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BC ATUS Wave-2 Survey Summary

October 1st 2025


The British Columbia Activity-Time Use Survey (BC ATUS) is a longitudinal study funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, focusing on understanding time use patterns and travel behaviours in British Columbia. This report covers the Metro Vancouver region, a large urban area with a population of approximately 2.7 million, and the Okanagan region, a smaller urban area with a population of approximately 250,000, based on data from the second wave of the survey  conducted in two parts: between October and December 2024, and between February and March 2025.

BC ATUS – Wave 2 Report – Okanagan Region 3Download
BC ATUS – Wave 2 Report – Metro Vancouver 3Download

BC ATUS Wave-1 Survey Summary

October 17th 2024


The British Columbia Activity-Time Use Survey (BC ATUS) is a longitudinal study funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, focusing on understanding time use patterns and travel behaviours in British Columbia. This report covers the Metro Vancouver region, a large urban area with a population of approximately 2.7 million, and the Okanagan region, a smaller urban area with a population of approximately 250,000, based on data from the first wave of the survey conducted between October and December 2023.

BC ATUS – Wave 1 Report – Okanagan RegionDownload
BC ATUS – Wave 1 Report – Metro VancouverDownload

Journal and Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications: 2024-2025 

1. Davanzo, E., Orvin, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Modelling the Efficiency of Transportation Survey Recruitment and Reminder Methods. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

2. Hossain, S., Fatmi, M., & Khalil, M. (2025). Micro-simulation of Vehicle Ownership within an Agent-Based Integrated Urban Model: An Event-Based Hybrid of Continuous and Discrete Time Simulation Approach. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

3. Saha, B., Fatmi, M., & Khan, N. (2025). Investigating the Impacts of Telecommuting Using an Agent-Based Transport Demand and Network Simulation Model. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 

4. Shafie, I., Fatmi, M., & Orvin, M. (2025). Modeling Time Use Behavior for Different Discretionary Activities Performed In-Home, Online, and Out-of-Home, and Their Interaction. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

5. Saha, B., Fatmi, M., & Khan, N. (2025). Modeling Departure Time, Travel Mode and Destination Location Choice for Different Work Profiles. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

6. Saha, B., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Modeling Bicyclists’ Destination Location Choice for Home-Based Tours and Choice Set Generation Using Spatial-Temporal Constraints. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

7. Shafie, I., Fatmi, M., & Khaddar, S. (2024). Joint Model for In-person and Online Participation in Grocery Shopping, Health Services, Personal Business, and Dine In After the Pandemic. Transportation Research Record, December 2024. 

8. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Exploring the Complexity of Daily Activity Schedules Using Spatial Statistics and Machine Learning Methods. Transport Letters. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2025.2470545 

9. Weerasinghe, O., Hewage, K., Razi, F., Fatmi, M., & Sadiq, R. (2025). Applicability of Land Use Models for Sustainable Urban Planning: A Review. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, ASCE. Accepted March 3, 2025. 

10. Hossain, M.S., & Fatmi, M.R. (2025). Modeling Households’ First Vehicle Purchase Timing and Vehicle Type Choices. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. In Press. 

11. Hossain, M.S., Ahmed, M., Saha, B., & Fatmi, M.R. (2025). Investigating EV Charging Location Preferences Using Random Parameter Rank-Ordered Logit Model. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

12. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025, January). Investigating Activity, Travel and Time Use Patterns by Work Arrangements: Evidence from the British Columbia Activity-Time Use Survey (BC ATUS) – Wave 1. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

13. Fatmi, M.R., Shafie, I.K., Ahmed, M., Chen, N., Hasan, K., & Blackwell, N. (2025). Comparing a One-day vs Weeklong Activity Travel Survey Data from British Columbia, Canada. Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting Proceedings, January 2025. 

Conference Presentations: 2024-2025 

1. Fatmi, M., & Ahmed, M. (2024). Unveiling Activity-Travel Patterns After The Pandemic: Findings From The British Columbia Activity-Time Use Survey (BC ATUS) – Wave 1. 59th Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Kelowna, Canada. May 2024. 

2. Hossain, S., Fatmi, M., & Enam, A. (2024). What Type of Vehicles Do Households Own? A Joint Model for Vehicle Body, Vintage, Fuel, and Technology Types. International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Vienna, Austria. July 2024. 

3. Orvin, M., & Fatmi, M. (2024). Housing Prices in Vancouver and Kelowna: Comparing Pre-, During-, and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Periods. 59th Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Kelowna, Canada. May 2024. 

4. Hossain, S., Fatmi, M., & Khalil, M. (2024). Micro-simulation of Households’ First Vehicle Purchase Timing and Type Choice Decisions within an Integrated Urban Transportation Model. 59th Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Kelowna, Canada. May 2024. 

5. Jannat, M., Phan, N., Chadha, A., Katsuragawa, K., & Hasan, K. (2025). HAI-AR: Exploring Hand-Anchored Interfaces in Augmented Reality While Walking. 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Climate Mobility Research Network  Reseacth Symposium: Online research symposium arranged in March 2025. 

Conference presentations: 2025-2026 

  1. Shafie, I. K., & Fatmi, M. (2025). What happens when smartphone GPS data fails? Reconstructing lost travel sequences in 7-day diaries using a subsequence pattern mining algorithm. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Shafie, I. K., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Is one-day travel data enough? A comparative analysis of 1-day and 7-day data in BC. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Hoque, I., Fatmi, M., Orvin, M., & Khalil, M. (2025). Evaluating the spatial transferability of an agent-based integrated urban model. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Khalil, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Enhancing the computational efficiency of integrated urban models: Loop-based vs. vectorization. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Khalil, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Developing a joint discrete-continuous machine learning model for travel mode and trip departure: A multi-task learning approach. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Hossain, M., Fatmi, M., & Khalil, M. (2025). Development of a vehicle ownership simulator within an agent-based integrated urban model. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Khalil, M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Computational efficiency in integrated urban model: A comparative analysis of loop-based and vectorized approaches. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 25–28, 2025. 
  1. Premasiri, S. M. P. M., & Fatmi, M. (2025). Effects of network resolution and spatial aggregation of agent locations on agent-based activity and network simulation for large urban regions. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modelling (ISTDM), Montreal, Canada, September 3–5, 2025. 
  1. Fatmi, M. (2025). Contrasting transportation dynamics: A comparative analysis of time use, vehicle ownership and emission profiles in British Columbia’s urban areas. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modelling (ISTDM), Montreal, Canada, September 3–5, 2025. 
  1. Biondo, L., Ferreira, G. P., Trovão, B. M., & Corbett, J. M. (2025). Land use change analysis of the flooded area in the Guaiba watershed in southern Brazil 2024. Paper presented at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2025 – Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability, Vancouver, Canada, August 16–22, 2025. 
  1. Biondo, L., Ferreira, G. P., Trovão, B. M., & Corbett, J. M. (2025). Land use change analysis of the flooded area in the Guaiba watershed in southern Brazil 2024. Abstracts of the ICA. 
  1. McGorman, S., Corbett, J. M., & Biondo, L. M. (2025). Creating geospatial data visualization and exploration tools for simulated and modelled datasets. Abstracts of the ICA. 
  1. McGorman, S., Corbett, J. M., & Biondo, L. M. (2025). Creating geospatial data visualization and exploration tools for simulated and modelled datasets. Paper presented at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2025 – Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability, Vancouver, Canada, August 16–22, 2025. 
  1. Biondo, L., Ferreira, G.P., Trovão, B.M., Corbett, J.M. (2025) Land use change analysis of the flooded area in the Guaiba watershed in southern Brazil 2024. Presented at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2025 – Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability to be held in Vancouver from August 16 to 22, 2025. 
  1. Biondo, L., Ferreira, G.P., Trovão, B.M., Corbett, J.M. (2025) Land use change analysis of the flooded area in the Guaiba watershed in southern Brazil 2024. Abstracts of the ICA. 
  1. McGorman, S., Corbett, J.M., & Biondo, L.M. (2025) Creating Geospatial Data Visualization and Exploration Tools for Simulated and Modelled Datasets. Abstracts of ICA. 
  1. McGorman, S., Corbett, J.M., & Biondo, L.M. (2025) Creating Geospatial Data Visualization and Exploration Tools for Simulated and Modelled Datasets. Presented at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2025 – Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability to be held in Vancouver from August 16 to 22, 2025. 

Journal publications:  2025-2026 

  1. Orvin, M. M., Fatmi, M., & Hoque, I. (2025). Housing price dynamics within an integrated urban model: testing the spatial and temporal transferability. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 1-31. 
  1. Kumarage, N., Hewage, K., Wanniarachchi, S., & Sadiq, R. (2025). Canada’s transition to light-duty zero emission vehicles (ZEV): opportunities, challenges, and policy directions. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 199, 104611. 
  1. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. R. (2026). AI-driven activity scheduling: Integrating ASTRA scheduler into an agent-based travel demand microsimulation for Metro Vancouver. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15.  
  1. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. R. (2026). Behavioral realism in activity generation and scheduling: A review for next-generation activity-based travel demand models. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15. 
  1. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. R. (2026). ASTRA: A hybrid Transformer–LSTM engine for behaviorally rich end-to-end daily activity scheduling. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15.  
  1. Ahmed, M., & Fatmi, M. R. (2026). Diversity and travel distance: Land-use mix and trip length in a post-pandemic Canadian metropolis. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15.  
  1. Hoque, I., Shafie, I. K., and Fatmi, M.R. (2026). How Do Changes in Electric Vehicle Incentives Affect Vehicle Purchase Decisions in British Columbia, Canada? 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15.  
  1. Hoque, I., Fatmi, M.R., Orvin, M.M., and Khalil, M. A. (2026). A Data-driven Calibration Methodology for Spatially Transferring an Agent-based Integrated Urban Model. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15. 
  1. Shafie, I. K., and Fatmi, M. R. (2026). How to Tackle Missing Travel Sequences in Smartphone-Based Surveys. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15. 
  1. Shafie, I. K., and Fatmi, M. R. (2026). Generating Weeklong Travel Diary using Data from a 1-Day and a 7-day Travel Surveys. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15. 
  1. Saha, B., and Fatmi, M. R. (2026). How to Temporally Transfer an Activity-based Model while Accounting for Behavioral Changes? 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15. 
  1. Saha, B., and Fatmi, M. R. (2026). Bicyclists’ Travel and Bike Traffic Flow Capacity to Activity-based Simulation Model and Testing for Policy Interventions. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15.