Collaboration with Mina Jamshedi
We had the pleasure of hosting a wonderful social lunch with Mina Jamshedi, a visiting student from UBC Vancouver. Over the past two weeks, we’ve had a fantastic collaboration focused on Emission and Travel Demand Forecasting Models. Together, we explored innovative ways to make forecasting more efficient and sustainable, and the results were nothing short […]
Welcome Ifratul Hoque
Ifratul Hoque, a 25-year-old from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is beginning his MASc studies at UBC’s Okanagan Campus under the guidance of Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi. He specializes in Civil Engineering with a focus on Transportation. During his undergraduate years at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Ifratul was a founding member of the ITE BUET Student […]
Ph.D. Student: Shahadat Hossain
We are thrilled to share the incredible achievements of one of our talented doctoral student, ShahadatHossain!Shahadat, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at UBCO, has recently been awarded a scholarship forgraduate study in transportation by the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF). Sponsored byTransport Canada, this prestigious scholarship is given to outstanding candidates whose researchcontributes to […]
Undergraduate Student: Ling Sun
We are thrilled to share the incredible achievements of one of our talented undergraduatestudents, Ling Sun! Ling, a third-year civil engineering student at UBC Okanagan, has recently been honored withseveral prestigious awards, including: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award(USRA) Deputy Vice-Chancellor Scholarship Stuart Olson Bursary Rio TintoScholarshipUnder the supervision of Dr. Fatmi at UiTR Lab, Ling […]
Shahadat Hossain Shadit and Dr Mahmudur Fatmi Receive Best Paper Award at the 58th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum Conference
The UBC integrated Transportation Research (UiTR) Laboratory is delighted to announce that the paper titled “Modeling Vehicle Type Choice Decisions Within an Integrated Urban Transportation Modeling Framework”, by Shahadat Hossain Shadit and Dr Mahmudur Fatmi, has been honored with the prestigious Best Paper Award at the 58th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum Conference. The award […]
TRB Highlight: “Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Population Groups’ Ridership of Public Transport”
Title of Paper: Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Population Groups’ Ridership of Public Transport Authors: Hossain, M. S., Fatmi, M. R. Description: Public transit ridership was severely impacted during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and continued to have some impact since. The present study examines changes to ridership immediately post-pandemic in 2021. Research investigating the effects […]
TRB Highlight: “Modeling and Simulating Demographic Dynamics within an Agent-based Integrated Urban Model: Application of Machine Learning Techniques”
Title of Paper: “Modeling and Simulating Demographic Dynamics within an Agent-based Integrated Urban Model: Application of Machine Learning Techniques” Authors: Khalil, M.A., Fatmi, M. Description: The demographic characteristic of any region directly affects its transportation demand and energy consumption, among others. Most of the existing demographic components rely on logit and rule-based models, which can […]
TRB Highlight: “Jointly Modeling the Preference for Telecommuting and Teleshopping After the Pandemic”
Title of Paper: “Jointly Modeling the Preference for Telecommuting and Teleshopping After the Pandemic” Authors: Khaddar, S., Fatmi, M. Description: COVID-19 mitigation measures triggered a sharp increase in adoption of teleshopping and telecommuting activities. This study aims to understand extent to which past frequencies and experiences will affect post-pandemic teleactivities behavior. Moreover, findings of the […]
TRB Highlight: “Predicting Parking Occupancy for Residential Shared Parking Lots Using Deep Learning Methods Considering COVID-19 Policies”
Title of Paper: “Predicting Parking Occupancy for Residential Shared Parking Lots Using Deep Learning Methods Considering COVID-19 Policies” Authors: Zhipeng Niu, Xiaowei Hu, Mahmudur Fatmi, Shouming Qi, Dongling Wu, Shi An Description: In this study, a parking occupancy prediction model based on a policy-aware temporal convolutional network (P-TCN) is proposed. Policy dependence of non-stationary data […]
Nobinur Rahman awarded NSERC Scholarship
UiTR is proud to announce that Nobinur Rahman was recently one of the recipients awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS D). Everyone at UiTR is very proud of Nobinur and everything he brings to the lab. Congrats, and keep up the great work. To learn more about […]
TRB Highlight: “A Joint Model for Activity Start Time, Travel Mode, Companionship, and Destination Location Choice Decisions”
Title of Paper: “A Joint Model for Activity Start Time, Travel Mode, Companionship, and Destination Location Choice Decisions” Authors: Khaddar, K., Varghese, V., Fatmi, M., Chikaraishi, M. Description: Activity-travel decisions including time use (i.e. activity start time), travel-related (i.e. mode and companionship), and land use (i.e. destination location) choices are interdependent and complex in nature. […]
TRB Highlight: “Are Pre-pandemic Models Transferable to the Pandemic Period? Assessing the Temporal Transferability of the Housing Price Component of an Integrated Urban Model”
Title of Paper: “Are Pre-pandemic Models Transferable to the Pandemic Period? Assessing the Temporal Transferability of the Housing Price Component of an Integrated Urban Model” Authors: Orvin, M., & Fatmi, M. Description: This study investigates temporal transferability of housing price micromodel of an integrated urban model (IUM). Models are developed for pre-pandemic and pandemic periods […]
TRB Highlight: “Are Telecommuters and Non-Telecommuters’ Daily Time-use Behavior Different? An Episode-Level Model for Non-mandatory Activities”
Starting today, November 4th and running until December 23rd, every Friday, UiTR will be posting a brief description of one of the eight papers being presented by UiTR lab members in Washington D.C. between January 8-12 2023. If any of the papers interest you please research out to the author(s) or UiTR, or visit the […]
Dr. Fatmi featured on CBC’s Day Break South
Dr. Fatmi was invited to talk on CBC’s Day Break South on October 3rd to discuss the Rail Trail Corridor Survey. Listen to their conversation here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-110-daybreak-south/clip/15940107-ukraine-russia-theme-song-mistakes-lack-diversity-local
Dr. Fatmi CBC News Interview
Dr. Fatmi was recently featured in a TV Interview on CBC Evening News to discuss “The Role Transportation in Local Elections”. Check out the video here and a link to the article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2022-municipal-election-issues-1.6617526
Photos from TAC Edmonton
Dr. Fatmi and Bijoy did a terrific job at last weeks TAC conference in Edmonton. Bijoy presented and Dr. Fatmi chaired the session. Here are some photos from the conference. Great work everyone!
Launch of Impacts of Covid-19 on Daily Activity Survey (ICDAS)
Today marks the launch of the latest UiTR Survey. The Impacts of COVID-19 on Daily Activities Survey (ICDAS) is a research project, which is led by Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi. This study will collect information regarding individuals’ travel, including their daily/routine activities such as travel behaviour, use of technology, and socio-demographic characteristics after COVID-19 social distancing […]
Impacts of COVID-19 on Daily Activities Survey (ICDAS)
What is the survey about? The UiTR lab is conducting research on the Central Okanagan to analyze the differences in people’s daily activities before and after COVID-19, focusing on their transportation preferences and use of online services. Are there any incentives to the participants? Survey participants can enter a draw to win 1 of 10 […]
Muntahith Orvin receives CTRF Scholarship
UiTR’s Muntahith Orvin recently was announced as one of the winners for the 2022-2023 Transport Canada Scholarship from the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) for Graduate Study in Transportation. Everyone at UiTR is very proud of Muntahith for the hard work he has put in. Muntahith’s research focuses on developing advanced econometric and machine learning-based […]
TAC Edmonton
Dr. Fatmi and Bijoy will be heading to Edmonton this week to take part in the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) conference. Bijoy will be presenting and Dr. Fatmi will be chairing a session at the conference. Photos to come!
Dr. Fatmi Research Award
On June 30th, 2022, Dr. Fatmi was awarded a 2021 Faculty & Staff Awards of Excellence Research. Congrats Dr. Fatmi, it is very well deserved.
Global News Feature
Global News recently featured Dr. Fatmi and the UiTR lab on Septembers 27ths evening news. Dr. Fatmi discussed the reasonings and objectives of the Okanagan Rail Trail corridor survey, as well as future plans and goals. Check out the report on us here: https://globalnews.ca/news/9160689/okanagan-rail-trail-survey-autonomous-buses/
First Weekend of Rail Trail Corridor Survey
The first few days of the Okanagan Rail Trail Corridor Survey have past and it has been great to speak to so many individuals. The survey is being preformed from 7am to 7pm everyday between September 17th until September 29th along numerous locations on the Rail Trail. If you see our new banner and blue […]
Start to the 2022 Fall Semester at UiTR!
Everyone at UiTR would like to wish all Undergraduate, Master, and PhD students a wonderful 2022 fall semester. We unfortunately had to say goodbye to Taylor, Kenny, and Roy as they returned full-time to their respective undergraduate studies. However, UiTR is proud to have brought on Uthpalee Hewage, a PhD student with a MSc. in […]
Ukrainian Job Opportunity
UBC integrated Transportation Research Laboratory (UiTR) has job openings for Masters, PhD, and Postdoc positions for anyone directly impacted by the War in Ukraine. NSERC funding could be leveraged on short notice upon hiring. Those who are interested in work related to transportation demand modelling, please email the UiTR laboratory at uitr.lab@ubc.ca. Please use the […]
New Job Openings
UBC integrated Transportation Research Laboratory has three new positions that are currently looking to be filled. UiTR is looking for a Project Manager, Software Programmer, and a Postdoc fellow to join the lab. All work will be in-person. If you are interested to learn more about these opportunities, please check out the Job Openings tab […]
Dr. Fatmi Delivers Presentation at UBC Sauder School of Business
Dr. Fatmi was invited to deliver a presentation about Next Generation Agent-based Integrated Urban Modeling at the UBC Sauder School of Business in Vancouver, British Columbia. The presentation was delivered on April 29th, 2022. The presentation discussed the the next generation of agent-based integrated urban modelling and included comments about current UiTR research projects and […]
Dr. Fatmi was on The Early Edition show
Dr. Fatmi was a guest on The Early Edition show on AM1150 with Phil Johnson. There Dr. Fatmi discussed UiTR’s recent research on modelling the spatio-temporal demand for shared e-scooters in Kelowna. To listen to the conversation check it out here.
UBCO Research on Shared E-Scooter Services featured in UBCO News
Our research is in the news. In this study, UiTR investigated the highs and lows in shared e-scooter services in Kelowna. Read the article here.
UiTR Welcomes New Undergraduate Students
UiTR is happy to welcome aboard four new undergraduate students. Taylor, Roy, Kenny, and Trevor will be joining the team as undergraduate research assistants and will be helping in a wide assortment of duties. Please click the student tab to view what all students are currently working on, including the four new undergraduate members. Let’s […]
18 April 2022
Multiple PhD student positions related to transportation modelling and simulation are available at UBC – Okanagan. The job posting is as following:
15 February 2022
Postdoctoral fellow and multiple PhD student positions related to transportation modelling and simulation are available at UBC – Okanagan. The job posting is as following:
20 January 2022
Dr. Fatmi was on CBC’s Daybreak South show with Chris Walker to discuss research findings related to the longer-term effects of COVID-19 on in-person and online food ordering and grocery shopping activities.
18 January 2022
Our research is in the news. In this study, we investigated the impact of COVID-19 on our shopping activity. Link: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2022/01/18/covid-19-has-changed-the-way-we-grocery-shop/
9 January 2022
The schedule of paper presentations by CeTLUR researchers at TRB-2022 is provided below: