Over the course of seven FIFA Men’s World Cup matches hosted in the summer of 2026, Vancouver welcomed hundreds of thousands of fans including many visitors from around the world, all while keeping the city moving. This presentation highlights how Vancouver planned and delivered an excellent World Cup transportation experience for visitors, residents, and businesses alike.

In support of the 2026 UCI Road World Championships in Montréal, the City of Montréal explored a technology-driven approach to traffic and mobility management aimed at reducing congestion. Through a collaboration between the Innovation and Mobility Management Division and the Montréal Police Service (SPVM), the project leveraged the capabilities of the Urban Mobility Management Centre (CGMU), including video surveillance, real-time performance indicators, and online monitoring platforms. The initiative demonstrated how dynamic traffic signal management can enhance network efficiency, support road user safety, and mitigate the impacts of major events through proactive, data-driven traffic operations.

In 2025, Coquitlam transformed Guildford Way, a suburban arterial in a densifying part of Metro Vancouver, into a complete street. The project received the ITE International 2026 Award for Excellence in Complete Streets. This presentation will touch on:

• The Context: A suburban area growing denser, with nearby SkyTrain service reflecting that shift.
• The Problem: Walking and cycling felt uncomfortable, particularly at intersections.
• The Solution: Quick-build bike lanes followed by permanent reconstruction. We’ll compare their strengths and limitations, then examine protected intersections, floating bus stops, signal timing, and turning rules.
• The Results: Highlighted by a 99.4% reduction in critical and high-risk conflicts.

The Steeles Avenue East Complete Street project transformed a critical arterial corridor into a safer, more accessible, multimodal, and sustainable roadway. Following the Metrolinx Stouffville Line grade separation between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue in 2023, this City of Toronto led initiative extended those benefits eastward by integrating cycling, pedestrian, and safety improvements as part of a coordinated road resurfacing and reconstruction project between Midland Avenue to McCowan Road. The project required extensive coordination with many partners and demonstrates how proactive corridor rehabilitation can be leveraged to deliver long-term mobility, safety, and environmental benefits for the community.

At the City of Hamilton, we see sustainable mobility as more than moving people from one place to another—it’s about reimagining our streets as places that connect communities, support healthy lifestyles, and create opportunities for everyone. Through the integration of our Complete Street Design Manual, meaningful public engagement, and community activation initiatives such as the Mobility Lab, we are building a new approach to how we plan and design our transportation network. The York Boulevard Cycle Track was an important first step in bringing this vision to life, demonstrating what is possible when innovative design and community voices come together to transform our streets.

The City of Guelph’s Vision Zero Action Plan is a plain-language, equity-informed, and data-driven report grounded in public health principles, designed to meet the urgent need to prevent further harm and create safer streets for all. The Action Plan outlines 68 interdisciplinary actions across 12 City departments using a myriad of visually captivating infographics, data analysis, maps, and local examples. It kickstarted a new way of doing things in Guelph, focused firmly on actions that prevent collision causing injuries, reduce risk and exposure across our transportation system, and communicating this new approach effectively. This presentation will share the story behind the Action Plan, key lessons learned, achievements to date, and what comes next.

This presentation will provide an overview of a systemic safety assessment of highway intersections project completed by Associated Engineering with support from Human Factors North for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways. The result was a repeatable, data-driven screening tool that feeds project development, funding prioritization, and post-implementation evaluation. The project developed a plan to proactively reduce the risk of severe collisions over the whole highway network and demonstrated that Saskatchewan has a solid foundation of collision data, road characteristic data, and traffic volume data while identifying areas for improvement. The resulting recommendations will guide the Ministry’s approach to prioritizing intersection safety improvements.

Sixth Avenue and Second Street in New Westminster, beside Herbert Spencer Elementary, is a daily route for hundreds of students and families. Recurring curb-mounting incidents and a high share of injury collisions a Road Safety Review. The review combined insurance and police collision data, field observations, community input, operational modelling, and AI-based video conflict analysis using TrafxSAFE. Over 60 hours of footage revealed frequent pedestrian-vehicle near misses, aggressive turning, queue spillback, limited sightlines, and speeding in the school zone.

Guided by Vision Zero and the Safe System approach, ISL developed achievable, data-driven countermeasures including a full traffic signal with Leading Pedestrian Intervals and no right turn on red, speed feedback signs, painted markings, curb extensions and speed tables, and improved lighting. These measures have lowered the risk of Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) collisions through lower speeds, a formalized intersection, and greater pedestrian priority. Many of these improvements can be piloted first with modular materials, offering an approach that can be applied by other municipalities.

This presentation introduces an AI-driven real-time decision-support platform developed by York University and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to improve transit reliability by addressing bus bunching and service gaps. Integrating real-time vehicle data, predictive analytics, and optimization, the platform identifies headway disruptions and recommends corrective interventions, including targeted vehicle holding. During a six-month TTC pilot, operators made 14,672 decisions, and 88.4% of bunching events with applied holds were reported as resolved within 14 minutes. The presentation will highlight the underlying methodologies, operational results, human-in-the-loop decision-making, and lessons learned from deploying AI-enabled transportation systems management tools in practice.

Moose Jaw – with a strong tourist focus – is a small municipality located in southern Saskatchewan with a population of 34,000 residents. Several years ago, the City of Moose commissioned a study to renew their dated Transportation Master Plan. Like most small municipalities, Moose Jaw has many more infrastructure needs than there is money available to fix them and the City wanted a comprehensive investigation of 15 different focus areas, including signal equipment condition, corridor operation, rail crossing assessment, school zone safety, transit system review, cycling network needs, sidewalk and pathway deficiencies, etc. Fortunately, there was ample budget to develop a comprehensive plan. But what happens when there is not enough money to implement all of the network changes a municipality needs?

Major freeway construction projects can significantly affect traffic operations, requiring agencies to balance infrastructure renewal with mobility and safety. This presentation demonstrates how a multi-scale traffic modelling framework was used to support construction staging for the QEW Garden City Skyway project in Niagara Region. By integrating regional travel demand modelling, microsimulation, and intersection operations analysis, the study evaluated construction-related traffic impacts, identified diversion patterns, and assessed mitigation measures across both freeway and local road networks. The results informed staging decisions, reduced project delivery risks, and helped maintain network performance. The approach provides a practical and transferable framework for managing traffic during major transportation infrastructure projects.