About
WHAT IS THE CART NETWORK
WHO MAKES UP THE CART NETWORK
DalTRAC was awarded $3.6 million through Canada's Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) for a new project aimed at monitoring emissions at a local level to inform future climate mitigation strategies. To support such a large, federally funded research project the Climate Action Research for Transportation (CART) Network was established. Over the next five-years, the project team will focus on developing new data, tools, and processes to characterize the movements of people and goods and quantify finer-grained, geospatially resolved vehicular emissions (i.e., greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants) in multiple Canadian cities. CART Net's research and modelling will provide data and knowledge Canada needs to meet its 2050 net zero emissions target.
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The CART Network is made up of researchers from universities across Canada. With our partners based out of Dalhousie University, McMaster University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Toronto, the CART Network is able to leverage existing data, methods, and research infrastructure to achieve our research goals. We are proud to recognize our academic partners, who include:​

Dr. Daniel Rainham, Dalhousie University
Professor, School of Health an Human Performance

Dr. Ali Ülkü, Dalhousie University
Professor, Faculty of Management

Dr. Peter VanBerkel, Dalhousie University
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering

Dr. Kevin Quigley, Dalhousie University
Professor, Faculty of Management

Dr. Masud Rahman, Dalhousie University
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science

Dr. Jeffrey R. Brook, University of Toronto
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi, University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Dr. Darren Scott, McMaster University
Professor, School of Earth, Environment and Society
CART NETWORK'S INAUGURAL RESEARCH SHOWCASE
To kick off the CART Network, an event was hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on February 9th, 2024. Here, different researchers and public figures came together to discuss the future of climate change research, and the CART Network's role in researching the impacts of transportation on climate change.
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The event included a speech from former mayor of Toronto David Miller, a panel discussion with local public figures including Tanya Davis, Shannon Miedema, Paul MacKinnon, and Leslie Taylor, and a poster session showcasing the research of DalTRAC graduate students. To read more about the Inaugural Research Showcase, please visit our dedicated page here.



INDUSTRY, COMMUNITY, AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
The Climate Action Research for Transportation (CART) Network builds upon DalTRAC's long-standing partnerships with municipal and provincial governments. These existing and new collaboration opportunities facilitate interactions between scholars in engineering, planning, risk governance, environmental science, management, public health, and computer science to develop technically robust but operationally feasible emissions tools.


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