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Mobilizing Justice (MJ) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector partnership that builds sustainable connections for research and knowledge exchange to address transportation inequities in Canada. This national partnership aims to understand and address transportation equity in Canada and to improve the well-being of Canadians at risk of transport burdens (i.e., where socio-economic marginalization combines with transportation barriers to mutually reinforce problems in peoples’ lives, preventing them from accessing what they need).

 

As part of our work, MJ collaborated with Esri Canada to create an online Transportation Equity Dashboard that leverages spatial accessibility measures in an interactive map tool. The tool captures differences in access to daily needs (e.g., employment, grocery stores, and education) using sustainable transportation modes (e.g., walking, cycling, and transit) across Canada, employing an equity lens to enable communities, researchers, urban planners, and decision-makers to explore, analyze, and advocate for transportation equity. 

 

Through this webinar, you'll gain insight into the dashboard's development and features. Our presenters will walk you through a demonstration of how it works, and you’ll hear from practitioners and researchers about how they’re using the dashboard and data in their projects. Come learn more about this innovative and practical tool!

 

For more on the Transportation Equity Dashboard, visit our website.

Moderator:

Jaimy Fischer, PhD

Jaimy Fischer (she/they) works as the Knowledge Mobilization Lead with Mobilizing Justice. Jaimy has expertise in equity and transport, GIScience, community-engaged research, and decolonizing and Indigenizing practices. As a Michif (Métis) person and researcher, Jaimy has a strong passion for addressing issues of Indigenous mobility justice and social equity, and their research program is working to embed Indigenous perspectives and methodologies in transportation planning, policy, data, and measures.

Guest Speakers:

Lorina Hoxha

Lorina Hoxha is a Senior Project Manager at the City of Toronto's Transportation Services Division, where she leads the Division's transportation equity policy development, research, and evaluation. As a policy professional with a background in Urban Sociology, Lorina's work focuses on identifying, measuring and improving social outcomes of urban infrastructure and service planning, particularly in the transportation and housing sectors.  At Transportation Services, Lorina recently developed the Transportation Equity Opportunity Zones (TEOZ) Index, a composite indicator model that seeks to quantify transportation inequity in Toronto through 27 indicators. She has diverse experience working for municipal government, social policy institutes, urban planning and architecture studios and non-profit organizations in Canada, the Netherlands and the Balkans.

Anh Nguyen

Anh Nguyen is a data specialist at United Way Greater Toronto with over 10 years of experience in project management and program evaluation and over 7 years of expertise in working with large datasets. Anh is dedicated to leveraging data for informed decision-making and driving positive change in the community.

Sayani Mandal, Graduate Student

Sayani Mandal is a graduate student of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where she is conducting research to understand immigrant settlement patterns in Metro Vancouver and their transit accessibility to jobs. Her research interests lie at the nexus of transportation planning and human behaviour.

Mobilizing Justice/Esri Speakers

Ignacio Tiznado Aitken, PhD

Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken is the Acting Director of the Mobilizing Justice Partnership and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough. He holds a PhD in transportation engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) and was a visiting postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics associated with sustainable transport and transport justice in urban and suburban areas.

Alex Smith, PhD

Alex Smith is a Higher Education Specialist in Esri Canada’s Education and Research group. He has a focus on spatial data science and artificial intelligence for internal and external research projects, and in developing and delivering workshops and guest lectures for higher education. Alex completed his Bachelor of Environmental Studies with a Computer Science minor and a Masters of Science in land cover and land use classification at the University of Waterloo, and his PhD studying multi-dimensional agent-based modeling and spatial statistics at Simon Fraser University.

Title: Practical Applications of the Mobilizing Justice Transportation Equity Dashboard

Date: May 23, 2024

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. ET

Format: Webinar, 75min presentation and Q&A

Webinar Fee: 

• Free to CIP members
• $35 plus applicable taxes for non-members

CPL units: 1.5 structured

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