Posts Categorized: Transportation
A CivMin professor and two alumni are among the two U of T Engineering professors and three alumni who have been honoured by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. These awards recognize professional engineers in Ontario who have made…
University of Toronto students Mahia Anhara (Year 3 CivE), Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga (MScPl candidate), Alaa Itani (CivE PhD candidate), and Felita Ong (CivE MASc candidate) have been awarded “Advancing Women in Transportation” scholarships by the WTS Toronto area chapter.…
November 29, 2020| The Toronto Star
Electric vehicles are often touted as a means of mitigating climate change, but a new modelling study suggests that their public health benefits may be just as significant. “Local air pollution within urban environments is highly detrimental to human health,” says…
Pedestrians take their chances crossing the street as it is; making eye contact with a driver before crossing at an intersection has become standard to ensure one’s safety. But what if the pedestrian is visually impaired? What if the…
August 29, 2019 | National Post
THE TRANSPORTATION DECISION-MAKER Md Sami Hasnine (CivMin PhD 1T9) Hasnine’s research is at the intersection of transportation engineering, economics, data science and psychology. During his graduate studies, he developed behavioural models to research travel-related decisions people make on a day-to-day basis…
Making Makkah Move Discover the possibilities of “Aerial Ropeway Transit: Exploring its Potential for Makkah,” a project funded by the Center of Research Excellence in Hajj and Umrah. You can download the full study report here (Makkah Project Report – Part…
New U of T Engineering research shows that adoption of self-driving cars — also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs) — could significantly reduce the amount of valuable urban space dedicated to parking. “In a parking lot full of AVs, you…
The objectives of this research are to (a) Develop the conceptual and computational architecture for an agent-based microsimulation framework for goods movement and firm behaviour, and (b) Formulate and estimate a set of behavioural models for goods movement and firm behaviour. The…
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