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Speaker bio:

Dr. Eric J. Miller, BASc 7T3 (Eng. Sci.), MASc 7T5 (Aerospace), PhD 1978 (MIT). Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto. Past-Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering, founding Director Emeritus University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute and the UofT Mobility Network.

Currently Director of UofT’s Travel Modelling Group and Data Management Group. Primary research areas include advanced agent-based modelling of activity and travel for operational planning use and integrated transportation – land use modelling for sustainable urban design. He has chaired or been a member of over 50 urban or intercity modelling peer review panels, and has international demand modelling experience in Australia, Egypt, India and Latin America. He is a past Chair of the US Transportation Research Board Travel Behavior & Values Committee, as well as past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and winner of its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.

He also is the inaugural winner of the University of British Columbia Margolese National Design for Living Award (2012), He is co-author of the textbook Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, currently in its third edition.