Bilal Farooq
Bilal Farooq is Canada Research Chair in Disruptive Transportation Technologies and Services and an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Always quick to take things apart to see how they work internally, Farooq calls this approach “learning through curiosity,” and it still drives him today. Farooq’s spirit of inquiry animates his work in traffic flow simulation and prediction, connected autonomous vehicles, and urban congestion.
He is the Founding Director of Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans). Bilal worked in the software industry for several years before starting his PhD in Transportation Engineering at University of Toronto in 2006. From 2011-2013 he did his Post-Doctoral research at EPFL, Switzerland. He received Early Career Researcher Awards both in Québec (2014) and Ontario (2018).
Recent Publications
Alsaleh, N., Farooq, B. (2023). Sustainability Analysis Framework for On-demand Public Transit Systems (external link) . Nature Scientific Reports, 13, 13488.
Alsaleh, N., & Farooq, B. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ridesourcing Services Differed Between Small Towns and Large Cities (external link) . PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275714.
López, D., & Farooq, B. (2020). A Multi-layered Blockchain Framework for Smart Mobility Data-markets (external link) . Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 111, 588–615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.01.002 (external link)
Wong, M., & Farooq, B. (2021). ResLogit: A Residual Neural Network Logit Model for Data-driven Choice Modelling (external link) . Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 126, 103050.