The mission of the MOBILITÉ Chair is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge, to methodological development,
to modelling and to the training of highly qualified personnel who can assess the contributions of transportation
projects, policies and plans to sustainable development. The development of sustainable-mobility indicators,
initially as a monitoring tool and later as a forecasting instrument, lies at the heart at this Chair's mission. The
MOBILITÉ Chair seeks to be a hub for experimentation, research and development in methods and information for assessing
projects' contributions to achieving behaviours and situations compatible
with the vision of sustainable transportation in an urban setting.
Overall, the Research Chair has the primary goal of providing stakeholders with assessment mechanisms enabling them to
quantitatively comprehend the impacts of various transportation choices, with a view to deciding and acting in accordance
with current visions of sustainable development.
For the four institutional partners, the common goals related to establishment of this Chair are specifically
to:
adopt rigorous, objective and transparent measurement indicators for guiding and monitoring transportation and
strategic plans;
improve methods for analyzing and assessing mobility (measurement indicators);
enhancing the available base of information on the movement of people and goods;
help improve the practices of all bodies involved in organizing transportation in the metropolitan area.
In addition, the Chair aims to:
train specialists and highly qualified personnel and take part in the continuing education of employees in partner
organizations;
structure and ensure the long-term development of a multidisciplinary hub for research and advanced training in the
planning and modelling of urban transportation in Montréal.
Research Personnel
Professors/Researchers: 4
Graduate Students: 8
External Sources of Funding
The Ville de Montréal (Transportation Division),
Agence métropolitaine de transport (Mobility and Metropolitan Transportation Information Division)
Ministère des transports du Québec (Transportation Systems Modelling Service)
