Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
- Policy & Planning
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Transport geography, transport inequalities, spatial analysis, sustainable urban development
Biography
I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, and Associate Director of the Mobilizing Justice project (https://mobilizingjustice.ca/). I hold a PhD in Transportation Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During 2018-2019, I was a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds (2018-2019) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) in 2020-2021. I also served as the research coordinator of the Suburban Mobilites Cluster (2021-2023) (https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/suburban-mobilities/).
My research interests encompass a wide range of topics associated with transport and land use planning in urban and suburban areas, particularly:
(i) geospatial analytics of transport systems, particularly public transport considering system performance, travel behaviour and user experiences,
(ii) transport equity and the distribution of transport-related benefits and burdens across space for different population groups, and
(iii) sustainable transport and urban space allocation policies considering new mobility trends
This work is achieved through multi-sourced data and several methods, including statistical analyses, econometric modelling and machine learning techniques, GIS-based approaches, and mixed (quantitative + qualitative) methods.
Publications
Tiznado-Aitken, I., Palm, M., & Farber, S. (2024). Exploring the interplay of transportation, time poverty, and activity participation. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 26, 101175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101175
Zhang, Y., Farber, S., Young, M., Tiznado-Aitken, I., & Ross, T. (2023). Exploring travel patterns of people with disabilities: A multilevel analysis of accessible taxi trips in Toronto, Canada. Travel Behaviour and Society, 32, 100575. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100575
Tiznado-Aitken, I., Lucas, K., Muñoz, J.C. & Hurtubia, R. (2022). Freedom of choice? Social and spatial disparities on combined housing and transport affordability. Transport Policy 122 (Special Issue), 39-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.04.005
Tiznado-Aitken, I., Lucas, K., Muñoz, J.C. & Hurtubia, R. (2020). Understanding accessibility through public transport users' experiences: A mixed methods approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102857
Vecchio, G., Tiznado-Aitken, I. & Hurtubia, R. (2020). Transport and equity in Latin America: a critical review of socially oriented accessibility assessments. Transport Reviews, 1-28. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2020.1711828