Dr. Usman Ahmed is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ahmed’s research focuses on sustainable freight transportation systems and travel behaviour modelling. Dr. Ahmed has been working as a project manager of an electric cargo tricycle pilot study project, under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Roorda. The project has won awards for promoting sustainable and innovative urban goods delivery methods in Toronto. Dr. Ahmed is developing an advanced freight travel demand model for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. He has also worked on data collection including travel surveys, social justice analysis of off-peak deliveries, logistics sprawl, firm location choice modelling, and parking behavior of commercial vehicles.
Dr. Ahmed’s research interests include decarbonization of freight transportation, travel behaviour modelling, applications of AI and machine learning in transportation, sustainable freight transportation systems, social justice analysis of transportation systems, and land-use analysis.
Dr. Ahmed received his PhD in Freight Transportation from the University of Toronto and M.Sc. in Transportation Systems from the Technical University of Munich. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s standing committee on freight transportation data, the standing committee on statewide/national transportation data and information management, and the subcommittee on data, planning, and analysis group for young members.