Zachary Patterson
Zachary Patterson is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University in Montreal. He received his PhD from McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in the Transport and Mobility Laboratory (TRANSP-OR). Before joining CIISE in 2021, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor in Concordia’s Department of Geography, Planning & Environment starting in 2010.
Professionally he worked as transportation modeler at the Montreal regional public transportation planner, l'Agence metropolitaine de transport. Zachary's research focuses on: the use of emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, data analysis and inference with statistical and artificial intelligence techniques and discrete choice experiments.
Selected Publications
Patterson, Z., & El-Geneidy, A. (2024). Digital mobility platforms and immigrant travel behavior: Evidence from Canadian cities (external link) . Journal of Transport and Land Use, 17(2), 211–229.
Patterson, Z., Wang, J., & Habib, K. (2023). Smartphone data and the study of immigrant settlement patterns (external link) . In M. Taylor & S. Ahmed (Eds.), Digital Innovations in Urban Migration (pp. 87–104). Springer.
Patterson, Z., & Lee, Y. (2022). Barriers to digital access in public transit for newcomers (external link) . Transportation Research Record, 2676(4), 155–170.