News – CLUE

Urban Quick Stop provides a living laboratory to study the challenges of last-mile delivery

The Purolator Urban Quick Stop is the home of a new multidisciplinary collaboration between industry, academia and government that aims to explore innovative solutions to the challenges of last-mile delivery. (Photo: Tyler Irving, U of T Engineering) By Tyler Irving, U of T Engineering News, October 13, 2022 A partnership between U of T Engineering, Purolator and the City of Toronto...

CLUE welcomes Dr. Carlos Iván Rivera Gonzalez

City Logistics for the Urban Economy is pleased to welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carlos Iván Rivera Gonzalez to the research team at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Matt Roorda. Carlos obtained his PhD in Transportation Engineering in 2022 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His doctoral dissertation developed a mathematical model that minimizes the social cost of...

Dr. Tho V. Le joins Purdue University faculty

Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Tho V. Le on starting a new position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University in August 2022. Tho joined CLUE as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2021 after completing two years as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Davis. Prior to...

Dr. Ahmed Lasisi joins KPMG

Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Ahmed Lasisi in his new position at KPMG as Senior Consultant, Global Infrastructure Deals Advisory as of May 2022. Ahmed leaves behind his role since 2021 as CLUE Research Manager and researcher on the Purolator E-Cargo Tricycle Pilot Project. In his new role at KPMG, he will engage with cities, corporations, and government entities...

The CLUE 2022 Symposium: Live & in-person

For most, if not all attendees, the CLUE 2022 Symposium on June 24, 2022 was one of the first in-person events since the advent of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in 2020. As such, the air of celebration at this invitation-only gathering at the University of Toronto’s historic Faculty Club was palpable. The fact that it was City Logistics for the Urban...

Alia Galal receives Best Poster Award from Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals

Congratulations to Alia Galal who received the Best Poster Award at the 2022 Conference of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) for: Galal, A., Donmez, B., Roorda, M. (2022). Improving truck driver and vulnerable road user interactions through driver training: A subject matter expert interview study. Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals Conference 2022. Sudbury. June 19-22. Alia is a third year...

CLUE researchers shine at CTRF 2022

CLUE researchers were in the spotlight, presenting a total of nine CLUE research projects at the 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, CTRF 2022, “Transportation and Supply Chains in Unprecedented Times,” June 12-15, 2022 in Montreal. Research presented was carried out at University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Matthew Roorda, and at York University under...

CLUE pilot project featured in BlogTO article

A CLUE pilot study is featured in “Toronto may be getting a cool new solution to missing your package deliveries,” BlogTO, May 25, 2022.

CHET selected as training partner for City Logistics for the Urban Economy research project

Ontario-based truck driving school, Commercial Heavy Equipment Training Ltd. (CHET), has been selected as a training partner for the government funded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) research project on City Logistics for the Urban Economy (CLUE). The purpose of CLUE is to fill gaps in the Canadian urban freight system—a system that has fallen more under the...

LARGER CARGO E-BIKE PILOTS NOW PERMITTED IN CITY OF TORONTO

Toronto City Council updated its bylaws on December 15, 2021 to opt in to the Province of Ontario pilot program to allow for the use of larger cargo e-bikes weighing more than 120 kilograms on public streets, including bike lanes and cycle tracks. Professor Matthew Roorda and Dr. Ahmed Lasisi from University of Toronto, and Professor Kevin Gingerich from York...