Toronto City Council updated its bylaws on December 15, 2021 to opt in to the Province of Ontario pilot program to allow for the use of larger cargo e-bikes weighing more than 120 kilograms on public streets, including bike lanes and cycle tracks. Professor Matthew Roorda and Dr. Ahmed Lasisi from University of Toronto, and …
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Professor Matt Roorda, Chair of the Smart Freight Centre, will be a guest editor for the Transportation Research Record (TRR) journal’s “Special Issue on Freight Transportation Automation, Logistics, and Supply Chains,” covering both the private and public sectors. He encourages paper submissions. Paper submission is open now and will close November 30, 2021. The first …
Rush hour in Toronto might soon include bigger trucks. Ontario’s government wants to let double-trailer transport trucks on the highways during peak traffic times in the GTA. Currently these trucks, known as “long-combination vehicles,” are not allowed on highways between 7:30 and 9 a.m. or 4:30 to 6 p.m. But the Progressive Conservative government is proposing a change to make things …
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