Dr. Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez has been awarded the prestigious Lee Schipper Scholarship Award for transformative research proposals to challenge conventional wisdom awarded by Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) and the Urban Mobility program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Dr. Rivera’s proposal titled “Transforming Urban Logistics: Demand-Centric Policy Impacts on Freight Efficient Land-Uses” will answer...

Purdue University has named Carlos Rivera González, as the prestigious “TrailBlazer in Engineering (TBE) fellow.” Rivera González’s selection highlights Purdue’s commitment not only to academic excellence but also to fostering diversity and representation in the field of engineering. Rivera Gonzalez’s selection as the sole fellow from a Canadian institution underscores the global recognition of his groundbreaking contributions. Carlos Rivera González is a postdoctoral fellow...

Alia Galal, a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Matt Roorda, has won an Excellence Award in the 2023 Canada Safest Employers Awards (CSEAs) Competition, organized by the Occupational Health and Safety Magazine.   Galal’s award falls under the Minerva Rising Star of the Year Award Category of the CSEAs, which is specifically dedicated to full-time post-secondary students from Canadian universities or colleges in undergraduate, graduate, or...

Professors Stanisław Iwan and Kinga Kijewska will be presenting the webinar “Knowledge-based City Logistics – the Challenge for the Cities of Today and Future” on Monday, July 24th, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST. This webinar will be simultaneously screened to a live audience at the University of Toronto ITS Lab. Abstract: Urban areas face the challenge of making transport sustainable...

We congratulate Adonai Garcia on receiving the 2023 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award in Civil Engineering from York University. The award is based on innovative and novel research accomplishments that have had or have the potential to have a significant impact on the field of Civil Engineering. The adjudication committee praised Adonai for his dedication to advancing research in the...

Congratulations to Gonzalo Martínez Santos of the University of Toronto, who was awarded second place prize by Esri Canada for the 2023 Esri Young Scholars Award program. Martínez Santos is supervised by a faculty affiliate of the Smart Freight Centre.  Gonzalo Martínez Santos is a 4th-year student of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto majoring in Machine Intelligence Engineering and working on his...

Professor Hugo Yoshizaki presented the webinar “The night deliveries pilot project in São Paulo: Lessons learned from a practitioner point of view” on Friday, March 3, 2023, from 11 AM to 12 PM. The webinar was simultaneously screened to a live audience at the University of Toronto ITS Lab. Abstract This talk presents the main results of the successful off-hour...