MTLTrajet: street smarts. Cabinet Shuffle. Asthma and exercise.

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• Coverage continues of the launch of the new MTL Trajet mobile app — a travel survey tool developed by a team at Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) lab, led by Zachary Patterson, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Launched as part of the City of Montreal’s Smart and Digital City Action Plan, MTL Trajet will help planners at the City of Montreal learn more about urban mobility by recording data on trips through the city by car, bus and other modes of transportation. The app is downloadable, free, through Apple Store or Google Play: Montreal Gazette(halfway down the page), Radio-Canada.ca, Le Journal de Montréal, TVAnouvelles.ca, Huffington Post Québec,Canoe.ca, Journal Métro, Direction Informatique. The launch of the new app is reported in a CNW/Telbec release from the City of Montreal, picked up by Le Lézard. 
• David Waddington, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science and humanities PhD candidate William Robinson appeared on City TV’s Breakfast Television Montreal this morning to discuss their new card game, Cabinet Shuffle. 
• A Quebec government release on the merits of exercise among asthma sufferers references a 2015 study from Concordia, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal and the Montreal Chest Institute, led by exercise science professor Simon Bacon. The researchers concluded that exercise gives asthma patients significantly greater control over their symptoms.

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