ITE Manitoba will be hosting a luncheon Thursday, October 31, featuring Morgan Glasgow and Cassidy Zrobek, both from the City of Winnipeg. Morgan and Cassidy will be presenting on the implementation of Winnipeg’s Emergency Vehicle Preemption Pilot Project.
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Location: Winnipeg Winter Club, 200 River Avenue, Riverview Room (second floor)
Cost: $20 for non-ITE members, $15 for ITE members, and $10 for students (tax included)
Presentation Title: Implementation of Winnipeg’s Emergency Vehicle Preemption Pilot Project
The City of Winnipeg has implemented a pilot study for emergency vehicle preemption (EVP) to improve response times and safety as firetrucks and ambulances attend calls throughout the City. This presentation will cover our journey to this point, a description of our system being piloted, some implementation notes, and ideas on what the next steps may be.
Speaker Bio – Morgan Glasgow
Morgan Glasgow is the Supervisor of Traffic Signal Timings for the City of Winnipeg. He started at the City’s traffic signals branch fresh out of his M.Sc in 2016. He’s been with the City since then in a few different roles working with great people doing great work. Morgan loves working on projects that have a local impact. Outside of work, he likes going to the park with his toddler.
Speaker Bio – Cassidy Zrobek
Cassidy Zrobek is a traffic signals timing engineer at the City of Winnipeg. She obtained both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba. Her graduate research focused on options for enhancing network-wide annual average daily truck volume estimates. While completing her studies, she served as the Community Chair, Treasurer, and President of the University of Manitoba ITE Student Chapter. Outside of work, Cassidy enjoys cooking, reading, spending time at the lake, and playing slo-pitch softball.
Online registration will close at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, October 28.
If you wish to register after the cut-off time, please contact the ITE MB Treasurer, Adam Budowski. Please note that we will do our best to accommodate registrations after the cut-off time, but there is no guarantee.
