TRB webinar on spatiotemporal patterns of micromobility
On Oct 8th, Prof. McKenzie gave a presentation to the Transportation Research Board AMS 50 committee…
Master’s degree opportunities for 2022
The Platial Analysis Lab has funding to support two graduate students, at the Master’s level, with interest in the broad topics of either Geo-Privacy or Urban Mobility…
Chapter in new book on the urban sharing economy
Professor Grant McKenzie and colleague contributed Chapter 14 to the recently published book A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy…
A brief analysis of BIXI Montreal’s e-bikes
Trips using Montreal’s new e-bikes are longer in distance and duration than traditional, non-electric, BIXI bikes…
Animating micro-mobility trajectories
We are currently building a platform to visualize animated urban trajectories… A demo version showing 24 hours of e-scooter data in Berlin is available here…
New short paper at the MOVE++ workshop
Professor Grant McKenzie will present a short paper during the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computing with Multifaceted Movement Data (MOVE++ 2019) in Chicago on November 5th.
Funded graduate research positions available
Interested in Shared Mobility, e-Scooters, Bike-share, or Ride-hailing? We currently have two funded graduate research position available at the Masters or PhD level…
Data Analysis: Jump’s first month in Montreal
Now that Jump bikes have been on the streets of Montreal for one month, we thought we would present some of the spatial and temporal patterns that we have observed in Jump’s user activity.
Lab secures research funding for shared-mobility research
Professor McKenzie was successful in securing funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to assess the impact of micro-mobility services on existing mobility programs.
Jump e-Bikes in Montreal
Last night, approximately 200 vehicles from Uber’s electric-assist bicycle-sharing service Jump, appeared on the streets of Montreal…