University of Toronto’s Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter earns recognition at the 18th Annual Joint ITE Canada District Student Presentation Competition
University of Toronto’s Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter (UT-ITE) members, representing the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, Timotéo Frelau and Varsan Jeyakkumar earned recognition at the 18th Annual Joint ITE Canada District Student Presentation Competition. Held Wednesday, March 18 in Waterloo, Ont., the competition featured student research on current transportation engineering issues from across the district.
Frelau, UT-ITE Vice President 2024–25 and a CivMin PhD candidate under the supervision of Professors Matthew Roorda (CivMin) and Meredith Franklin (Statistical Sciences), won first place in the Graduate Student field for his presentation, “Traffic Noise Contribution by Vehicle Class: An Urban Case Study in Toronto using Non-negative Matrix Factorization and XGBoost Methods.”
UT-ITE member Jeyakkumar, an ECE first-year student, earned second place in the Undergraduate field for his presentation, “Transit Signal Priority Implementation on Surface Level Transit in the City of Toronto.”
These results highlight the strength of U of T student leadership and research in transportation engineering.