Founding Director of the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics
Dr. Kanaroglou, 1948 – 2016, was a Professor Emeritus of Geography at McMaster University. His formal education included degrees in Mathematics (B.Sc), Computer Science (M.Sc) and Geography (M.A, Ph.D). He combined several years of industrial experience with academic teaching and research. Dr. Kanaroglou held faculty positions at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Aegean (Greece) and McMaster University. He was the founder and director of the Centre for Spatial Analysis (CSpA) at McMaster. His research, funded by Canadian councils (NSERC, SSHRC), as well as ministries and municipalities in Canada, focused on sustainable transportation at the urban and regional level, on urban air quality and on the relationship between air quality and health. He was the principal investigator and participated in several national and international projects. He published extensively on transportation issues and was a member of the editorial board for several transportation-related journals. Dr. Kanaroglou spearheaded the establishment of the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) designed to bring together the private and public sectors with academia for the development of relevant and high-quality research in transportation and logistics.