ITE Canada invites you to join us for our first-ever Virtual Technical Symposium to be held on February 5 and 6, 2025. This curated content will feature presenters from across Canada speaking on emergency planning, functional planning design, traffic and multimodal analysis, and safety.
- Two half-day virtual sessions
- Will qualify for professional development credits/hours
Dates/Times
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 and Thursday, February 6, 2025
8-11:30 am (PT) / 11-2:30 pm (ET)
including breaks
Includes access to live virtual sessions and recordings
Fees
ITE Member: $150
Non-ITE Member: $225
Student: $50
Registration closes
Tuesday, February 4
PROGRAM
Thursday, February 6
10 – 11:30 am (Pacific Time) / 1 – 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Moderated by: Ryan Martinson, Martinson Golly Ltd
This session will showcase the development of high-level safety strategies that municipalities have undertaken to create safer streets for their constituents. The initiatives that are highlighted range from new strategies that have begun to chart the course for the implementation of the Safe System Approach to those that have been working at this for decades and are finetuning their programs and processes.
Chatham-Kent Road Safety Action Plan

Marissa Mascaro, Municipality of Chatham-Kent
Marissa Mascaro Amyotte is a Professional Engineer with 17 years of experience in Municipal and Transportation Engineering. Marissa joined the Municipality of Chatham-Kent as the Director of Engineering in 2023, and oversees the planning and implementation of underground infrastructure, stormwater, municipal drainage and transportation infrastructure projects, as well as the development of transportation policies and operation of Transit and parking enforcement services. Prior to her current role, Marissa worked in various roles in municipal engineering in the private sector, and at the City of Kingston where she played a key role in developing integrated transportation projects aligned with the City’s transportation goals, development initiatives, and land-use planning strategies.
In November 2023, the Municipality of Chatham-Kent adopted its Road Safety Action Plan, using the Safe System Approach, focused on prioritizing initiatives that will be most effective, and cost-effective, to improve safety for all of its road users. Further, as a municipality made up of urban and rural areas, Chatham-Kent’s road network serves many different functions and users which required consideration through the development of the Road Safety Action Plan; not only travel within the municipality – including significant numbers of agricultural vehicles – but also inter-regional travel through the municipality and connections to the provincial highway network. This presentation will explore the approach to Chatham-Kent’s Road Safety Action Plan given the municipality’s unique geography and transportation network, the emphasis areas identified, and the implementation plan.
Burnaby Vision Zero Framework

Eric Tam, City of Burnaby
Eric Tam, P.Eng. PTOE is Senior Manager Transportation at the City of Burnaby, leading the Traffic Operations and Street Use section which is responsible for road safety and Vision Zero. Eric has over 10 years of transportation engineering experience in both the public and private sectors, and has led projects pertaining to cycling, transit, traffic signals, street lighting, parking, traffic management, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
The City of Burnaby’s Transportation Master Plan adopted Vision Zero as one of it’s three target areas, and outlined several Policies and Actions to advance road safety in the City. The Vision Zero Framework aims to provide a flexible and scalable roadmap to address the policies and actions outlined in the plan. The framework starts with engineering focussed studies and advances to full scale Vision Zero programming while being supported and championed by institutional and community partners.
A third presentation for this session is pending and may be added at a later date.
REGISTRATION
Registration will provide you will access to all four live virtual sessions over the two days. Recordings will be made available to registrants for a limited period after the symposium.
Within one week of completing your registration, you will receive a calendar invitation to the virtual event. You will not receive a meeting link in the registration confirmation email. If you have any questions about meeting access, please contact info@itecanada.org.
Registration will close on Tuesday, February 4.
Cover Photo Credit: Dylan Passmore
DAY 1 – Wednesday, February 5
Plenary Session
Emergency Planning
- 8 – 9 am (Pacific) / 11 am – 12 pm (Eastern)
- Panel – 2 speakers
This session will focus on the recovery of transportation systems from disruption due to disasters and emergencies.
Session 1
Functional Planning / Design
- 10 – 11:30 am (Pacific) / 1 – 2:30 pm (Eastern)
- Presentations – 3 speakers
This session will focus on new and unique approaches to functional planning and design of transportation facilities to meet demands and promote safety and connectivity of all modes.
DAY 2 – Thursday, February 6
Session 2
Traffic & Multimodal Analysis
- 8 – 9:30 am (Pacific) / 11 am – 12:30 pm (Eastern)
- Presentations – 3 speakers
This session will focus on innovations and emerging best practices in traffic analysis to give practitioners a chance to share their knowledge and continue to move our practice of traffic analysis forward.
Session 3
Safety Plans & Strategies
- 10 – 11:30 am (Pacific) / 1 – 2:30 pm (Eastern)
- Presentations – 3 speakers
This session will showcase the development of high-level safety strategies that municipalities have undertaken to create safer streets for their constituents. The initiatives that are highlighted range from new strategies that have begun to chart the course for the implementation of the Safe System Approach to those that have been working at this for decades and are finetuning their programs and processes.
REGISTER
Registration will provide you will access to all four live virtual sessions over the two days. Recordings will be made available to registrants for a limited period after the symposium.
Within one week of completing your registration, you will receive a calendar invitation to the virtual event. You will not receive a meeting link in the registration confirmation email. If you have any questions about meeting access, please contact info@itecanada.org.
Registration will close on Tuesday, February 4.
Cover Photo Credit: Dylan Passmore