Posts Tagged: sustainable cities

Toronto’s King Street includes a complex mix of various transportation modes, including cycling, walking, driving and transit. How infrastructure impacts commuter choices is one of the topics being examined by U of T Engineering researchers within the new U of T School of Cities. (Image: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

May 29, 2018 | By Tyler Irving

Sustainable cities: Three U of T Engineering researchers join multidisciplinary research initiative

Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE) and his partners aim to use data to improve the efficiency and livability of cities such as Toronto. (Photo: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

December 15, 2017 | By Tyler Irving

Smarter cities: Strategic partnership leverages technology and big data to improve urban environments

Professors Brenda McCabe, Daman Panesar, Shoshanna Saxe, Heather MacLean and Daniel Posen (all CivE) are collaborating with companies in construction, building services and engineering consulting to reduce the greenhouse gas impacts of future infrastructure projects. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

December 8, 2017 | By Tyler Irving

Green infrastructure: New tool to help construction industry reduce carbon footprint

Optimizing traffic flow between the City of Oshawa, at right, and Toronto, lower left, is one challenge that Master of Engineering students in the Cities Engineering and Management program at U of T will study in the newly established ‘teaching city.’ (Image: Google Maps).

June 5, 2017 | By Rachel Wallace

New partnership establishes a Canadian teaching city for engineering students

February 27, 2017 | By Tyler Irving

Infrastructure’s impact: How public transit affects our environment

December 2, 2016 | By Kevin Soobrian

Two U of T Engineering researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs