Dewan Masud Karim, Canada
City Representative
Dewan spent more than eighteen years of his career in mobility planning and creative engineering projects in both Japan and Canada. Using good engineering skills and holistic view on transportation planning, he focuses on “people-focus” transportation practices, which is shaping our quality-of-life as a genuine indicator of livable society. Based on factual knowledge and evidence, his transportation professional practice seek better integration to the needs of sustainable mobility users, innovative mobility modes and new smart technologies, sustainable safety and smart growth objectives. He worked in both private and public sectors. Awarded at MIT Media Lab Disrupting Mobility summit as “best planning system” and ITE Project of Year in 2015, recently he developed a new innovative mobility ecosystem master planning concept combining equitable use of public space, innovative technologies, real-time travel pattern, vision zero safety, and evidence based scientific approach of rebuilding and redesigning city’s mobility systems for people instead of cars. A few cornerstones of his career include converting “motor city” to Bicycle-friendly Oshawa“, pioneering the concept of multi-modal transportation plans and policies, multimodal station planning and redesign strategies, research experience on safe and compact street design, safe neighborhood street layout, and decongestion plan to remove elevated freeway by replacing with high-quality transit and active transportation facilities to improve quality-of-life for urban residents.
Dewan graduated from the University of Tokyo with Master of Applied Science in Transportation Planning and specialized in traffic safety from Ryerson University. He joined North York District’s Transportation Planning Section as a senior Transportation Planner at City of Toronto in 2013. Besides his professional work, he shares his experience through public presentations, professional publications and teaching sustainable transportation planning and traffic engineering course.
Contact:
Address: 5100 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2N 5V7,
Cell: +1-416-823-8448;
Office Tel: 416-395-7076;
email: dkarim@toronto.ca or dewankarim@rogers.com
