Eric Miller
Director, Cities Centre, University of Toronto
Last Contribution:
The Third Urban Revolution
Contributor Biography
Dr. Miller is Director of the University of Toronto's Cities Centre, a multi-disciplinary research institute that aims to encourage and facilitate research on cities and on a wide range of urban policy issues, both in Canada and abroad.
Dr. Miller is former Director of the Urban Transportation Research and Advancement Centre within the University of Toronto Department of Civil Engineering, where he has been a professor since 1983. He is the past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, and he also serves on a number of committees for transportation research in Canada and the US.
The City of Toronto uses his “GTAModel” modeling system to forecast regional travel demand in the Greater Toronto Area to support urban transportation policy analysis and decision-making. He is also the principal investigator of the research team currently developing advanced microsimulation systems for modeling travel and other urban spatial processes.
Dr. Miller received his BASc in Engineering Science from the U of T in 1973, his MASc in Aerospace Studies from the U of T in 1975 and his PhD in Civil Engineering Transportation Systems from MIT in 1978.
