Sustainable Transport and Infrastructures
Research areas description
Facing 21st Century Transportation Challenges
Increasingly, cities are grappling with problems like congestion, pollution and reduced travel efficiency. Strategies to decrease emissions and oil dependence tend to systematically target transportation. But to achieve sustainable development targets, we need new strategies that make more aggressive use of active and alternative modes. And for that that, we need tools and models that can adequately support transportation planning exercises.
Dr. Catherine Morency, Canada Research Chair in the Mobility of People, is working on an integrated and multimodal understanding of mobility.
Morency and her team are developing an integrated understanding of the roles played by different modes of transportation in how people travel. To track their progress, they also want to build a database to capture the supply and demand of various modes of transportation in a variety of locations over time. They will model the evolution of mobility behaviours, the interactions between different modes, and demographic, urban and contextual variables. Finally, they will propose a framework to assess the sustainability of urban and transportation strategies that will compare scenarios involving a variety of transportation modes.
Morency's work will help give decision-makers the knowledge and tools they need to make choices that will actively contribute to changing people's mobility practices. Ultimately, this could improve quality of life for people around the world.
Research interests
- 1003 Transportation engineering
Research staff
- Catherine Morency | Chairholder
External sources of funding
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