Faculty
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Ahsan Habib, PhD Phone: 902-494-3209 |
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BiographyAhsan Habib is a transportation professor at 鲍鱼tv University. He received a PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto in 2009. He held a professional position at the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)prior to joining 鲍鱼tv University in 2010. He is the founder of the 鲍鱼tv Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) under the Leaders Opportunity Grant program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). His research interests include travel behavior analysis, travel demand forecasting, and the microsimulation of urban systems. Dr. Habib believes multi-modal mobility options are the key to ensuring sustainability for Canadian cities. |
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Education2005 鈥� 2009 PhD (Transportation Engineering and Planning) 2004 鈥� 2005 Master of Applied Science (transferred to the PhD Program) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto 2002鈥�2004 Master of Urban and Regional Planning 1996鈥�2002 Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning |
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Research Interests
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Major Grants |
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Climate Action Awareness Fund (CAAF), "Development of a Bottom-Up, Activity-Based Transport Network and Emissions Modelling System", Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib) | |
NSERC Discovery Grant,听鈥淒eveloping Longitudinal Bottom-up Models of Land Use, Transport and Energy Use鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib) | |
The Province of Nova Scotia, NS DoE, 鈥淪ustainable Transportation 听 Indicators: Transportation Data Collection and Modelling鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib) | |
Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF),听Canada Foundation for听Innovation (CFI), 鈥湵鉻v Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) Infrastructure Project鈥�, (funding partners: NSRIT and HRM), Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib) | |
The Province of Nova Scotia, NS DoE, 鈥淭ransportation Data Collection and Modelling Centre for Sustainable Transportation Planning鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib) | |
SSHRC Insight Grants, 鈥淐oordinating Land Use Planning in the Context of Multiple Plans鈥�, Awarded, (PI: Dr. Grant, [鲍鱼tv]; Co-PIs: Drs. Habib, Manuel & Rapaport [鲍鱼tv] and听 Dr. Filion [Waterloo]) |