ITE student chapter 'Transportation Talks.' Free. Registration required.
March 26, 12-1 p.m., William Denning. Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter. Free. All welcome. Details TBC.
April 6, 1-2 p.m., Using Future Climate Data to Design Resilient Transportation Infrastructure. Dr. Zoubir Lounis and Dr. Hamidreza Shirkhani, National Research Council Canada. Presented by Transportation Association of Canada (TAC). Free. Registration required.
April 7, 2 p.m., Applying Telematics to Modeling Vehicle Emission Inventories, John Koupal, Eastern Research Group, Inc. Presented by SreetLight Data. Free. Registration required.
April 13, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Experts discuss AI and Data x Supply Chain presented by TD Management and Data Analytics Lab, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and sponsored by Kinaxis. Free. Registration required.

CONFERENCES

See our transportation related listings here.

OPPORTUNITIES

UTM-Innovative Mobility Lab (IML) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Apply by April 15, 2021.
2021-2022 IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Apply by April 23, 2021.

RESOURCES
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ActiveTO Major Road Closures Intercept Survey Evaluation Report, January 2021, by The Centre for Active Transportation at Clean Air Partnership, Park People and City of Toronto.
The Use of Transit ITS Data for Planning and Management, and Its Challenges: A Discussion Paper, Dr. Brendon Hemily, 2015.

PAST WEBINARS

Transportation Planning Lessons from the Pandemic - Todd Litman. Webinar presented by CITE Vancouver Island, March 4, 2021.
Designing Platforms & Algorithms to Optimize Informal Supply Chains - Joann de Zegher. Webinar presented by School of Cities, February 8, 2021.

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