In the media
- Shoshanna Saxe, What we can learn about the future of rail from its past, CBC Radio, January 1, 2023.
- Willem Klumpenhouwer, Via Rail’s holiday meltdown shows Canada’s railway policy has utterly failed us, The Globe and Mail, December 29, 2022.
- Willem Klumpenhouwer, Travellers frustrated by more Via Rail cancellations after derailment, winter storm, The Globe and Mail, December 26, 2022.
- Matti Siemiatycki, Matti Siemiatycki, professor and the director of the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto, tells Moore In The Morning whether Canada's infrastructure is able to handle a population explosion in many of our cities, iHeart Radio, December 22, 2022.
- Willem Klumpenhouwer, Calgary’s Red Line LRT to return to four-car trains, Global News, December 15, 2022.
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Mobility Network welcomes Dr. Gaurav Mittal
 We welcome Dr. Gaurav Mittal as a UTM Mobility Network Postdoctoral Fellow supervised by Professor Shauna Brail.
Gaurav comes from an interdisciplinary background. He completed his PhD in human geography at the National University of Singapore in 2021 with a prestigious President’s Graduate Fellowship, and also holds a master’s degree in urban policy and a bachelor’s degree in architecture.
Gaurav’s academic interests lie at the intersections of urban transport, policy mobilities, and governance. He brings these categories together to critically examine the role of the state in ordering urban societies.
Gaurav says that after working in the Global South context for quite some time, he believes "this opportunity will help me develop a comprehensive understanding of global urban transport governance and contribute to a more engaged North-South dialogue in mobilities research."
Read more about Dr. Gaurav Mittal.
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TMG shares workshop video recording
Screen capture of TMG Workshop "Creating Custom EMME Tools and Exporting Subareas" December 7, 2022.
The Travel Modelling Group (TMG) at Mobility Network has shared a video of their online workshop "Creating Custom EMME Tools and Exporting Subareas" held on December 7, 2022.
The hands-on tutorial on using INRO's EMME software to create custom tools and export subareas was hosted by James Vaughan, Senior Software Architect, TMG, and Williams Diogu, Transportation Network Modeller, TMG.
Learn more about this workshop and access the video.
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Esri GIS in Education & Research Conference
Don't miss Esri's 5th GIS in Education and Research Conference at University of Toronto!
- Register early if you would like to attend. Registration will remain open until capacity is reached. The fee is $35.
- Submit papers by January 20, 2023.
Visit Esri's conference website for full details.
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Conference aims to attract graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada
The 2023 Emerging Mobility Scholars Conference on the theme "Cause or Solution? Urban Mobility in an Era of Climate Emergency" is open to all Canadian graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the fields of mobility, transportation, and climate change.
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Postdocs invited to join Community of Practice
Mobility Network's Community of Practice for postdoctoral researchers is a safe space for postdocs to interact, collaborate, and grow together as researchers and scholars.
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Save the date! U of T Transportation Alumni Reception returns February 9th
The University of Toronto Transportation Alumni Network (UTTAN) will host a reception for U of T grads working in transportation on Thursday, February 9, 2023, 6:00-9:00 p.m., at Massey College Common Room.
Mark your calendar! Ticket purchase will be available soon. Visit the Mobility Network website for updates or join the UTTAN mailing list to receive updates directly by email.
Support from Tier 1 sponsors Dr. Mazen I.S. Hassounah, HDR, CIMA+, and IBI Group, and Tier 3 sponsors Streetlight Data and TraffMobility Engineering Inc. is gratefully acknowledged.
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EVENTS
- January 13, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., North America's Biggest Transit Expansion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Reece Martin, RMTransit. UT-ITE Seminar Series. In person. SF3103. Free.
- January 17, 5:30-7 p.m., Making the Case for Regionalism. Speakers: Don Iveson, former mayor of Edmonton and former chair, Canada’s Big City Mayors; Dr. Jen Nelles, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes Business School; Zack Taylor, Associate Professor, Political Science, Western University. Moderator: Dr. Karen Chapple, Director, School of Cities and Professor, Geography and Planning. Presented by School of Cities and the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance. Hybrid. Free. Registration required.
- January 18, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., Responsible Data Science, DSI@UTM: Data Digests - Data in our community. Featuring two talks, including "The Black Box of Mobility Data: Cities, Covid and Counting," Professors Shauna Brail and Tara Vinodrai, IMI, UTM. In person at UTM. Free. Registration required.
- January 18, 9-10 p.m., Knowledge-Based Planning: Prediction, Optimization, and Open-Access Advances. Professor Timothy Chan, University of Toronto. Joint CARTE & University of Seoul AI Seminar Series. Virtual. Free. Registration required.
- January 20, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., Roundtable on Mobility and Climate Justice: Finding Connections. Presented by Mobility Network. In person. Free. Registration limited to U of T faculty.
- January 25, 9-10 p.m., Machine Learning for Understanding Construction Resource Use and Embodied Greenhouse Gases. Big Problem/Small Data. Professor Shoshanna Saxe, University of Toronto. Joint CARTE & University of Seoul AI Seminar Series. Virtual. Free. Registration required.
- January 26, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Workshop on Rail Analytics and Simulation Research at the University of Toronto Mobility Network. Presented by Transit Analytics Lab at Mobility Network. Virtual. Free. Registration required.
- January 26, 5-7 p.m., Future-Proofing Supply Chain in a Post-COVID-19 World. Speakers: Elkafi Hassini, Professor, McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business, and Chair, Smart Freight Centre; John Ferguson, President and CEO, Purolator Inc. Presented by Foresight Lab, McMaster University. In person. Fee and registration required.
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RESOURCES
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- Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities, Howard Chernick, Andrew Reschovsky. Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, IMFG Paper, 2023.
- Comprehensive Transportation Emission Reduction Planning Guidelines for Evaluating Transportation Emission Reduction Strategies, Todd Litman. Victoria Transport Policy Institute, January 4, 2023.
- Are Vehicle Travel Reduction Targets Justified? Why and How to Reduce Excessive Automobile Travel, Todd Litman. Victoria Transport Policy Institute, January 2, 2023.
- Walking as a social activity in a post-pandemic world, Samantha Leger. Mobilizing Justice blog post, December 19, 2022.
- Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability (CECCS): 5 Years of CECCS, 2022 Annual Report. Prepared by CECCS, University of Toronto. November 2022.
- Region of Peel Community Cycling Program: Retrospective Analysis 2015-2021. Region of Peel and The Centre for Active Transportation. August 2022.
PAST WEBINARS / PODCASTS
- MIT Mobility Forum shares all videos, slides, and annotations for their Fall 2022 series.
- Special end of year wrap up and look ahead to 2023 with 4 special guests. Speakers: Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, UITP; Jeremy Yap, Deputy Chief Executive, LTA, Vice President, UITP Executive Board; Julie Timm, CEO, Sound Transit; Rod Jones, Portfolio Leader, Head of Americas, Modaxo. Transit Unplugged podcast, December 28, 2022. (1:03:36)
- How to deliver persuasive presentations to win support and financing for research proposals, consulting contracts, and major projects. John Farrow, urban planner, senior executive, and Adjunct Professor, Geography & Planning, University of Toronto. Video recording. Presented by UT-ITE, December 16, 2022.
- Pathways to Walkable Communities – Put Walking on the Map webinar series. Video recordings. Presented by Walk21, December 13, 2022.
- TMG Workshop: Creating Custom EMME Tools and Exporting Subareas. Video recording. Presented by Travel Modelling Group (TMG), Mobility Network, December 7, 2022.
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