Local Organizing Committee

  • Amer Shalaby

    TRANSITDATA 2026 CHAIR

    Dr. Amer Shalaby is Professor and Bahen/Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto, and Co-Director of the Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS) and Transit Analytics Lab (TAL).

  • Brendon Hemily

    TRANSITDATA 2026 CO-CHAIR

    Dr. Brendon Hemily is an independent transit consultant with 35 years of international transit experience. He focuses on best practices and innovation in the transit industry, in the areas of policy, management, planning, and the effective use of advanced technology. 

  • Saeid Saidi

    TRANSITDATA 2026 SPECIAL ISSUE COORDINATOR

    Dr. Saeid Saidi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary and the Vice Chair for CUTRIC’s Academic Committee for Transit Innovation. He focuses on public transportation planning and operation and big data analytics.

  • Diego Da Silva

    TRANSITDATA 2026 COORDINATOR

    Dr. Diego Da Silva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Transit Analytics Lab (TAL), University of Toronto.

  • Kareem Othman

    TRANSITDATA 2026 COORDINATOR

    Dr. Kareem Othman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Transit Analytics Lab (TAL), University of Toronto.

SCIENTIFIC Committee

Oded Cats, Delft University of Technology

Taku Fujiyama, University College London

Brendon Hemily, Independent Consultant

Mark Hickman, University of Queensland

Haris Koutsopoulos, Northeastern University

Fumitaka Kurauchi, University of Gifu

Monica Menendez, New York University in Abu Dhabi

Rabi Mishalani, The Ohio State University

Zhenliang Ma, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Catherine Morency, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Marcela Munizaga, Universidad de Chile

Juan Carlos Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Kyoto University

Amer Shalaby, University of Toronto

Martin Trépanier, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Niels van Oort, Delft University of Technology

Nigel Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Erik Jenelius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology