ITE Canada Transportation Talk - Fall 2023

React Fast & Predict the Future Perfectly How an unprecedented pandemic changed transit planning

Truth & Reconciliation Reflections and resources for transportation professionals

Plangineering Collaboration between planners & engineers

TransportationTalk Highlights for ITE Canada and Canadian members

VOLUME 45 : NUMBER 3 | FALL 2023 Published by ITE Canada | Canada’s community of transportation professionals

Opportunities New training + Calls for Hamilton 2024 abstracts, Committee volunteers & more

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TRAINING FORMAT

This course will be delivered as two half-day virtual sessions

g FACILITATORS This workshop is offered by the ITE Canada Training Committee and will be facilitated by Alexandre Nolet, M.Eng., RSP 1 , P.Eng. & Stefan Tsang P.Eng., RSP 1 of True North Safety Group and Cara Wilkie (LLB, LLM) & Haley Gienow-McConnell, Ph.D. of Left Turn Right Turn.

DATE & TIME

Ǭ December 5 and 6, 2023 Ǭ 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern Time) / 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Pacific Time)

TRAINING SUMMARY This workshop will provide transportation practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of accessibility in transportation and relevant standards, guidelines, and best practices as they currently exist. Insights will be provided on how to integrate them into transportation system planning, design, and operation.

Led by transportation and accessibility experts from True North Safety Group and Left Turn Right Turn, this training will offer insights relevant to wide range of transportation professionals in their day-to-day practice to promote inclusive, user-friendly transportation systems including road designers, transit operators, traffic engineers, transportation planners, and others.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Ǭ Comprehensive understanding of universal design principles and their significance in equitable transportation networks.

Ǭ Understand the diverse requirements and unique challenges faced by individuals with disabilities, older adults, and other transportation stakeholders.

Ǭ Become familiar with accessibility standards and guidelines REGISTRATION FEES

Ǭ ITE Member (Individual or Public Agency): $250 Ǭ Non-Member: $290 Ǭ Student: $220 Register at itecanada.org/training

and best practices in accessibility for specific facility types.

Ǭ Apply concepts learned to enhance practical understanding and application of accessibility principles.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TRAINING PROGRAM? Contact the Training Committee at training@itecanada.org QUESTIONS ABOUT REGISTRATION? Contact ITE Canada at info@itecanada.org

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FEATURES 7

Highlights from Portland: 2023 ITE Annual Meeting Julia Salvini shares highlights from ITE International’s 2023 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Plus, learn about our District’s International Awards and meet the Canadians honoured by ITE in 2023.

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ITE Canada 2024 Annual Conference Call for Abstracts & Sponsors/Exhibitors Inviting abstracts until November 2, sponsors and exhibitors, and applicants for the Jenn & Jan Voss Travel Bursary for Women in Transportation Engineering

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React Fast & Predict the Future Perfectly: How an unprecedented pandemic changed transit planning Darren Manley and Bjorn Radstrom dive into the changing transit planning and scheduling approaches taken at Winnipeg Transit to address shifting demand and trends

25 Reflections on Truth & Reconciliation Jen Malzer reflects on why Truth & Reconciliation are so important and shares resources for integrating Indigenous voices and needs into transportation projects

27 Plangineering Dale Bracewell shares thoughts and lessons learned from many years of inter-discplinary collaboration

29 Member Highlight: Reza Aminghafouri Meet the University of Waterloo Student Chapter President who led the group to an ITE International Award

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REGULAR COLUMNS 1

Training - Removing Barriers: Achieving Accessibility in Transportation Systems

Ryan’s Ramblings A message from your President.

Ryan Vanderputten

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Training - Multimodal Traffic Signal Operations

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Board Meeting Highlights

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Executive Committee Election Results

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National Technical Program Committee

49 Professional Services Directory

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Calls for Volunteers

50 ITE Canada Contacts

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Training - Road Safety for Canadian Practitioners

32 News from CARSP

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From the District Director Edward Soldo shares updates from ITE International

ADVERTISERS

33 TAC Tidbits

28 Associated Engineering

37 ITE Insights

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49 Bunt & Associates

Section News

CTS

44 Student Chapter News

49 CIMA+

48 Welcome New Members

49 Paradigm Transportation Solutions Ltd

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RYAN’S RAMBLINGS

This edition of Transportation Talk highlights a number of issues currently facing our profession, including how the mobility needs of our cities and provinces have changed since the pandemic, the need for truth & reconciliation in the mobility space, and collaboration amongst all transportation professionals, not just engineers. Thanks to the authors for sharing their thoughts with us this month.

I had the opportunity to travel to Portland, Oregon for the ITE International Meeting back in August. I even had the opportunity to bring my daughter to her first-ever ITE event! I was invited to participate in the Council Leadership Team meeting to discuss how to strengthen the “international” role of ITE. Along with representatives from the Australia/New Zealand section, we explored opportunities for the international districts to participate in the work being undertaken by ITE. Following that meeting, a number of specific

Ryan Vanderputten, P.Eng., M.Eng., MBA, FITE

technical activities were identified and are currently being considered by our Technical Liaison Committee. I was also able to connect with

President, ITE Canada

many other district presidents to share our experiences and learn

president@itecanada.org

from the great work being done elsewhere. At the ITE Awards luncheon, I was pleased to celebrate a number of ITE Canada award winners being recognized at the International level, including our LeadershipITE graduates, Pedram and Souzan!

It is hard to believe that my time as your president is coming to an end. It has been a true pleasure to serve in this capacity for the last two years, and I know the incoming executive is excited about continuing many of the great things we have started. As an organization, we continue to grow and mature, and I know that we are in good hands moving forward.

As I reflect back on my term as President, there are a number of accomplishments that I am truly proud of.

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We developed a Communications Strategy and have been actively implementing a number of key recommendations, including the renaming of CITE to ITE Canada; a new and consistent brand architecture, including new Canadian District, Section, and Chapter logos; and an updated website, including micro-sites for sections and student chapters. A huge thanks to our Communications Lead, Evonne Winchiu Donaher, who has been instrumental in overseeing this initiative and has also provided significant communications and graphic support for our Sections and Student Chapters.

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The ITE Canada Board approved the creation of a charitable foundation to support transportation education and research. Over the last year, we have been working to establish the foundation and have now incorporated it as the Future Transportation Leaders Fund. The foundation will operate as a separate entity, but a representative of the ITE Canada board will sit on the foundation board to provide the linkage between the two organizations. Stay tuned for more information as we look to launch formally early in the new year.

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Left: Ryan and his daughter Alanna experiencing her first ITE event at the ITE Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon Above: Ryan with fellow ITE District Presidents sharing knowledge and best practices in Portland

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We successfully returned to in-person annual conferences with Vancouver in 2022 and Winnipeg in 2023. It was exciting to see our members finally reconnect face-to-face after many months of virtual-only gatherings.

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Over the past few years, we have renewed our partnership agreements with both the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA). We have also established a new partnership with the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP), which was announced at our 2023 Annual Conference in Winnipeg.

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As the President, I get to be the Executive representative on the Technical Liaison Committee (TLC). This committee has worked hard to grow the technical work of our organization through strong relationships with both TAC and ITE International. We have funded a number of technical projects through TAC and, as such, have the opportunity to sit on the project steering committees to guide the development of technical publications.

We are also expanding the role of the TLC with the new partnership agreements with CUTA and CARSP, exploring ways to collaborate between our organizations to enhance the technical content for our members.

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The National Technical Program Committee was formed in 2023 to centralize the coordination of the technical program and content for our conferences. Having the same group of individuals take on this task each year will allow for better organization, more consistency from year to year, and more efficient coordination.

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RYAN’S RAMBLINGS

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We established a Student Support Committee to review initiatives and support of student members. The pandemic significantly impacted our student chapters, and we have been working to enhance the support we provide, including financial support and better connection to the local sections. We also chartered three new student chapters at the University of Victoria, Dalhousie University, and Western University.

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Finally, we celebrated the retirement of our District Administrator, Steven Garner, and welcomed our new business manager, James Johnstone. Through the hard work of our staff, we have matured many of our governance practices, including many policies and procedures that guide the day-to-day operation of our organization.

In closing, I would like to thank all of you for entrusting me with this role for the past two years. As we sought to reconnect with each other coming out of the pandemic, it was great to meet up with many of you either at section meetings, student chapter events, and our annual conferences (I still have a few more section events before the end of the year!). I will officially pass the baton to Pedram Izadpanah at the beginning of January, but will still be around to support the executive and the board as past-president for the next few years!

Sincerely,

Ryan Vanderputten, P.Eng., M.Eng., MBA, FITE President, ITE Canada

ITE Canada President Ryan Vanderputten and Vice President Pedram Izadpanah with National Capital Section and Carleton University Student Chapter Executive members in Ottawa in September

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TRAINING FORMAT

This course will be delivered as a half-day virtual session

g FACILITATORS This workshop is offered by the ITE Canada Training Committee and will be facilitated by Narayan Donaldson, Lennart Nout, Emily Thomason & Eric Post of Mobycon

DATE & TIME

Ǭ Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Ǭ 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) / 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Pacific Time)

REGISTRATION FEES

Ǭ ITE Member (Individual or Public Agency): $190 Ǭ Non-Member: $230 Ǭ Student: $160 Register at itecanada.org/training

TRAINING SUMMARY With growing interest in sustainable transportation modes and emphasis on safety, Canadian streets are increasingly incorporating features such as fully-protected phases for turning movements, bicycle phases, transit phases, and/or leading pedestrian/bicycle intervals.

This training session led by Mobycon will cover principles and practices of traffic signal operations for good multimodal level of service, sharing standard practices from the Netherlands that can be implemented within Canada’s current regulations to improve multimodal level of service.

LEARNING OUTCOMES Participants will be able to implement changes to operating procedures which can significantly improve multimodal level of service and/or safety at signalized intersections. See list here.

TARGET AUDIENCE Professionals who work with and influence traffic signal operations

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TRAINING PROGRAM? Contact the Training Committee at training@itecanada.org QUESTIONS ABOUT REGISTRATION? Contact ITE Canada at info@itecanada.org FALL 2023

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FROM THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR

As the tree leaves quickly turn to orange and red, it is a not-so-welcome reminder that our summer has quickly approached its end. Looking back, it has been a packed year for all things ITE. Attending the Joint ITE International and Western District Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Portland in August seems like a long time ago. It was a great event with over 1,600 attendees, with excellent technical sessions and tours. It was amazing to see all the Canadian members in attendance and thanks to all of those members who came out to the “Canadian” get-together.

Congrats to our students from UBC who participated in the annual

Edward Soldo, P.Eng., FITE Canadian District Director, ITE director@itecanada.org

Traffic Bowl as they made a strong showing in the event. The District was also honoured to receive a number of awards at the event, winning the District Innovation Award and the University of Waterloo Student Chapter won the Student Chapter Momentum Award.

The Burton W. Marsh Award for Distinguished Service was presented to Michael P. Sanderson. It is ITE’s top award which recognizes an

individual who contributed to the advancement of ITE in an outstanding fashion. Having had the pleasure of working with Michael on several initiatives, it is well deserved and reflects the dedication and leadership that he has provided over the years.

During the International Board of Direction meeting in Portland, Steve Kuciemba was approved as the next ITE Executive Director and CEO effective November 1, 2023, and a new Strategic Plan (2024-2026) was approved in principle that sets forth a revised vision, mission, and values for ITE. Further information will be published in the November ITE Journal.

On behalf of all of ITE Canada, I want to wish Jeff Paniati, our ITE Executive Director and CEO, a happy retirement and best wishes. It is difficult to thank someone like Jeff who has done so much for ITE in just a few short sentences. His leadership, vision, integrity and character will be remembered by all and he always took the time to listen, mentor and encourage. It was an honour to work with him.

As Chair of the ITE Canada Nominating Committee, I want to congratulate Destiny Piper from the Saskatchewan Section as our new ITE Canada Secretary-Treasurer. I look forward to working with you and the rest of the Executive Committee in their new positions next year.

With the new Executive starting in January, we will also be saying farewell to Julia Salvini, our current Past President. I have had the privilege of working with Julia for the last 8.5 years on the Executive, and her leadership, vision, tenacity, and passion for ITE Canada have significantly contributed to the advancement of the organization.

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As we move forward with the next evolution of leadership at ITE Canada and ITE International, as I look back at the last decade, it is truly admirable how far this organization has progressed. The value of services that are provided to our members has increased and the strength of the organization has exceeded all-time highs. It is a credit to all of our volunteers, whether they are in leadership roles or participating on a committee at the chapter, section, district or international levels. I encourage all of our ITE Canada members to consider volunteering and contributing to the further advancement of the ITE organization.

Keep well, stay safe and if you have any questions regarding ITE, please contact me at esoldo@ itecanada.org on Twitter @EdwardSoldo.

Edward Soldo, P.Eng. (F) Canadian District Director

Clockwise from above: ITE Canada Executive & staff with the ITE logo; Edward connecting with canadians Craig Milligan, David Thatcher, and Peter Truch; three Canadian past ITE Presidents Bruce Belmore, Al Swanson, and Alf Guebert

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Highlights from Portland: the 2023 ITE Annual Meeting

By Julia Salvini, Salvini Consulting & ITE Canada Immediate Past President

The ITE Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon was a

presentation from Michael Jung, the Executive

wonderful opportunity to connect with about 1,600

Director of the ICF Climate Center on the Impacts of

colleagues from around the world and hear about

Climate Events on Transportation Decision Making.

the work being led by members across our

With seven concurrent technical streams, poster

transportation community.

sessions and an exhibitor hall full of vendors of all kinds, the meeting had many opportunities to take

There was great Canadian representation including

away new information and ideas for the workplace.

ITE Past Presidents Alf Guebert and Bruce Belmore, members of the ITE Canada Executive and Technical

The ITE Canada Executive Committee members took

Liaison Committees, Appointees attending their

part in a number of meetings to share leadership

Council meetings, students, presenters, vendors, and

ideas with colleagues on the International Board of

many participating as attendees. There were some

Direction, the Council Leadership Team, the District

proud Canadian moments when Alf Guebert received

Section and Chapter leadership and current District

his honorary membership, when the University of

Presidents.

Waterloo received the Student Chapter Momentum Award, when the Canadian District received the

Finally, we had the chance to celebrate outgoing ITE

Innovation Award, and

Executive Director Jeff Paniati and send him off into

watching our Traffic

retirement. Jeff has been a great friend of the

Bowl team from the

Canadian District and his exceptional leadership with

University of British

ITE will be felt for decades to come.

Columbia compete in the International

The ITE community and the ITE Canada community

competition.

are strong. If you’ve never been to an ITE International Meeting, mark your calendars for July

After the welcome reception, there was a get-

21 to 24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You won’t be

together for Canadians – we even let honorary

disappointed.

Canadian and ITE Past President Shawn Leight attend! The gathering brought together old and new friends, allowing us to reconnect and build new friendships.

The remainder of the Annual Meeting included inspiring keynote speakers with an address from Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt and a panel discussion on Creating People-Oriented Communities. The closing plenary session included a

Canadians Julia Salvini, Todd Litman, James Johnstone, Sean Nix, and Alex Nolet (left-right) connect in Portland 7

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Canadians recognized with ITE awards and honours Many Canadians were recognized at the 2023 ITE International Annual Meeting in Portland, including two ITE 2023 Excellence in Transportation Award wins, a new ITE Honourary Member, and several achievements by Canadian members.

District Innovation Award ITE Canada is honoured to receive the ITE International 2023 District Innovation Award for our Strategic Communications & Implementation Plan and Brand Strategy.

The District Innovation Award recognizes a District that has implemented an innovative program or

ITE Canada Executive Members Pedram Izadpanah, Edward Soldo, Ryan Vanderputten, and Julia Salvini accept the District Innovation Award from ITE President Rosana Correa (middle)

activity focused on leadership or management for the District, its Sections, and its members. ITE

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Committee including President Ryan

International bestowed this honour on the

Vanderputten

Canadian District with the following in their release (PDF, 757 KB):

ITE Canada Board of Directors & Executive

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Evonne Winchiu Donaher, Communications Lead, ITE Canada

ITE Canada’s comprehensive communications

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UPLIFT Engagement Communications Inc.:

and branding strategy is an exemplary

Leanne Buck, Jason Esteban, Shannon

example and should serve as an inspiration to

Paterson & Jackie Boucher

other Districts.

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The Brand Strategy + Design Review Committee: Steven Florko (ITE Canada Board

ITE Canada’s efforts reinforce the value of

member & Manitoba Section), Erik Nevland

strategic communication and brand coherence.

(Toronto Section), Destiny Piper (ITE Canada

The initiatives have fostered unity, equity, and

Board member & Saskatchewan Section),

a more streamlined experience across the

Benjamin Corbett (University of British

District, embodying the ideals of ONE ITE and

Columbia Student Chapter) & Adonai Garcia

solidifying ITE Canada’s standing as a modern,

(York University Student Chapter)

relevant, and professional organization.

Learn more about the Strategic Communications & Implementation Plan and Brand Strategy in our

Thank you to all of our members for supporting

award submission here (PDF, 766 KB).

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ITE AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Student Chapter Momentum Award

Emerging leaders recognized Our 2023 Rising Star was highlighted as part of

Congratulations to the ITE University of Waterloo

the overall class of District Rising Stars: Ian A.

Student Chapter, recipients of the ITE International

Roth, Chair of ITE Canada’s Training Committee

Student Chapter Momentum Award!

and Board Member representing the BC Interior Section.

This recognition from ITE is well-deserved and a testament to the hard work of this group in a

The 2023 Class of Young Leaders to Follow was

standout year.

also announced and included three Canadians: Destiny Piper, Saskatchewan Section, KGS Group;

Well done to the Student Chapter leadership team:

Ian A. Roth, BC Interior Section, Urban Systems;

President: Reza Aminghafouri; Vice-president:

Souzan Saadat, Greater Vancouver Section, WSP

Matea Ceric; Treasurer: Lucas Sobreira; Secretary:

Canada

Jeffrey Dai; Media team: Ida Liu, Jason Skidmore, Karen Siu, Marc Ricciuti, and Urooj Khan; Student

Congratulations to the Canadian graduates from

Representative: Andres Valencia Rodriguez; Event

the 2023 Class of LeadershipITE: Pedram

Coordinator team: Andrew Wong and Shrinidhi

Izadpanah, Hamilton Section, True North Safety

Elangovanneela; Treasurer Support team:

Group + ITE Canada Vice President and Souzan

Karemnia Barrera Jaimes; Chapter Advisors: Prof.

Saadat, Greater Vancouver Section, WSP Canada

Chris Bachmann and Prof. Liping Fu Learn more about the University of Waterloo

ITE Honourary Member

Student Chapter’s recognition from ITE, standing out among ITE’s 150+ Student Chapters, in their

Last but certainly not least, Alfred (Alf) A.

release here (PDF, 592 KB).

Guebert—one of three individuals named an ITE Honorary Member in 2023, the highest recognition

Get to know President Reza and gain insight into

of notable and outstanding professional

the dedication of the leadership team on page 29.

achievement ITE presents to an individual—was also celebrated in Portland.

Alf is known to many in Canada, having founded the Saskatchewan Section and served as President of the Canadian District and ITE International, among many other contributions. Learn more about Alf’s storied career, achievements, and service in the January 2023 ITE Journal.

University of Waterloo Student Chapter Secretary Jeffrey Dai accepting the award from ITE President Rosana Correa

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NEWS FROM ITE CANADA

News from ITE Canada Board Meeting Highlights The ITE Canada Board of Directors held its latest

The date for the ITE Canada Annual General Meeting

meeting virtually on September 13, 2023. First, old

was set for Wednesday, December 13, 2023.

business items were addressed. It was unanimously agreed to change the dates of the 2024 ITE Canada

Financial matters were discussed. The Winnipeg

Conference in Hamilton from June 2–5 to June 9–12

conference had a surplus of which was shared with

due to a scheduling conflict with the Canadian Open

CARSP and ITE Manitoba. Year-end and Q4 finances

golf tournament. Additionally, a resolution directing the

would be discussed in the next meeting, and the Q3

President to sign the 2023-2026 CUTA Partnership

Financials were unanimously accepted.

Agreement was unanimously passed.

In new business, volunteers were sought for the Moving on to conference updates, Edward Soldo, the

nominations committee for the 2024 District Director

Executive Liaison for the Hamilton conference,

elections. Steven Wood and Jeff Jongsma volunteered

reported that the Local Arrangements Committee

and were acclaimed to the committee.

(LAC) is actively planning technical tours, potential keynote speakers, and social events. As in previous

The training committee reported contracts with

years, the sponsorship and exhibitor prospectus would

Mobycon and True North Safety Group for specific

be distributed to past supporters first before opening

training programs in 2023-24, with discussions about

to all.

potential in-person training.

The Board approved our 2025 conference dates (June

The Board was pleased to see a new Student Chapter

1-4, 2025), venue (Halifax Convention Centre), and

application from Dalhousie University and has

hotels (Sutton Place Hotel and Prince George Hotel).

recommended approval to ITE International.

The Board also approved Hannah McBride and Courtney Pyne as Co-Chairs and Pedram Izadpanah as

Finally, the Board was notified that the new National

Executive Liaison.

Technical Program Committee has been established with the appointment of five members and activities underway.

ITE Canada 2023 Executive Election Results We are pleased to announce the following acclaimed,

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elected, and previously determined individuals to serve on the ITE Canada Executive Committee for

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2024 to 2025.

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President (Acclaimed): Pedram Izadpanah, Hamilton Section

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Vice President (Acclaimed): Irini Akhnoukh, Southern Alberta Section

Secretary-Treasurer Elect: Destiny Piper, Past President: Ryan Vanderputten, Southern Alberta Section (un-elected position)

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District Director: Edward Soldo, Southwestern Ontario Section (2022-2024 term)

These positions will be confirmed at the ITE Canada Annual General Meeting in December 2023.

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MEET THE COMMITTEE

National Technical Program Committee ITE Canada’s new National Technical Program Committee (NTPC) will create a consistent approach to delivering strong technical content to our members and the broader transportation community at ITE Canada Annual Conferences.

Paula Sawicki, P.Eng. (Chair) Region of Waterloo | Manager, Transportation Planning Kitchener, Ontario Paula is a passionate active transportation and transit enthusiast with over 29 years of experience.

She is a Professional Engineer with specialist experience in active transportation, traffic, public transportation, and light rail. Her expertise also includes urban policy and politics, transit and transportation operations and planning, and project management. Paula volunteers with ITE and also with the Grand Valley Trails Association. Away from work, she loves to hike and travel the world and checked off her bucket list the dream of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with her family.

Garrett Donaher, P.Eng. (Vice Chair) Englobe | Senior Engineer Moncton, New Brunswick Garrett has been involved in ITE Canada since 2006 including LeadershipITE and roles on the 2014 Conference Local Arrangements Committee and the emerging members’ committee, excite. He has over 15 years of experience in multiple facets of transportation planning, traffic engineering, and civil engineering. He currently leads a team of engineers and technicians delivering a range of transportation and infrastucture projects from conception through constuction.

Amy Do, P.Eng. Toronto Metropolitan University | Masters’ Candidate Toronto, Ontario Amy is currently a Masters’ student at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has almost seven years of transportation design and construction experience, primarily in urban improvements for biking, walking and traffic calming. She has volunteered with ITE in numerous positions, mostly recently as a member of the Board of Directors for ITE Canada from 2021-2022. Currently she is exploring ways to support and maintain transportation networks from a long-range asset management perspective.

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NATIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maryam Hasanpour, EIT Toronto Metropolitan University | Ph.D. candidate Toronto, Ontario Maryam is a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). Her research interest is traffic safety, focusing on conflict-based analysis using new and innovative machine learning methods. She is a member of the ITE Canada National Technical Program Committee. In addition, she is a member of CARSP and the current Events Coordinator of their Young Professionals’ Committee.

Omar Shams, B-Tech, C.E.T. City of Hamilton | Project Manager – Mobility Planning Hamilton, Ontario Omar is the Project Manager of Mobility Planning at the City of Hamilton with more than seven years of experience. A dedicated professional, he has been an active member of ITE Canada since 2016 and has risen to the role of Vice President of the ITE Hamilton Section. His expertise in project management, transportation engineering and urban planning drives innovation and sustainable solutions for the community, making him a valuable asset to both the city and the ITE community.

He is excited to join the NTPC team and achieve the committee’s objectives collectively.

Borg Chan, P.Eng, PTOE, RSP1, FITE (ex-officio) ISL Engineering | Road Safety Specialist Richmond, BC As professional traffic and safety engineer, Borg delivers transportation planning, traffic engineering, and road safety studies to communities in Canada and the overseas. Borg has been active in the professional community throughout his 35-year career, participating in professional institution committees and presenting papers for various conferences. With a passion for soccer and hockey, Borg cheers for Liverpool F.C. and the Vancouver Canucks. In his spare time, Borg enjoys travelling and watching movies with his family.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Training Committee The ITE Canada Training Committee’s goal is to increase the availability of high-quality training opportunities for Canadian transportation professionals by overseeing the development and delivery of training initiatives. Recent training coordinated by the Training Committee includes sessions on Protected Intersection Design, Complete Streets, Big Data and Emerging Traffic Technologies, Traffic Calming, and Bicycle Facilities Design.

The Training Committee is comprised of ITE Canada members who are responsible for prioritizing, selecting, and organizing training opportunities for transportation professionals across Canada. Since the training committee is primarily a coordinating body tasked with providing opportunities for training to ITE

We are seeking one new member to join the ITE Canada Training Committee beginning January 1, 2024. The term for the committee members is a maximum of four years.

If you are interested in joining our committee, please complete the ITE Canada Volunteer Form at itecanada.org/volunteer by November 20, 2023 and check off ITE Canada - Training Committee in the list of opportunities.

More information, including the Committee’s Terms of Reference, is available at itecanada. org/about-ite-canada/who-we-are/trainingcommittee.

Canada members, it typically does not get involved with the development of specific training materials or delivery of the actual training sessions.

Thank you to the 2023 Training Committee • Chair: Ian Roth, P.Eng. • Vice Chair: Adam St. Amant, P.Eng., PTOE • Marcia Eng, P.Eng. • Karin Huang, EIT • Maryam Tabeshian, M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE (Past Chair)

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Submit your application

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Technical Liaison Committee The ITE Canada Technical Liaison Committee (TLC) is

Preference in choosing TLC

looking to add an additional member to the

members will be given to

committee. A minimum of four members will

current ITE Canada

comprise the core of the TLC with the appointed

Appointees on ITE Councils

member of the ITE Canada Executive Committee as

and Committees and ITE

liaison. At least two of the members will be

Canada members illustrating knowledge and

designated to focus on coordination with TAC

involvement with ITE. Other interested ITE Canada

activities and at least two members will be

members are also encouraged to apply.

designated to focus on coordination with ITE International and its Council activities.

TLC members are appointed for two-year terms, renewable up to a maximum of six years. They are expected to attend at least one to two face-to-face

If you are an ITE member who is interested in participating on the committee, please complete the ITE Canada Volunteer Form at itecanada.org/ volunteer by November 20, 2023. On the form, check off Training Committee or Technical Liaison Committee in the list of opportunities and provide:

meeting(s) per year (under normal conditions), attend a monthly conference call, and assist in the ongoing coordination of ITE and TAC appointees as well as technical projects that ITE Canada is involved in. Furthermore, the TLC members are also supporting ongoing partnership development and relationship building with other transportation organizations such as CARSP and CUTA.

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an expression of your interest and the skills you would bring to the committee,

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an indication of support from your employer, and

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a resume.

More information can be found in the Terms of Reference for the Technical Liaison Committee and on the ITE Canada website at itecanada.org/aboutite-canada/technical-liaison-committee.

Expenses are expected to be covered by the employer but may be partially subsidized by ITE

If you have any questions about the volunteer

Canada depending on budget availability and

position with TLC, please feel free to contact Farhad

priorities.

Shahla. We look forward to hearing from you!

Thank you to the 2023 Technical Liaison Committee

Submit your application

• Chair: Ryan Martinson, M.Eng., P.Eng. • Vice Chair: Farhad Shahla, M.Eng., P.Eng. • Borg Chan, M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE, RSP, FITE • Erin Toop, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Call for Appointees to TAC

Call for Appointees to ITE

The ITE Canada Technical Liaison Committee

The ITE Canada Technical Liaison Committee

(TLC) is seeking up to two Appointees to the

(TLC) is looking to fill four positions as

TAC Traffic Operations & Management

Appointees to ITE International Councils &

Committee.

Committees (ITE Appointee) for the following:

TAC Appointees are assigned for three year

•

Safety Council

terms, renewable up to a maximum of two years.

•

Public Agency Council

They are expected to attend the Fall TAC

•

Roundabout Committee (of the Traffic

technical conference in person (under normal conditions) and the Spring conference virtually, representing ITE Canada. They may also be assigned to lead projects within their

Engineering Council) •

Connected and Automated Vehicles Committee (of TSMO Council)

committees/councils, representing ITE Canada.

ITE Appointees are assigned for three year

Expenses are expected to be covered by the

terms, renewable up to a maximum of two years.

employer but may be partially subsidized by ITE

They are expected to attend the ITE Annual

Canada depending on budget availability and

Meeting in person (under normal conditions),

priorities.

representing ITE Canada and maybe assigned to

TAC Appointee candidates must be ITE members, demonstrating knowledge and involvement with ITE. To apply, please complete the ITE Canada Volunteer Form at itecanada.org/volunteer by November 20, 2023. On the form, select TAC Council/Committee Appointee and check off Traffic Operations and Management Committee

lead projects within their committees/councils, representing ITE Canada. Expenses are expected to be covered by the employer but may be partially subsidized by ITE Canada depending on budget availability and priorities.

ITE Appointee candidates must be members with ITE, illustrating knowledge and involvement with ITE.

(TOMC) in the list of committees. Please also

To apply, please complete the ITE Canada

provide the skills you would bring to the

Volunteer Form at itecanada.org/volunteer by

committee, an indication of support from your

November 20, 2023. On the form, check off ITE

employer, and a resume.

International - Council/Committee Appointee

If you have any questions about the volunteer position as a TAC Appointee, please feel free to contact Farhad Shahla. We look forward to hearing from you!

and select the position(s) you are interested in.

Please also provide the skills you would bring to the committee, an indication of support from your employer, and a resume.

If you have any questions about the volunteer position as an ITE Appointee, please feel free to contact Farhad Shahla. We look forward to

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hearing from you!

NEW! Online Training

ROAD SAFETY for Canadian Practitioners

Comprehensive & tailored professional development

The Road Safety For Canadian Practitioners

online training program, presented by TAC &

ITE Canada, allows you to tailor your learning to your specific professional development needs. Five courses are offered:

Foundations of Road Safety Measuring Safety Human Factors and Road Safety Solving Safety Problems Implementing Road Safety Programs

FORMAT Courses are delivered through TAC’s Online Training Centre as self-paced, on-demand modules that include recorded lectures, case studies, exercises, supplemental reading lists & quizzes.

DURATION Lectures in each course range from 3-6 hours.

In total, the five courses offer 24 hours of learning.

Modules are accessible for 6 months after payment.

PURCHASE The five modules can be purchased individually or as discounted bundles. Find complete course details and prices at tac-atc.ca.

More Information:

www.tac-atc.ca/en/events-and-learning/online-training FALL 2023

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The ITE Hamilton Section invites you to attend the 2024 ITE Canada Annual Conference in Hamilton, Ontario—The Hammer—June 9-12, 2024.

Nestled at the western end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton has transformed from a City of Innovation to Steel Town and back. The original disruptors made Hamilton home to a few notable Canadian firsts—the first traffic signal, the first long-distance line and telephone transmissions, and the first Tim Hortons!

The Hamilton conference theme—Disruptive progress: The Path to Safer, Cleaner and More Equitable Transportation—will explore the exciting innovations and advancements and “new firsts” happening in transportation engineering and planning. Read on to see how you can contribute through the Call for Abstracts closing on November 2, 2023.

We also invite sponsors and exhibitors connect with decision-makers and practitioners. We offer a range of conference sponsorship opportunities to showcase your expertise and shine a light on your company. Hamilton 2024 will also feature a prominent trade show in the plenary hall where you can showcase your products and services to attendees from all sectors across the country.

Keep up to date with all conference-related news at our official website— conference.itecanada.org, via the ITE Canada email list, and by following #ITECanadaConf.

Whether you arrive by foot, car, bike, boat, bus, plane, train, or e-scooter, we look forward to welcoming Canada’s community of transportation professionals to Hamilton in June 2024!

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Call for Abstracts Due November 2, 2023 We invite you to share your insights and expertise with the transportation community. The theme of this conference, Disruptive Progress: The Path to Safer, Cleaner and More Equitable Transportation, will focus on how disruptive changes in climate, society, technology, design, and operations can accelerate progress toward sustainability.

We welcome submissions on any topic but are particularly interested in those related to the following topics: •

Towards Equity: Exploring the Relationship between Infrastructure & Social Outcomes

•

Uncertainty in Disruptive Technologies

•

Transportation & Climate Change

•

Complete Streets, Complete Networks & Multi-Modal Performance Measures

•

Transportation Electrification and Alternative Sources of Energy

•

Smart, Real-time Data Driven Transportation Solutions

•

Safety, Automation, and Vulnerable Road Users

•

Congestion, Freight, and Economic Corridors

The Call for Abstracts will close on Thursday, November 2, 2023. Find the full Call for Abstracts and submission instructions at conference.itecanada.org.

SEE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Sponsor & Exhibit Join the leading companies who have already signed on to sponsor or exhibit at ITE Canada 2024, including these top supporters:

Jenn and Jan Voss Travel Bursary for Women in Transportation Engineering ITE Canada is pleased to again offer travel funding support in memory of Jenn Voss. If you are or know of a

DIAMOND SPONSOR

woman in transportation engineering who needs travel assistance to attend this year’s conference.

PLATINUM SPONSOR

SPONSOR

Applications are due March 1, 2024.

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React Fast and Predict the Future Perfectly How an unprecedented pandemic changed transit planning

By Darren Manley, PhD & Bjorn Radstrom, P. Eng., Winnipeg Transit

WINNIPEG TRANSIT

The Arrival of COVID-19

rapidly spreading in China. Of great concern was not only the source of the virus but also how

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Fall 2019 found us at Winnipeg Transit preparing

quickly it was spreading and the severity/fatality

for the opening of the second leg of our

of the illness. First appearing in China in

Southwest Transitway. Routes were being created,

December 2019, the infection—now called COVID-

modified and/or extended to provide increased,

19 (severe acute respiratory syndrome

improved and—in many cases—new service to the

coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2])—spread to North

southwest area of the city. However, as fall

America with the first case identified on January

transitioned to winter, reports began appearing

23 in the state of Washington, January 24 in

regarding a flu-like illness—a “coronavirus” was

Chicago, and Toronto on January 25.

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POST-COVID TRANSIT PLANNING

FIGURE 1. Seasonal weekday boarding comparison data. Highlighted dates are April 8, 2019 (173.1K daily boardings) and April 12, 2020 (52.5K daily boardings).

COVID-19 arrived in Winnipeg on March 13 and by

operators) were placed into COVID cohorts to

March 20, a 30-day local state of emergency was

ensure that a COVID-19 infection within a group

declared by the Province of Manitoba as infection

would not infect the entire department, and those

rates were climbing. Restrictions included: no

with non-location-specific duties were

public gatherings over 50 people (indoors or

encouraged to work from home. The impact on

outdoors), retail businesses must ensure 1–2-

daily boardings was immediately visible as the

meter separation between patrons and public

vast majority of buses were observed operating

transportation facilities must attempt to facilitate

with very few passengers or completely empty.

1–2-meter separation between passengers. The

Indeed, data showed that the daily weekday

first COVID-19 related death in Winnipeg occurred

boardings decreased from 173.1K in April 2019 to

on March 27th and by April 3rd, the state of

52.5K in April 2020, a decrease of 69.7% as

emergency was extended with significant

shown above in Figure 1.

restrictions city-wide. All non-retail businesses that were able transitioned to remote working; non-critical businesses were ordered to close; all

What Should We Do?

schools moved to remote learning for the remainder of the school year; and retail

As the pandemic progressed, the unknowns far

businesses had further restrictions on the

outweighed the knowns generating many

number of permitted customers. (See a detailed

questions with implications for transit planning

interactive timeline of COVID-19 in Manitoba

and scheduling. How bad is it going to get? How

here).

many Transit employees are likely to become infected and how will it impact our ability to

The COVID-19 public heath restrictions had an

provide service? How much will our daily

immediate effect on daily operations at Winnipeg

boardings decrease? How do we adjust service to

Transit. Internally, adjustments were made to

the newly created Southwest Transitway routes

accommodate employees to ensure there was no

without historical ridership information? How can

COVID crowding. Many employees (excluding bus

we reduce service to ameliorate the effects of

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REACT FAST & PREDICT THE FUTURE PERFECTLY

FIGURE 2. Comparison of a regular full-service weekday schedule for route 35 (A. 7 trips, 5h51m service) and the reduced “Saturday enhanced” schedule (B. 6 trips, 5h06m service). Efforts were made to ensure that the trip times for the first and last trips in the reduced schedules were close to the same times as the regular full schedule.

absenteeism and a decrease in boardings without

were added on some routes to ensure the

leaving areas without service or increasing the

reduced service starts at the same time as

dangers of COVID crowding? How do we respond

“regular” weekday service and some school trips

quickly when we do not have reduced service

were included in the event that schools reopened.

schedules prepared for our weekday service?

The creation of a “Saturday Enhanced” service facilitated a reduction of 1694.38 hours (221

Initial Response

fewer buses) compared to the regular full weekday service. The “Saturday enhanced” service was implemented on May 3rd, 2020, and

Winnipeg Transit generally provides 3 levels of

remained our primary weekday service until the

service correlating with the different service

Fall of 2020.

requirements for Weekdays (87 routes), Saturdays (48 routes), and Sundays (44 routes).

Indeed, 48 of the 87 routes that operate on weekdays also operate at a comparatively reduced service level on Saturdays. The primary difference between the service that operates on

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Saturday Enhanced Schedules – A Stopgap Measure

both Weekdays and Saturdays, other than service

While the “Saturday enhanced” schedules

levels, is the inclusion of express routes on

provided a means to rapidly respond to early

Weekdays and some Weekday routes start earlier

changes in ridership, it was clear early on that it

than their Saturday counterparts. So, while we

did not provide a mechanism to respond to

did not have any Weekday schedules available to

further ridership changes or an increase in

enable a rapid service reduction, we did have

absenteeism. Indeed, as the Summer of 2020

these 48 Saturday schedules that could be used

progressed we discovered that our response to

as templates for reduced Weekday service.

further changes could only be to reimplement

Additional schedules were created to add many

some (or all) full-service schedules or create

of the missing express routes (Figure 2), trips

weekday versions of our Sunday service, with

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POST-COVID TRANSIT PLANNING

FIGURE 3. Route 19 full and reduced (6% reduction) service schedule. The service reduction was accomplished by removing all short trips between downtown and Red River Polytech in the morning and removing 4 afternoon trips and adjusting headways/trip sequence to ensure appropriate service coverage.

neither being an attractive or viable solution. An

(Figure 3), and others were accomplished by

additional complication remained the uncertainty

expanding the headways by 2-10 minutes

of how to adjust service levels for the new

(depending on the schedule, areas serviced, and

Southwest Transitway routes without any

anticipated ridership) to facilitate the reduction in

historical ridership information. Different

service hours (and fleet requirement) while

combinations of full and reduced schedules were

maintaining the same service start and end times.

used for Fall (full regular, reduced express, full

As a result of our efforts, we were able to create

school) and Winter (Saturday enhanced, 85%

reduced service schedules for all 87 regular

express, full school) of 2020, however, neither

weekday routes (some routes had more than one

solution provided any measure of route-by-route

reduced version) for Spring 2021, with service

flexibility.

hours reduced from 5 to 25%.

An ideal solution would allow us to respond to ridership demands on an “as-needed” basis,

À la Carte Scheduling

targeting only those routes requiring an increase or decrease in service while leaving other routes

As we approached the end of the first year of the

unaffected. As such, a massive schedule rewriting

COVID-19 pandemic we still faced a great deal of

exercise began in the Fall of 2020 that saw the

uncertainty regarding expected ridership changes

production of reduced service versions for all

(will ridership begin to return, remain low, or

routes operating on Weekdays. Many of the

decrease even further?) and how to prepare our

reductions simply required removing extra trips

seasonal schedules to provide appropriate levels

in place to accommodate rush hour ridership

of service.

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To cover our bases, we chose to prepare 5

operators pick work from up to three options (e.g.

different levels of service. Specifically, we prepared

3%, 6% and 9% reductions) and implement one of

the regular full-service schedules and 4 additional

those three based on ridership and available

schedules with service reductions of 3%, 6%, 9%,

resources. To facilitate this, adjustments were

and 12%, all relative to full service. These 5 service

necessary in our scheduling workflow (i.e. new

schedules were created by “à la carte” scheduling;

numbering and naming convention with our

combinations of different full and reduced versions

HASTUS scheduling software), and all downstream

of the 87 weekday routes to create a desired

systems required updates to enable up to three

service hour reduction (Table 1).

work options. Thankfully these adjustments/ updates went relatively error-free, and operators

The normal practice at Winnipeg Transit is to

were able to successfully pick (up to) three

create a single schedule for each season that is

different work options per season. Between Spring

changed four times per year and to have operators

2021 and Summer 2023, all five schedules have

select work for the upcoming season from the one

been prepared for each of the four seasons with

option created (i.e., full service). However, our

the 6% reduction implemented for service.

updated COVID response plan was to have

TABLE 1. Shown are the different levels of service (in hours:min) for 11 of our 87 weekday routes. Full service is created using the regular full-service schedules. Step-downs in service are accomplished by using reduced service schedules for those routes that can accommodate a reduction with as little impact on service as possible. The 6.15% reduction, for example, is created by replacing the full-service schedule for routes 10, 12, 29, 34, and 649, as shown in the highlighted cells. (A complete list of routes would show that 40 of the 87 weekday routes have reduced service in the 6.15% schedule.) The 9.08% and 12.27% service reductions were possible only by further reducing selected routes (those with the lowest ridership) as shown for routes 21, 29, 34, and 42 (with a second reduction on routes 29 and 34, as shown in blue).

Route

Full

-2.46%

-6.15%

-9.08%

-12.27%

BLUE

228:09

228:09

228:09

228:09

228:09

10

68:14

68:14

51:07

51:07

51:07

11

212:08

212:08

212:08

212:08

212:08

12

44:57

37:28

37:28

37:28

37:28

21

151:12

151:12

151:12

131:03

131:03

29

53:45

47:35

47:35

47:35

36:55

34

13:14

13:14

10:38

10:38

7:43

36

56:03

56:03

56:03

56:03

36:04

42

14:26

14:26

14:26

12:42

12:42

649

34:51

29:45

29:45

29:45

29:45

671

32:08

32:08

32:08

32:08

32:08

4755:41

4638:30

4463:20

4323:49

4172:08

Total Hours (ALL ROUTES)

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POST-COVID TRANSIT PLANNING

Where are we now?

Almost four years after the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic is (hopefully) over but its impact on

began, life is slowly returning to something close to

the workforce and workflow is, quite likely,

a pre-pandemic normal. Retail establishments no

permanent. (A good example of this is the fact that

longer have COVID occupancy restrictions,

one of the authors is currently working from home

attendance at concerts and sporting events appears

due to a COVID-19 infection.) The implementation of

to have returned, mask mandates are a thing of the

the Winnipeg Transit Master Plan is what will drive

past, and toilet paper is readily available. However,

an increase in ridership in the coming years. It is a

this is a new normal where having a cough or a sore

citywide overhaul of transit service in Winnipeg that

throat means you’re doing a home COVID test

will be able to respond to post-pandemic ridership

before having dinner with friends. Many workplaces

changes and offer transportation options to

have adopted to a remote or hybrid work

efficiently meet the travel needs of Winnipeggers

environment, and yearly COVID boosters seem to be

well into the future, however perfectly, or

in our future.

imperfectly, it’s predicted.

What does the new normal mean for us at Winnipeg Transit? As of fall 2023, daily boardings have increased to roughly 90% of pre-COVID levels, and we have increased our service level from a 6%

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reduction to 5% (we are still preparing 5 different service levels per season). It is expected that ridership will continue to slowly increase; however, whether we return to full pre-pandemic levels is yet to be seen. With many of our former daily passengers having transitioned to remote or hybrid working environments (e.g., 2 days in the office, 3 days working from home), a return to 100% of prepandemic ridership will require growth by attracting

Darren Manley, PhD started as a Bus Operator with Winnipeg Transit in 2009 and has held the positions of Acting Supervisor/Inspector, Dispatch Supervisor/Acting Senior Timekeeper, Acting Operations Supervisor, and, since 2017, Transit Scheduler on the Service Development team.

new riders, as opposed to attracting back former riders.

Further, over the course of the pandemic, bus operator retirements and resignations have outpaced recruitment efforts for transit systems across Canada, leaving us with a bus operator complement that falls short of what is needed for a return to full service. There is, however, an advantage of a gradual return as it provides us with the option to target service increases to those areas/routes that require it rather than a blanket return to full service. Such a blanket approach may, due to changes in ridership patterns, return an increased service level to areas that no longer need

Bjorn Radstrom, P.Eng. is Manager of Service Development at Winnipeg Transit where he started in 2007 as a Transit Planner. He has been involved in the planning, design, and implementation of several major projects, notably OurWinnipeg (the city’s master plan), the Southwest Transitway, Winnipeg Transit’s plan to transition to zero-emission buses, and the Winnipeg Transit Master Plan. Bjorn is a passionate advocate for public transit, active transportation, good urban design, and the things that make city life better. And cargo shorts.

it while also underserving others.

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Reflections on Truth & Reconciliation

By Jen Malzer, City of Calgary & ITE Canada Past President

September 30 marked the 3rd anniversary of

dignity, which included writing racist laws and

Canada’s newest holiday: National Day for Truth

learning from allied countries, like the United

and Reconciliation. Reconciliation is a process

States, to build an Indian residential school

that has been used to heal cultural injustices and

program where kids would be separated from

atrocities and now in Canada, this day marks a

their families. The methods used in these schools

journey towards rebuilding the rights, lives, family

were horrendous, abusive, and deadly. Stories

structures, and the self-image of the indigenous

were shared by thousands of residential school

peoples in this country.

survivors and one story, by Phyllis Jack Webstad, is the first reason Canadians started marking the

In ITE we also talk about the importance of

date of September 30. In Phyllis’s story, part of

creating spaces that are inclusive of all our

what was so memorable about her residential

members and that is exactly what reconciliation

school experience to her was having everything

is all about. Truth is about owning up to errors

taken away: language, family, hair, cultural

and together, truth and reconciliation can lead

identity and a very special orange shirt. Her story

towards making amends and ultimately helping

inspired Orange Shirt Day, where Canadians

people shine on their own terms. Please bear

started coming together to bring attention to the

with me and learn how truth and reconciliation

stories and hurt caused by residential schools.

are so important and also a lesson we can apply when it comes to supporting all circles.

The truth of the injustices against indigenous peoples have come out in many other ways.

A few centuries ago, settlers to Canada

Transportation routes have been exposed as

determined that the ways of life of “our”

dangerous for women. Data by professionals has

indigenous peoples were wrong. Totally wrong

shown that to be an indigenous girl or woman

and needing to be eliminated. Eliminated. Let

means a high chance of becoming missing or

that sink in.

murdered. Indigenous men are more likely to become incarcerated. The connection between

To eliminate these cultures, our institutions built

these likelihoods and how indigenous cultures

frameworks to overtly dismantle societies and

have been valued is strong and unfair.

Integrating Truth & Reconciliation in Transportation Projects •

Crescent Road Master Plan: What We Learned from Indigenous Elders - Learning about the Crescent Road Project Area, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Culture from Blackfoot, Stoney Nakoda & Tsuut’ina Elders (PDF, 643 KB) - A City of Calgary report outlining a project’s Indigenous engaement approach, lessons learned, and opportunities to incorporate into the project

•

City of Toronto Reconciliation Action Plan - This plan covers a suite of actions including Transportation Services’ investments in programs to promote Indigenous artists, designers and youth in projects that also increase safety, functionality, and more

•

Why renaming roads and how we tell stories matter for reconciliation - This article by delves into how the reclamation of Indigenous names in our public spaces supports the ongoing reconciliation, engagement, and development of mutual respect.

•

Renaming Process: Kichi Zībī Mīkan - An overview of the engagement process undertaken by the National Capital Commision in renaming the former Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in the Ottawa area)

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TRUTH & RECONCILIATION

What’s possibly hardest to think about when

within companies. What we can learn is that

thinking about all of the harm that has transpired

helping people shine requires us to appreciate

against indigenous peoples is the lag before there

our differences, apologize when mistakes are

was action in Canada. While the links between

made, and to commit to open listening combined

deaths and residential schools were documented

with targeted actions when there is a need to

in the early 1900s, closures of the schools would

restore balance. Some of the qualities needed to

not begin for multiple decades. Since students

navigate are openness, commitment and

were buried in unmarked graves and news not

empathy.

shared with families, finding these graves of thousands of students would not be discovered

I welcome everyone to help restore justice to

until a couple of years ago.

those who continue to experience discrimination.

Please be brave, compassionate and aligned. Here

I doubt that anyone reading this article could be

are some first steps we can take to help

silent if their child were to go missing at school. It

indigenous people in Canada:

is inconceivable to lose a child. It is inconceivable that a state could not care for its children.

Action would slowly unfurl. Churches would apologize and “share regrets” starting in the 1980s and in 2008 the federal government would make a formal apology for the treatment of indigenous people - more than 100 years following the construction of the school program.

Investigations and a formal commission would shed light and develop actions to correct the harm against at least seven generations of families. Today, these 94 actions are offered to all Canadians and the layers of government as recommendations for what is impactful to restore dignity, justice and cultures that are rich and connected.

Today I find it exciting to hear the roar of people who are again proud. But, it is also not uncommon to hear non-indigenous Canadians speak of being ‘done with apologizing’ and being ‘done with feelings of guilt’. This is discouraging and speaks to ignorance of the work still left. All Canadians should have equal opportunity to

•

learn about the 94 Calls to Action and follow our collective progress

•

acknowledge and give support on Orange Shirt Day

•

learn about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, or

•

build empathy by reading experiences like Brandi Morin’s Our Voice of Fire, which is surely different from your lived experience.

We have everything to gain by better understanding the gifts and barriers experienced by others.

As transportation professionals, we have the unique privilege to build truth and reconciliation into our infrastructure projects for better outcomes. Take the opportunity to think about how streets can balance movement and place and how we can accelerate healing through a better complete street. A better complete street can be designed through compassionate and inclusive engagement processes, focus on safety and understanding that transportation modes will always change, include renaturalization

thrive.

consistent with the lands, and translate cultural

The treatment of indigenous people in Canada

art. The results can be community connections

has been outrageous and wrong. Reflecting on

and safer mobility, which is really so amazing,

the story of their treatment presents some

isn’t it?

stories into meaningful placemaking and public

similarities to discrimination within families and This is a re-print of an article first published on the Women in ITE Information Crusade blog.

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Plangineering

By Dale Bracewell, Mobility Foresight

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Urban planners and engineers do essential work

As my career progressed and I became closer

as we try to create the best possible future for

with a few of the fantastic planners at the City, I

city residents, visitors, and businesses. How can

took the opportunity to co-teach a course with

the two disciplines work better together and lean

Michael at Simon Fraser University to share the

on each other’s strategic mindsets, respective

knowledge, experience, and benefits of engineers

talents, and diverse viewpoints to create healthy,

and planners collaborating. I am very thankful for

liveable, and sustainable communities? This

my partnership with Michael in rolling up our

collaboration between urban planners and

sleeves to co-create content for an SFU City

engineers was the thesis for a course developed

Program course for other professionals we called

by me and my planning colleague Michael

“Engineering for Planners, Planning for

Mortensen, MA MCIP RPP, in 2006.

Engineers” (E4P P4E).

We both worked for the City of Vancouver at the

With our shared objective of painting a positive

time. In this workplace, engineers and planners

view of engineering and planning departments

developed an exemplary practice of collaboration

working together, we structured the course

in redeveloping the downtown core, doubling the

noting key differences in our professions. Then

population on the small peninsula, creating new

we explored how a practitioner can create the

area plans, or renewing many of the twenty-two

right mix of relational and project-oriented

neighbourhoods that make up Vancouver. Michaal

synergies between our distinct work cultures.

and I were connected through the City’s

From the aspiration of creating the Southeast

Leadership Development programs and were both

False Creek neighbourhood to be a model of

exposed to positive examples of engineering

sustainable development (later renamed as the

working closely with planning on many strategic

Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Games), to

civic priorities. Even as an engineer in training,

integrating industrial and supportive freight

my earliest projects benefited from the input of

forwarding and commercial land uses in the False

senior leadership meetings jointly chaired by the

Creek Flats, to rezoning the Oakridge Centre as a

City Engineer and Director of Transportation

regional town centre and future hub of two rapid

alongside our Co-Directors of Planning. Modelled

transit corridors, Michael and I did our best to

from above, I knew I was in the right environment

bring our City project examples to the classroom

to help advance sustainable mobility for

to demonstrate how interest based problem

Vancouverites with this inherent bias that cities

solving to each other’s professions led to the best

done well are planned and built out through the

version of city building for residents and

blended work of engineers and planners.

businesses.

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PLANGINEERING

Picture the engineers learning about Jane Jacobs

As ITE nears the end of its year of welcoming

and what we can learn about people-oriented

new planners into the institute, I invite afresh

places. Then picture the planners learning about

transportation engineers and planners to team up

the Iron Ring and the accountability it represents

on new untapped system-based concepts that

for so much of the built environment we have

bring the best value in how we move people and

come to trust and depend on being done right.

goods around our communities and cities.

Whether it was referencing Wookies vs. Klingons, who was from Mars and who was from Venus, or comparing how our respective professional organization’s code of ethics has many

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commonalities, we found our teaching days of the E4P P4E course energizing and rewarding.

Looking back, I never realized that being a teacher of something I believe in helped me in my profession as a transportation engineer in more ways than I imagined. I recall numerous stories and major city-building initiatives from my years at the City where I followed the best practice of being an engineer and working alongside

As a visionary transportation “plangineer”, Dale Bracewell is a global mobility leader and catalyst for enabling sustainable mobility to create healthy, safe communities. As Principal of Mobility Foresight, Dale provides advisory services that integrate strategic planning with a forward-thinking mindset to facilitate transformative and resilient mobility solutions.

planners, sometimes even co-managing projects.

After teaching a course with Michael, I learned the importance of public engagement and the spectrum between simply sharing information to residents and businesses, to empowering

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community stakeholders in co-shaping the future of the City and its public realm. However, my most significant reflection is that teaching E4P P4E with Michael opened the door to me realizing that so many other disciplines should also be invited into our city-shaping conversations, often with very custom and essential skills and insight.

In my career since, I have embraced the

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transportation solutions. Our services include:

with health experts was a natural evolution of my

• Transportation Master Plans

• Safety Reviews & Audits

comfort in teaming up with planners. Building a

• Modelling & Model Interpretation

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healthy city is another critical dimension of how

• Business Case Development

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planners and engineers plan and create the city

• Policy Studies & Development

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we love. We also need to learn about social

• Functional Corridor Planning

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connectedness and the importance of knowing

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

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what insights we gain from longitudinal health studies, and there is no better way of doing that as an engineer than collaborating with your local health planner or researcher.

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MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

Reza Aminghafouri Ph.D. Candidate, M.Sc., B.Sc.

Current Employment: Transpiration Engineering Data Analyst, City of Guelph City of Residence: Waterloo, Ontario Education: University of Waterloo, PhD, Transportation Engineering (2020– present) & Master of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (2023–present) Sharif University of Technology, M.Sc., Industrial Engineering (2014) Iran University of Science and Technology, B.Sc., Railway Transportation Engineering (2012) First job in transportation: Strategy and Business Excellence Professional, Siemens (Mobility Division) What roles have you taken on as a member of ITE? President of University of Waterloo Student Chapter Hobbies: Volleyball, Chess, Camping, Piano, drawings Family: Married to my ever love, Haniyeh Ghomi

ITE INVOLVEMENT

student chapter. With support from professors and a group of 10 fantastic students, we

What was your first ITE event?

My first ITE event was a seminar hosted by McMaster University’s ITE Student Chapter in 2020 on Road Safety: Engineering and Social Solutions. It was led by Edward Soldo who emphasized the significance of road safety and

including seminars, tutorials, and field trips.

Since then, I have continued my involvement by actively participating in both ITE Canada and ITE International events, conferences, webinars, and volunteer activities.

outlined approaches practitioners could take to

What do you value most about your ITE

enhance safety levels and save lives. This event

membership?

served as a source of motivation for me to pursue my PhD studies in the field of road safety.

What is your ITE involvement (past and present)?

I became involved with the University of Waterloo ITE Chapter in 2022 as President. Our chapter, the first in Canada, had been inactive for

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successfully hosted over 20 events in one year,

I value the networking opportunities it provides and the chance to improve my soft skills. ITE has connected me with professionals in the global transportation field, significantly expanding my network.

Serving as the President of the University of

some time. After attending the ITE Canada

Waterloo ITE Chapter has also allowed me to

Conference in 2022, I was inspired to revive our

enhance my leadership skills.

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MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

From the Chapter Advisor Along with the Vice President (Matea Ceric), Secretary

I have supervised many student groups and teams, and

(Jeffrey Dai), and Treasurer (Lucas Sobreira), Reza

have never before seen the level of dedication Reza has

rebuilt the UW ITE Student Chapter after a multi-year

shown as the UW ITE Student Chapter President. As

(pandemic induced) hiatus. By instilling weekly

member of the Chapter’s Microsoft Teams site, I often

meetings, Reza led the Chapter in delivering a constant

see messages bouncing around at all hours of the day

stream of events including networking opportunities,

(and night!). Reza’s herculean efforts have raised the

technical skills and training tutorials, research seminars,

bar for what a student chapter can accomplish with the

and field trips. The Chapter relaunched its website and

right leadership—as recognized by their recent Student

social media campaigns, which has grown awareness

Chapter Momentum Award!

and the membership.

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- Chris Bachmann, PhD, P.Eng., University of Waterloo

profound that it motivated me to pursue a master’s degree in business, entrepreneurship,

What attracted you to the transportation profession?

What attracted me was my passion for travel and exploration. However, I also had a deep concern about the high number of collisions and

and technology, alongside my ongoing PhD program.

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loss of lives due to road crashes in my home country, Iran. This motivation led me to pursue a

How would you describe your job to someone you

career in transportation with a focus on exploring

just met at a party?

and improving safety measures.

What is the most daring thing you’ve done in your lifetime (that you’re willing to see in print)?

The most daring thing I’ve done was

In my current role, I get to dive deep into the world of data and technology with a focus on road safety. I use data analysis techniques to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern in various locations. My goal is to come up with

immigrating to Canada and pursuing a PhD. My

solutions and recommendations that can improve

wife and I had never visited before and the early

the safety levels of these locations. It’s an

days were challenging. We had no relatives in

exciting job because I get to contribute to making

Canada, and we had to start from scratch in a

our roads safer and more efficient through data-

country 10,000 km away from home. But with

driven insights and problem-solving.

determination and the support of the friendly Canadian people, we managed to build a new life

Tell us about a project you’re proud to have

here as immigrants.

worked on

What is the last book that you read or are reading?

One of the most recent is Rich Dad Poor Dad

While at Siemens, I was on the mobility consultant team that worked on the Iran Mobility Road Map project. This project defined a comprehensive plan for Iran to create a

and I highly recommend it. It’s an excellent book

transportation system that would be efficient,

that challenges traditional ideas about money

modern, and, most importantly, safe for the

and has inspired me to think about launching my

public. Now at the City of Guelph, I am working

own business in the future. This influence was so

on the Vision Zero project focused on enhancing

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road safety and eliminating traffic-related injuries

provided valuable insights and knowledge. I plan

and fatalities in the community. Both projects

to pursue the Road Safety Professional (RSP)

were personally fulfilling, aligning with my

certification to ensure that I have a

passion for transportation and safety.

comprehensive understanding of road safety and

What is one aspect of your work that you particularly enjoy?

validate my expertise in this critical area.

Who has had the greatest influence on your

I enjoy the opportunity to work with the vast amount of data now available thanks to

career?

Firstly, I have to give credit to my current

advancements in technology. As a data analyst, I

academic supervisor at the University of

find great satisfaction in the process of taking

Waterloo, Prof. Liping Fu. He not only gave me

raw data and transforming it into meaningful

the chance to pursue my PhD but also

information. This data-driven approach allows us

consistently encouraged my involvement in

to make informed decisions and improvements in

various projects and opportunities. His guidance,

various aspects of transportation, including road

mentorship, and support have been instrumental

safety.

in my academic and professional growth.

During your career to date, have you pursued any professional designations through ITE? Not yet but I have attended several webinars and workshops hosted by ITE which have

Secondly, I must mention Liraz Fridman, a wellknown safety specialist in transportation. She provided me with the invaluable chance to join the City of Guelph, which opened the door for me to apply my academic road safety knowledge to real-world projects.

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Projecting yourself into the future, from an endof-career perspective, what will you hope to have accomplished?

My ultimate hope is to have made a substantial and lasting impact on road safety. I aspire to be remembered for ever as someone who dedicated his life to improving the safety of transportation systems and reducing road crashes and fatalities.

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The field of transportation presents a remarkable opportunity for reducing traffic collisions. With advancements in AI technology, we have the potential to develop numerous solutions aimed at minimizing human errors which is one of the main reasons of collisions. My aspiration is to see a future where nobody loses their life or suffers serious injuries as a result of traffic collisions.

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News from CARSP

Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) Upcoming and Past Events CARSP Conference 2024 CARSP is very excited to partner with Parachute to bring you the 2024 CARSP Conference. The aim of the CARSP conference is to share knowledge among Canada’s road safety professionals with the goal of making our roads safer. Conference delegates represent a broad array of disciplines including health professionals, engineers, Government officials, crash re-constructionists, insurers, researchers, enforcement, and more. The conference content is a combination of plenary, panel, and practitioner/researcher presentation sessions, as well as networking opportunities. There is also a Student Paper Competition and an event aimed at students and young professionals. Presentation sessions contain research and evaluation papers as well as policy and program practice presentations. Examples of the types of materials presented include: the development of a road safety policy, road safety research findings, systematic literature reviews, evaluation results for road safety programs, and innovative program approaches to decreasing road safety injuries and deaths. Stay tuned for the launch of the Call for Abstracts and the Sponsorship/Exhibitor Opportunities in late October 2023!

When: June 16-19, 2024 Where: Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre, Ottawa Be in the know!...Subscribe to our conference email list so you don't miss a conference update! Have questions? Please contact info@carsp.ca for more information.

CARSP Webinar Series CARSP offers its members a series of free monthly webinars on a variety of road safety related topics. It also offers the public free access to past webinar recordings! Information on CARSP webinars can be found in the “Events and Training” area of the CARSP website.

The last webinar was entitled “Which technologies will make my driving safer?” The speaker was Dr. Martin Lavalliere. He discusses how the development of new advanced vehicle technologies has outpaced the public’s ability to fully understand them and use them the way they were intended. There is also a tendency to become overly dependent on these technologies, thus encouraging drivers to be more distracted and less focused on their driving. Dr. Lavalliere also explores the high degree of inconsistency in the standardization of these technologies including their names. There is also a lack of research looking at the effectiveness of these technologies in terms of preventing collisions and hence preventing road crash injuries and deaths. Dr. Lavalliere explores all these issues. The webinar recording is now available for viewing here.

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TAC TIDBITS APPOINTEE UPDATES

TAC Tidbits

ITE Canada has a strong partnership with the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC). One of the cornerstones of this relationship is participation on a number of TAC technical councils and committees through Appointees. In this edition of TAC Tidbits, our Appointees share updates from the Fall 2023 TAC Technical Meetings.

TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL The Key highlights of TAC Technology Council’s Fall meeting are: •

The Council ratified executive members for the new term (they officially start after the fall meetings)

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Discussed volunteer projects under the technology umbrella. Including:

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Harmonization of Road Authority Data

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Rural ITS Primer

All committees were active, most with volunteer projects and research happening. The CAV Integrated Committee is looking to start work on updating their inventory of Canadian initiatives and CAV Primer.

The ITS committee will be focusing on potential collaboration on issues integrated in other focus areas such as active transportation, digital applications and traffic operations. The Digital Applications Committee will be working on a primer on digital twinning and look into exploring issues around data governance.

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Two excellent presentations: Ű

Michael Tremblay from Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards gave an overview of Area X.O . He outlined the facilities the offer, subjects/areas of work, partnerships with industry/government and profiled three projects currently underway.

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Matthew Lee from AECOM presented on Traffic Management Centres of the Future. He outlined that major changes would be seen in their design, functionality and technology.

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL The Workforce Development Council focused on discussions around a variety of professional development and education topics. These included: •

Pondering ideas and options to conduct a nation-wide career fair to connect employers, students, and professionals across the Canadian geographies. The challenges and tradeoffs of an event of this magnitude provided food for thought to continue to explore its feasibility.

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Discussing strategies to create inviting workplaces for employees. In times when retention is the key to develop a healthy, dynamic transportation workforce in organizations, the discussion focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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Presentation and discussion with Engineers Canada regarding initiatives related to workforce development. Highlights of the conversation included the need for practitioners as well as new students to be more exposed to indigenous awareness and training, and Engineers Canada’s plan to advance women in the profession through their Accelerate 30 by 30 Strategy.

Last but not least, Council received the final Report from the Task Force on Developing Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) in Transportation. A key document for road authorities (at provincial/territorial and municipal levels), Educators and national organizations, the Task Force recommended a number of strategies to develop strategic, integrated approaches to workforce development, enhance technology content of traditional programs and expand TAC training opportunities for transportation practitioners.

Stay tuned for more information on how the above initiatives evolve over the next few months to create a strong, diverse workforce in the transportation industry!

Carlos Perez P.Eng. M.Sc., PMP Transportation Development Engineer | City of Calgary

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MOBILITY COUNCIL Yet another great Mobility Council meeting! We were able to hear from the supporting committees on all the progress that they have been making, ranging from projects on micromobility services, curbside charging for electric vehicles, floating bus stops, curbside management, and financing models and opportunities. We then had a great presentation on the Green Municipal Fund which is looking at climate adaptation opportunities, especially for early adopters. The City of Ottawa then presented on their Transportation Master Plan and some of the key concepts they used to frame the mobility conversation for the future. Of note were the insights from the famous ‘roundtable’ where everyone shared what they have been faced with over the last year. Many of these topics were related to active transportation, the increasing complexity of our transportation infrastructure and decision-making, pricing for infrastructure, workforce shortages, liveability, curbside management, and climate change.

Ryan Martinson M.Eng., P.Eng., RSP1 Principal & Sustainable Transportation Specialist | Martinson Golly Ltd.

Mobility Management Committee The Mobility Management Committee had an in-person meeting on September 23, 2023.

The committee benefited from an insightful presentation on EV charging infrastructure and considerations from municipalities leading to a good roundtable discussion Various updates were provided, including noting the 2023 conference sessions sponsored by the committee, the status of working group priority topics and a on the overlap of work from this committee with the Active Transportation Integrated Committee The request for the pooled-fund project on Curbside Charging for Electric Vehicles has commenced, yet there are presently no funding commitments made to date. There was discussion on considering renaming the project to reflect the importance of off-street curbside charging and this project focusing on the complexity of delivering curbside charging.

Dale Bracewell P.Eng., MASc Principal | Mobility Foresight

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TAC TIDBITS

Active Transportation Integrated Committee The Active Transportation Integrated Committee (ATIC) is busy with a number of initiatives underway and more to come. Recent work has included the publication of the Continuous Sidewalks Emerging Practice Briefing, published in August. Future work will included contributions to TAC’s synthesis of practice on Cross Section Elements.

Patrick Zerr P.Eng. Project Engineer | McElhanney

Geometric Design Committee The GD Committee Spring Meeting was held in person in Ottawa prior to the TAC annual conference. The meeting had approximately 40 attendees.

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SDO Council update: there are still 8 technical projects in progress. The project to update the Cross Section chapter of the TAC GDGCR is approximately 70% funded. The working group is moving forward and planning to separate the efforts in stage 1 and stage 2.

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John Maree of Associated Engineering was elected as the incoming secretary.

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Michael Pearsall from Ontario Ministry of Transportation presented their recent Chapter 13 – Work Zones for MTO Design Supplement to be used in conjunction with other existing guidance.

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There were updates about 5 working groups. The committee agreed that the focus of the Overdimensional Vehicles guidance should be on geometric design aspects rather than safety/structural. The TAC GDGCR section 3.5 update was reviewed by the R&A subcommittee and was approved by the GD committee to move forward to final approvals.

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Geoff Noxon on TAC Business updates: TAC will focus on online training when appropriate with a goal to complement flagship publications such as TAC GDGCR (to start in 2024). The first training sessions will be on chapters 1 to 3 with a focus on the practical use of the guide.

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Zane Sloan from Arcadis/IBI Group presented how the Climate Change WG used the PIEVC high-level screening guide to assess the geometric design elements that influence the impact of weather events on Canadian roads. The analysis results identified the most urgent elements to be updated in the TAC GDGCR (including section 3.5).

Thaise Mota P.Eng. Transportation Engineer | Alta Planning + Design Canada, Inc.

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ITE INSIGHTS APPOINTEE UPDATES

ITE Insights

ITE Canada representatives are appointed to many ITE Technical Committees and Councils to bring our unique Canadian perspective to the work of ITE. In this feature, our appointees share updates about their committees to help our members connect to ITE’s initiatives and the transportation industry more broadly.

Joint Rail Crossing Committee •

Technical presentation during committee meeting on nine different traffic queue mitigation strategies at rail grade crossings involving signage, pavement markings, traffic signal timing, pre-emption, pre-signals, and roundabouts. Ű

Committee organized one session with four presentations at the ITE Annual Conference in Portland (77 attendees at the session).

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Committee organized a tour of a rail grade crossing in Portland during the conference. This crossing had unique roadway geometry and traffic signal operations.

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Two Quick Bites were released: “Track Angle of Railroad Grade Crossings Effect on Bicycles” and “Two-Way Separated Bike Lanes at Railroad Grade Crossings.”

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Planning next Quick Bite to address rail grade crossings with roundabouts. Committee is seeking Canadian input. Reach out to to me at garreth.rempel@trainfo.ca if interested.

Garreth Rempel Ph.D., P.Eng. CEO | TRAINFO

Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee The Complete Streets Mega Meeting was held in person in Portland. Pedestrian and Bicycle Standing Committee falls under the Complete Streets Council and participated in the Mega Meeting alongside Transit and Maas committees. The meeting was indeed MEGA. We overflowed the room and celebrated the progress of our Council and Committees, reviewing publications generated in this past year and charting the way forward.

Mariya (Mars) Otten-Andrew P.Eng., PTOE Principal Consultant | WSP

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Transit Committee I attended the Complete Streets Council mega-meeting, which included the Transit Standing Committee, on August 14 in Portland. I delivered a 6-minute pitch on alternative traffic analyses used to justify transit in Vancouver, British Columbia

Dan Ross P.Eng., PTOE Senior Project Manager - Transportation | HDR

Transportation Planning Council I joined the Transportation Planning Council Mega Meeting virtually. The meeting was informative and productive. The icebreaker was a fun way to learn about each other. The discussion around planner outreach and developing trends in planning was constructive and engaging.

Meera Kopp P.Eng. Transportation Engineer | City of Toronto

Sustainability Committee The VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled) Policy and Implementation panel session discussed why and how jurisdictions are establishing vehicle travel reduction targets. These targets support more multimodal planning, Smart Growth development policies, and TDM programs in order to improve accessibility while reducing vehicle travel. To support these targets many transportation agencies are shifting their performance goals from maximizing LOS to minimizing VMT. Practitioners from California, Oregon and British Columbia described methods for reducing vehicle travel and new tools for modelling their impacts and benefits.

Todd Litman Victoria Transport Policy Institute

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ITE INSIGHTS

Transportation Systems Management & Operations Council •

Project updates, including Distributed TSMO 1010 Page, Conducted committee member Survey, Coordinated with transport planners, Organized webinars (2 more later in 2023)

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Updates on Standing Committees, including CAV, Urban Goods Movements, and Smart Communities

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Presentation on USDOT Initiatives in ITS4US

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Group Discussion in Developing Trends in TSMO

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NOCoE updates

Borg Chan M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE, RSP1, FITE Road Safety Specialist | ISL Engineering and Land Services

Urban Goods Movement Standing Committee ITE’s Urban Goods Movement Committee advocates for the integration of goods movement in the transportation profession and develops solutions, activities, and products for this purpose.

At their recent meeting, they presented updates on the focus items for 2023: •

Team development & recruitment - recruited New Vice Chair.

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Develop engagement/outreach strategy - using ITE AUS-NZ section newsletter, testing an engagement tool

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Freight planning primer - in progress with authors from Canada, New York and Australia

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ITE Journal Article, target November 2023, authored by Canadian members.

Madhuri Seera M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE Senior Corporate Liaison (SCL), Green Line | City of Calgary

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Transportation Education Council Transportation Education Council (TEC) continues to host its webinar series, with three student-focused ones and three faculty-focused ones each year. A student-focused webinar was planned for October 17th while a Careers in Transportation Course webinar will be led by Ines Aviles-Spadoni of the University of Florida on November 30th.

There was great discussion at the TEC around the use of the newly-developed ITE Traffic Wiki as an educational resource given its free availability to ITE members, noting that student membership is also free.

Finally, there was discussion around relaunching the (US) National Transportation Curriculum Project (NTCP).

Launched in 2009, the ad-hoc collaborative effort aims to affect changes in transportation engineering education – specifically the introductory course in most universities. More to come in a future TEC update.

Sean Nix M.Eng., RPP, FITE Associate Dean | Sheridan College

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In the third quarter of 2023, following a brief summer break, ITE Southern Alberta (ITE SA) continued hosting a variety of events for our local chapter.

In September, a site tour of the Town of Canmore’s cycling infrastructure was led by Andy Esarte, Manager of Engineering at the Town of Canmore, where attendees experienced first-hand wheeling experience of the traditional infrastructure, newly installed and a vision of what’s to come.

Participants were left with a strong impression of the impacts that transportation designs can have on the way people travel, and more importantly, how community is created by roadway designs.

Our September Luncheon hosted a series of presentations to learn about the work conducted in the Town of Cochrane. John Stevens and Melissa Henderson from Urban Systems presented on the Hwy 1A/22 utility relocations project and the HWY 1A Improvements project; Vamsi Surapaneni and Dominic Cheng from ISL presented on the Highway 1A/22 interchange project.

The presentations outlined how collaboration among the project teams with the interconnected projects, the Town of Cochrane and Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors lead to greater success for all parties in one of Alberta’s fastest growing communities.

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SECTION NEWS

ITE Manitoba hosted its third luncheon of the 2023 season in September, at the Winnipeg Winter Club. This luncheon featured two presentations and a wide range of speakers from academic, consulting, and public agency backgrounds: •

Application of Reliability Models for Crash Frequency Analysis: Implications for Network-Wide Safety Performance. This research, done by Nasim Deljouyi, received the 2023 Kean Lew Memorial Student Paper and Presentation Competition award.

Congratulations, Nasim!

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St. Boniface to Downtown Walk Bike Project.

This presentation was done by Jaime Lacoste and Kerra Mruss of WSP and Chris Baker of the City of Winnipeg.

In the coming month, ITE Manitoba will be planning its first ever bowling FUNRaiser night.

We hope this will be a fun outing for our members to socialize and unwind. More details for this event are upcoming!

ITE Manitoba members biking to and attending the Section’s September luncheon

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The ITE Toronto Section continues to transition

Upcoming events include a webinar on October 19

from virtual to in-person and hybrid events to

that will focus on Data in Transportation, a topic

better facilitate networking between our

requested of our members after their

members and event attendees. Our most recent

participation in the ITE Canada Big Data and

event, discussed in more detail below, provided

Emerging Traffic Technologies workshop.

an opportunity to showcase our new technology

Additionally, registration will soon open for our

that makes it possible to use a hybrid format

AGM and Christmas Luncheon, which is

where both in-person and virtual attendees are

scheduled for November 24.

able to participate and ask questions of the panelists. ITE Toronto will continue to explore

If you are interested in serving on an ITE Toronto

new opportunities to make our programming

Section Committee or if you would like to suggest

accessible to all our members spread across our

an event, we encourage you to visit itecanada.

Section, which includes Toronto, Durham, York,

org/toronto for more information.

Peel, Halton, Thunder Bay, and all other portions of Ontario not covered by separate Section Charters.

On September 19, we hosted a hybrid panel discussion that examined Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE), a critical safety technology that the public has strong feelings about, both positive and negative. Event sponsor Arcadis IBI Group provided their Smart City Sandbox space for this free panel discussion. Panel members included Trevor Kanhai, a Senior Project Manager of Automated Enforcement with the City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Division, Steven Kemp, the Manager of Traffic Engineering and Operations with the Regional Municipality of Durham, and Sheilagh Stewart, a former Assistant Crown Attorney who now runs her own consulting company, Stewart Solutions Inc., providing support to various municipal and other public sector clients across Canada. Registrants submitted a significant number of questions in advance, including questions related to deployment, the financial model, and speed distributions. In addition to submitted questions, both in-person and virtual attendees were able to ask questions of the panelists, with preference being provided for questions from in-person attendees. ITE Toronto greatly appreciates the panelists sharing their expertise with the larger transportation community.

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STUDENT CHAPTER NEWS

Greetings from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter of the Students’

2023 Transportation Association of Canada Conference

Union Okanagan of UBC (SUO)!

We are thrilled to announce and celebrate the

Re-opening: We are back!

remarkable achievements of our faculty members and students at the 2023 Transportation

We’re thrilled to share the latest updates from

Association of Canada (TAC) Conference.

our chapter. First and foremost, we’re delighted

Uthpalee Hewage, a dedicated Ph.D. student at

to announce that our club has been officially

the School of Engineering, has achieved a

ratified with the SUO, re-opening the club after a

monumental feat by securing 1st place in the

very long period. The student chapter has elected

prestigious 2023 TAC Student Paper Awards for

its new president, vice president, and secretary.

her outstanding work titled “Who Uses Shared

Industry Night

Mobility Services?”. In addition, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to Ali Faisal, another brilliant Ph.D. student from UBC Okanagan, for

In collaboration with the ITE BC Interior section,

achieving 3rd place in the 2023 TAC Student

we recently organized a highly successful

Paper Awards for the article titled “Automated

industry night on September 21, 2023. The event

Assessment of Pavement Rutting and Roughness

saw a remarkable turnout, with approximately 50

using Mobile LiDAR data’’. Furthermore, we are

enthusiastic students, including both graduate

immensely proud to share that Dr. Suliman

and undergraduate members, actively

Gargoum, Assistant Professor at the School of

participating in insightful discussions with

Engineering, UBC Okanagan, was selected to

distinguished industry professionals.

receive the esteemed Transportation Association of Canada’s Young Professional Award at the

Our industry night was graced by professionals

conference.

from various key organizations, including the City of Kelowna, the City of Vernon, and Urban Systems, among others. Their presence and valuable contributions enriched the event, providing our members with a deeper understanding of the transportation field and fostering meaningful connections within the industry.

UBCO Students gathered for the industry night

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The University of Manitoba ITE student chapter is excited for another year of chapter activities!

Student Chapter Elections 2023 - A Shift in Leadership Dynamics

Since the start of this term, we have participated in two successful recruitment events. This year,

The student chapter elections of 2023 marked a

we are looking forward to hosting guest speaker

historic event with the introduction of a

events, networking events, middle school

co-presidency and a majority of new executive

outreach events, social events, and fundraisers.

members. This transition promises a fresh perspective and a new era of collaboration and

ITE International Annual Meeting and Exhibition

innovation within the chapter. The passionate participation of candidates and the student community sets the stage for an exciting journey

In August, our chapter sent three undergraduate

ahead, as the newly elected executive takes

students to attend the ITE International Annual

charge of leading our student chapter towards a

Meeting and Exhibition in Portland, Oregon. The

bright and impactful future.

students had a great time meeting students and professionals from across North America,

Industry Talks

attending technical sessions, and exploring the city by bike. The students attended a workshop

Our student chapter has been actively fostering

on electric vehicles and transportation

knowledge and engagement within the realm of

electrification, cheered on the UBC team

transportation engineering. On September 21,

representing Canada at the Traffic Bowl

2023, we were honored to attend a presentation

Competition, and participated in local technical

by Dr. Edward Chung, a Professor at The Hong

tours. This included a bike tour of Portland’s

Kong Polytechnic University. His seminar titled

Better Naito Forever project, a tour of the

“Applications of AI in Intelligent Transport

Portland International Airport, and a tour of the

Systems: Network Wide Traffic Flow Prediction”

Columbia Gorge Express.

shed light on the latest advancements and

UManitoba Student Chapter members at the ITE International Conference in Portland, Oregon

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UManitoba 2023 Executive Team

STUDENT CHAPTER NEWS

research in this dynamic field. Moreover, we’ve had the privilege of hosting industry professionals like Jaime Lacoste from WSP, who shared insights on St. Boniface to downtown walk bike project as part of Dr. Regehr’s Transportation Engineering course on September 25th. On September 29th, our secretary Tara Saeidi (Ph.D. Candidate) gave an introduction to public transit data and discussed a resource guide for this data. Furthermore, on October 3rd, we had the pleasure of welcoming Jordan Daniels and Cam Tytgat from WSP, who provided valuable insights into the Calgary LRT project, enhancing our knowledge base. Stay tuned we have three more

“Introduction and Resource Guide for Public Transit Data” Guest lecture by Tara Saeidi

compelling industry talks lined up for this semester!

Future Plans Our ambitious plans call for a Technical Trip to Europe, giving participants the chance to learn about cutting-edge transport systems and sparking original ideas. In addition to this, we seek to promote team building through social gatherings like a bowling event and a badminton competition, giving members a venue for relaxation, interaction, and the development of interpersonal ties. We intend to buy groceries and give them to neighborhood families during the holiday season as a way to show our

UManitoba Student Chapter member on a bike tour of Portland’s Better Naito Forever project

dedication to community service and to uphold the spirit of giving. Additionally, our Middle School Outreach initiative aims to inspire the next generation of engineers by educating young students about civil transportation engineering.

Two UManitoba Student Chapter members with other Canadian students at the ITE International Reception on the Tuesday night of the conference

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Industry Talk: Brian Hoeft

Election Event

On September 1, 2023, the University of

On September 29, 2023, the Student Chapter

Waterloo’s ITE Student Chapter hosted Brian

held our annual executive election. This election

Hoeft, Director of Customer Advocacy and

saw new members elected for the President and

Relations for Miovision. Brian’s talk was titled

Vice-President positions. We also welcomed new

Helping Agencies Tell the Story and Find the

members for the media team and event planning

Money to Greatly Advance Technology on our

team. All attendees had a good time at the

Roadways. Prior to working for Miovision, Brian

historic graduate house on the campus with food,

led traffic operations in Las Vegas, worked for

drinks, board games, and karaoke. We look

consulting companies, the US Department of

forward to great things for the next year with the

Transportation, and was an Officer in the US

new team!

Navy Civil Engineering Corp. He has also taught college courses at private and public universities.

Upcoming Events

Miovision has a special connection with the

This month, our team has already planned an

University of Waterloo, as its founders were

industry talk with a representative from ARUP to

graduates of the University’s Systems Design

deliver a seminar on airport planning and

Engineering program. Miovision uses a

engineering. This will be a great opportunity for

combination of computer vision, artificial

students to expand their network and ask about

intelligence (AI), and advanced analytics to help

potential job opportunities at ARUP. Our new

agencies solve safety, efficiency, and emissions

team is hard at work planning even more events

challenges.

through the end of the term and into next year!

2023-2024 UW ITE SC Executive team Brian presents to a group of undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty members

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WELCOME WELCOME

New Members Oluwatosin Adetola, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Joshua Alfa, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Tegwen Atkinson, Bunt & Associates Engineering Ltd., Vancouver, BC

Adam Lougheed, TransLink, Bowen Island, BC Daniel Lush, University of New Brunswick, Moncton, NB Artem Lyubimov, HDR, Calgary, AB

Hazel Battad, City of Edmonton, Edmonton, AB

Adina Mah, City of Vancouver, BC, Canada, Vancouver, BC

Jack Bolton, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Surid Mannan, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Mark Ceppi, Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Chatham, ON

Michael McNish, Calgary, AB

Robert Cheng, Municipality of North Cowichan, Duncan, BC

Beata Ng, City of Richmond, British Columbia, Richmond, BC

Samuel Debia, Saskatchewan Ministry Of Highways And Infrastructure, Regina, SK

Ibrahim Osman, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON

Christine Del Rosario, Markham, ON

Reiley Ashley Palma, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Andrew Denomme, City Of London, London, ON Bill Dhaliwal, City of Richmond, British Columbia, Richmond, BC Rupom Kanti Dhar, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB Mahmoud El Osman, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON Matthew Fabilli, City Of London, London, ON

Rhythm Mehta, Seneca College, North York, ON

Komal Parikh, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON William Duy-Anh Pham, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Amanda Redden, Jewell Engineering Inc., Belleville, ON Frantz Robinson, GE Current, Lachine, QC

Barry Fan, Urban Systems, Vancouver, BC

Edwin Ruiz-Perez, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON

Margaret Fazio, City Of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

Azlal Sabir, City Of Toronto, Brampton, ON

Rochelle Fortier, JD Engineering, Ottawa, ON

Joel Sanchez, City Of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

Hannah Garampil, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Gabriel Sanseverino, Region Of Halton, Oakville, ON

Rahul Gopalakrishna Pillai, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON

Lainy Stevenson, Regional District of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC

Brittany Hallam, City of Kelowna, Kelowna, BC

Paul St-Aubin, Transoft Solutions, Richmond, BC

Jared Ho, Red Deer, AB

Aaron Svendsen, Saskatchewan Ministry Of Highways And Infrastructure, Saskatoon, SK

Felix Ikokwu, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON

Stephen Tam, Mott MacDonald, Toronto, ON

Bita Jamalpour, City of Port Moody, BC, Port Moody, BC

Aedrian Valdez, University of Regina, Regina, SK

Aaron John, University of Regina, Regina, SK

Madeline Whitehouse, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

Hugo Johnston, Bunt & Associates Ltd, Vancouver, BC

Sumer Yalda, Hrycay Consulting Engineers, Inc., Windsor, ON

Roger Kantagba, , Toronto, ON

Pak Ho Yip, City Of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

Saeromi Kim, Transoft Solutions, Richmond, BC

Mohammad Yousefpour Taleghani, , North York, ON

Robin Klassen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Anthony Latorre, BA Consulting Group, Toronto, ON

Mayesha Zakaria, 30 Forensic Engineering, Toronto, ON

Samuel Lee, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Haiyun Zhao, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Ray Lei, Stantec, Markham, ON

Carissa Zhou, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Jeanette Li, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY

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> Strategic/Master Plans > Environmental Assessments > Engineering and Design (feasibility, functional, preliminary, detailed) > Intelligent Transportation Systems > Traffic Engineering/Management > Safety (policy, audit, expert witness) > Public and Indigenous Engagement > Active Transportation > Complete Streets/Urban Design > BRT and LRT Transit Planning and Design cima.ca

ITE CANADA CONTACTS

ITE Canada Executive Committee President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Vanderputten, P.Eng., M.Eng., MBA, FITE

Past President . . . . . . . . . Julia Salvini, P.Eng., FITE pastpresident@itecanada.org

president@itecanada.org

Vice President . . . . . . . . . . Pedram Izadpanah, Ph.D., P.Eng.

District Director . . . . . . . . Edward Soldo, P.Eng., FITE director@itecanada.org

vicepresident@itecanada.org

Secretary-Treasurer . . . . . Irini Akhnoukh, M.Eng., P.Eng., PTOE treasurer@itecanada.org

ITE Canada Staff

Technical Liaison Committee

Business Manager . . . . . . James Johnstone

tlc@itecanada.org

jkjohnstone@itecanada.org

Communications Lead . . . Evonne Winchiu Donaher edonaher@itecanada.org

Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Martinson, M.Eng., P.Eng. Vice Chair . . . . . . . Farhad Shahla, M.Eng., P.Eng. Committee . . . . . . . Borg Chan, M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE, RSP, FITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Toop, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.

Training Committee

National Technical Program Committee

training@itecanada.org

technicalprogram@itecanada.org

Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Roth, P.Eng. Vice Chair . . . . . . . Adam St. Amant, P.Eng., PTOE Past Chair . . . . . . . Maryam Tabeshian, M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE Committee . . . . . . . Marcia Eng, P.Eng. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karin Huang, EIT

Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . Paula Sawicki, P.Eng. Vice Chair . . . . . . . Garrett Donaher, P.Eng. Committee . . . . . . . Amy Do, P.Eng. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maryam Hasanpour, EIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Omar Shams, CET

Sections & Presidents Vancouver Island . . . . . . . Bruce Beames, P.Eng. vancouverisland@itecanada.org

Greater Vancouver . . . . . . Khelen Upadhyay, EIT vancouver@itecanada.org

BC Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jasmine Smith, P.Eng. bcinterior@itecanada.org

Northern Alberta . . . . . . . Alyssa Lefebvre, P.Eng. northernalberta@itecanada.org

Southern Alberta . . . . . . . Josh Workman, P. Eng southernalberta@itecanada.org

Lethbridge Chapter . . . . . Eric Dyson lethbridge@itecanada.org

Saskatchewan . . . . . . . . . . Sheliza Kelts, P. Eng. saskatchewan@itecanada.org

Manitoba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Peterniak, M.Sc., P.Eng manitoba@itecanada.org

Southwestern Ontario . . . Jeff Jongsma, C.Tech, ESCP southwestontario@itecanada.org

Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill Juhlke, C.E.T., FITE hamilton@itecanada.org

Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Nevland, MASc, P.Eng., PTP toronto@itecanada.org

National Capital . . . . . . . . Shawn Smith, P.Eng. nationalcapital@itecanada.org

Québec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Bourque, IAITE quebec@itecanada.org

Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Lanigan, P.Eng. atlantic@itecanada.org

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ITE CANADA CONTACTS

Student Chapters & Advisors Carleton University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Weiss carleton@itecanada.org

Adam.weiss3@carleton.ca

Dalhousie University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ahsan Habib dalhousie@itecanada.org

ahsan.habib@dal.ca

Lakehead University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juan Pernia lakeheadu@itecanada.org

jpernia@lakeheadu.ca

McMaster University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moataz Mohamed mcmaster@itecanada.org

mmohame@mcmaster.ca

Mohawk College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Sherwood mohawkcollege@itecanada.org

craig.sherwood@mohawkcollege.ca

Montréal-Québec Étudiants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ciprian Alecsandru quebecstudents@itecanada.org

ciprian.alecsandru@concordia.ca

Toronto Metropolitan University . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bilal Farooq tmu@itecanada.org

bilal.farooq@torontomu.ca

University of Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Z. Qiu ualberta@itecanada.org

zhijunqiu@ualberta.ca

University of British Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tarek Sayed ubc@itecanada.org

tsayed@civil.ubc.ca

UBC Okanagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mahmudur Fatmi ubco@itecanada.org

mahmudur.fatmi@ubc.ca

University of Calgary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lina Kattan ucalgary@itecanada.org

lkattan@ucalgary.ca

University of Manitoba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babak Mehran umanitoba@itecanada.org

Babak.Mehran@umanitoba.ca

University of New Brunswick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Hildebrand & Trevor Hanson unb@itecanada.org

edh@unb.ca / thanson@unb.ca

University of Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marianne Hatzopoulou utoronto@itecanada.org

marianne.hatzopoulou@utoronto.ca

University of Saskatchewan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vacant usask@itecanada.org

usask@itecanada.org

University of Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Minet uvic@itecanada.org

lauraminet@uvic.ca

University of Waterloo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Bachmann uwaterloo@itecanada.org

chris.bachmann@uwaterloo.ca

University of Windsor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanna Maoh uwindsor@itecanada.org

Hanna.Maoh@uwindsor.ca

Western University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mohamed Zaki Hussein westernu@itecanada.org

m.zaki@uwo.ca

York University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Gingerich yorku@itecanada.org

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