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ITE Saskatchewan – March 2021 Webinar & Networking Social
2021-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina Area (Virtual), Canada
The Saskatchewan Section would like to invite you to our virtual webinar and networking social on March 30, 2021. The event will feature two presentations from out-of-province presenters, including:

Andrew Sedor, City of Calgary – Micromobility Pilot Project
Carolyn Sherstone, WSP – Canmore Area Structure Plan Transportation Impact Assessment

Following the presentations, attendees have the option to stay for a virtual social. Breakout rooms will be provided so attendees can partake in smaller, informal conversations and network with other members within Saskatchewan.
Cost is $10 for Non-ITE Members, $5 for ITE Members (with code) and Free for Students (with code)
Register via the event link below.

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https://youtu.be/fVymdNSqrhU

ITE Hamilton Section: An Interactive Discussion on Active Transportation Work in Ontario
2021-03-24 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Hamilton Area (Virtual), Canada
est Speaker:
Kate Whitfield – Principal at Alta Planning and Design
Kate Whitfield is a Professional Engineer and Professional Planner. As a Principal with Alta Planning + Design, she leads the Canadian operation from Ottawa. Alta is a planning and engineering firm that specializes in multi-modal transportation with a focus on active modes and complete streets.

An interactive discussion on where Active Transportation work is at in the Province of Ontario
Together we will talk AT and explore what we need as a profession. What favorite technical resource would you recommend to a colleague? What is the job market like in Ontario for AT professionals? What are the trends? For instance, where are cities headed with building protected intersections? Kate will facilitate a discussion among participants. Let’s see where it takes us!

Student Presentations:
COVID-19 impacts on Bicycle Traffic in the Town of Milton
Presented by Anna Davey & Huzefa Ansari
In this presentation we will present findings from 24/7 traffic data collected by MioVision in the Town of Milton. Our analysis focuses on twelve intersections within the Town of Milton with full year, 24/7 traffic counts. We examine ridership trends over the period of August 2019 – July 2020, present conclusions, and make recommendations for bicycle facilities on the Main Street corridor if ridership trends persist.​

Daily and Monthly Variation of Traffic Data during Various Stages of the Pandemic
Maggen Louisius and Li Huang
Turning movement count data has been provided by MioVision on Ontario St in the Town of Milton. This data was used to derive daily and monthly variation factors for the entire year. Based on these variation factors, we determined a representative day and compared measures of effectiveness (v/c, LOS) at one of the intersections. Three months were selected to represent various stages of COVID: pre-pandemic, start of pandemic, and later stage of pandemic. We plan to share our findings on how much of the intersection’s capacity is used throughout the year based on those three months.

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https://youtu.be/s_QP6euexwU

CITE Atlantic Provinces Section 2021 Spring Virtual Technical Session
2021-03-22 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Halifax Area (Virtual), Canada
Registration: FREE
Agenda

Section Update – Tanya Davis, ITE Atlantic President (12:00-12:10)

New executive
Section Director election
Future events

Presentations (12:10-1:25)

Lane Keep Assist Performance on New Brunswick Rural Roads – Michael Stewart, UNB
Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport Modes and Behaviour: Analysis of Public Discourse on Twitter – Md Asif Hasan Anik – Dalhousie
Analysis of Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Vulnerable Road Users in New Brunswick – Taylor Wood – UNB
Traffic Microsimulation Modelling of a Mass Evacuation: Planning for Natural Hazards and Extreme Weather Events – Md Jahedul Alam, Dalhousie

Closing Remarks – Tanya Davis, ITE Atlantic President (1:25-1:30)

Presenter Information
Lane Keep Assist Performance on New Brunswick Rural Roads
Michael Stewart – University of New Brunswick
After leaving a teaching career and returning to pursue a degree in Civil Engineering, Michael found himself intrigued and determined to be involved in the integration of autonomous technology both locally and globally. He is nearing the 1-year mark in an Accelerated Masters program. Michael is an active member in the rugby community currently playing in the senior men’s leagues for the Fredericton Loyalist, and the provincial Spruce teams. Other interests include working out at the gym, coaching rugby, camping and other outdoor activities, and enjoying the music scene around Fredericton.
Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport Modes and Mobility Behaviour: Analysis of Public Discourse in Twitter
Md Asif Hasan Anik – Dalhousie University
Md Asif Hasan Anik is working as a graduate research assistant at the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada. His research interests are transportation policy and planning, travel behavior, artificial intelligence in transportation engineering, statistical analysis, and econometric modelling, etc. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2016. Before coming to Dalhousie University, he worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IUT.
Analysis of Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Vulnerable Road Users in New Brunswick
Taylor Wood – University of New Brunswick
Taylor is in the Accelerated Masters program with the UNB Transportation Group and has a strong interest in anything related to transportation. Her research consists of analyzing motor vehicle collisions that involve vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motor-driven cyclists, in both urban and rural New Brunswick. Taylor holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from UNB and was recently presented with the Past Presidents Award by CTRF for a paper titled “Safety Implications Associated with Implementing Road Diets and Shared Spaces in Urban Communities". Upon completion of her graduate studies, she looks forward to gaining professional experience in the fields of traffic and road safety engineering.
Traffic Microsimulation Modelling of a Mass Evacuation: Planning for Natural Hazards and Extreme Weather Events.
Md Jahedul Alam – Dalhousie University
MD Jahedul Alam is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering and a part-time faculty in the School of Planning of Dalhousie University. He received his MASc. in Civil Engineering from Dalhousie University in 2016. He is a former Junior Fellow of MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance. He is also an active volunteer of the Emergency Evacuations Committee of Transportation Research Board (TRB). His research focuses on transportation systems modelling, simulation, and optimization, emergency evacuation planning and modelling, pedestrian simulation, risk and vulnerability assessment, collision study, shared mobility, travel demand forecasting, and travel behavior modeling. His research works appeared in various publications, including International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Natural Hazards, and Transportation Research Record (TRR). He has been awarded multiple prestigious scholarships for his academic excellence and genuine research contributions, including Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, President Award, and Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship.

GVITE Online Presentation: City of Richmond Road Safety Improvement Program: Top 20 Collision-Prone Locations
2021-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Greater Vancouver (Virtual), Vancouver, BC, Canada
About the Presentation:
In 2019, the City of Richmond partnered with ICBC and retained ISL Engineering and Land Services, in association with G. Ho Engineering Consultants, to undertake the Network Screening Study (the Study). The objective of the Study was to review all 1,617 intersections in the city to identify and prioritize the top 20 locations with the highest risk of collisions, and develop mitigation measures to determine where road safety improvement investments should be directed to achieve the greatest safety benefits. The results of the Study lead to various actions taken by the City as part of its overall effort to address road safety issues.
This presentation will provide the background, methodology, and Study findings, as well as new safety initiatives taken by the City.

About the Presenters:
Fred Lin, P.Eng. PTOE
Senior Transportation Engineer, City of Richmond
Fred Lin is a Senior Transportation Engineer with the City of Richmond, with 20+ years of experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering. He is registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (P.T.O.E.), with a Master of Applied Science degree (M.A.Sc.) from University of British Columbia.

Paul Sandhu, AScT
Transportation Project Leader, City of Richmond
Paul Sandhu is a Transportation Project Leader with proven experience in Municipal Engineering, Development and Transportation Planning. He completed a Diploma of Technology in Civil and Structural Engineering at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and holds an Applied Science Technologist (AScT) accreditation.

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CITE Carleton - Virtual Transportation Industry Night
2021-03-18 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa Area (Virtual), Ottawa, ON, Canada
CITE Carleton University Student Chapter is pleased to invite you to the upcoming virtual Transportation Industry Night.
The event will feature a special presentation on the Trillium Line Extension Project followed by a panel discussion with industry professionals. Students will also have the opportunity to network with professionals through Zoom breakout rooms. The event is to take place virtually from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM on Thursday, March 18th.
Attendees will enter the draw to win a $50 cash reward!! Winner to be announced at the end.
Register here: https://tin-cite-cu.eventbrite.ca
We look forward to seeing you there.

Kleinburg Parking Strategy
2021-03-18 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto Area (Virtual), Ontario, Canada
The winner of the 2020 ITE Toronto Project of the Year Award is the City of Vaughan’s “Kleinburg Parking Strategy”. Join us on Thursday, March 18th from 3:00PM – 4:00PM to learn about this project from Vaughan staff Paul Grove, and Kassel Prince from McIntosh Perry.
The Kleinburg Parking Strategy, completed by the City of Vaughan and McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers Ltd., is a comprehensive and robust study conducted of existing parking conditions and future needs of Kleinburg Village, Vaughan’s premier historic commercial district often referred to as the City’s ‘gem’. The study employed a multi-faceted approach to understanding the parking and transportation challenges that are present in Kleinburg Village through numerous site observations and assessments, parking demand and turnover surveys, and extensive stakeholders consultation. A vision and a series of goals were developed for the Village, relying on future parking forecasts, and evaluating a suite of solutions for the immediate, short-, medium-, and long-term horizons that would help guide the Village toward this direction and vision. Recommendations involved various aspects, including physical improvements, community and private partnerships, policy revisions, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) practices.
Further event details will be announced as the date gets closer and event links will be distributed in advance of the event.
SPEAKERS
Paul Grove M.Pl., MCIP, RPP is a Registered Professional Planner and brings transportation planning and project management experience from both the public and private sector, completing Master Plan/Secondary Plan studies, transportation studies for development applications, parking studies, TDM Plans, and functional design. Paul is the Transportation Engineering Lead at the City of Vaughan and is responsible for managing key projects, reviewing development applications and advising on City-wide transportation initiatives.
Kassel Prince M.Sc., P.Eng., PMP is a Senior Transportation and Traffic Engineer with McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers Ltd., in Markham, Ontario, Kassel has over 11 years of engineering experience leading transportation planning and traffic engineering projects for both public and private sector clients. Kassel’s experience encompasses a broad range of transportation fields including, transportation demand and traffic management, transportation master plans (TMP), Municipal Class EAs, parking studies, functional and preliminary road design, transportation impact and traffic safety studies, transportation / urban planning and development application approvals.
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An event link will be emailed to everyone who RSVPs in advance of the event start time. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to activities@toronto.itecanada.org.

ITE NCS March 2021 Webinar: Lifetime Achievement Award & Flora Footbridge
2021-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa Area (Virtual), Ottawa, ON, Canada
The National Capital Section (NCS) is excited to begin the year with a free lunchtime webinar on March 10th to present the annual A.M. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award and conduct a presentation on the Flora Footbridge.

The recipient of this year’s A.M. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award is David Kriger, P.Eng, MCIP, RPP. Born and raised in Ottawa, David Kriger is a graduate of University of Toronto (B.Eng) and University of Pennsylvania (M.Eng, MCIP). He has spent nearly 40 years working in the field of Transportation Planning, beginning his career at the former Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC), in the early 1980’s. David Kriger has worked on key projects, activities and initiatives in the area of travel demand forecasting models, travel surveys and data collection strategies, goods movement plans, surveys and forecasting models and travel trend analysis in Ottawa and around the world. David has been a member of the International ITE for most of his career and has been an active volunteer to the US Transportation Research Board (TRB), Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) and Ontario Professional Planners Institute. He is currently the Principal of David Kriger Consultants Inc. and continues to contribute to effective transportation and mobility in the region.
Following the presentation of the award, the NCS will present a webinar on the Flora Footbridge, a vital active transportation connection between two neighbourhoods in Ottawa separated by the Rideau Canal. The webinar will include two speakers who were vital in the completion of the project and will cover planning and design considerations for the footbridge. A short Q/A will follow the presentations.

Presenter: Tim Dickinson, Jacobs
Tim is a Registered Professional Planner with 17+ years of experience in the private sector consulting industry focusing on city, infrastructure and transportation planning. His work includes a mix of city building, transit and active transportation planning projects that are helping to progress the sustainable development of major cities across Canada including Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Tim was a core team member responsible for planning the Flora Footbridge which, in addition to addressing a missing link in the City’s active transportation network, has also become an instantly recognizable landmark in the City.
Presenter: Mark Langridge, DTAH
Mark is an architect with over 30 years of experience. He is a Partner at DTAH and leads the firm’s bridge design portfolio. He has particular expertise in transportation infrastructure projects that require collaborative design and stakeholder engagement. He consistently delivers high quality work which has resulted in multiple design awards for the firm. Notable projects include Flora Footbridge, Vimy Memorial Bridge and Corktown Footbridge in Ottawa, as well as Garrison Crossing in Toronto and East Hamilton Waterfront Link Bridge. Mark was a principal author of the Ministry of Transportation Ontario’s Aesthetic Guidelines for Bridges, and currently serves on Metrolinx’s Design Review Panel as specialist in bridge design.
Register via the event link in the description below.

ITE Manitoba March Virtual Game Night
2021-03-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Winnipeg) | Winnipeg Area (Virtual), Canada
ITE Manitoba will be hosting its first ever virtual game night! The event will feature the popular online game Geoguessr, the geographic discovery game where players are required to guess their location in the world using a limited amount of spatial clues.
This event will be hosted using Google Meet, where participants will be organized into breakout groups and play through several rounds before returning to the main meeting where the winner will be revealed. Registration for the event is free. A link to the meeting will be emailed to you upon registration.
To participate, please create a Geoguessr account here prior to the meeting.
We’re looking forward to having a fun and relaxing evening and catching up with our fellow ITE Members and Friends! Hope to see you there!

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http://meet.google.com/mnv-veud-qir

ITE Southern Alberta Webinar: Evolution of Valley Metro's Light Rail System in Phoenix, Arizona
2021-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary, Canada
Evolution of Valley Metro’s Light Rail System in Phoenix, Arizona by Valley Metro
Presentation Overview
Valley Metro opened a 20-mile starter light rail line in 2008,and have since expanded it another 8 miles. There are currently 4 construction projects underway to add two light rail extensions, build the region’s first streetcar, and expand the Operations & Maintenance facility. The light rail system is mostly exclusive guideway, at-grade on arterials and ridership has exceeded expectations. This presentation will talk about the history and how the system was conceived and implemented, and provide an update on the current activities to expand and improve the system.
Wulf Grote – Biography
Wulf Grote is the former Director of Capital and Service Development for Valley Metro in Phoenix, Arizona. While at Valley Metro, Wulf oversaw rail and bus facility planning; transit system and service planning; design and construction; art and community relations. He has been a leader in transit development for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area since 1985. Prior to joining Valley Metro, he spent 23 years with the City of Phoenix Public Transit Department, ultimately as Assistant Transit Director. Wulf also worked in Denver as a transportation engineer for the Regional Transportation District and a national engineering consulting firm. Mr. Grote is a Fellow member of ITE.
Wulf has Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Arizona.
Jennifer Pyne – Biography
Jennifer is currently the Assistant Director in Valley Metro’s Capital Development Division. While at Valley Metro, Jennifer has been responsible for corridor planning for high-capacity transit services in the Phoenix metropolitan area; design and construction of rail capital projects; the agency’s environmental programs; and coordination with FTA on capital projects. Jennifer has over 23 years of transportation and environmental planning experience in Arizona. Her transit experience has included all types of transportation modes – from bus transit to light rail and commuter rail, as well as roadway, bike and pedestrian planning – and effectively integrating public involvement into the technical process. She holds a Masters of Environmental Planning from Arizona State University and received her BA from Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH. Jennifer is a member of the Rail~Volution National Steering Committee and has been engaged with Arizona Forward for over 5 years as a co-chair of the transportation committee, which is currently focused on understanding the potential impacts of new and emerging transportation technologies on our infrastructure and communities.

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CITE Election Town Hall
2021-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa Area (Virtual), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Join the CITE Executive Committee for this informal election information session for those considering running for a position on the Executive Committee. Members will review what is involved including the expected time commitments and, most of all, the benefits of serving! You will have the opportunity to ask questions. If you are considering running for a position either this year or are considering it in the future then please join us!

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CITE Vancouver Island: Transportation Planning: Lessons from the Pandemic
2021-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Victoria Area (Virtual), Canada
Presented by Todd Litman
Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting our lives and communities in countless ways, including travel demands. This interactive presentation will explore key lessons for transportation practitioners:

How the pandemic is affecting travel activity and is likely to affect future demands.
The contagion risks associated with different travel modes and how to minimize those risks.
How planning can respond to quarantine and lockdown mobility and exercise needs.
How we can better respond to the transport needs of households that lose incomes.
How to develop a more resilient transportation system that can respond to changing demands and unexpected shocks.

These issues are challenging and unresolved. The first half of this luncheon will consist of a presentation based on my report, “Pandemic Resilient Community Planning” (www.vtpi.org/PRCP.pdf). The second half will involve a group discussion of the key lessons we’ve learned from this experience, how our profession and communities can better respond to changing and unpredictable travel demands.
Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis.
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7169464937840371725

ITE Northern Alberta Webinar: Planning & Design of Edmonton’s Metro Line NW – NAIT to Blatchford
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Edmonton Area, Canada
Presented by Stantec

Date: March 3
Icebreaker Social: 12:00 – 12:15 PM (MDT)
Webinar: March 3 @ 12:15 – 1 PM (MDT)
Cost: Free
With detailed design now completed and tendering of construction packages underway, Nat will provide a summary of the efforts undertake to finalize the design of the Metro Line NW (NAIT to Blatchford) project, including concept validation, design and tendering support under a construction management delivery model. The presentation will also touch upon opportunities and lessons learned during the project, including those associated with stakeholder engagement, the design process, and fast-tracked construction.
About the Speakers
Nat Alampi, P.Eng., is Stantec’s Transit Team Lead within the Alberta North Transportation group. He is also the consulting team’s senior project manager for the detailed design and construction administration services being provided on the City of Edmonton’s Metro Line NW expansion project. Before joining Stantec, Nat worked for the City of Edmonton for 17 years in a variety of roles within the areas of LRT expansion and renewal, buildings design and construction, and land development coordination. Born and raised in the greater Edmonton Capital Region, with degrees from the University of Alberta, Nat has had the good fortune to see and be part of Edmonton’s ongoing transformation into a modern and sustainable city of the future.
Virtual Icebreaker Social
We will be holding a social from 12:00 to 12:15 PM to provide attendees the opportunity to mingle just like we would if we were back at the Faculty Club. Participants will be split into breakout rooms to facilitate conversations. This is optional, anyone who is not interested in the social may log in for 12:15 PM for the webinar.

GVITE Online Presentation: Alex Fraser Bridge Improvement Project
2021-02-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Greater Vancouver (Virtual), Vancouver, BC, Canada
About the Presentation:
The Alex Fraser Bridge Improvement Project is the most recent recipient of GVITE’s Bill Curtis Award for an outstanding transportation project.
With upwards of 120,000 vehicles using the Alex Fraser Bridge daily, congestion was a growing problem. Motorists were experiencing excessive delays and queues more than three kilometres long during rush hours. The BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Alex Fraser Bridge Improvement Project greatly improved conditions with the addition of a seventh lane, an innovative movable barrier counter-flow system, and 13 new dynamic message signs throughout the Lower Mainland.
The Project has resulted in approximately 20-minutes travel time savings during the southbound PM peak, and approximately 10-minutes travel time savings during the northbound AM peak.
Binnie/MOTI’s innovative design represents the first and only moveable barrier counter-flow system in western Canada.

About the Presenters:
Edmund Lee, P.Eng.
Transportation Major Projects Division Manager, Principal
R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd.

Edmund Lee is a Division Manager at Binnie, with 31 years of experience in the areas of roadway design, traffic engineering, and transportation planning. Edmund has specialized expertise in the areas of highway planning and highway conceptual, preliminary and detailed designs, through direct involvement in numerous major interchange/intersection and highway corridor projects throughout the Lower Mainland.
Simon Church, P.Eng.
Assistant Project Manager, Associate
R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd.
Simon Church is a Project Engineer with Binnie’s Transportation Major Projects division. Simon has 10 years of experience working on large transportation projects in BC and Alberta, primarily during the construction phase. For the last three years, Simon has acted as Deputy Engineering Manager for the HWY 91/17 Upgrade Project.

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Southern Alberta ITE February Luncheon
2021-02-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary, Canada
Guest presenters:
Regional Transportation Planning – HDR
The continued growth of urban areas throughout North America has created the need for new planning techniques to coordinate across traditional municipal boundaries. A regional perspective is often needed understand the major issues and opportunities that our cities face, and to identify the best way forward. When successfully implemented, regional transportation planning is a powerful tool that can be used to bring independent jurisdictions together, aligning their approaches to long-range transportation planning, enabling them to collectively advocate for shared improvements and funding, and ultimate support a collective regional vision or plan.
Our recent experience helping regions in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario plan for their future has enabled us to learn how to bring together municipalities to develop forward-thinking transportation plans at the regional level. In our presentation we will go through our approach and experience on the recently completed Regional Transportation Plan for the Central Okanagan, the first of its kind for the Kelowna Region. We cover the approaches and strategies that we used and lessons learned in areas including project organization, stakeholder management and engagement, and analysis methodologies that can be used to align visions and build agreement for the mutual benefit of all partners.
Stephen Power, P.Eng., RPP, MCIP
Stephen is a Senior Transportation Planner and Engineer with over 30 years of experience in transportation and environmental planning. He has a strong understanding of the regional issues, with experience in regional and intermunicipal transportation and environmental planning across Canada, and in New Zealand and Australia. He is currently leading the Edmonton Metropolitan Region’s Integrated Regional Transportation Master Plan and recently completed the Central Okanagan’s first regional transportation plan. He is a skilled communicator with an ability to make technical topics easily understood. Stephen has recently managed complex multi-jurisdictional transportation projects such as the Central Okanagan Planning Study, Deerfoot Trail Study, and the on-going Calgary Metropolitan Region Growth and Servicing Plan.

Lynn Machacek, P.Eng.
Lynn is a transportation engineer and planner with broad experience in multi-modal transportation engineering, analysis, planning, engagement, and goods movement. He is passionate about creating great places and travel options, and has been the lead transportation planner on regional transportation planning projects, goods movement studies, and large scale multi-modal micro-simulation analyses. His work has included in-depth stakeholder consultation for network and regional planning studies, the identification and analysis of multi-modal issues and solutions at varied scales, and the development of evaluation and prioritization methodologies for regional transportation planning projects.

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ITE Southern Alberta Section AGM and Presentation: 2020 Year-in-review and 2021 Transportation Innovations and Opportunities
2021-01-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary, Canada
2020 Year-in-review and 2021 Transportation Innovations and Opportunities

Troy McLeod is a professional engineer and currently the Director of Roads for the City of Calgary. Troy began his career with the City of Calgary in 1995 after graduating from the University of Calgary as a Civil Engineer. Over the years, he has worked in several areas within the City of Calgary Transportation Department including traffic operations, traffic signals, transportation planning, and transportation data. In 2007, he became Manager of the Traffic for the City of Calgary until moving to Calgary Parking Authority as General Manager in May 2011. In August 2014, Troy began serving as Director of Roads. Prior to joining The City, Troy worked for Alberta Transportation in the Southern Alberta Region.
Troy has published several papers with ITE, CITE, and TAC and serves on the Chief Engineer’s Council with TAC and a member of TAC for over 18 years.
Register via the event website link below.

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CITE National Capital Section (NCS) – Annual General Meeting
2021-01-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa Area (Virtual), Ottawa, ON, Canada
The 2020 CITE National Capital Sections AGM will be hosted virtually on Thursday January 14th, 2021.
The AGM will close-out our activities for 2020 with our year-end review of the 2020 Annual Report and assignment of our 2021 Executive committee.
If you’re registered as an ITE member for 2020 you should have received a ballot, from cite_admin@itecanada.org, to vote for two of the three nominees to join our Executive in 2021; if you have not done so yet please take the few moments to open the link and place your vote! Voting closes on Thursday December 31st.
We look forward to seeing you on January 14th!
Happy holidays to you and yours,
CITE National Capital Section Executive

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CITE Southwestern Ontario: What's Happening with Transportation in Your Area?
2020-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | London Area (Virtual)
Reconnect with your friends in CITE Southwestern Ontario for a quick lunchtime discussion of happenings in the Transportation field within our Section over the past year. We will have panelists from various centres in the region to bring you up to date on what’s new.

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https://mohawkcollege.zoom.us/j/95129808596?pwd=[REDACTED]

ITE Manitoba Annual Business Meeting and Technical Presentation
2020-12-16 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Winnipeg) | Winnipeg Area (Virtual), Canada
ITE Manitoba will be holding its Annual Business Meeting (ABM) virtually on December 16, 2020 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm.
The ABM will include a review of our 2020 activities, a budget update, and the 2021 ITE Manitoba Treasurer Election results. Following the ABM, we will have a technical presentation from Steven Chapman, P.Eng., RSP1 from MORR Transportation Consulting.
Stephen is a Senior Transportation Engineer at MORR Transportation Consulting. He has 20 years of experience working in the public and private sectors, primarily in western Canada, and has significant experience in urban transportation and traffic operations. Stephen is a registered professional engineer in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and his area of practice includes: traffic operations, transportation planning, traffic regulation, vehicle weights and dimensions, traffic safety, development review, concept and functional design, construction staging and work zone traffic control.
Stephen will be presenting on a Proof of Concept study completed for Transport Canada that employed technology to efficiently study pedestrian and cyclist activity at blocked railway crossings in Winnipeg and Vancouver. The presentation will cover development of the monitoring system, calibration, data collection, observed characteristics at the crossings, performance results, and future considerations.

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ITE Southern Alberta Year-end Gala
2020-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary, Canada
December Year-End Gala Event: Together We Are Stronger

Key Takeaways from 2020 for the workplace (panel discussion)2020 has taught us many things, personally and professionally. It especially brought us awareness on being cognizant about diversity and inclusiveness at workplace. We will have a panel discussion with some folks who are torch bearers leading the diversity and inclusion at their workplace in their own way.
Election Results for Publicity Coordinator
Project Posters Poll Results
Virtual Holiday Wishes

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 – 12 PM to 1 PM
UPDATE: Dress Code: Christmas Colours (Red/Green)
As we reflect back on the unique and historical events of the past year, our December ITE Southern Alberta webinar will be focused on an exploration of how we, as a community, have become stronger through celebrating our differences, growing a culture of inclusion, and working to strengthen meaningful equity approaches as part of our transportation projects. We have assembled a talented and insightful group of panelists to help explore these topics through the lenses of women in transportation, anti-racism, and indigenous perspectives in the transportation and engineering communities.
Panel Members:
Jen Malzer, P.Eng. – City of Calgary
Jen Malzer is a two-time graduate of the University Manitoba and a transportation engineer in the City of Calgary’s liveable streets division where she is currently reimagining Calgary’s traffic calming program to include new principles around shared decision making and toolkits, like tactical urbanism. In her work, she is also pioneering ways to involve more voices in transportation planning like youth leaders, health professionals and developers by hosting The City of Calgary’s first themed hackathon. Jen is proud volunteer of ITE and is currently serving as Canadian District Director, co-chair of the Women of ITE subcommittee and as IBOD representative to the Complete Streets Council.
Harold Horsefall, City of Calgary
Harold Horsefall is an Indigenous Relations Strategist with The City of Calgary’s Indigenous Relations Office. Harold’s work involves facilitating Indigenous engagement, on behalf of Community Planning; creating customized training for City BU’s and supporting where he can. Harold’s work with Community Planning has the goal of sharing the vast history that the land, and the people have here. On this note, the Beltline Area Redevelopment team, on November 2020, received an award for their innovative approach from the Alberta Professional Planners Insititute. As a Strategist, Harold has been involved with the development of The City of Calgary’s Indigenous Relations Office since 2018. Prior to working with the Indigenous Relations Office, Harold was an active duty firefighter for The City, from 2011 through to 2018.
Jillian Jack, P.E., Tetra Tech
Jillian Jack is a Senior Project Manager with Tetra Tech and has over 18 years of experience in the management of complex water and wastewater projects, including sanitary sewer collection system projects, collection system and construction project. She has her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Her expertise is in managing large project teams across multiple disciplines. Jillian has served on Tetra Tech’s Diversity & Inclusion Council since 2019 and currently serves as the Coordinator of Tetra Tech’s Black Employee Resource Group, known as BELIEVE (Black Employees Leading in Innovation Enthusiasm Vision and Excellence). She is committed to continuing to promote Tetra Tech’s dedication to inclusion, equity and diversity in all aspects of the company’s business practices.
Mia Talavera, Stantec
Mia Talavera concentrates on driving positive corporate culture including the design and delivery of our global Stantec Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) strategic plan, as well as leading Stantec’s Employment Equity Compliance portfolio in Canada. Providing tactical leadership to the business in identifying, promoting business directions and initiatives related to inclusion, diversity and equity. Mia is commissioned as an active council member on the Stantec Global Inclusion & Diversity Councils and is the Chair of the Stantec Person of Color Committee; she believes that inclusion is a fundamental human right and that the equitable treatment and dignity of all human beings should be exercised and valued.

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ITE Northern Alberta Year End Social and Awards - Virtual
2020-12-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Edmonton) | Edmonton Area, Canada
Join NACITE and your colleagues to hang out (virtually) and catch up! Demonstrate your transportation expertise at the trivia challenge – there will be prizes and also some less technical questions so everyone has a chance. Hear about our past season in a quick year end recap and AGM. And congratulate the winners of our inaugural section awards. Come and say hello to your fellow transportation professionals as we bring the year to a close.
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ITE Interior BC/PIBC - 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey
2020-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Kelowna Area, Canada
Presentation Synopsis:
The 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey is one of the largest public surveys undertaken in the valley, and the most comprehensive picture of how people move around the Central Okanagan and the City of Vernon to date. Ten thousand residents participated, logging the details of over thirty thousand trips, and covering the distance to the moon and back – six times. This webinar will highlight some of trends seen in the data and what they suggest for the future of mobility in the region.
Speaker Bio:
Cameron Noonan is a Transportation Planner with the City of Kelowna and was the Project Manager for the 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey. Raised in Vancouver, he studied human geography at Simon Fraser University and urban planning at UBC before moving the Okanagan in 2016. He enjoys using data to tell stories about life within our cities.

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ITE Toronto Section: Virtual Christmas Luncheon and AGM
2020-12-04 11:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Toronto Area (Virtual), Ontario, Canada
The ITE Toronto Section would like to invite you to their 2020 Virtual Christmas Luncheon and Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held virtually on Friday, December 4 from 11am-1:30pm. The social hour, from 11am-12noon, will use the online free application ‘gather.town’ as the virtual venue (no download required) and the virtual luncheon and AGM will start at noon on Zoom.
Unlike in previous years when we could still meet in person, our most social and popular event of the year will be free of charge. Members can enjoy this event from the comfort of their socially distant office (or living room); however, you will need to supply your own food. We will be raffling prizes throughout the event, so make sure to RSVP and attend.
Further event details will be announced as the date gets closer and event links will be distributed in advance of the event.

Keynote Speaker
Melissa Peneycad is Managing Director, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI). For the majority of her career to-date, Melissa has focused on developing, implementing, and administering sustainability and resiliency standards, frameworks, and rating systems for infrastructure, commercial real estate, and industrial products. Since joining ISI in 2016, Melissa has verified the sustainability and resiliency of more than 70 infrastructure projects—including many in the transportation sector—across the US, Canada, and overseas, collectively worth more than $26 billion with another $25 billion in infrastructure development under her purview. Melissa’s prior roles have included Associate, Sustainable Development at Stantec Consulting, and National Sustainability Program Manager for the Buildings Owners and Managers Association of Canada.
Melissa is also currently serving as Co-Chair of a United Nations-led initiative to develop an evaluation methodology to score public-private partnerships and infrastructure projects against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, she is working with the World Bank’s Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility to develop sustainability indicators for the investment community to inform infrastructure investment decisions, and to drive capital towards more sustainable and resilient projects.

2021 Executive Committee Election
This year’s ITE Toronto Section Executive Committee election is for the position of Activities Coordinator. Once on the Executive, the elected member will consecutively serve in each of the 7 positions on the Executive in one‐year intervals (Activities Coordinator, Communications Coordinator, Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, President, and Past President). Eligible members can vote online using their ITE member number through this link: ITE Toronto Section Executive Election. Voting will close on Thursday, December 3 at 11:59pm and the new Executive Committee member will be announced at the Virtual Christmas Luncheon and AGM.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE:
Any member of the ITE Toronto Section in good standing, excluding student members. (Student members are invited to participate in separate student chapter elections.)

Crystal (Mingyue) Wang, EIT
I am a Transportation Planning analyst with SNC Lavalin Rail and Transit Strategic Service team. My responsibilities include transit operation modelling, assisting in transit-oriented development, transit design projects and improving planning and simulation connectivity with the evolving Digital Engineering solutions.
I was Social Director of the ITE York University Student Chapter during my MASc study in civil engineering. The chapter quickly became the most active student chapter in Canada and has been received both CITE Student Chapter Activity Delta Award and the York University President’s Sustainability Leadership Award. My experience and employment have helped me to develop helpful skills to serve as an ITE Toronto Section executive member. My responsibilities include maintaining and updating all social media platforms, helping create newsletters, annual reports and planning industry network events, technical field tours and software workshops. Overall, we organized and hosted over 60 events and meetings with over thirty-five different speakers and guests during the first year of the group.
I was the Founding Secretary of the Civil Engineering Graduate Student Association and helped arrange a varied meeting with faculties and other external groups.
If I am given the position to serve as an executive member, I would like to attract new multidisciplinary members, build new collaborative partnerships with internal and external organizations, plan more events including virtual activities that would have more interaction and engagement during this pandemic.
Please email me if you have any questions (Mingyue.wang@snclavalin.com). Appreciate the opportunity to earn your vote.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Heather (Goodman) Hector, M.Eng, EIT, PTP
Heather is a Transportation Consultant at Paradigm Transportation Solutions Limited. She has been involved in a wide range of transportation planning and engineering projects with expertise in community planning, operations analysis, parking studies, policy planning, environmental assessments, and public meetings. She has a passion for transportation planning and recently received her Professional Transportation Planner designation.
Heather joined ITE as a member of the Quebec student chapter in 2014. Since its inception in 2015, Heather has been part of the excite leadership team, CITE’s initiative to help emerging members become involved in the profession. Heather strives to engage students and young professionals to become involved in ITE. She was on the planning committee for the 2017 Cities of Tomorrow Conference in Calgary. The two-day conference brought together students and early career professionals from across Canada. Heather was a presenter at the CITE 2018 Edmonton conference. In 2019, Heather was the co-chair of the Student Leadership Summit, a one-day event for professional development and networking.
Heather brings five years of ITE leadership experience to the Toronto Section executive. As Activities Coordinator, she will use her planning expertise to ensure members have opportunities to connect, share experiences and keep up to date on emerging trends in the industry, even if Section activities may look a bit different in 2021.

Karthiga Thevaseelan, B.Eng., EIT
My name is Karthiga Thevaseelan and I am excited to apply for the Executive position with ITE Toronto Section. I am a Civil Engineering graduate from McMaster University with a minor in economics. I have worked in the transportation industry for 7 years. I currently work with McIntosh Perry as Highway Designer mainly revolving around Ministry of Transportation Ontario Projects. My interests outside of my career include traveling and a self-proclaimed worldwide bridge tour aficionado along with running my own blog and advocating for women in engineering.
From 2016 to 2018 I was the Board of Executive member as part of the Professional Engineers Ontario Scarborough Chapter. As part of the Board I was involved in various events and activities throughout the year. I was Project Manager for various major events such as the Bridge Building and Mathletics Competitions. I assisted with setting up and running various seminars, technical tours, volunteer events and board meetings. Currently I am an active volunteer with PEO spearheading the 30 by 30 initiative by hosting various seminars for PEO members and employers. The 30 by 30 event is a commitment to raise the percentage of newly licensed engineers that are women to 30% by the year 2030. I believe my experience as Board of Executive member of the PEO Scarborough Chapter would be a great asset to the ITE team. Thank you for considering me for the 2021 Executive ITE Toronto section position.

Nabil Ghariani, P.Eng., PTOE, M.S.C.E., M.Ed.
I am the founder of Traffic+ Engineering Ltd. where I lead studies in traffic impact studies, traffic operations, safety audits, transportation planning, TDM, and EA studies. I am currently licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario and licensed Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) with 18 years of extensive professional experience. In addition, I had the opportunity to present a paper at the CITE Conference in 2015 on a transit project entitled “Highway2 BRT Feasibility Study”.
As a long time ITE member, since 1999, I have dedicated my time to assist interns and junior engineers in undertaking numerous traffic studies and modelling using Synchro and VISSIM. I have in the past provided free training sessions in Synchro and VISSIM to ITE Student Chapters at Ryerson University and York University, which were well received, and I intent to perpetuate this effort. I should also mention that Traffic+ Engineering Ltd. is a proud sponsor of ITE York University.
I look forward to be part of the ITE Toronto Section Board of Executives, as I believe that ITE Toronto Section provides each of us with great opportunities to learn, share, and contribute in transportation.
Additionally, my objective in becoming part of the executive is to serve in the best of my abilities and capabilities to help the ITE student sections at all universities to gain valuable hands-on experience in traffic engineering.
Finally I would like to thank in advance the attendees for providing your support in my candidacy.

Shubham Bohra, M.Eng. , B.Tech., EIT
Shubham is an EIT , who works as a Transportation Planner at IBI Group since 2019. He graduated with a Master of Engineering in Transportation Engineering from Ryerson University in June 2019. And has been active member of ITE since 2017.
From having attended ITE social events, ITE conferences, Shubham is familiar with the successful and essential elements of ITE and plans to use this experience to help serve as a successful Executive member. Shubham’s hobbies include reading, music, travelling and roller coasters.
Shubham would like to work with Student chapters as part of the ITE Toronto Executive which would help and inspire students to pursue careers in Transportation and get involved with the ITE. Also, would like to work with various ITE Toronto committees to make sure that the section continues to put on great events, competitions and continues to advance the technical ability of the Section. He is also passionate about Automated Vehicles and multi-modal transit initiatives.

Stephanie Pham, M.Eng., EIT
I would like to submit my nomination for the Activities Coordinator on the ITE Executive Board. I am a Transportation Designer at BA Group and have been an ITE member since 2017.
I have been consistently involved in community outreach programs and event coordination since 2008 undergrad at the University of Waterloo including my academic roles as class representative and orientation leader.
I have been actively involved with the Kidney Foundation of Canada for over 10 years as a canvasser, Waterloo chapter ambassador to spread awareness of kidney disease, and team captain for the annual Kidney Walk. I was a member of the Special Events Committee where I planned, set-up and ran fundraisers, walks, car shows, and award ceremonies for the kidney community in Ottawa and GTA.
As a Transit Planner at OC Transpo, I started up charitable and team bonding activities such as Christmas toy drives and Halloween costume contests. I volunteered for the Ottawa Christmas parade, annual food drive with the Ottawa Food Bank, and donation events for United Way.
I am currently a member of the Social Committee at BA Group where I have successfully proposed team building activities such as escape rooms, selected venues for special events, planned catering, and coordinated entertainment for staff to enjoy the camaraderie between colleagues. Being a foodie and fitness enthusiast, I initiated seasonal potlucks and formed a recreational BA sports team with TSSC.
Thank you for your time in reviewing my nomination.

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ITE NCS December Webinar: Virtual Tour of The Elgin Street Renewal Project, Ottawa.
2020-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa Area (Virtual), Ottawa, ON, Canada
The National Capital Section (NCS) is ending the year with a webinar on the City of Ottawa’s Elgin Street Renewal Project. This free lunchtime webinar will take place on December 3rd and will be led by two speakers experienced in complete streets design, who were involved in the design (and construction) of this project. The webinar will include a virtual tour of the project corridor with narration by the speakers pointing out key design elements along the corridor. This will be followed by a presentation covering the Project Background, Street Design, Safety Measures and Measures of Success.
Presenters:
Ronald A. Clarke, MCIP, RPP (Vice-President, Transportation, Ottawa at Parsons Corporation)
Vanessa Black, P.Eng. (Transportation Engineer – Network Modification, City of Ottawa)

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ITE Northern Alberta: On Demand Transit - Webinar
2020-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Edmonton Area, Canada
The City of Edmonton has recently selected Pacific Western Transportation (PWT) to launch Canada’s largest On Demand Transit service, joining a growing list of cities across Canada with On Demand Transit. Please join us for a presentation from PWT about On Demand Transit and the different ways it is being used in Edmonton and other communities across the country. The presentation will include an interactive simulation and discuss implications for urban design and environmental and financial impacts.
About the Speakers
James Vine – Director of Operations (AB) and Business Development
James Vine has worked for Pacific Western for over 11 years. In 2010 he transitioned to a management role in PWT’s Prince George Transit operations, managing approximately 60 employees in that branch. James was a recipient of a 2013 Top 40 Under 40 Award from Mass Transit Magazine for his leadership of employees and involvement in transit system planning and analysis. In 2020, James became head of PWT’s Alberta Transit portfolio, which includes contracted transit operations to six municipalities/transit agencies.
Dan Finley – Vice President of Corporate Services
Dan Finley has been a member of the Pacific Western Transportation Executive Team since 2012 and has led the organization in a variety of functions such as HR, Operations, Business Development, Communications, Government Relations, Process Improvement and Advancing Transportation Technology. He has developed and implemented PWT’s On Demand strategy and has led the start-up of multiple operations, working to transfer client vision to real-world operations.
John Stepovy – Director, Sales & Business Development / On Demand Lead
John Stepovy has been with Pacific Western Transportation for over 13 years, starting in Operations and later as General Manager of our flagship luxury inter-city motorcoach service Red Arrow. In John’s current role as Director, Sales & Business Development, he is focused on broadening the reach of the organization in various areas of transportation and new mobility, including electric autonomous shuttles, micro transit, and demand-response solutions.
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ITE Atlantic Virtual Session
2020-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Halifax Area (Virtual), Canada
Please join us on Monday, November 30th (12-1:30PM) for the CITE Atlantic Provinces Section’s second virtual Lunch & Learn Session. The first hour of the session (12-1PM) will include two approximately 20-minute presentations (see details below), with time for a few questions and discussion following each. During the final half hour (1-1:30PM), we will hold our Annual General Meeting and swear in our new executive.
Presenter: Taylor Owen, Climate Change Specialist, Energy & Environment, Halifax Regional Municipality
Topic: HalifACT – Halifax’s New Climate Plan
Taylor Owen is a creative policy developer, an environmental innovator and collaborator whose work is focused on climate change mitigation, sustainable transportation, and community development. She currently holds the role of Climate Change Specialist with the Energy & Environment division at Halifax Regional Municipality where she is working to implement HalifACT – Acting on Climate Together, Halifax’s ambitious climate change plan. Taylor believes that the key to successful climate work is integrating a lens of social equity, building inclusive and trusting relationships, and incorporating creativity and art. Taylor completed a Bachelor of Management majoring in Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie University.
Presenter: Dave McCusker, P.Eng. Sr. Transportation Engineer, WSP Canada
Topic: Investigating the Use of Bus on Shoulder in Halifax
Dave McCusker is a Senior Transportation Engineer with WSP Canada’s Dartmouth office. Prior to joining WSP in 2008, Dave spent twenty years at Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) holding management roles in traffic operations, transportation planning and parking. Throughout his career at HRM, he demonstrated a passion for transit priority, implementing the region’s first transit priority measures on the Macdonald Bridge approaches and creating MetroLINK, the region’s first comprehensive rapid bus and transit priority project.
Dave will discuss HRM’s recent investigation of Bus on Shoulder operation, a project that he led on behalf of WSP. HRM has committed a substantial investment into widening a section of Bayers Road to create new dedicated transit lanes. But to avoid all of the morning congestion, Bayers Road is only a part of the puzzle. Chronic congestion on Highway 102 leading into Bayers Road is also a significant cause of delay. The Bus on Shoulder Study, commissioned by HRM and conducted by WSP Canada documented how cities in North America and beyond have developed protocols that allow public transit buses to use highway shoulders as a means of by-passing stop-and-go traffic. The presentation shows how successful lessons learned elsewhere were applied in developing a low-cost design approach for Highway 102 along with management and communications strategies. A number of traffic engineering “first principles” were challenged in developing the recommended plan.

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ITE Hamilton: Virtual Speaker Event
2020-11-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Hamilton Area (Virtual), Canada
Topic: Equity and Mobility
A comic book related to this topic was published in the 2018 Transportation Talk.
Guest Speaker: Ryan Martinson – Toole Design Group
Ryan Martinson – Toole Design Group
Ryan Martinson is a senior engineer who loves working with people — learning from their lived experiences, their concerns, and the possibilities they see for dignified, comfortable, and safe daily travel. Ryan has worked on strategic plans, master plans, conceptual design, evaluations, and safety reviews of projects in North America and New Zealand. He has also been involved in developing design guidance for municipalities and agencies; leading training courses on Complete Street design and planning concepts; and developing graduate courses related to sustainability and complexity. He is keenly aware of how the built environment influences how we use and interact with our surroundings, and he employs a user-based design approach to infrastructure design, planning, and operations. He is going to make a fun presentation today with comics related to Equity and Mobility.

CITE Saskatchewan Fall Session
2020-11-23 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan
Join us virtually for our Fall session. We have an exciting agenda planned including:

Time
Item
Presented By

9:30
Welcome and Introduction

9:40
Active Transportation Bridge Audit for Saskatoon
Ellen McLaughlin, Associated Engineering

10:05
Park Street Bike Lanes in Regina
Ian Cantello, City of Regina
Hari Patel, City of Regina

10:30
Break

10:35
Annual General Meeting
Board Members, CITE SK Section

10:45
Rapid Before/After Safety Assessment
Craig Milligan, Micro Traffic
Sachin Vijayan, Micro Traffic

11:10
Alternative Modes at the University of Regina
Kristen Faber, WSP

11:35
Speed Prediction Model Development and Investigation of the Relationship between Speed Variation and Crash Frequency in Saskatoon
Emanuele Saachi, University of Saskatchewan

12:00
Closing remarks

Tickets to this virtual event are limited so don’t wait to register!

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Southern Alberta Section November Webinar: Hwy 3 FPS
2020-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary, Canada
Come learn about the new plan for twinning and freeway-ifying Highway 3 through Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta! This planning study presented many design challenges: rugged terrain, rail tracks, major pipelines, abandoned mines, and a massive field of historic boulders. The recommended plan features roundabouts, wildlife underpasses, lots of cable barrier, and an interim divided 2-lane cross section.
Speakers:
Jack Mason, P.Eng.
Jack came to Calgary from Saskatoon in 2006 to design roads at ISL, and has been doing so ever since. Between 2017 and 2019, he spent many hours day and night on the functional plan for Highway 3. Like most of you, Jack has been working from home lately, but has managed to maintain a regular active commute by biking his daughters to daycare.
Alana Getty Somers, P.Eng.
Alana is responsible for leading ISL Calgary’s transportation team and was appointed to ISL’s Board of Directors in September 2020. She has been involved with planning studies in both government/owner and consulting roles for over 20 years and was ISL’s PM for the 50+km FPS for twinning and upgrades on Highway 3 through Crowsnest Pass. Alana has spent much of 2020 working at home, learning Google Classroom and various Fortnite Dances, and attempting dog training.
Project Description
A comprehensive planning study of Highway 3 was conducted in southwestern Alberta, between Pincher Creek and Crowsnest Pass. Over nearly 3 years, ISL developed a plan for twinning and eventual freeway-ification of the 2-lane highway for the entirety of the 50km-long project area. Main objectives of the study included:

Identify the right of-way needed for the ultimate highway and interchanges
Create an interim plan for twinning the highway, and managing access to it
Conduct a study of animal vehicle collisions in the corridor, and develop interim and ultimate plans to promote safe wildlife movement across the highway
Conduct a review of historical resources along the corridor, and develop the highway plan to minimize impact to them
Engage and consult local officials and residents on the plan, ensuring the recommended plan meets their expectations, and Alberta Transportation’s requirements.

Previous studies of the area identified the need for the highway to be diverted around the town of Coleman (part of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass). This study developed a design for the realignment that balances the needs of local and regional stakeholders. Key constraints in this section included steep and rocky terrain, major high-pressure pipelines, the CP Rail tracks, the Crowsnest River and a significant wetland.
The highway right-of-way is also constrained by development and terrain for a long stretch of the project area, most notably by the Frank Slide debris field and associated historical sites. The debris field is a large area of loose boulders, from the collapse of Turtle Mountain in 1903. These constraints led to a series of design decisions that take the local context and stakeholder interests into account.
This presentation will focus on the unique constraints presented in this project, and discuss the many design decisions that coalesced to form the recommended plan.

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ITE Toronto Section: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Webinar
2020-11-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | Toronto Area (Virtual), Ontario, Canada
Join the ITE Toronto Section for the next installment of our free webinar series: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)!
Speakers:
• Rahul Mehra, Director – Intelligent Systems, IBI Group
• Mara Bullock, ITS & Technology Planning Lead, WSP in Canada
• Pamela McDermid, Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement Manager, Weigh2GoBC
Additional details on this event will be shared shortly, and a link to join the zoom conference call will be emailed in advance of the event.
If you have any questions or concerns, or if you did not sign-up but would like to attend, please contact communications@toronto.itecanada.org.

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A Safety Assessment of Driver Feedback Signs and Development of Future Expansion Program
2020-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Edmonton Area, Canada
Speeding and dangerous driving have consistently been recognized as important issues for the City of Edmonton. To improve drivers’ compliance with speeds, various passive/active countermeasures have been adopted by municipalities around the world. A Driver Feedback Sign (DFS) is one such countermeasure as it dynamically displays the speed of the driver and warns them if they are speeding. Acknowledging positive public response, the City has implemented DFSs at various accident-prone areas across the city. While DFS is deemed effective in voluntary speed reduction, high costs along with the need to cover Edmonton’s large road network necessitate a strategic and scientific approach to allocating signs.
This presentation will demonstrate how different modelling frameworks can be developed and applied to solve the following two specific problems using the City as a case study:
1) Estimation of safety benefits of DFS, and
2) Development of the optimal DFS implementation strategy.
About the Speakers
Dr. Tae J. Kwon joined the University of Alberta in 2016 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Kwon’s research focuses on winter road maintenance, location optimization of Intelligent Transportation System facilities, geomatics, spatial and temporal analyses of road traffic and safety using Big Data and Deep Learning. Dr. Kwon’s research has been supported by many organizations including NSERC, Alberta Transportation, Alberta EcoTrust, Iowa Department of Transportation, CIMA+, and others.
Mingjian Wu is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Tae J. Kwon. During his M.Sc. studies, Mr. Wu focused on quantifying the safety effects of driver feedback sign (DFS) and location allocation strategies under the co-supervision of Dr. Kwon and Dr. El-Basyouny. Mr. Wu’s current research interests lie primarily in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data analysis in winter transportation engineering (e.g., winter road maintenance), traffic safety and collision modelling, and facility location and allocation optimizations using various heuristic algorithms.
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