Our first business of the trip was meeting Prof. Matt Roorda for dinner. We had spent the day exploring the city and acquainting ourselves with its layout, urban form, and mobility options and were all a bit nervous to hunker down to work. Needless to say, we were pleasantly surprised to discover how friendly Prof. Roorda was (Prof. Goodchild already knew this). We were delighted even more when we met him on campus the next day, and we learned how very similar his research group is to our own.
The University has recently built a new transportation lab with attached board room. It was similar to our own new TransLab with computers available for research and a panel of flat screens suitable for video monitoring feeds. They have done a very nice job with their lab and it was a great place to meet.
We spent some time as Prof. Roorda introduced his research, and then listened as Prof. Goodchild presented a lecture on some of her recent work modeling freight flows in Washington. We concluded with each of the students in attendance (us plus 4 or 5 of the UofToronto students) giving an overview of their work. Nearly each of us had a corresponding student at the partner university doing similar work.
Thanks Prof. Roorda!
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