ITE Greater Vancouver is pleased to have Eric Tam, Geoff Ho, and Suzanne Woo to present on the City of Burnaby’s Vision Zero project at 12:00 pm, May 16th, 2024. The virtual seminar will be free and online. 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 TMP. Starting with engineering focused studies and advancing to full scale VZ programming being supported and championed by institutional and community partners.
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, including in the private sector, and has led projects pertaining to cycling, transit, traffic signals, street lighting, parking, traffic management, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Geoffrey Ho, M.Eng., P.Eng., FITE, is the president of G. Ho Engineering Consultants Inc. (GHEC). GHEC is only one of a handful of Canadian engineering companies that is dedicated to road safety engineering. Their core business is conducting road safety engineering studies in the areas road safety audits, in-service road safety reviews, network screening, road safety & vision zero planning, safe system assessment, training, and research. In the past year, they have conducted projects across Canada and in Asia.
Suzanne Woo, P.Eng. supported GHEC in this project. She is a road safety professional with almost 30 years of experience working in the private sector, as well as over 15 years working for the City of Ottawa running the road safety engineering group. She used her experience with operationalizing a road safety action plan to help set up the Vision Zero Framework for the City of Burnaby. She is also currently a co-chair of the Transportation Association of Canada Vision Zero and Safety System Approach sub-committee.
